Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-11-29
WEST VlRGi MA ITEMS.

August natter, 10 years olu, leil
down the cellar steps at Wheeling the
other day and broke his neck.
Near Fairmont Tuesday afternoon
while hunting Burt Mahaffey struck
his gun on a log and the contents of
both barrels entered his breast, causing
instant death.
A gang of outlaws attacked an ex-
press car containing $25, 900 at Canad-
ian, Tex, Saturday night. A battle
ensued in which the sheriff and several
others were killed.
At Charleston, W. Va, while some
workmen at the new water-works res
ervoir were trying to dry wet dynamite
sticks a frightful explosion occurred.
Joseph Haskins was instantly killed,
Frank Ridley fatally injured and two
others badly hurt-all colored.
A prominent hotel keeper in Clarks-
burg bet his COW on Howard. On
election day the COW found twin calves
and the Republican was so confound-
edly mean that he claimed all three.
Republicans still want the earth, and
they never lose a good thing by failing
to claim it.
Last Sunday Isaac Taylor, prom
inent and well-to-do farmer living
near French's about eight miles west
of Paw Paw, with his aged mother and
a Young woman, Nora Kidwell, while
crossing the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road bridge over the South Branch
river, near French's, were struck by
express train No. AZ and instantly
killed. Their bodies were thrown into
the river thirty feet below.
Last Monday confidence men sold a
thirty-two pound gold brick" to a
Wheeling gentleman for $4,000. The
brick is on exhibition at the Bank
of Wheeling, but the bank officers will
not tell whose property it is, and the
buyer is saying nothing. He is
wealthy man, and the loss will not
break him. He drew the money from
the Bank of Wheeling, and, being a
man Of discretion, the bank people
asked no questions. When he returned
with his purchase to deposit it for safe
keeping, there was an audible smile.
The brick is worth about 40 cents.
1t is said that monster coal rail-
road enterprise has been sprung in
West Virginia, this time by the Cam
dens The project is road to begin
with connection with the West Vir-
ginia Central & Pittsburgh railroad,
owned by the Davis-Elkins people, and
extending through Clarksburg to the
Ohio river at New Martinsville. 1t
will be a connecting link between the
Davis Elkins interest on the north and
the Camden systems, the Ohio river
and West Virginia Central and Pitts
burgh railroads on the south and west.
1t will pass through some Of the finest
coal in the south and tap territory en-
tirely new and never before touched.
Huntington is in a state Of excite
ment over the action Of Judge Harvey,
who has issued rules for a dozen lead
ing society women to make them come
into court and testify as to the charac-
ter of a social favorlte. Captain Will
liam Smith and his handsome young
wife, a member of the most exclusive
set, separated a few weeks ago, she tax
ing their baby. Smith brought suit for
damages against Samuel Swain, a
wealthy Indiana gas operator, and an
uncle of his wife, asking for $4,000
damages for enticing his wife away.
He got out writ of habeas corpus to
gain possession of his child, alleging
that his wife is not morally fit to have
her, and summoned thirty social lead
ers to prove it. Twelve Of these women
left town to escape going to court, but
constables have been sent after them,
and Judge Harvey will imprison the
recalcitrants. The evidence is expect
ed to be extremely sensational.