Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-04-07
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The News From Every Section of the
Little Mountain State.

James Ratliff. of Ceredo, while on
his way home from Catlettsburg sew
eral DAYS ago, walked off the steamer
Preston while asleep and was
| drowned.
The large two-story frame store
house and supply depot OF the Quini-
mont Coal and Iron Company was
DESTROYED by fire Sunday morning,
the origin of which is unknown. Loss
on stock SS. 900. insured for $1,000; on
building, $1,000, no inurance.
Mrs. Nelson Caldwell. aged about
sixty wears, WAS burned to death at
her home near Berkeley Springs.
Some brush had been burned Lear the
barn. and in her efforts to keep the
fire from igniting the barn her cloth
ing caught fire. and she was so horri-
bly burned that death resulted III Il
few hours.
Saturday morning James Cham
bers, Of Lexington. who was a brake
man on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, was found dead near Hin
ton. 1t appears that he fell from a
freight train and was run over. losing
leg and an arm. BY his side was
found note to his mother in which
he said Rather than be a burden
to YOU | will end my life His throat
was cut and the knife was found in
his hand.
Joseph Taylor, negro desperado,
who is known to have killed two men
and wounded two others, was arrest
10, 4
turned over to the Pennsylvania au-
thorities He is but nineteen years of
age. At the age Of sixteen he killed a
man in Mercer county, this State, but
because Of his youth was let off with
n three years term. AtSnowden, Pa,
Monday, he killed Rail Mack, and
then went to Findleysvile, a few
miles away, where he shot another
man and escaped to Wheeling.
A sad and very unfortunate death
occurred at the Hospital for the Insane
at Weston last week Mrs. Margaret
McCreary, an aged lady attendant,
was kicked in the stomach by a fe-
male patient named Ellen Middleton,
from Taylor county, sustaining in
iuries from the effect OF which she
uleu very SOOll dliCI "oli W -. AhS
Creary was attempting to adjust a
straight jacket upon the patient
when the accident occurred. This is
the first instance in the history OF the
institution in which an attendant ever
suffered fatal injury.
The Keyssr tribune says there is
much excitement and fear among the
residents OF keyser at the present
time. Burglars are running loose
that ought to be battered to n limb.
Several merchants are leaving their
safes open and others have the com
bination pasted TO the outside with
the inscription to please do not de-
strov books and lock safe after
though A note was found on the
street the other morning addressed to
the citizens of that town, saying: IF
we do not get what we want ont of
Keyser and Piedmont we will burn
both towns" 1t is supposed TO have
been written by fire-bugs. Excite
ment runs high at keyser over these
outrages.
\ murder and double lynchine is
reported from Bluetield, Mercer
county. Kiz Redd, a colored woman,
alleged to be moonshiner in whose
house at Graham, Va, Policeman
Chandler, OF Bluefeld. was recently
killed, reappeared at Graham Friday
night last, and a crowd of miners
held high carnival in her honor.
About midnight a row was begun.
John Leese, an innocent colored boy
of the town, was killed, and others
,,,D,,nIaI ('horlnS Mnr,rnn pnl-
ored, was arrested and put in the
Bluefield Jail on the charge OF shoot
ing the boy. AT midnight Monday
night mob of negroes marched to
the Jail, took possession Of Morgan,
swung him to 4 limb and filled him
with bullets. kiz Redd fled, but was
pursued, and the rumor is that she
was captured and lynched by a por-
ton Of the same mob which hanged
Morgan.
Gov. w. A. MacCorkle has appoint
ed Hon: Il. l.. Heintze, Of Mcdowell
county, judge OF the criminal court
recently created by the Legislature
for that county. Henry Alexander,
of Putnam county, was appointed n
director of the asylum at Spencer,
vice w. l.. Mckee, resigned. The
Governor has also appointed James
b. Floyd, of Kanawha county, John
Sweetland, of Lincoln county, and
Robert Armstrong. of Mason county,
directors of the West Virginia Hos
pital for the Insane. at Weston, for
the term Of six years, beginning on
the LIST of April next. Also Ed. ID.
Smart, Of Greenbrier county, a di-
rartor pf the same bOSnital for TN a
unexpired term ending April |, 1925,
vice Lucien Hoge, of Ohio county,
resigned For directors Of the Lee
land Hospital for the Insane, for a
term OF six years: w. H. Shumate, of
Raleigh county; +. b. knslow, of
Kanawha county, and b. w. Foster,