Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-06-27
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

players IN Ohio, Indiana, kentucky
and West Virginia towns A confed-
crate goes ahead and sells marked
cards to the stores, and the gamblers
follow and play with them.
At country church festival not far
from Huntington last Saturday night
there was fight. Greed Harvey, a
well-known citizen, was shot through
the heart, dying instantly. Mrs. Amy
Lunsford was seriously injured by
being struck on the head with stone.
Jack Ward and Rhoda Pardue, the
murderers, leaped through a window
and escaped to the woods.
The Board of Regents of the West
Virginia University has elected Rev.
DR.. o. L. Goodnight, OF Waynesburg,
Pa, to be president of that institution.
He is a nativeof Kentucky and comes
from a distinguished family. He is
said to be man of fine attainments
Judge Okey Johnson was elected dean
of the law department at a salary Of
$4,000 year-a chair just created.
Another new position made was that
Of travelling agent, to which W, 7. w.
Barbe, of Parkersburg, has been elect
ed.
A Charleston correspondent of the
Wheeling REGISTER, writing about the
two gentlemen in Jefferson county
named for Governor, says; "Col.
cambridge is personally very popular
a good stumper, good mixer among
the masses, and he would undoubtedly
bring to the ticket great strength.
His colleague, Major Mcdonald, is
an extremely modest man, but a
statesman of conspicuous ability. He
is a man who draws men to him by
his rugged honesty and delightful sim
plicity of speech and bearing"
T. P. Jeffrey, of Berkeley Springs,
W. Va, reported to Inspector Holm
berger yesterday that he had lost his
pocketbook, containing 81, 200, while
on Baltimore and Potomac train
between Baltimore and Washington.
Jeffrey does not know whether his
pocketbook fell from his pocket or was
taken by pickpocket He is inclined
to believe, however, that the money
was taken by thief. He had his
purse in the inside pocket of his coat,
which was unbuttoned. The money
was in ffty-dollar and twenty-dollar
bills, and made quite a large roll
Washington Post.
The West Virginia fish law prohibits
the use of seines, nets and traps at all
times, except for catching bait or for
scientific purposes. All fishing must
be by hook and line or spear. This
law applies at all seasons of the year,
except in the South Branch Of the
Potomac and it tributaries, where fish
pots may be used between September
Is and December 81, and seines from
January l to June l. Catching jack
salmon and white salmon is prohibited
from April to June Is, and brook
trout and locked salmon from Septem-
Der l to January l. The use of ex-
plosives or poison is prohibited. Vio-
lations are punishable by fines of
from so to $50 and imprisonment at
the discretion Of the court.
A dispatch from Elkins, this State
says that bad accident occurred last
Saturday on the Dry Fork Railroad,
resulting in three men being killed
and one seriously wounded A squad
of railroad workmen had boarded a
car Of lumber and attempted to run it
down a grade by the brakes alone.
While it was Running at high tate Of
speed it crushed into a handcar on
which the men killed and wounded
We're going to their work. The car
and its occupants were hurled III all
directions, and those upon the lumber
car only saved themselves by jumping
at the moment of the collision. The
killed are: John Daily, Michael Ket-
terman and Felix Roy. Solomon
Willoughby had both legs and arms
broken and badly injured about the
body; cannot recover.
The Great Mountain Chautaqua.