Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-15
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

III. Il. j
peace and one of the most prominent
citizens of Marion county, died last
week.
Jack Arnett, aged q years, COM
mitted suicide at Fairmont Saturday
night by hanging himself with a piece
of wire.
Eugene Cats was fooling with a
pistol at Darlington the other day when
it accidentally went off and killed Mrs.
Michael.
By the explosion of the boiler of
threshing outfit near Morgantown yes
terday three men were killed and four
badly wounded.
Louis Wetzel went hunting near
Moundsville the other day, and soon
afterward his dead body was found IN
the woods. Whether it was suicide or
murder is unknown.
A number of poor persons at Wheel
ing have just found out that they have
been paying assessments for life IN
surance in companies that went out of
existence several years ago.
John James, farmer and stock
man, of Wood county, got into dis
pute with three gamblers over a game
of cards in the oil field and was shot
to death. The gamblers escaped.
The West Virginia State militia were
reviewed by Governor McCorkle at
Petersburg Saturday The tempera-
ture was 1O3 degrees, and there were
SO cases of heat prostration among
the soldiers.
Michael Mullins, Is years old, con-
fined in the county jail at Charleston,
swallowed quantity Of glass crushed
with potatoes with suicidal intent. A
powerful emetic, promptly admins
tered, saved his life.
Two young men who gave their
names as Albert Fisher and Oscar
Dawson were arrested and lodged in
Jail at Huntington on Monday. 1t is
believed that they are expert thieves
who have robbed a number Of post
offices in this State.
Two thousand employees of the River
side Tube Works, at Benwood, near
Wheeling have been notified of an in
crease of ten per cent in their wages.
This is the second increase Of like
amount in three months and places
their wages where they were before
the dull times, two years ago.
Major f. w. S. Moore, purchasing
agent of the West Virginia Central
Railroad, died in Cumberland, Md,
last Friday, aged about so years. He
was well-known in Virginia, having
been secretary of the State Senate at
one time and an active Republican.
He was buried at Fairmont, his native
place.
At Huntington, Sunday night, John
Ripple, aged sixty-fve years, cut hls
throat with razor. Early in the
evening he became suddenly deranged,
and, picking up revolver, attempted
to xiii his wife and married daughter.
A warrant was issued for his arrest.
On seeing the officer approaching he
seized razor and cut his throat.
In Clay county, between Clay court
house and Leatherwood, Samuel Ste
venson and Nathan Back met on the
public road and got into dispute
over matters of business, which had
been discussed at a previous meeting.
Stevenson drewa pistol and shot Back
through the head, making a wound
from which he died. There has been
ill-feeling between the men for sever
al years.
Last Monday night Percy W. Laid
ley, prominent druggist, of Charles
ton, dreamed burglars were trying to
get into the house. His dream I'M
pressed him so that next morning he
got his 44-caliber revolver out Of a
drawer and began cleaning it for use.
A few minutes later the pistol was
discharged, the ball entering his left
breast near the heart and passing en-
tirely through his body. He was taxi
on home where he died in an hour
A. Walker, postmaster at Bee, Put
nam county, and Mrs. c. S. Slower,
the handsome wife Of tenant on
Walkers fam, have eloped together.
The woman leaves besides her husband
three children. An infant she took
with her. Walker, who is prominent
merchant and farmer in this county,
leaves wife and FIVE grown children.
Albert J. Salisbury, postmaster at
Clay Court house, eloped with Mrs
Gross, each leaving several small chill
dren. Salisbury is reported short in
his accounts by the federal inspectors.
A dispatch from Charleston, this
State, says that Governor MacCorkle
and Acknowledgement Riley viii bring
before the courts all who are selling
cigarettes by retail under the belief
that Judge COTS decision allows them
to do so. They hold that under Judge
COTS decision cigarettes may only be
sold by manufacturers agent, the
goods belonging to the manufacturer,
: and then only in the style of packages
in which they cross the State line.
They hold that for even this agent to
| sell cigarettes in packages of ten, the
cigarettes must be shipped into the
State in individual packages of that
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