Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-02-21
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Parks & Co., proprietors of the Adei-
phia Hotel at Huntington, have made
an assignment.
The West Fork Coal and Coke Com
pany, at Clarksburg, has made an as
sionment for benefit of its creditors.
David Musgrave has been indicted
at Morgantown for the murder OF his
wife, who was found dead on the night
of December 18th.
Prosecuting Attorney Baker, OF
Morgantown, made a raid on the
speak-easies of the town, and succeeded
in having about so indictments made
by the grand jury against unlawful
liquor dealers.
Albert Leach, aged twenty years,
was killed Monday while on his way
to school near Rocky Point, Monroe
county, by his horse running away
and dashing his head against the over
hanging branch of tree.
At Huntington the other night Mrs.
Mary Adkins went to house of bad
reputation in search of her husband,
when the inmates jumped on her and
beat her until she was half dead. They
scratched one of her eyes out.
Two school children, brother and
sister, aged ten and twelve years, were
frozen to death in Cover district, Tuck
er county, last week. They were
locked in each others arms, and the
brother had wrapped his sister in his
coat.
The Governor has appointed on the
State Board of Health DR.. a. r. Bar
bee, of PIT. Pleasant, in place of DR..
Carpenter, of Poca, deceased, and DR..
]. B. Walkinshaw, of Wellsburg, in
place of Dr. VIM. McLane, of Bridge
port, whose term had expired.
A boy, son of Pierce Stotler, resid-
ing in Morgan county, was so badly
frozen during the recent blizzard that
he died. The boy was sent by his
mother to procure wood, and having
no shoes she wrapped rags about his
feet for protection. While on this
errand the little fellow was overcome,
death following.
Ira Bailey and his son-in-law,
Thomas Jilton, of Elizabeth, Writ
county, till week ago supposed to be
among the most respectable church
people in the town, were arrested Mon
day, charged with making counterfeit
coin. Jilton, it is alleged, made the
money, and Bailey passed it among
the country merchants.
Mrs. Henry Wagner and her three
little children were sitting before a
coal fire Saturday night in Calhoun
county, when the mother was overcome
by fit of dizziness, and fell head
foremost into the open crate. The
children's combined efforts were not
sufficient to drag her away, and her
head was so terribly burned that she
died in an hour.
The people of Raccoon Creek are
| greatly excited over the discovery
made by the taking up the body Of a
young lady buried few days since.
The people suspected her father and
step-mother of killing her, and when
the remains were taken up they were
found bruised in horrible manner.
Ed Morris and his wife, the young
lady's parents, are under arrest and
excitement is great in that section over
the affair.
A serious wreck occurred on the
| Norfolk and Western Railroad early
Monday morning near Huntington.
Train No. 2, south bound, was running
at a rate of 35 miles an hour when the
engine jumped the track, followed by
two coaches. John Adkins, of Wayne
county, was killed outright; an I'M
known lady from Petoskey, Mich, was
struck on the head and fatally injured,
and Engineer jackson and Fireman
Came were seriously hurt.