Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-12
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Tho mother of John w. Mason,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
died in Washington on Monday. Her
remains were taken TO Grafton for in
terment.
Jacob Amick. of Hampshire coun
ty. who was one hundred years old
last February, says he always voted
the Democratic ticket. and hopes to
vote for Cleveland in November.
There is considerable dissatisfaction
among the coal miners of the Fair
mont region, and there is probable
ity that the whole body of miners In
that section will strike for an increase
in wages.
The Democrats of the first district
have renominated Hon. John .. Pen
dIeton for Congress, and the Repub-
licans of the fourth district have nom
mated Charles T. Caldwell for sim
lar place.
Alonzo Morrison, son Of w. l.. Nor
rison, who lives near ParkerSburg,
while chasing calf in the pasture
suddenly dropped dead. The cause of
his death is supposed TO have been
the rupture OF an artery.
During an ARRAY over a game OF
cards near Buckhannon the other
night Israel Slaughter stabbed his
brother Tom in the heart with Il
butcher knife, killing him instantly.
Both men have families. Whiskey
was the cause OF the trouble.
The five buildings composing the
Tygart Manufacturing Company's
general planning and buggy factory
with all the machinery, large lot of
lumber and several buggies, were
totally destroyed by an incendiary
fire in Morgantown at an early hour
last Sunday morning. Loss S2j, 900,
insurance $4,000 This is the ninth
incendiary fire there within eighteen
months.
Our readers probably remember
the little daughter of Mr.. George
Whitecotton who was lost from
her home in Pendleton county adout
a year ago. The Petersburg GGzTte
last week announced that the skull
and bones of the child We're found in
a dense piece of woods a few days
ago. together with the child'S dress
and shoes Although Il large number
of people searched the woods at that
time, they failed to strike the place
where the bones We're found, only a
few rods of. Since the child was
lost the family has buried three other
children.
Charleston had criminal sensation
Oh Monday. Guy Brumtield, nephew
of the famous desperado, Paris
Brumtield, who was killed by his own
son, short time ago, and Jim Elliott.
came to Charleston three weeks ago.
Brumfeld posed as a United States
detective, but was cot convicted on
account of lack of evidence. Numer-
Gus mysterious robberies have been
reported in and about Charleston and
Monday the two were arrested. On
Brumtield's person was found guam
tity of counterfeit money, burglars
tools, gold watches and other val
uables and checks on Huntington
bank said to have been; forged. Both
men were committed to Jail.
4 dispatch from Wheeling says:
Monday morning a small boy APP
peared at junk shop with bag
which he said contained Old bones
which he wanted to sell. He poured
the lot out on the floor, when the
horror-stricken Junk dealer saw they
were the remains Of human beings,
there being several skulls in the lot.
When asked where he had gotten the
remains, he said he gathered them up
at the city dump on Twentieth street.
A visit to the spot showed II big lot of
bones mixed with freshly dumped
earth, and a cart driver said they
came from the old city cemetery at
Twenty-third street. Investigation
showed that contractor at work on
new street was blowing his way
through the cemetery with gang Of
men, digging up collins by the score
and loading the Baskets aud contents
ruthlessly into carts and dumping
them over in the creek bank. Great
public excitement has been aroused.
The cemetery has not been used since
the war, but contains the remains Of
many representatives Of old families.