Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-04-22
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Col. l.. r. Cofran, q well known
luluber dealer OF Grafton. was stricken
with paralysis Saturday, and is III Il
critical condition.
The Fairmont Index last week issued
n splendid special edition detailing
the commercial advantages of that
prosperous section of West Virginia.
In Wheeling, early Sunday morn
! ing. three men quarreltd about
woman, and Charles Whitesides was
| fatally cut with razor in the melee.
At Charleston. Sunday afternoon,
| Miss Lizzie Capen fell from the IA,
nawha and Michigan transfer and
was drowued Her body was recov-
cred.
At Huntington, last Friday, Mrs.
Kirk and her daughter Celia were
struck by G.. & .. passenger locomo-
tive and instantly killed. They were
walking IN the track.
The new and palatial residence of
Hon. Henry q. Davis. at EIkins, is
well under way. aud the contractor
expects to have the building ready
for occupancy by the coming fall.
The grand jury OF Taylor county
broke the record last week by return
ing over six hundred indictments as
true bills. With few exceptions they
were all for the illicit selling OF liquor
About three weeks ago a man
named Harrison shot and killed u
Young lady at Huntington because
She refused TO marry MIN. tie was
Il. nj a tlh m
fenced TO be hung.
Col. G. w. Z. Black, chairman Of
the second district Republican con
gressional committee, has called n
convention at heyser on the 4tn OF
Nav. u choose delegates to the ma
tional convention at Minneapolis.
The proposition made by Hon. ).
r ElKins to give So. 900 aud - acres
OF land TO found II Baptist coileg" at
Elkins. Randolph county. was accept
ed Wednesday at fUil meeting OF
the board of college trustees al C!arks-
burg.
JamesS. Bechtol, Berkeley Springs
school teacher, was killed by Is X ..
train az Berkeley Springs last Friday.
The trainmen did not know OF the ac-
cideut until the BODY Of the dying
man was found on the track. De
ceased was 81 year. old.
Two sons of Minter Turner, of
Bealrs Mills. were poisoned last week
by eating candy which they purchased
Of a grocer at that place, from the eff
feet of which one of the boys has since
died and the other is not expected TO
live Weston Republican.
Robert w. Clogue, aged siXty-iive
wears. a resident OF Piedmont, was III
stantlv killed Tuesday 10y Il pasSen-
ger train on the Baltimore and ONO
Railroad. lie was crossing the track
aud did not see the train coming.
He leaves a wife and family
Mrs Cecilia Leslie, born kimball,
died intestate at Piedmont. w Va,
in 1898. Her heirs found among her
possessions an old trunk, filled with
deeds and leases, on which they are
irving TO recover a large section OF
Frankford. a part Of PHILADELPHIA,
valued now AT SS).OOO, OOO.
VIM. Maier, who shot his young
wife dead in Wheeling because she
refused TO kiss him, mas been cap
turrd He started for Columbus and
got fifty miles away, but for some un-
accountable reason came back and
went 10 the cemetery, and was first
seen standing by his wife. grave.
He was famisned. having been with
out food for six days
Harry Lee. son OF a prominent bank
or at Wheeling, and nephew of Gen
Fitznugh Lee. of Virginia, attempted
suicide at St Louis the other day at
the Hotel Baruum, swallowing three
ounces of laudamum. He is expected
TO die He il graduate of two
Kelley cure institutes al Blair, Neb..
and Lpavenworth, Kan, and he has
been often heard TO say that he
would give much if he had never
tried the cure. He is twentv-thrpe
wears old and has been a hard drlnker
aud for that reason sought the cure.
The Greeubrier Independent reports
the killing of three bears near White
Sulphur Springs Two of them were
killed by Mr. J. d Alderman and his
brother George. and the third one was
started and brought to bay 10y th-lr
DOGS but before they could come mp
with the dogs other parties, who had
heard the baying, arrived upon the
scene and killed the bear. This party
refused to divide the trophy of the
chase with the Messrs Alderman. One
of the bears killed 10y these hunters
weighed over 800 pounds after being