Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-02-06
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
DR.. VIM. Mcdowell, formerly Of
Romnsy, -died at Broadway, Va, last
week


the building last week.
For the first time in many years
Morgantown this week elected a Dem,
ocratic Mayor, Joseph Moreland. TIL
council is opposed to liquor license.
Last week the machine shops, build
ing machinery and patterns of G. M. &
J. B. Hart, at Clarksburg, were totally
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; In
surance, $4,000.
Thomas F. Watson, who died recent
ly near Fairmont, left his estate, val
ued at 100000, to his brother, VIM.
E. Watson, and his niece, Miss Rose
Watson. He cut off his nephew, Lee
Watson, without cent.
Twelve cars and an engine were
tumbled over an embankment on the
Norfolk & Western Railroad near
Huntington on Monday, causing a very
disastrous wreck. The engineer was
fatally injured and several other en-
ployees hurt.
Near Clarksburg last Saturday morn
ing Anton Hull, deputy sheriff, who
was returning from a tax collecting
tour, with 5000 in a satchel in his bug
gy, was stopped by three masked high
waymen and robbed of $3.50. The
robbers missed $3.50.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis and
Senator Stephen B. Elkins offered to
give $4,000 for college at Elkins,
W. Va, if the Lexington presbytery
will do the same. The offer was &C.
cepted, and Rev. J. Nee. Duckwall, of
Berkeley Springs, has been appointed
general canvasser to aid the Lexington
presbytery in collecting the $4,000.
W. A. Gentry, of West Virginia,
nephew of the late Senator Kenna,
gained $4,000 by a dream. For
three nights in succession, while he
was in Cincinnati, he dreamed wag-
on would run over him. He took out
an accident policy, was run over IN
the manner revealed to him in his
dream, and now he is $4,000 richer,
although minus his left arm.
Col. William P Thompson, a native
of Wheeling, this State, and a brother
in-law of ex- Senator Camden, died in
New York on Monday Of pneumonia,
aged SO years. Col. Thompson was
president of the National Lead Trust
and of the Ohio River Railroad, and
was interested in many other large
companies. He was very rich. He
served throughout the war as an Off
Ger in the Confederate army.
A dispatch from Bluefeld yesterday
says that DR.. Hurst and four friends
went on spree at Pennington Gap,
and after becoming crazed by drink
injected morphine into themselves.
AS a result, DR.. Hurst and two men
named Myers and Tracy are dead,
while the others are very i'll. The
drunken crowd seized and held Mrs.
Myers, wife Of one of the victims, while
DR.. Hurst gave her morphine. She
was thrown into commissions and is not
expected to live. All the men con-
nected with the affair are well known
in that section.
At go Saturday morning we'll
dressed man, covered with mud and
his toes protruding through his shoes,
entered the Mcclure House at Wheel
ing and took a room, registering as
John Sullivan, Martinsburg. He
seemed rational, and went to bed. At
FIVE o'clock he came down stairs, three
steps at a jump, and rushed, scream
ing, to the street. A general alarm
was sent out, and the police caught
him at $50. At the City Hall he said
he was a murderer from Parkersburg;
that he was tired of being bounded,
and wanted to give himself up. An
hour later, persons from st. Clairsville,
O., fifteen miles from Wheeling, came
IN, hunting for DR.. Charles West, who,
while crazy from morphine, had run
away from his home. West had ira
versed the road in two hours, but for
all that exertion seemed to be in good
condition, except for few bruises re-
ceived from falling on the dark road.
He has been user of morphine for
years, but this is the first time it has
affected his mind.
Preston and Barbour counties have
been over-run the past three months
with rabid animals. The trouble be-
gan when a stray cur, supposed to
have come from Pocahontas county,
passed through, biting dozens of dogs
and hundreds of farm animals before
he was killed. Since then hardly has
there been day that some farmer has
not lost valuable live stock. Not few
er than ten persons in the two counties
have been bitten by infected animals,
and two have died, the others going to
the Pasteur Institute in New York for
treatment. So serious has the matter
become that the city council Of Phil
ippi last week ordered every dog in
the city, regardless of ownership or
value, killed at once, and since then
the order has been enforced. The
popular feeling has been so intense
that no one has tried to save his dog
The county court has extended SIM
liar order, covering the entire county
of Barbour, and special deputies, armed
with shotguns loaded with buckshot,
have gone out to execute the order.