Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-10-17
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Israel Bailey, well-known Park
ersburg citizen, dropped dead last
week.
The Monongalia grand jury has
found rs indictments for liquor law
violations.
Joseph Bruen, of Cincinnati, while
stealing a ride on a B. & O. freight
train, fell from the cars at Clarksburg
and was cut into pieces.
Last Monday Miss Mary Riddle, a
young lady living at Cedar Grove,
near Charleston, was thrown from a
buggy and had her neck broken.
Rev. DR.. w. H. Cooke, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, Of Wheel
ING, died suddenly of diphtheria on
Tuesday. He was native of Balti-
more and was Sc years old.
There was big fire last week at
Bavard, in Grant county, on the West
Virginia Central Railroad. Six stores
and about twenty dwelling-houses
were burned, causing a loss of $780,
600.
The West Virginia Bar Association
will hold its tenth regular annual meet
ing at Wheeling on October 80 and 81.
Secretary D. C. Westenhaver Of Mar
tinsburg, has arranged a very inter-
esting programme.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins and ex-
Senator Henry G. Davis have offered
to give $4,000 in cash and free site
for the establishment of a Presbyterian
college at Elkins, this State, provided
like sum of money is raised by the
church.
The West Virginia editors will meet
at the Ebbitt House in Washington on
October 2Sth and leave for the Allan
ia Exposition next day. The indica,
tons are that large number Of news
paper men will 90 on the tlip, which
will be by way of the Southern Rail
way.
A petition was presented to the court
at CIarksburg Saturday and the pray
err granted for the foreclosure of a
S25, 100000 mortgage held against the
Norfolk and Western Railroad by the
Mercantile Trust Company Of Phila,
delphia. This action is supposed to be
a step toward the reorganization of the
road.
A passenger train on the NorfolB
and Western Railroad was wrecked by
a broken frog between Bluefeld ant
Kenova last Monday. The baggage
and mail car and the second-clas:
coach were thrown from the track anc
then ditched. Seventy-six passengers
were in the car and all were more OF
less injured.
For two years past large number
of men claiming to be Mormon mis-
sionaries from the West have been op
Grating in the back counties Of Boone
Lincoln, Logan and Wyoming. Many
parties have sold out their possessions
and gone West with the representa-
tives and have been brought back IL
pennies condition by their friends
Ministers of various churches through
out these counties are now organlzin!
to take action to prevent their oper
ations in that section.
The State Board of Agriculture, il
session at Charleston last week, elected
T. C. Atkeson president, C. c. Brow
secretary, H. B. Davenport civil engl
neer, H. L. Doll director of the weathe
service and DR.. Vim. Petrie. Of Wheel
ing, and E. E. Terry, Of Charleston
consulting veterinarians. a resolution
looking to future Improvements, an,
another urging cooperation with tn
State experiment station, were adopt
ed. The secretary's salary was fxe'
at 81 900 per year. 1t was also re
solved that it would be well to estab
lish under State patronagea State az
ricultural fair at some central point i
the State.