Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-05-22
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Three men were killed by the eY-
plosion of a boiler at Wilson's saw
mill, on the w. Va. Central Railroad,
last week.
The Mountain State Oil company
OF Gle; sburg has been taken into
the Unsuitable nav OF the Standard
Oil Company.
The beautiful residence Of Creed
w. Hart, at Buckhannon, together
with it's pictures and furniture, was
destroyed by fire last Thursday. The
loss is 5000 No insurance.
Judge Jackson, of the United States
District Court. has decided that West
tional This will cause great stir
among the rivernen.
George w. Shirk, convicted in the
county court of Pendleton county on
charge OF sheep stealing and SEN
fenced to one years imprisonment,
committed suicide by hanging in his
cell one night last week.
The first conviction in this State
under the law against using the mails
to send money to the Louisville Lot
terry was made at Charleston Wednes-
day. Warren VI. Frame, OF Raleigh
county, was convicted and fined S25.
The Wheeling Mtellgence pub
fishes dispatches from large mum
Der Of points in West Virginia, the
purport being to the effect that the
frost of Saturday night did consider
able damage to the fruit and vege-
table crops.
A dispatch from Terra Alta says
destructive forest fires have been rag
ing in the Cheat river mountains for
a week A tract of 5000 acres north
Of there has been burned over and a
number of farm-houses destroyed.
At Oakland village the greatest alarm
is felt, as the town is almost entirely
surrounded by the burning forests.
A fire in Parkersburg Friday night
burned Isaac Cars blacksmith shops,
together with number of buggies
wagons, &c; w. II. Morehead's two
story wareroom filled with wagons,
mowers and reaping machines; w. ii.
Cards store and dryhOuse, together
with new buildings in course OF con-
struction; Paul Triggoler's two-story
frame dwelling, and two-story dou-
BILE dwelling owned by the Henry Lo-
gan estate. Several other buildings
are badly damaged.
The long continued antagonism eI-
listing for years between William b.
Pyles and Joshua Fast, farmers, of
Marion county, eliminated last Sat
urday in the shooting of Fast by
Pyles with shotgun. The cause Of
the trouble was strip OF ground be-
tween their farms claimed by both
but held by neither. Pyles entered
and attempted to pillow it, Fast came
toward him, when Pyles raised his
gun and shot him. His life is de-
SPARED of.
The will OF the late G.. ID. Camden
was offered for probate in the court
at Clarksburg last week, and protest
and notice OF contest in behalf Of
children and grandchildren were
served on the clerk by Gen. Golf.
This opens the greatest legal battle
over will ever occurring in West
Virginia. Both sides are financially
able to obtain the best legal talent in
the United States, and the contest
will be long and bitter. 1t isreported
that the body will be e1humed and
an investigation made as to the cause
of death. 1t is said that sensational
developments will occur within a few
days.
Miss Sue Z. Bebout, OF Anderson,
Monroe county, w. Va, has written
to the Mayor of Baltimore Offering to
sell pet lion to the city for the Druid
Hill Park geological collection. Miss
Bebout says her lion is OF African de-
scent, is seven months old and is about
the size Of Newfoundland dog, but
not so woolly. He was given to her
by Snowman, she says, when the
lion was only three hours old. The
lion is tame and gentle, she says, and
sleeps in a bed next to hers. Miss
Bebout realizes that she will soon
have to cage her lion, and she would
rather sell it than go to that expense
and care for the animal afterward.
The Mayor in his reply asked Miss
Bebout to fix price upon her lion.