Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-29
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS
The News From Every Section of the
Little M Ountain state.

AT Winifrede last Thursday Sidney
Darrell, young white man, deliber-
ately shot and killed Jim Brown,
colored, who had cursed him.
George w. Hutchinson, for thirty
years clerk of tie county and circuit
courts of Monroe county, died IN
staunton, Friday, aged eighty years.
Two tough fellows named Riddle
shot and killed W. S. Farrell at
Thacker, on Tug river, last Saturday,
because he told them to stop quarrel
ing.
S. A. Donnella, of West Virginia,
has been appointed a specia! agent OF
the Treasury Department in Washing
ton, in connection with the secret
service.
At the municipal election at Grafton
last week George w. Chambers was
elected mayor. The ordinance APP
propriating $4,000 for the construc-
ton of water works was adopted. At
Fairmont the license ticket was elect
ed.
Private Zach C. Morris, of Company
H, West Virginia National Guard,
at Ronceverte, has been tried and
found puiltv of cowardice and has
been discharged. Private Morris de-
serted the company when it was
ordered to hold itself in readiness to
march to the scene of the mining
troubles recently in the Kanawha val
ley.
About 10 o'clock Friday night dyn-
amite was exploded under the resi-
dence of Squire Vance, on the west
ern fork of Harris creek, and one Of
his children was badly hurt. The
Justice has recently become obnoxious
to lawless class, and this effort was
intended to kill him and his wife, but
from some miscalculation failed OF Its
object.
Carlo Barber died last Thursday at
Rocky Fork, near Charleston. He
was ninety years old and kept grist
mill. He never charged toll in his
life to widows or to soldiers, northern
or southern. He worked Wednesday
and on Thursday he came in from the
stable and told his wife, II am going
to step over to the other side Then
he lay down on the bed and In fifteen
minutes was dead.
At Terra Alta Thursday night
Frank Lee and Charles Groves settled
at hsticutfs the question Of which
should escort Fanny Barnes home from
an entertainment. Groves won. Upon
reaching the girls home, her father
assaulted Groves, who gave the old
man a vigorous drubbing. Barnes
had him arrested, and, after being fined,
Groves left the courtroom, eloped to
Maryland with the girl, came back,
and was forgiven.
The new Pittsburg, Morgantown
and 'Fairmont Railway was opened
last Monday, the first train being a
delegation of fifty West Virginians,
including Ex-Governor Fleming to
Pittsburg. The party was met at
Connellsville by committee Of the
Pittsburg Chamber Of Commerce and
escorted to Pittsburg, where a recep-
ton was held. The new railway,
connecting with the Monongahela Val
ley road, will tap the timber districts
of West Virginia and secure the gen.
eral traffic of eight counties.
A large lumber kiln for the new
State Normal School building at Glen
Vile, which contained $4,000 feet,
caught fire Saturday and was entirely
consumed. While the crowd was en-
gagged in removing adjoining stacks
the burning one fell, and boy named
Malcolm johnson was caught by the
falling debris. Arthur Catlett leaped
into the midst of the burning lumber
and brought forth from the flames the
blackened semblance Of a human form,
but in which life was not extinct. All
his clothes were burned off, his eyes
destroyed and his face disfgured al
most beyond recognition. The lad
died in few hours.
Last Monday at Fleming, small
town on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, a terrible shooting occurred,
in which two men were killed almost
instantly. Hoke Napier, well-known
lumberman, was walking along the
street, when he was overtaken by
Henry Collins, a former employe
of his, who had been discharged about
a month ago. Collins, with an oath,
demanded a settlement of their diff
culties, and at the same time drawing
a revolver Napier also drew his re-
volver and both men fired at the same
instant. Collins was hit under the
right arm and died instantly. The
ball from Collins's revolver took effect
in Napier's abdomen and he lived only
a few hours.