Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-08-28
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

ing DuSluess iueh vi WheehhS, uieV
Monday.
Fx-Congressmar Chester d. Hub
bard died in Wheeling last Sunday,
aged IS years.
Henry Borgess., the oldest man in
Marion county, died Thursday, aged
ninety eight years.
The city election at Huntington,
Saturday, resulted in an overwhelming
Democratic victory.
Capt. Lewis +. Watts, of Monroe
county, was thrown from horse last
week and sustained injuries which
caused his death.
BENJAMIN II. Maulsby, a leading
citizen of Doddridge county, died last
week. He had filled many positions
of honor and trust.
A tailor representing himself as j.
b. Van Osten, from Ohio, has just
skipped from Clarksburg, leaving
number of creditors in the lurch.
George Bayles was killed and Alex
ander Robinson severely burned on
the face and arms by the explosion of
gas in coal shaft near Fairmont,
Saturday.
Gunther Schnells, of Wheeling, who
murdered his uncle, DR.. Schuckhardt,
in 1880, and who has since been con-
fined in the asylum for the insane at
Weston, hung himself last Saturday.
The reunion of the Fleming family
at FairInont last week was a great
success and most interesting event.
Over six-hundred Flemings were
present, having gathered from twenty
five States. Gov A. b. Fleming made
an address.
NJ. p. Taylor and Narcissy Wallace
were run over by yard engine on a
X. & Nj. trestle at Point Pleasant
Tuesday night. TAYLOR was killed in
stantly. The woman had both legs
and an arm cut off and died in half
an hour. They had served time in
jail for indecent conduct and were re-
garded as bad.
Inspectors Hooton and Poe arrested
the son of eX-AsSemblyman Harding,
of kerns, Randolph county, last Sat
urday, charged with robbing the
postoffice at kernS. Young Harding
was found wounded at his home from
q trap gun shot. The postmaster had
set the gun to catch the thief. The
office had been robbed many times in
the past year, but it was impossible
to detect the thief, until the trap gun
located him. The wound will prob
ably prove fatal.
Here's a snake story telegraphed
from Huntington: Mrs. William
HUXLEY, living in u little cabin near
Buffalo Shoals, was engaged in max
ing soap Tuesday, leaving her six
months-Old babe sleeping in its cradle.
She heard the babe cry, and hurrying
into the house Dissolved an enormous
black snake coiled around her child.
The snake had swallowed the babes
arm to the shoulder. The Mortified
mother finally succeeded in killing
the snake, which was feet 2 inches
long, of the black racer species, and
fought wickedly. The babes arm
was blistered as though it had been
;mmersed in scalding water"
A desperate affray occurred at the
Methodist Church at Pineville, Wy
oming county, which resulted in the
wounding of Sheriff Lambert and the
capture of two desperadoes. Granpa
Rules and his grandson, Joe, both I'M
der the influence ofliquor, went to the
church and broke up the services, fir
ing their revolvers and cursing. Sher-
if Lambert attempted to enforce or
der, when old man Rules shot him in
the head, and the grandson also
opened fire, but missed. Rev. Mr..
Simpson, who is also q justice Of the
peace called on his congregation and
made a rush for the Rules. They at
tempted to escape, but were arrested
and jailed.
Helvetia, Swiss settlement in Wood
county, this State, composed Of about
sixty well-todo farmers and their fam
lilies, was the scene, on last Friday af
ternoon, of horrible double murder
and an unsuccessful attempt at self
destruction. Mrs. Barnhowser, the
wife of one of the most prosperous res
idents of the place, during a fit OF tenn
porary insanity. and while her hus-
band and the older members of the
family were absent at their barn,
threshing grain, took her two younger
children, a babe ofthirteen monthsand
a boy of three years of age, to the
sprInSnOuSe. mere size ueIioeiaVIl
drowned the baby in the spring, hold
ing it under water, as she says, until
it was dead, and then attempted to
do the same with the other child. By
some means the little fellow escaped,
and ran back to the house, only to
meet death in more horrible manner.
The mother returned to the house
and Drained the boy with Ratchet,
mutilating the body in a fiendish
way. Then she attempted to take
her own life by stabbing herself two or
three times in the throat and neck
with a butcher-knife. Her wounds
are not considered fatal. The only
cause she assigns for the terrible deed
is she was tired of living, and did not
want to leave her children behind
her