Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-03-13
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

In West Virginia in 1890 there were
manufactured 132.6S1 barrels of beer
and 454, 753 gallons Of whiskey.
Edwin Kelton, representing o syn
dictate OF Ohio capitalists, has pur-
chased for $40 an acre 10000 acres Of
land in the counties Of Clay and
Nicholas.
Aaron Gilbert and S. w. Calvert,
brothers -in-law, had a quarrel in a
Wheeling soloon Saturday night over
game OF cards, and Calvert stabbed
Gilbert to death.
At the city election in Charleston
on Monday the Democrats elected
mayor, recorder, sergeant and treas
urer. Two Republican councilmen
were elected, but the council still re-
mains Democratic.
A. Z. Parker, brutal blacksmith
Of Point Pleasant, made a vicious at
tack on his wife with a Ratchet the
other day, on account OF jealousy
and other domestic troubles. The
woman may die, and the man is in
jail.
J. w. Powell, aged twenty-three
years, of Morgantown, was out walk
ing with friend on Sunday. In de
scending a hill both slipped, and
Powell was impaled upon the walk
ing cane which his friend carried.
He was taken TO his hotel, where he
died Of his injuries.
On Monday last DR.. S. C. Beard
lost a valuable work horse on his
farm near Lewisburg, in a somewhat
singular manner. A man with two
horses was breaking up field for
corn when suddenly the ground gave
way under one of the horses and he
sank so deep into the earth as TO be
smothered 10 death in short time.
The Roanoke Times prints a re
futation of the charges made of cruel
ty to Hungarian laborers by contrac-
tors on the Ohio extension Of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad. The
investigation shows exactly the con
trary from what has been charged.
The men are well paid for the class
of work they do, and fare as well rs
the average laborer anywhere.
Two young women, named re-
spectively Hudson and Knight, had
scrap over some trivial matter Tues
day afternoon at Mason City, and
Miss Hudson beat Miss Knight so
badly that it is announced tonight
she is dying from the effects OF the
assault. Both women had good rep
utations and belonged 10 respectable
families. Miss Hudson is under ar
rest. awaiting the result Of Miss
Knights injuries.
Two young men of Wheeling, John
Hines and James Carroll, fought a
real duel with pistols at an early
hour Monday morning. Ten PAGES
were measured off, the men were sta
toned. and at the word Fire. two
shots were exchanged in rapid sue
cession without injury to either du-
elist. The seconds then declared that
honor was satisfied and stopped the
fight. The men insisted on another
shot, but the seconds were firm.
BIZ. Nolan, a parkersburg boy Of
seventeen, eloped with Alice, the
fourteen-year-old daughter Of W. G.
Perry, the proprietor OF travelling
museum. The clippers went to Mari
eta, Ohio, where, as alleged, through
the Misrepresentation Of a companion
a license was secured. The couple
were married at Belpre, Ohio, OPP
posite Parkersburg. Old man Perry
watched the ferry, and when the
bride and groom landed on this side be
ran the groom out OF sight, spanked
the girl and locked her up in one Of
his cars.
The Great Pocahontas colliery,
which turns out an average OF $500
tons OF coal per day, furnishes a pc
culiar geographical complication, as
its workings are in two States and
three counties. The mine is in the
Flat Top region, which embraces por-
tons of Virginia and West Virginia.
The opening from which the coal is
taken out is in Virginia, while the
workings are ventilated from an
opening in Mercer county, w. Va.
The workings also extend into Nc.
Dowell county, w. Va, and Tazewell
county, Va.
A recent dispatch from Clarksburg
says: The Farmers Alliance is hav-
ing a great boom in this State. Sub
alliances are being organized in near
ly every county. w. l.. Boughner
and r. i. knight, organizers, are at
work in this, Harrison, and Marion
counties, and are meeting with un-
paraleled success Hundreds are de-
sorting the old parties and joining
the new. A prominent Democrat to
dav offered to bet 500 that the Al
lance will poll more votes at the next
election that either the Democratic
or Republican parties 1t is rumored
that an old Republican leader will
start Farmers Alliance paper here
in a few weeks.