Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-05-30
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

dent of Charlestown, died last sunday
aged SS years.
Jacob Geiger, aged 70 years, and
Barbara Barechie, aged IS years, were
married near Parkersburg last week.
Sherrod Washington and Joseph
Jones were drowned Thursday while
attempting to cross the New river at
Caperton.
While walking on the B. & o. Rail
road tracks near Wheeling on Monday
w. T. Smith and Fred Easton were
struck and killed by passenger train.
The residence of DR.. R. R. Swope,
rector of st. Matthews Protestant
Episcopal Church, Wheeling, was
robbed the other night Of diamonds and
iewelry valued at 5000.
The Ohio River Railroad has pur-
chased new steam shovel and twenty
FIVE gondola cars to haul gravel, and
the work of filling all the trestles on
the road will be pushed to completion
as rapidly as it is possible to be done.
The first woman to apply for admis-
sion to practice law in this State will
be Mrs. c. S. Morrison, of Washington,
who is now taking lectures in the law
department of the State university at
Morgantown. She is also the first wo-
man to apply for the law degree from
the university.
The State superintendent Of schools
has fixed the following dates for normal
school commandments Fairmont,
Thursday, June 10; Marshall College,
Friday, June 4 Shepherdstown, Fri
day, June IA Chenille, Tuesday, June
Is; West Liberty, Friday, June q;
Concord, Wednesday, June 26.
c. W. Meyers, agent of New York
veneering firm, purchased walnut
log on the Guyan river for which he
paid $1,l00 1t will be shipped to the
firm in New York as sample Of the
timber, and Mr. Meyers states that
there are many other sticks up the
Guyan Just as valuable as this one,
The annual meeting of the Ohio
River Railroad Company was held at
Parkersburg last week, W.P. Thomp-
son was elected president and George
A. Burt general manager, Gross
earnings of the road last year were
SIP, 43O, decrease $3.50 from the
previous year; net decrease in earn
ings $37,764.
Miss Ellen Donnahoe, the sixteen
year-old daughter Of Hon. James Don
nahoe, at Barboursville, near Hunting
ton, committed suicide last week by
shooting herself through the heart.
She was educated and refined and the
affair has cast gloom over the entire
town. She babe her parents good
morning on arising and walking in an
adjoining room shot herself. No cause
is known.
The report just issued by the de-
partment at Washington shows that
West Virginia is fourth in the list of
coal producing States in the Union.
There was produced in this State
about twice as much coal during the
past year as in the three States Of
Maryland, Indiana and Kentucky
combined. The value Of the coal out
put in West Virginia exceeded $780,
900 for the year.
Rev. w. R. Gross, who about six
months ago went from Washington, D.
c., and assumed charge Of the Protest
ant Methodist church at Morgantown,
has been dismissed by the board of
stewards on the charge of immoral
conduct and speech. He was asked
to resign but refused to do so, and
when he went to hold services few
days ago he was locked out. The
board paid him his salary in full and
asked him to leave.
The American Tobacco Company
has had its attorneys prepare papers
for suit to be brought in the United
States Court to test the legality Of the
measure adopted by the late West
Virginia Legislature, imposing a tax
of $500 on retail cigarette dealers.
The ground upon which the suit is to
be brought is that the law conflicts
with the interstate commerce law
An effort will also be made by whole
sale tobacconists to have the law de-
clared unconstitutional by the State
Supreme Court.
News comes from Morgan county
that another effort is being made to
develop the anthracite coal supposed
to underlie the land there. John
Stoufer has opened a vein Of red ash
anthracite coal on his farm of 1000
acres, FIVE miles south Of Cherry Run,
between Berkeley and Morgan coun-
ties. He has been working a year
sinking fifty-foot shaft, and has just
made his discovery public, The vein
is four feet thick. Beneath the first
stratum is a much thicker vein. Mr..
Stoufer says there are millions of tons
on his land, and he purposes develop
ing the mine at once.
Two sleek strangers appeared at
De Kalb, Gilmer county, last Thurs
day, and sought out several wealthy
farmers, to whom they held forged
letters of introduction from banker
in Parkersburg, advising them that
the gentlemen were all right, and that