Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-11-02
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The News From Every section of the
Little Mountain state.

Governor MacCorkle has pardoned
| from the penitentiary stony Duly,
sent up from Wheeling for stealing.
Rev. Mr.. Lafferty, of South Carolina
has accepted q call from the Presby
terrain church of Philipp, and viii
soon begin his ministerial duties there
The contest over the location of the
county-seat of Fayette county wa:
decided Tuesday, the vote being in IA
vor Of Fayetteville, the present loca
ton.
John Saville, II years old. shot and
instantly killed Miss Lacie Everett in
Hampshire county Monday after
noon. He thought the gun was un
loaded
A fire at Monongah, near Fairmont
Yesterday afternoon destroyed TWEEN
| ty-two houses. The buildings, which
were owned by the coal company and
occupied by miners, were valued al
$4,000
At West Charleston. Tuesday morn
ing A. K. Longston twitted John Fish
err about cowardly escapade. Fish
or, who was drunk, turned upon
Longston. stabbing him five times
causing death in few minutes. Fisher
was arrested.
A man named Nease, on Capt
| John Capehart's farm, near syria
cuse, found a turtle with his grand
fathers name, Michael Nease, en-
graved on it, with the date Of 1922
| The turtle was very feeble and its
shell was scaly.
A Moorefeld mau tells a marvellous
snake story. II e says Il few days ago
while the hands were working the
lower Cove road, near Lost City, they
killed thirtyseven snakes in one day,
thirty-four of which were copper
heads and several of them very large.
\ woman by the name Of Jones was
found in the woods near Brighton,
Mason county, last Thursday night,
murdered. She had been struck
across the head with some sharp
weapon and otherwise roughly
handled. No clue 10 the murderer
has been discovered. The woman
was respectable.
At the house of Richard Bowen, of
SevenMile Creek, near Huntington,
a revolver that was carelessly left on
stand was picked up by his sons,
who quarreled over the possession of
it. In the struggle the weapon was
discharged and the bullet penetrated
the heart of Il little eight year-old
child, causing instant death.
A terrible explosion occurred sew
I p in Rnnnn
county. James Hufferman, engineer,
was killed outright, and young Nc
Dornan, fireman, was so badly IN
iured that he died soon afterward.
The two bodies were thrown 600 feet
from the scene. Charles Barker was
also fatally injured, and three others
seriously injured. The mill was blown
to splinters and is u total loss.
At Wheeling Tuesday evening y
desperate attempt was made to asSaSsi-
nate DR.. 81. Stilyards by Maggie Rob
inson, colored. The women went 40
the doctors office and asked for a
prescription. While it was being pre-
pared she drew Il Ratchet from under
her cloak and struck the doctor on
top Of the head, making a bad wound.
She was captured before she could
again assault TIE wounded man and
promptly locked up. No cause is
known for the act.
Geo. Hoehle, former business man
of Wheeling, is in jail charged with
threatening the lives Of ministers and
public officials, and with threatening
to blow up the City Hail. Among his
specific threats was letter to Police
Officer Marean threatening to cut his
throat, one to Chief McNichol saying
he would Kill him and blow up the
building, and in IL short time after
the receipt of this a dynamite cartridge
was thrown into the city surveyor 5
Office. Hoehle has threatened the
ministers of the city with wholesale
destruction.
Within the past two weeks half a
dozen stores and dwelling have been
DESTROYED by fire in BraXton county,
the burning Of j. Cutlip's boarding
house, at Little Otter, nearly result
ing in cremating fourteen lumbermen,
who were asleep in the second story.
Henry Steinbeck, aged nineteen, p
son of George Steinbeck, a wealthy
retired farmer, and connected with
the best families in BraXton and Lew
is counties, has been arrested, charged
with the crime, and has made full
confession, saying his motive was rob
berry. The real purpose, however, il
! believed to be the settlement Of pri
vate grudges on Steinbeck's part. TIC
avert suspicion the prisoner burned
his fathers barn q few days ago. The
punishment for arson is death or pen
itentiary for life.
Last week the announcement was
made of the marriage of Miss Mamie
Hall, a well known young lady o.
Fairmont, a daughter of S. w. Hall
TO A. b. Potter, of Denver the cere
mony taking place at Tiffin, Ohio
Since then the following dispatch
from Tiffin has been sent out: a sur
prisiug sequel to the romantic mar
riage in this city yesterday Of A. b
Potter, OF Denver, and Miss Mamie
Hall, of Fairmont, w. Va, has beer
developed. They claimed here thai
they had met for the first time at tn,
Worlds Fair, and that she was on hel
way home, aud he boarded the same
train and induced her to get off here
and become his wife. Today informa
ton was received to the effect that
Potter is not a Sante Fe official, bu
that $500 reward has been offered fol-
his arrest, he being wanted on &
charge of passing forged checks boil
in Illinois and Iowa.
Hafarrh Cannot bn Gurnd