Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-01-13
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The News From Every Section Of the
Little Mountain State.

Little Mountain state.
!. w. w. Davis has been elected
mayor of Piedmont and VIM. III. WEIGH
mayor of Keyser.
A postal car on the B. & o. Rail
road was burned with all its contents
last Friday at Grafton.
Henry Rose shot and killed Mrs.
Hattie Graves at Huntington last
week. Both were mnlattoes. Hunting
ton is getting its name up.
Michael and Frank Defalco were
killed in Lewis county last week by
an explosion of dynamite with which
they had been blowing out stumps.
Frederick Gilman was killed near
Petersburg by his horse running
away with him and dragging him, en-
tangled In the lines, long distance.
1t is said that State Treasurer
Thompson of West Virginia has been
made rich by the discovery OF rich
vein of lead ore on land he owns near
Duluth.
Michael Kinney, of Grafton, had
$500 cash in his house. The house
burned last Monday night and the
cash went up in smoke along with
everything else.
John Joseph Combs is said to be
the oldest printer in West Virginia.
He is 70 years old, and is still working
in the office of the Intelligencer at Rom
ney. He las been setting type since
he was little boy.
Miss Fannie Wise, popular young
lady of Parkersburg, has instituted
suit for breach of promise against
Earl Perkins. 1t is said there Will be
some very spicy revelations if the case
gets into court. Miss Wise asks for
$4,000
Conductor W. A. Zingerlee, for
courageous service and fidelity to
duty in repelling train robbers on No.
4, near Huntington, w. Va, Decem-
Der 10, 1892" has received a letter OF
aud thanks and 500
in cash from the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Company.
John Holland, freight conductor on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
while making up a train in the rail
road yards at Grafton on Monday had
his foot caught in frog and was run
over by several cars. He was killed
and badly manglnd. Holland leaves
a wife and several children.
Rev. G. A. Sawyer, an evangelist at
Wheeling, who has been doing mis-
sionary work there for over three
years. and had won wide reputation,
disappeared ON Wednesday with his
wife, and developments show that he
has been on prolonged debauch and
has led double life for over year.
Sawyer left large debts.
A letter from Three Camp, Webster
county. says: Game is plentiful here.
Nine bears and tW enty-fve deer have
been killed within five weeks. There
are to be found here all kinds Of wild
animals that inhabit West Virginia
deer, bears, panthcrs. wildcats, cata-
mounts, raccoons. minks, muskrats,
offers and black foxes"
A recent dispatch from Morgantown
says: Mida Davis, who LAS always
been an accomplished young lady, a
daughter of the late Hon. Albert g.
Davis, has been adJudged insane, and
has been placed in jail here to await
arrangements for her being received
in the Weston asylum. She is %
years of age The cause of the de-
thronement Of her reason is unceas-
ing literary researches.
Logan county. w. Va, has an area
of 800 square miles. The only town
in the county is Logan Court House,
with a population of 800 There is
only one church building in the coun-
ty, and that was erected by private
individual. The nearest railroad sta
ton to the county seat is fifty-fve
miles. Goods are taken to the coun-
ty by push boats at rs cents per 100
pounds, as there are no roads through
out the county.
Two painful accidents occurred at
the West Virginia University gymna-
sium at Morgantown on Monday. n.
ID. Baker, a student from Martins
burg, fell from q bar and broke his
arm between the wrist and elbow. G.
HI. A. Kanst, of Grafton, one of the
best athletes of the University, fell
from pair OF flying rings and struck
sideways on his right foot, swapping
both bones of The leg between the
knee and ankle.
At the recent meeting of the West
Virginia Bar Association at Parkers-
burg the following officers were elect
ed: President, j. Dallas Ewing, of
Wheeling; secretary, ID. G. Weston
haver, OF Martinsburg; treasurer, w.
n. Miller. of Parkersburg; vice pres
idents, Thomas p. Jacobs, of New
Martinsville; Samuel Woods, of Phil
lippi; G. G. Higginhothal, OF Buck
harmon; J. w. Vandervort, of Park
ersburg; executive council. Henry NJ.
Russell, chairman, B. F. Martin, w.
P. Wiley, d. c. Westenhaver, s. b.
Hall. J. ID. Ewing and b. NJ. Ambler
Grafton was selected as the next place
of meeting, and the Wednesday sue
ceeding the first Monday in January,
1894, rs the time of the meeting.