Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-08-11
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The News From Every Section of the
Little Mountain State.


The Governor on Tuesday pardoned
from the penitentiary Moses Atkins,
sent up from Boone county for man
slaughter and Burt Spriggs, from
Cabell county, for larceny.
Mrs. Charles Wade, a young mar
ried woman, was caught by train
on a trestle of the Ohio River Railroad
near Huntington last Saturday and
ground to pieces beneath the wheels.
Mrs. Samuel Bennett. of Tanners,
Gilmer county, recently gave birth
to fine young boy, making the
twenty-eighth child born unto MIR.
and Mrs. Bennett, eighteen of whom
are living.
Britton Lee Kildow, a Baltimore
and Ohio brakeman, fell from his
train, in Oakland, Saturday after
noon, the wheels passing over his left
leg, arm and side and his right hand.
He died from his injuries. His home
was in Texas. He was about twenty
seven years Of age.
Wesley Light and George Fleck, OF
Maiden, met in front of the postottice
at that place Thursday. Fleck pulled
out his pistol and shot Light three
times, wounding him twice in the
shoulder and once in the leg. The
wounds were dressed and will not
prove fatal Fleck is under arrest.
\ woman was the cause of the trou-
BILE.
At q meeting Of the directors of the
Exchange Bank of Wheeling last Sat
urdav evening it was decided to make
an assignment, and the bank doors
were accordingly closed Monday
morning. The bank is perfectly sol
vent. the assets being much in excess
of liabilities. The directors were for
ced to their action by their inability
to meet immediate obligations, owing
to the financial striugency.
John Plotner, living at Bakers
PostoiIice, seven miles from Cherry
Run, met with a horrible death Oh
Saturday He drove two oxen to Il
pasture field and was attacked by one
of the animals He was gored and
his body mutiated almost beyond
recognition. The ground for hun
dred yards around was torn up in the
struggle with the mad beasts. His
body was found by party Of search
ers, who missed him from his home.
4 sad accident occurred at Sisters
vile the other day. Several little
girls were playing at u windlasS well,
drawing up IL bucket Of water part
way and letting it run back. One of
the girls, Pearl Sutton, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Sutton, failed to
/ Of Of tha NUinI Ia -
and was struck in the mouth with
the handle, knocking all her teeth
out and telling her to the ground,
crushing her skull. She died thirty
minutes after the accident.
At Alexandria, last Thursday,
Stephen Welch and wife were arrest
ed for selling whiskey without Il
| license In taking them to Jail the
man escaped. Mrs. Welch was put
in Jail and about 10 o'clock at night
Il crowd of her friends broke into the
| Jail and let her out. y riot occurred
when the officers attempted TO pre-
vent the mob from taking her, and
| about twenty shots were fired on both
| sides. One of the rioters, named
Hickman, was shot, and two others
/ were wounded, but were taken away
by their friends. More trouble is
| feared.
The railroad assessment now being
made by the Board of Public Works
of this State will probably show a
large increase in the aggregate over
that of last year, for the reason that
a large part of the railroad track now
in use had not been completed and
opened for business when the last as
sessmeut was made. Railroad track
is not assessed until it is complete
and i not considered completed until
it is opened for business, so that with
the large amount of new railroad
opened up in the last year there
should be n considerable increase in
the aggregate assessment.