Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-08-21
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

In a wreck on the Kanawha and
! Ohio Railroad near Charleston, sew
eral passengers were injured the 9TH
er day.
The contract for the new court
house at Charleston was let to w. II.
Townsend, OF GAINESVILLE, Ohio, at
$109,000
Charles l.. Goode, a well-known
farmer and merchant OF st. Adams,
got drunk at Charleston the other day
and walked into the river and drowned
himself.
James Stout, who was shot near
Clarksburg, last Tuesday, by some un
known party, died Friday n Champ
has been arrested charged with the
shooting.
The crop of "apple jack" which
was failure in West Virginia last
year, will be very large this season,
and more fruit distilleries will be in
operation than for many years.
Saturday morning, as an east bound
freight train was passing Pennington,
a man named Simms fell from one Of
the cars and had both legs cut off
above the knees. His recovery is
doubtful.
A cyclone passed through the
southern portion of Wood county, last
Sunday night, doing an immense
amount of damage over an area OF fifty
square miles No lives were lost, but
forests were wrecked, buildings and
crops utterly destroyed.
A desperate riot took place near
Shinnston last Sunday night. A party
Of disorderly young men were visit
ing at the house of woman named
Nutles. Another party afterward ap-
preached, and q fight began between
them. Eight men engaged, and shots
and stones were freely used. BenJa-
min Stout, a prominent farmer, was
almost instantly killed. Manly
Champ was fatally wounded and two
others seriously hurt.
Fourteen thousand pounds of pow
der exploded at the Kellogg Powder
Mills, six miles from Huntington, last
Friday morning. The shock was felt
twenty-eight miles away, and the ma
tives were badly shaken up. Two
men were killed and seven wounded
The dead are J. w. Bowles and limo
thy Cooney. George Wells is fatally
wounded, and John Justice and five
others were badly injured. Fifty
others in the building had narrow es-
capes.
A special from Grafton on Tuesday
said Mrs George Mallonee, niece
and five children are lying in a dying
condition from eating poisoned cakes.
The lady made the cakes Yesterday,
and while absent from the house u
few moments it is believed some
enemy attempted to poison the en-
tire family by placing arsenic in the
dough. The death of one or two Of
the children is expected. Suspicion
points to certain parts as the poison
ers, and arrests may be made.
Governor Fleming has appointed
Hon. J. b. Sommerville, of Wheeling,
and c.. l.. Smith, Of Fairmont, as mem
bers of the board OF regents of the
West Virginia University from the
first and second congressional districts,
respectively. He has also appointed
the following delegates and alternates
to the eleventh annual session Of the
National Farmers Congress Of the
United States, which meets at Sedalia,
Mo-, November 10, 1891: First con
gressional district, Creed Collins,
Richie, delegate; Jas. b. Fowler, Har-
rison, alternate. Second district, G..
II. Knott, Jefferson, delegate; j. Cor
rothers, Monongahela, alternate.
Third district, l. b. Moore, Pocohon-
tas, delegate; l. j. Clark, Greenbrier,
alternate; Fourth district, Orlando
Hartman, Calhoun, delegate; Geo. ID.
Eastman, Mason, alternate. At large,
John A. McCausland, Mason, and ID.
ID. Johnson, Tyler, delegates; John
Mooney, Pendleton, and Sanford
Garlic, Wood, alternates.