Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-10-31
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

A national bank, with a capital
stock of $4,000, has been organized
at Sistersville.
Henry L. Hoffman, a prominent
farmer of Writ county, was kicked to
death by mule last week.
Moses Everetts, for many years a
freight conductor on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, died at Piedmont
last week.
By some unknown means nearly all
the persons who ate supper at the
Adelphia Hotel at Huntington were
poisoned last Sunday evening. Guests
and hotel people were made desperate
ly i'll, but it is hoped all will recover.
The Grand Lodge of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows of West Vir-
GINA, will meet in annual session at
Morgautown, November goth, and
during the meeting new Odd Fell
lows Hall will be dedicated in that
town
Reed Smith, prominent colorsd
man, was out hunting Tuesday near
Gauley Bridge. In getting over a
fence his gun exploded, the charge en-
tering his leg. He bled to death in
short while. When found the corpse
was holding on to the fence.
There are 1T pupils at the State
Asylum for the Deaf and Blind at
Romney, which is the largest number
in its history, and owing to the in
crease two additional teachers have
been employed The institution is so
economically managed that it costs the
State but $28, 500 for its support.
By the wreck of a cattle train on
the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad last
Friday at Bowie, nea1 Washington City,
F. A. Ellis, cattle drover from Fort
Spring, W. Va, was killed. A. B.
Johnson, W. w. McClelland and j. NJ.
Skaggs, also West Virginia drovers,
were seriously injured. The men were
in the caboose, which was smashed to
pieces.
LATE Adkins and Virgil Staley,
brothers-in-law, are two well-known
Young men, who live near Centrevllle,
Wayne county. Adkins married Sta
ley's sister last March and all have
been living in the same house since.
They have been at outs for long time
and Yesterday Adkins was at the barn
hitching up for drive, when Staley
went out and fired two bullets through
his body. Adkins died at noon. Sta
ley has left the State.
Last Saturday night Franklin
Thompson, living in Wetzel county,
heard a commotion among his chick
ems. He took his Winchester rife, and
going to the yard, fired two shots in
the direction Of the noise, and every
thing becoming quiet, retired to bed.
Upon going to the henhouse next morn
ing, Thompson found Thomas Eckles,
a neighbor who had always borne a
good reputation, lying on the ground
dead, with bullet hole through his
head. In each hand Eckles still clutch
ed live chicken, with which he was
getting away when shot.
The different camps of Confederate
veterans in the State are in receipt of
a proposition from the Stonewall Camp
of Charleston, which involves the i'm
mediate purchase of $4,000 hotel,
built near Charleston by the Kanawha
Boom Company, to be used as a home
for destitute ex-Confederate soldiers
Because of the collapse of the boom,
the building can now be bought for
$4,000. West Virginia is now the only
Southern State which has not provided
home for her ex-Confederate soldiers.
The camps in the State have for some
time past been devising means to build
one.
A fire, evidently of an incendiary
origin, was discovered about 5 o'clock
Yesterday morning in the Office Of DR..
w. V. Cox at New Martinsvills, and
in an hour nearly $4,000 worth Of
property had been destroyed. The
Office had been closed since Tuesday
night, and the room in which the fire
started had no fireplace nor light
The fire destroyed the building occu-
pied by DR.. Cox, owned by Miss Mary
Burrows; two-story brick building
owned and occupied by Reich Bros.
general store; the large frame resi-,
dence of Montgomery Burrows the
Economy Building, owned by Mrs
Cockayne, of Moundsville, and the
Office and residence of Mayor Snod-
grass. The mayors Office contained
all the town records, which were de-
stroyed.
Storm at Sea