Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-05-05
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The News From Every Section of the
Little Mountain state.

Little Mountain state.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Miller is ill at his home in West Nir-
ginia.
Keyser voted Saturday for water
works. The vote resulted 3J4 votes
for and IS against.
The question of moving the county
seat of Tucker county from st. George
10 Parsons was decided Saturday in
favor of Parsons by u large majority.
Governor MacCorkle issued his first
pardon last Friday. 1t was TO Green
Wiley, serving year in the penlten-
tiary for shooting "a man in Lincoln
county.
Mrs. Dennis \. Perrin, of Gonna
MIA. Grant county, committed suicide
by shooting while in u fit OF despon-
dency caused by iIl-health. y child
was born after the shooting, which
still lives.
At the election held in Piedmont
! Tuesday to ratify or reject the Ordi-
nance to bond the town for $40, 200
to put in water works there were
400 votes cnst-312 for ratification and
10 against
Last Friday W. A. Tanning shot
and killed j. Il. Ellison at kimball,
! Mcdowell county. Ellison was en-
! gagged to be married to Miss Connolly,
| a sister-in-law of Fanuing's. and upon
seeing the two in room together
Tanning shot Ellison dead. Jealousy
is the supposed cause. Tanning es
cappd and is still at large.
The State Board OF Agriculture
was IN session at Charleston this
week. The board was reorganized by
the re election of L. G.. AtkeSOn presi-
dent and G.. G.. Brown. of kanawha
county, secretary. The permanent
Office OF the secretary was located in
Charleston. w. W. Dent was re-
elected meteorolOgist, and DR.. VIM.
Petrie veterinarian.
\ Morgantown young man a few
days ago received mysterious look
ing package, and having visions of
Internal machines soaked the pack
age in a tnb OF water for three hours,
said his prayers, removed fifteen or
twenty newspapers, and tainted when
he saw the cOntents-a two inch bot
tie with all the apparatus for raising
a very young child by hand.
A child about three years old,
daughter of Mr.. Newton Michael,
who lives nine miles south of Berke-
ley Springs, was burned so badly
while out playing near where its faith
er was at work, last Tuesday, that it
died Wednesday morning. The faith
en- while trying to save the little one,
had both of his hands burned so bad
~ that he will not be able TO work for
some time.
The largest crowd of moOnshiners
ever captured in West Virginia were
taken to Charleston the first of the
week There were about forty of
them and they all came from Nc
Dowell and Wyoming county, and are
rough-looking lot. Among them
are two women, Clara Smith and May
Batchall, who are alleged TO have run
mountain stills for years past. These
arrests pretty effectually break up
the making of illicit whiskey in the
two counties named.
\ novel suit for breach Of con
tract has just been brought in Hamp-
shire county. Isaac Nanmeter and
Jacob Hoffman are leading farmers
OF the county, the former an ardent
Democrat aud the latter an equally
earnest Republican. Before the last
presidential election, Nanmeter
agreed with Hoffman to take his
sheep at 50 80 each if Cleveland was
elected, while, if Harrison was elected
he was to pay 50 each for the wool
produced A few days ago Hoffman
offered TO deliver the sheep at 81 50, !
but Nanmeter wouldn't take them,
whereupon Hoffman sues for the
price of It's flocks, standing ready to
deliver the goods.
\ horrible murder was committed |
at BenwoOd, a suburb Of Wheeling, |
last Sunday morning. The victim
was Samuel McCloud, and his muir
derers were his mother and Charley
Tibes, the latter the brother-inl law of !
the victim. McCloud, his wife his |
mother and TibeS all live together,
and Saturday night they drank
good deal Of beer. About twelve |
o'clock a quarrel started between the J
twomen, and Tibes knocked McCloud |
down The mother then cutched |
her son by the throat and choked him |
until TiheS beat his brains out with u |
coupling pin. When the crime was
discovered. Tibes was in a drunken |
sleep. and neither of the women were |
sober enough 10 tell much about the
atfray.
There is one remedy which every |
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