Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-09-26
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

1t is said that there are 26 cases of
typhoid fever at Wayne Court House.
In a quarrel in Peasants county the
other day J. B. Harness stabbed Mark
Perry to death.
Two sons of James Higginbotham
were suffocated in foul well near Lit
Teton on Monday.
Erastus Pack got drunk at Hinton
the other day and assaulted Miss Dean
Ford. She resisted him, whereupon
he shot and fatally wounded her.
In a drunken row at a dance near
Parkersburg Albert Burd was shot and
killed and his brother George wounded
by Henry Caveney, who escaped.
Mrs. Nancy Zane, aged ninety-one,
died at Wheeling last week. She was
the daughter of one of the first settlers
west of the Alleghenies and lived all
her life in Wheeling.
The report of experts who have been
examining county records Of Kama
wha county has been made public and
shows deficiency of about $4,000 In
the sherif's settlements for years from
1881 to 1889, inclusive. It's believed
the amount can be recovered from sure
ties. The report shows nothing reflect
ing upon present county officials.
Charles P. Jack, proprietor Of the
Berkeley Springs Hotel, Berkeley
Springs, was stabbed in the abdomen
and on the chin by John easier, fore
man of the Berkeley Springs Ne'0S, as
the result of an alteration between
the two men. Bad blood had been
existing for some time. Jack wounds
are not serious. No arrests were made.
Last Friday morning Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Thompson, assistant secretary Of the
West Virginia Historical and Anti
Quarian Society, at Charleston, fell
down the elevator shaft at the State
Capitol, and struck the brick floor in
the cellar, distance of fifty feet. She
was killed instantly, her head being
crushed. She was widow about six
ty-four years of age.
A sensation has been caused at
Berkeley Springs among the society
people and hotel guests by the elope-
ment of Miss May Wise, the hand
some daughter of Lieut.. F. a. Wise,
U. S. n, with John Frick, young
business man of Baltimore, who had
been at the Springs several weeks.
They departed Friday morning and it
is supposed they were married at Han
cock and went on to Baltimore.
Senator Elkins met with painful
accident at his home at Elkins on Tues
day. The Senator has recently been
gaining flesh pretty rapidly, and to
overcome this he took to bicycle riding.
Tuesday he was thrown from the BIZ
cycle and sprained his ankle very Sc
verely. He was helped to his home,
but as it was feared that some small
bones had been fractured or dislocated
and serious results might ensue, he at
once left in his private car for New
York where he might receive the best
surgical attention.
Mrs. David Keyser, who lives below
Huntington, where SO many dogs have
been attacked with hydrophobia, at
tempted to drive strange canine from
her premises Saturday when the brute
lunged at her, seized her right breast
between its jaws and tore the flesh in
a horrible manner. The animal was
frothing at the mouth and was biting
Mrs. Keyser in the arms when she
grabbed its jaws and held them apart
until the arrival of some men who
heard her screams. She is in a serious
condition from the wounds.
Geo. Mckee, the Oldest barber in the
State, went to the Pennsboro fair this
week. 1t was the first time in his life
that he ever rode on a railroad. When
the train got to going about 40 miles
an hour he got scared and grabbed
hold of the seat, and refused to let go.
When the train entered the first tun-
mel he thought it was kingdom come
with him as the train shot into day,
light he was found on his knees pray
ing like good fellow. TWAS the first
time he had ever tried to pray. He
said to fellow passenger that if he
ever got back to Parkersburg alive no
one would ever again get him in suct
fix. George is 10Y years old and re-
members well the big snow storm o
July 4th, 1902. He is still very spry