Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-12-06
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
b.. McComas, a well-known lawye.
of Huntington, is dead.


b.. McComas, well-known lawyer
of Huntington, is dead.
Mr.. Wilson's vote at the recent cleo
ton was only 419 less than two years
ago.
A ]. Barley, of Parkersburg. a tele-
graph operator, fell through bridge
at Petroleum and was killed.
While riding a race in Morgan coun-
ty last Saturday John Harrison was
thrown from horse and had his skull
fractured. He died the next day.
Near Weston last Monday Samuel
Self shot and killed Emma Watson,
Is years old, because she refused to
marry him. He was placed in jail
An election in Logan county result
ed in an almost unanimous vote in ia
vor of dividing the county. Kenna
has been suggested as the name for the
new county.
Rev. W. Nee. White, of Richmond,
Va, who, few weeks ago, was called
to become the pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church at Lewisburg, W. Va,
has declined the call.
While A. L. johnson was hauling a
load of nitro-glycerine from Belmont
to Arches Fork yesterday the team
ran away. An explosion followed
which was heard forty miles away.
All that was found of the outfit was a
horse collar and a hole in the grounn.
At Huntington last Sunday morning
fire broke out in the basement of
johnson Memorial Church, one of the
handsomest places of worship in the
State, and ragged for FIVE hours. De-
spite the efforts of the department the
fine building was hopelessly damaged.
A big revival was to have been opened
in the building Sunday night.
C.N. Barnesfeld, well known Ohio
River Railroader, took pair Of socks
from Keller's store in Parkersburg in
sport, but he was arrested and fined
$40. In consequence he lost his
girl, his situation and his reputation,
all in one day, and then attempted
suicide by swallowing a bottle of
! toothache medicine He is In a pre-
carious condition.
Harry Die, a young married man,
left his home in Central City two weeks
ago to visit Cincinnati. While there
he became enamored of Miss Minnie,
a giantess museum freak, and married
her. Monday he was arrested, charged
with bigamy. His wife is handsome
young woman, and the husband was
till he left home, devoted to her and
their two children. He now seems in
fatuated with the giantess, and his
friends think him crazy.
Gilmer county boasts of having the
Oldest woman living in the United
States and the tallest man in West
Virginia. The former Eunice Conrad
is 119 years of age, and the latter
Adam See, is 6 feet 9 inches tall
Watt Warren, of the Chenille PATH
finder, had an interview with and pub
lished the portrait of Mrs. Conrad
She lives about 9 miles from Chenille
with her son, Henry Conrad, the last
surviving of IA children, and who is
quite aged. Mrs. Conrad was born
on the 4th day of August, IT'S, il
what is now Pendleton county, this
State, and was the daughter Of Johr
Mace, an Englishman, her mother
being Scotch Her husband fought
through the war of 1872 and she is
receiving pension from the govern
ment for those services. Her husband
died in 1870. Mrs. Conrad is about 4
feet tall, enjoys good health, is still
able to walk about the house, has
good eyesight but is somewhat defec'
tive in hearing. The record of hel
age is authenic and altogether she is &
very remarkable woman.