Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-12-04
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS,
Grant county has voted a subscrip-
ton OF S25, 900 TO the proposed Hardy
and Moorefield Railroad.

Grant county has voted a subscrip-
ton Of S25, 900 TO the proposed Hardy
and Moorefield Railroad.
Col. F. NJ. NemegYei has sold his
Irondale furnace, in Preston county,
to a New York company for $50, 900.
Silas Vanarsdale, Of Morgan coun-
| ty, shot himself in the knee while
deer hunting last week, and died in
twenty minutes from the wound.
Morgan Long. a cattle dealer, OF
Mason county, w. Va, fell from the
steamer Bostoria, at her wharf in
Cincinnati, Sunday night. and was
drowned.
John Carse, q ealthy Richie coun-
ty farmer, was amb ushed near a toll
gate in Richie county Sunday night
as he was returning from church, and
fatally shot.
Hon. s. B. Elkins has offered to
subscribe $4,000 toward the erection
of Baptist College at EIkins, the
present terminus of the West Virginia
Central Railroad.
Bird cambridge, of Union district,
Lewis county, was instantly killed
Saturday by the premature explosion
of gun in the hands Of man named
Lane, while rabbit hunting.
While a number Of small boys were
playing about the mouth of the Dia-
mond coal shaft at w ellsburg, Law
renee Letzkus, aged seven, tripped
and fell down the shaft, $50 feet deep.
His body was crushed dreadfully.
VIM. Windle, the notorious lunatic
who has terrorized the people of this
valley the past few months, and who
was recently captured in Hampshire
county, escaped from the Romney
Jail one night last week through the
carelessness of the keeper and is once
more at large. Two other prisoners
went out with him.
A remarkable state of affairs is said
to exist out in Doddridge county.
There are twenty-five or thirty of
the public school ofthat county which
have no teachers. The supply does
not equal the demand. 1t is stated
by one Of the local papers that a
number OF persons are ready to pass
an examination and take the schools,
but that the county superintendent
declines to hold another examination,
and so the school houses must re-
main closed and the children be de-
prived of the instruction that is due
them.
Josiah Carpenter, the oldest inhab-
liant of West Virginia, died at his
residence in Preston county last Sun
day. Estimates Of Carpenters age
varied, but none placed him under
one hundred and twenty years He
claimed to have been born in Loudoun
county, Virginia, in 1882, which would
make him one hundred aud ffty-nine
years old. He claimed to remember
Braddock's defeat and to have served
as teamster at that time. Carpenter
had a son who died ten years ago at
the age Of eighty. Until recently his
health has been fairly good. He has
one daughter still living who is over
eighty.
On Friday night List yearling bear
was killed by two boys on Little
mountain, in Meadow Bluff district.
John A. Hall. eyed seventeen, son OF
Thos. A. Hall, and Mont Black, aged
twelve, were coon-hunting when their
dog freed the bear. They induced
the bear TO come down by firing one
shot at it from gun loaded with No.
shot, which, beyond putting out
one eye, did no other damage. The
dogs then tackled it, and the boys
rushed in with an axe. but could not
use it effectively, when young Hall
had recourse to his penkuife. After
several lucky passes he succeeded in
dispatching it. Young Hall was
slightly bitten on the finger in the
fight, but sustained no other damage.
-Greenbrier Independent.
News reached this place last Mon
day evening OF frightful accident,
which occurred near Slanesville, last
Thursday night. VIM. Rouzee,
young man about 25 years OF age,
started from dance, at a house
about three miles from Slanesville, in
this county, in company with girl
by the name Of Mcbride. 1t was late
at night and getting out in the woods
in a deep hollow they concluded to
camp until morning. They built up
a fire, lay down and went to sleep.
From some means the girls clothing
caught fire, and were entirely con-
sumed. In attempting to put out the
fire Rouzee's hands and arms were
burned in frightful manner, so much |
so that it is said they will have to be /
amputated The girl walked home /.
in this awful condition, but died the |
next morning. Romney Reriew.