Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-12
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

The census gives West Virginia
eight Indians and sixteen Chlnameh.
A man named Davis, engaged In
building the telephone line between
Grafton and Clarksburg, was mashed
TO pieces near Pennington by falling
pole.
Two sons of Hiram Wiser, OF Brace
bridge. Ont, aged four and SIX years,
respectively, were carried over M,
agara Falls last Friday night and
drowned.
There are Sf6 prisoners in the peni-
Tertiary at Moundsville, nine OF WI ON
are women. a new mess-house, Oh
X $50 feet and two stories high, Is TO
be constructed.
Judge Armstrong of the Hampshire
Circuit. has found so much confusion
i'm the iury law passed by the last
Legislature that he has informed the
clerks that there will be no petit Ju-
ries this term.
During a heavy storm last week
two sons of William Southall, IN
jackson county, took refuge under
straw stack. They had been there
but a few moments when the stack
was struck by lightning. One OF the
bows was instantly killed, and the
other was probably fatally injured.
The board of the school fund has
selected and purchased a site for the
West Virginia Colored Institute, the
new agricultural college provided for
by act of the last legislature. They
have purchased thirty acres of land
in the Kanawha Valley, six or eight
miles below Charleston. The price
paid was SO an acre.
The mine at the Clements coke
works. near MorgantOwn, is on fire.
The fire originated in the air shaft,
the heavy wooden braces OF which
were ignited from the furnace. The
flames from the shaft shot into the air
about fifty feet. The mine is self
drained and cannot be flooded. 1t
was sealed up and the work ofputting
out the fire by forcing in steam Is go
ing on. No one was injured.
The Commencement exercises OF
the West Virginia University took
place on the 10th instant. The grad
uating class is the largest that has
ever left the institution and mum
bered eleven. Seven received the de
gree Of A. b. and four, that OF Is. ).
Anon. the number receiving \. Is.
was Miss Hattie f. Lyon, of Fedonia,
New York. who has the honor of be
ing the first lady graduate of the
school. Mr.. II. A. Steed, of Writ
County, member of the preparatory
department, received the Regent
prize for the best defamation. Pro
fessors White and Jackson resigned
their respective chairs of Geology
and Engineering.
Governor Fleming has made the fol
lowing appointments State Board OF
Health-First District, DIR. VIM. NJ.
Late, Bridgeport, Harrison county,
for the term ending June /, 1894; DIR.
l.. ID. Wilson, Wheeling, for the term
ending June /. 1895; Second District,
DIR. L. 5. Brock, Morgantown, for the
term ending June |, 1898; Third Dis
trict, DR.. b. +. Irons, Pickaway, Mon
roe county, for the term ending June
|, 1898 Dr. w. y. Ewing, Charleston,
for the term ending June |, 1894
Fourth District, DIR. Il. p. Carpenter,
Poca, Putnam county. Regents Of the
West Virginia Colored Institute-Ben-
jamin w. Byrne and Benjamin f.
Wyatt, Charleston Charles H. Tur-
ner, Parkersburg John A. Myers,
Morgantown Samuel II. Hanen, Glen
Easton, Marshall county. Board OF
Regents for the Schools for the Deaf
and the Blind-W. S. Wiley, New
MartinFville. Wetzel county, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of DIR.
Baird Dr. G.. Casio, Elizabeth, Writ
county, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of w. =. Wears.