Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-03-28
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

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during a heavy storm Monday morn.
ing and instantly killed.
Col. VIM. P. Thompson has beer
elected president of the Ohio River
Railroad, in place of his brother, the
late George w. Thompson.
At Wheeling on Monday William
Kohme, 70 years old, committed sui
eide by jumping from the suspension
bridge into the Ohio river.
The wholesale dry goods firm o
Jacobs & Isenberg failed at Wheeling
Monday. Liabilities, $4,000 to $780,
600; assets less than $4,000.
Cum Adkins sued the Charleston
Gazette for $4,000 damages for al
legged libel. The case was tried last
week, and be didn't get cent.
Governor MacCorkle has granted g
respite until April 19 to Daniel R
Shaver, who was to have been hune
at Romney tomorrow for murder.
John F. Sweeney, a life insurance
agent well-known throughout the
State, died in Wheeling last week
aged A years. He left wife and
seven children.
Rev. J. H. Watson, Of the Colorec
Methodist Church of Romney, bai
sued FIVE members of his congregation
for alleged libel The damages are
laid at$l 900.
The town council of Terra Alta has
passed an ordinance prohibiting boys
and girls under the age of fourteen
years from being on the street after
s o'clock at night.
Capt. Hugh Toney, we'll known
citizen of Logan county, died last
week. He was a soldier in the Con.
federate army and had represented
his county in the State Legislature.
Michael McGinnis, an old resident
of Morgan county, was struck and
instantly killed by a westbound freight
train while walking on the B. and O.
track, near Magnolia, Friday evening
The West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railway Company is CAPT
talized at $6,0O0,000 The company
has made application to have its stock
listed at the Baltimore Stock Exchange
William Mccoy, farm hand, at.
tempted to elope with l3-year-old
daughter of C. G. Panley, farmer in
Putnam county, but was overhauled
FIVE miles from Panley's home and the
girl taken back.
At Warrington while delirious from
grip Captain John W. Haggerty, form,
erly deputy United States marsha
and chief of police at Warrington
shot himself through the head and
died shortly after.
w. G. Catlett, father of Senator
Brice W. Catlett and the oldest resi-
dent of Morgan county, died the first
of the week. He had been a member
of the church for fifty years and hac
spent fortune in charity.
During a religious. revival at the
Methodist Protestant Church at Yves
ton the other night Elias Smith, g
prominent farmer, fell dead from heart
disease. He was shouting in frenzy
of excitement at the time
o. D. Cook, chief clerk in the attor'
ney- generals Office of West Virginia
died at Charleston last week, aged 76
years. He was native of Connecti
cut and served as major in the Confed
crate army. He was clerk in the lega,
department of the State seventeen
years.
An exchange says that Hon. S. B
Elkins has pensioned the young MAI
whom his son accidentally shot while
hunting last fall. His name is Cur
renee. Mr.. Elkins paid the doctor bill
to the amount of $500, and other ex
penses, and pays him $50 per year al
long as he lives
w. w. Anderson, formerly of Ka
nawha county, died in Montana re
Gently. The deceased was kicked OF
the head by horse, from which h
never recovered. He was a larg
ranch owner in Montana, part Of hi
farm comprising the famous battle
field of Little Big Horn, in which
General Custer was killed.
Much excitement prevails in tina
section of Roane county which border
on Kanawha, owing to the fact tina
mad dogs have bitten a number o
dogs, cattle, horses, hogs and severa
people. Some of the stock have died
and the people are up in arms, anc
whenever dog is found outside it
owners yard it is killed without an,
questions being asked.
The Manufacturers RecoId of las
week contains valuable supplement
devoted to West Virginia, whose nat
ural wealth is spoken of as almost in
comprehensive. The fact is tina
there is in West Virginia so much tina
is worth developing that when tn
story is only half told it taxes tn
credulity Of well informed persons
No State in the Union is attracting
more attention, and with general re
vival of business West Virginia Wi
come in for good share. No othe
State is SO inviting to capitalists, an
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