Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-05
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

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C. Vance, of Clarksburg, on the Boarc
of Regents of the West Virginia uni
yersity. instead of Col. ID. ID. Johnson
who resigned.
DIR. George | Garrison, who shot
and killed DR.. George Baird in Wheel
ing last March, was convicted OF
murder in the second degree. The
penaltv is from five 70 eighteen years
in the penitentiary.
Reports from the extreme western
portion of Taylor county state thai
the territory for about one hundred
square miles was devastated by a
! cloudburstclate Saturday afternoon
An immense amount of damage re
! suited. The crops were swept away
! bridges carried off and roads made
! impassable. while considerable
amount of live stock was drowned.
Nine hundred and four patients are
now under treatments at the Wes'
! Virginia Hospital for the Insane
| This is the largest number in the his
| tory of the institution. With the eX
ception of about fifteen, who are IL
jail at different points awaiting adj
mission, all the insane of the State
are comfortably provided for at the
| hospital.
Ex-State Mine Inspector Henry
| Cunningham was killed by train al
! Function last Saturday night. Gun
ningham was intoxicated on the train
and got into an alteration with the
newsboy. He had become unruly
and was put off the train. He started
to walk the track TO the nearest sta
ton. when he was struck by the Chi
cago express and killed instantly.
Governor Fleming, OF West Virgin
| ia. has received from Judge Nc
Claugherty, of the Mcdowell Circuit
Court, certified copy of the grand
! jury's report concerning the alleged
! ill-treatment Of Hungarian laborers
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
extension. After thorough investiga-
ton they report. that no persons OF
foreign or native birth have been
subjected to cruel treatment as la,
borers or otherwise on said railroad
extension.
One day last week an eight-year-old
! son of Thomas Brannon, who resides
! in Jackson county. shot and killed his
brother, aged four years. While all
! the family, except the two boys men
toned, were away from the house,
| the elder brother got the gun and
proposed to his younger brother that
| he (the Younger act as rabbit and
! that he (the elder would be a hunter
and shoot him, and so it was carried
out, the shot taking effect i'll the boy
chest, causing death in a very short
time.
An amusing story comes from a
town near Parkersburg. 1t is to the
! effect that young man Of that place
advertised in a matrimonial bureau
publication for wife, and his sister
answered the advertisement. They
wrote affectionate epistles to one
another for some time, and then ap
pointed meeting, when the denoue
ment came. The young man now
swears at matrimonial bureaus, the
young lady INDUCES in Mysteries, and
the old people are grieved to know
that they have two fools in one family.
Mrs. Ella b. Washington, the West
! Virginia vice-regent of the Mt. Yer
non Association, has undertaken the
work of having the Washington bust
which has been at Mt. Vernon fol
many years, restored. She has OBJ
! tanned permission from the Secretary
of the Treasury to have Mr.. Elliott
the chief modeler of the supervising
architects Office, restore the clay bust
and have a copy cast in plaster. Thi:
! bust was made originally from the
! Houden life mask. The work Of res
toration will commence shortly anC
will be done at Mount Vernon.
The commandments of the State
educational institutions will be held
as follows: Marshall College Norma
School, Huntington, June 4th {; Glen
vile Normal School, June 9th Fair
mont Normal School, June 18th
Shepherd College Normal School
June 18th; Concord Normal School
July % State University, Morgan
town, June 10th. Special Peabody
Institutes will be heldsat Fairmont
June 18th to 18th, Charleston. June
22d to 26th, Clarksburg, June 22d tC
Goth, Huntington, June Goth to July
Sd.
The Board of Worlds Fair Mana
gers for West Virginia organized a
Charleston last Friday by electing w
y. Chancellor, of Wood county, a:
president; Geo. NJ. Bowers, of Berke
ley county, treasurer, and Nj. y
Mckay, of RavenswoOd, secretary
There was a large number of appli
cants for the secretaryship. L. NJ
Darrah, Of OHIO, and Holly Armstrong
of jackson. were in the lead for u
while. The formers strength how
ever did not increase, and when Arm
strong found the salary was place.
so low he withdrew The salary o
the president was fixed at 500 pc
month: that of the treasurer at one
per cent Of the disbursements. The
secretarys salary was fixed for the
next ten months at the rate OF 500
per wear. The secretary will have {
| good deal more to do after ten months
than now, and his salary may bt
raised then. The board will 90 iii /
few days to Chicago TO see about th'
site, plans, drawings, etc, for tht
West Virginia building. The work o
collecting materials for display at the
fair will not be begun before the first
of next year, and neither is it. lillel!
that the building will be commenced
until late next year, as the West Nir
GINA Board do not want II weather
beaten house when the exhibition
begins, nor do they want to expenc
funds for taking care of it longer thai
is necessary.
President Harrison ordered that al
investigation be made in the couduc