Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-02-28
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

day and killed.
Mr.. William Crichton, of Berkeley
Springs, has been appointed secretary
to the legation in Brazil
G. II. Anderson, of Sisterville, has
been arrested for sending obscene let
tiers and photographs through the
mails.
Andrew ohleson, Swede. commit
ted suicide by shooting himself at fled-
mont the other day. His life was IN
surcd for $4,000.
The value of the ginseng crop OF
West Virginia last year was S3oo'ooo;;
The herb now sells at So per pound
and it is all exported to China.
Hawkins Kidwell, an aged man,
who lived near Shawsville, Hampshire
county, committed suicide last week
by shooting himself with rife.
The ex-Union soldiers of Hunting
ton gave a banquet the other night to
the old Confeds of that place. The
blue and the gray mixed most lovingly.
| ]. j. Lively and his two sons and
Burt Rutter became involved in row
over a dog at Cannelton, the other
night, in which the elder Lively fatally
shot Rutter, who died in few hours.
William Brewer, a notorious charac-
ter of Dingess, Mingo county, has been
arrested charged with wrecking a pas
senger train on the Norfolk & West
ern. Brewer is desperate character.
The first real estate entry of record
in Kanawha county was made January
2, 1895, and is of 10000 acres of
land to Phineas Taylor, of Waterbury,
Conn, who was the grandfather of
Phineas T. Barnum, the great show
man. The property has been in litiga-
| ton almost ever since.
Friday night Thomas j. Collins, of
Coalbug, met horrible death by
falling from trestle on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Short Line. He was
found unconscious and died soon after.
His legs were terribly mangled from
the knees down and his body was COW
cred with bruises. There is suspicion
of foul play, and detectives are at work
on the case.
At Elizabeth, Writ county, Arthur
Edwards left his invalid wife sitting
before the fire to go to neighbours
for few minutes. He returned In
less than half an hour, and found Mrs.
Edwards lying on the floor, her head
in the FIRE, the clothing burned from
her and her body burned to crisp.
Her head, which was in the CRATE, was
almost burned Off
In conformity with an act passed by
the recent Legislature so directing,
the Governor appointed the following
board of regents for the West Virginia
University for two years, beginning
June |: Stuart F. Reed, of Harrison
county; E. P. Rucker, Of Mcdowell +;
VIM. B. Raymond of Braxton. For
four-years term, G. Burdette Hart, of
Ohio; James F. Brown, Kanawha
James F. Stewart, Of Putnam. For
six-years term, J. A. Robinson, of Min
eral; G. L. Smith of Marion, and
George F. Evans, of Berkeley.
Governor MacCorkle has vetoed
House bill 260, providing for the APP
pointment by the circuit court, on pc
tition of 90 citizens of any incorpora-
ted city or town, Of committee DIN
vestigate the affairs of said town. The
Governors action puts stop to any
Lexow committee business in West
Virginia. He claims that provision
enough is already made for the honest
administration Of West Virginia NUM-
cipal governments. He.also vetoed a
bill providing FOR the acceptance of
bond from "a prisoner by the sheriff or
dSsrty.
: The West Virginia Legislature ad-
jourrned last Friday night, agreement
being reached on the school book and
appropriation bills at the last minute.
The appropriation of $4,000 for
State exhibition at the Baltimore ex-
position was finally defeated The
compulsory school bill was killed, and
the bill to rearrange the judicial cir
cults also failed of passage. The
measure SO ardently advocated by the
Berkeley Springs people, providing for
lease of the State property to COM
pany that promised to expend large
sum in improvements, was defeated in
the Senate.
Col. Geo. w. Thompson, president
of the Ohio River Railway, died in
Washington, D. c., Tuesday evening,
from acute pneumonia. The deceased
left his home in Parkersburg last Fri
day. He was ia ken with a chill on
the train, and when he reached Wash
ington he went at once to DIR. Ham
mond's sanitarium. Acute pneumonia
developed rapidly and his relatives
were telegraphed for Senator Cam
den, his brother-in-law, who was in
West Virginia, took back with him the
family physician of Mr.. Thompson, DR..
Harris. The disease was too far adj |
vanced to be overcome and death en-
sued The deceased was fifty years of |
age and leaves widow, three daughters
and son.
The movement which has been on |