Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-04-15
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
In Wheeling. last Friday night, Mrs.
Mamie Leslie shot and killed her nus
band. jealousy.

In Wheeling. last Friday night, Mrs.
Mamie Leslie shot and killed her hus-
band. jealousy.
Allen Harrison shot and instantly
killed Bette Adams, Of Little Cabell
Creek. Sunday night. The cause of
the killing was that Bette refused to
marry Allen.
Hon. James d. Armstrong, judge Of
! the circnit composed of Pendleton,
Grant, Hardy, Mineral and Hamp-
shire counties, has resigned on &C
count Of il-health.
Thomas Surgeon. a well-to-do mer-
chant OF Elk City, a suburb of
Charleston, committed suicide Sun
day by taking rat poison. His mind
had been affected for some time.
In the United States Senate Tues
day the West Virginia direct tax case
came up as d special order and was,
on motion of Mr.. Faulkner, on ac-
count of the absence of Senators
! Morrill, and Daniel further postponed
till Tuesday next.
At Huntington last Thursday the
| Democrats elected the entire ticket
! from mayor down, fifteen men in all.
! including the entire council, 10y ma
! ioriries of from 800 TO 400 Tue may
or's ajority was the largest given
any man in ten years. 1t was u great
victory.
At Piedmont, Sunday evening.
whilst Blaine McCroby. eight years
old. son Of john McCroby, a Balti-
more and Ohio brakeman, was crawl
! ing under n freight train in the west
end of the railroad yard, the train
started, caught aud crushed his head,
causing instant death.
james Smith, recently found guilty
of the murder of Calvin RexrOad, at
ParkerSburg. has been sentenced TO
Ten years in the penitenIiary. Smith
was Indifferent 10 the sentence, smil-
ing contemptuously a it was pro-
uOunced. Smiths career of crime has
killed his father, and rendered his
mother an invalid from grief.
Raftsmen from the head of the Tug
Fork of the Big Sandy river have
brought the news that Cap Hat
field was killed few evenings ago in
row over Il game OF poker in his
house among outlaws, who had sol
EMMY vowed perpetual friendship.
Cap" was generally regarded a the
very worst of the famous Hatfield
gang.
Last Saturday night the residence
Of James Hawley, Of Midway, near
Wellsburg, was burned, and AleXan-
der Linton, aged ten, who made his
4, RI
while Mr.. Hawley was so terribly
burned that he became insane and
cut his throat Kate aud Annie
Rankin and Mrs. Gillespie jumped
from the secondstOry windows, and
were badly hurt.
Mrs Belts, an aged lady at Prunty-
town committed suicide last Thurs
dav by Jumping into clstern of
water aud drowning. Her daughter
had lett the house but II short dis
lance, and on returning and not
finding her in bed where sac had left
her, went in search and finding her
shoes near the ciSteru looked in the
water and saw her body, which was
at once taken out, but life WAS eX
tinct Her mind had been deranged
for some months.
Ex-senator Henry q Davis, of West
Virginia gave adiuner Tuesday night
at the tiotel Reuuert, in Baltimore, TO
Gov. Frank Brown, Of Maryland and
Gov. \. T. Fleming, Of West Virginia
Secretary of War stephen Is. Eikins
ex-Gov William Pinkney Whyte, VIM.
l. Elkins aud p \. b. WIdener, of
Philadelphia, Gen. John Gill, Jas. y.
Gary, j. r.. Sands, of Farmout, w.
Va. John a Hambeton. X. &. kerens,
of St Louis, b. n. Baker, Il. Edward
Hambeton, David Il. Bartlett and
William keyser Were present.