Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-04-18
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

The wife of Judge Edwin Maxwell
died at her home IN Clarksburg last
week.
An electric railroad is to be built
between Grafton and PruntytOwn,
distance of twenty miles.
Harvey G. Elkins and Nancy
Williams, of Boone county, were mar
RED this week. They are each IN
their 74th year.
oh. Slime died in MorgantOwn
last week. He formerly lived IN
Martinsburg, and was one of the old
est Odd Fellows In the State.
DR.. NJ. T. Morris, of Sutton, ha,
been appointed an assistant physician
at the Weston Asylum TO I'll the place
made vacant by DR.. Hoods resigna-
ton.
The new Jail at Welch, in Mcdowell
county, which cost $4,000, has been
completed, and 60 prisoners are quar-
tered in il. The new courthouse Will
soon be finished. 1t cost $4,000.
The town council ct Weston and
the electric light company at that
place are in a controversy over rates
for lighting the town, and pending the
trouble the citizens are cropping IN dark
ness.
When Jailor Siple went to feed the
prisoners in the county jail OF Poca-
hontas the other morning the two IN
mates seized him and locked him IN
their cell. Then they made good their
escape.
Thomas McKaine, probably the
Oldest inhabitant Of the State, died
recently at Huntington, aged los
years. He was a soldier IN the war
Of 1912, entering the service when
twenty-five years old
a negro died of smallpox al Matte
wan on Monday night. Fire was ap-
Piled TO the cabin in which he died,
and the corpse cremated. Trains do
not stop al Thacker The smallpox
patients are quarantined under an
armed guard.
BENJAMIN Esrnshsw, sent to the
penitentiary for eight years IN 1898
for forging and attempting to negotiate
county orders Of Wetzel county, Of
which county he was an official, has
been pardoned by Governor McCOrkle
because Of a serious impairment Of
health.
Malcolm Tenant Is IN jail charged
with poisoning the wells OF several Of
his neighbors u Monongalia county.
The analysis Of the water showed that
it contains a large quantity Of poison,
which Tenant Is accused Of putting
in 1t for revenge for some imaginary
injury.
Saturday night John Yeager, pros
porous farmer residing on Guyan river,
was called from his house by four
masked men under the pretense Of de-
string to secure lodging, and beaten
nearly to death. They then robbed the
house, but overlooked 500 hidden in
one Of the rooms.
The grand Jury at Huntington has
returned l05 indictments, every saloon
keeper in town having been indicted,
several Of them being indicted as many
as fifteen times. This can mostly be
attributed to the Temperance Union,
which comprises some Of Huntington s
most popular business men.
At Wheeling the other morning
while Charles Irwin was going to his
work in an iron foundry he fell and
broke both wrists He was taken
home. and his son George, who under
stood the work, went TO the shop to FL
his fathers place An hour later a
splash Of acid struck him in the face,
burning both eyes 50 badly that he
will be permanently blind.
There Is the greatest excitement
in the western part Of this State over
the tremendous advance in the price
Of oil, and new territory Is being
opened up and wells drilled in the old !
fields as fast as it possible to bore the
holes. A few weeks ago oil sold at
abou a dollar barrel. The price
began to advanceand this week Jumped |
to 1926 a barrel. Great activity in
the oil regions was the result and for
tunes have been made by spectators. |
Some Of the territory known TO be val
liable has been sold at fabulous figures. |
David Shawen, the murderer of Alb |
Iser, has been landed safely in the |
penitentiary at Moundsville. Mention |
was made last week Of the commuta-
ton Of his sentence by Governor Mac
Corkle, the Indignation Of the people, !
the threats to lynch him, and his re-
moval 10 Keyser. Wednesday night |
word came TO Keyser that party was
on the way there to take Shawen out |
and hang him, whereupou the sheriff |
took the prisoner to q lonely place In |
the mountain and chained him to a
tree, keeping him there until next |
morning, when be was hurried of to |
Moundsville.
For several months the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad has been suffering
from the depredatious Of what appeared |
to be an organized gang Of thieves,
whose plan was to rob freight cars on |