Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-02-03
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.



Little Mountain state.
James MeMaster was killed in q
coasting accident at Burton last
week.
The ice in the Kanawha river has
broken up and passed out without
doing any particular damage.
Charles +. Ohley, brother Of See-
rotary OF State VIM. A. 0hley, died In
Fairmont last week, aged 40 years.
A boom in the Cheat river was
brokon by the ice last Monday and
$4,000 worth of logs were carried
away.
In Preston county, last week, dur
ing a drunken quarrel Alien Strauser
hit his friend Albert Hickey over the
head with club and killed him. He
is very sorry now.
WIN. and Kicker Dorsn, brothers, OF
Romney, were hunting rabbits the
other day and were walking around
brush pile when the formers gun was
accidentally discharged, the whole
load entering Ricker's thigh, produc-
ing a wound that may prove fatal.
The Inauguration OF the Governor
and State officers OF West Virginia
takes place on the 4th of March, the
same date as the Inauguration OF Pres
ident Cleveland. This is source OF
regret TO many West Virginians who
would like TO witness both demonstra-
tions.
As Thomas J. Murphy, lumber
dealer, was endeavoring TO cross the
Ohio river, near New Martinsvllle,
with a siI-horse team, the ice broke
Md the wagon and horses went TO the
bottom of the river Murphy saved
himself by jumping from cake to cake
Of the ice.
Mrs. Martha Starcher is in jail in
Calhoun county on the charge OF
numbering her babe. When charged
with the crime the parents denied IL,
but, it is claimed, search OF the
house revealed the body OF the child
in valise hanging in a cupboard.
The body was frozen solid.
The Rochester Boom and Lumber
Company, with a capital stock OF
81, OO0. 900, has purchased AZ, 900 acres
OF the woodland of Pocahontas coun-
ty. and a mill site at HARRISBURG, 80
miles down the Greenbrier Work
will begin at once on one OF the larg-
est sawmills of the country, costing
$4,000.
A. II. Aldrich has been appointed
to the chair OF mechanic arts at the
University, vice F. l.. Emory, resign
ed, and F. w. Rumsey, OF Ann Arbor,
has been engaged to assist Professor
Hopkins in the department OF ento-
mology at the agricultural experiment.
station. Both have begun their du-
ties.
II is said the entire West Virginia
delegation in Congress have decided
10 unite on urging the new admins
tration to appoint Mrs. Senator Ken
ma postmistress at Charleston, West
Virginia's capital, where the late Sen
ator lived. 1t is an Office OF the sec
ond class, the salary being about
$4,000.
A fellow named Roderick, who
hailed from the county OF Grant, who
had not been deporting himself ac-
cording to the tastes OF some OF the
Old Fields male population, was taken
from a house below Old Fields on q
recent frosty night, Notwithstanding
tue thermometer was playing around
zero. and a very fresh wind was frisk-
ing around, he was treated TO a coat
of tar. and instructed TO leave for his
home at once and never make his APP
pearance in that nelghborhood again.
Ali OF which he proceeded to do im-
mediately.
Mrs. Peter Kelley, wife OF mer-
chant OF Barboursville, whose case
has attracted the attention OF medical
men, is dead. About q year ago she
started down stairs one day, after
partially recovering from all illness.
When half way down, the bones Of
her right leg gave way with q snap
and without apparent cause. He
husband carried her back TO her
room. On the way the bones OF her
left arm broke in several places. As
| she was deposited on the bed the
bones OF her left leg broke in the
same manner. She experienced no
pain, either at the breaking or setting
| OF the bones. She died suddenly and
without apparent pain.
James Goodwin, OF Rock Castle. In
Mason county. was arrested on Fri.
day upon the very serious charge OF
poisoning his sweetheart, Miss Jennie
Caste. The young man Is twenty
one and the young lady seventeen.
They have been engaged some time.
The young couple attended a dance
together. and while returning home
Miss Caste was taken with vomiting
and other symptoms OF poisoning.
and ii was thought she would die.
He father had Goodwin arrested, and
the evidence before the justice was OF
such a damaging character that be
was bound over TO wait the action Of
the grand jury The parents OF the
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