Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-07-04
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

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Charles Thomas, of Tyler county,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed Friday.
A young man named Iseminger was
run over and killed Tuesday night
on the b. and o. Road near Burton.
A terrible rain storm passed over
Wheeling and the surrounding coun-
try last Monday. Much damage was
done.
J. l.. Evans and Rees Evans, Welsh
miners, were drowned Sunday while
bathing in Bluestone river, Blue
stone.
Harry Sprigg, a teamster, was
drowned Wednesday last while at
tempting to cross the South Branch
Of the Potomac at Hanging Rock.
The Chesapeake and Ohio ticket Of
flee at Huntington was entered by
burglars early Saturday morning.
The safe was blown open and about
| $500 in money secured.
Fire at Braxton Courthouse, Fri
day, DESTROYED the residence of f. :.
Bland, the Braxton Democrat office,
! and a number of smaller buildings.
The loss is $4,000, with small insur-
ance.
Senator George E. Price, of Mineral
county, and Senator ). i. Flournoy,
of Hampshire county, have removed
to Charleston, where they have
formed a partnership for the practice
of law.
4 wonderful poplar tree has recent
~ been cut in Logan county on the
banks of Pigeon creek. The log meas
ures 81 feet long, is 90 inches in diam
eter, cubes 1000 feet, or 81, l25 feet
board measure. 1t is probably the
biggest log ever cut and sent TO saw
mill in one piece.
Little Alice Curtis, the renowned
Mason City midget, died Wednesday
night of brain fever. The child was
six months old, healthy and well
formed, yet the greatest weight she
ever attained was two and one-halt
pounds. At birth the midget weighed
only IA ounces.
While crossing the Baltimore and
Ohio tracks at Clarksburg, Monday
evening. Hon 4. l.. Hustead, prom
inent lawyer and one of the leading
Republican politicians of the State,
was struck by passenger train and
almost instantly killed. His body
was frightfully mangled.
\. c.. Smith, formerly prominent
farmer of Writ county, was arrested
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the murder of his wife n year ago. 1t
is charged that Smith quarreled with
his wife and beat her so horribly that
she died in few hours. He has since
been fugitive from justice.
Gov. Fleming has appointed Col.
d. b. Spilman brigadier-general OF
the West Virginia National Guard,
vice Gen. G. p. Snyder, resigned.
Gen. SpiIman is graduate of West
Point and will put the State militia
on a par with that Of other States of
the Union. He is a son-in-law of eX-
United States Senator j. y. Camden.
The north bound train on the Ohio
River Railroad Thursday morning,
near Point Pleasant, struck and in
stantlv killed two little boys named
Mays, aged five and seven years. The
father Of the boys was at work III
field near the track, and was horrl-
fed eye witness of the accident. Pas
sengers assert the engineer deliberate
lv ran the boys down, neither blow
ing his whistle nor making an effort
to stop.
John jackson, while blowing in
field back of town, yesterday, ran
across. to use his words, the mother
of all snakes 1t is the biggest snake
ever heard of in this end of the State,
it being a black snake IA feet long and
Is inches in circumference, taking four
men to kill it. After they had killed
il il was found to have swallowed
rattle-snake feet long with Is rat
ties, four full-grown rabbits and eight
frogs Huntington Advertiser.
The West Virginia Conference Sem
mary Trustees met at Buckhannon
last week and were in session several
DAYS. They decided to open the Sem
mary for school work in September.
Prof. b. w. Hutchinson, of Rhode
Island, was appointed principal; Prof.
J. +. Ogden, of Buckhannon, first as
sistant; Miss Tayner, of Parkersburg,
second assistant, and Mrs. Hutchln-
son. teacher of music. Other teach
ers will be employed during the sum
mer.
News has reached Charleston of an
other bloody outbreak in Logan coun-
ty. directly attributable to the Hat
field Mccoy feud On Friday evening
Charles and James Justice met
"Hance" Mccoy on Mats creek.
There was bad blood between the
men, and a desperate fight ensued.
Mccoy was literally cut TO pieces,
being stabbed nine times. He used
his revolver with telling effect, how
ever. and both of the Justices were
seriously wounded. The Justices are
cousins Of the Hatfield family.
A Parkersburg dispatch says w. NJ.
Farnsworth, a young man and nephew
of ex- Governor ID. II. Farnsworth, was
sleeping in room in the third story
of a hotel in that city Saturday night.
At an early hour Sunday morning
noise was heard in the room, and a
servant rushed in just in time 70 see
Farnsworth going out of the window
head first with candlestick III his
hand. He fell to the ground, sustain
inc fatal injuries His friends claim
that he is q somnambulist and walked
ont of the window while asleep.