Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-02-15
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS
The News From Every Section of the
Little Mountain State.

11ttlG MOunh8lm btates
A fire department has been estab-
lished at Berkeley Springs with AZ
members. Editor Pendleton is happy.
The Degruyter-Fuller Company.
wholesale grocers at Charleston, has
failed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities
large
Pursuing its policy of retrench-
ment the Ohio River Railroad Com
pany has discharged twenty shopmen
at Parkersburg and reduced the pay
of the others 10 per cent.
The West Virginia Central Railway
stock of Major Alexander Shaw and
allied interests has been transferred
to Henry G. Davis, closing a legal
controversy of long standing
While party of boys were skylark-
ing at Marshall College, Huntington,
Friday night, Harry Potts fourished
revolver carelessly until the weapon
was discharged, instantly killing John
Alexander
An oratorical contest between rep
resentatives of the high schools of
Marietta, Ohio, and Parkersburg, in
which much interest was taken, was to
have come off last week, but when the
Parkersburg participants were inform
ed that one of the Ohio contestants
was colored man they withdrew and
the affair is off.
Jim Henderson, the ugliest news
paper man in the State. has taken
charge of a paper up in Logan county,
at the town of Williamstown. jim
started out to buy, but he looked so
pitiful that the owners gave 1t to him
outright. You all know how colicky
Jim looks when he is without a rail-
road pass.-Putnam Democrat.
In a tenfoot cage at the fair grounds
at Huntington last Saturday there
was a fight between a catamount and
bulldog for purse of 500. The cat
weighed forty pounds and the dog
eighty pounds. 1t was deadly con-
hict and the dog was badly tornb by
the cats claws, but after eight minutes
the dog caught the feline by the back
of the neck and crushed the vertebra,
causing death. Thousands of dollars
changed hands on the result.
a shocking suicide occurred last
Thursday at Belleville, this State.
Miss Cora Arnold, a popular young
lady, left her home and went to the
Ohio river bank. She tied one end
of rope to a stout bush and the other
end about her waist. Having taken
precautions to prevent her body from
floating away, she plunged into the
river and drowned herself. Miss
Arnold was eighteen years of age, was
intelligent and no cause is known for
her act.
Henry Driden, young man twenty
four years of age, teller of the Citizens
National Bank at Charleston, COM
mitted suicide last Monday night by
shooting himself through the heart.
There is no shortage in the bank ac-
counts. He was corresponding with
young lady in Kentucky, but no one
knows who, and it is supposed he re-
ceived letter from her Monday even
ing. He burnt all letters and photo
graphs and left no explanation of his
death.
In the Circuit Court at Wheeling,
Saturday last Judge Campbell over
ruled the motion for a new trial in the
Michael Reilly will contest case
Counsel for the executors. Archbishop
Kahn, of st. Louis, and Monsignor Sui
Ivan, administrator of the bishopric
Of Wheeling, then announced that no
appeal wonld be allowed to stand
Two sons of the deceased were appoint
ed administrators. The estate, worth
about 100000, was tied up by the
will to the fourth generation, but will
now be divided among the living heirs
On Tuesday fatal shooting afray
occurred in Morgan county, at point
three miles west of Cherry Run. Two
men named Zeigler and Bauerly were
on unfriendly terms, owing to a dispute
about the right of way over some land
which Bauerly purchased from Zeigler
On Tuesday Bauerly attempted to pass
over the land in question, when he was
met by Zeigler and his son, each armed
with a revolver. The two men got
into an alteration when Zeigler emp
tied his pistol in the body of Bauerly,
killing him almost instantly. Zeigler
at once went to Berkeley Springs and
surrendered himself to the authorities