Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-01-16
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

glneers have been surveying line lrom
the mouth of the Buckhannon river to
Buckhannon. 1t is said the work will
90 right ahead until the road is COM
pleted.
While cutting draft of moving cars
at Cherry Run, Sunday night, Western
Maryland Brakeman ]. F. Shamber.
gers foot caught in guard rail and
he was run over and killed. He was
from shippensburg, Pa.
Governor MacCorkle has appointed
Justice ] S. Payne a member of the
board of directors for the Reform School
at Pruntytown, vice Hon. George Z.
Price, resigned Senator Price is the
father of the school, having introduced
the bill in the Legislature establishing
it.
George Smith and his wife were
caught on long trestle over Blue
stone river by Norfolk & Western
passenger train. Smith jumped, and
alighted on the ice below, broke
through and was nearly drowned.
One leg and one arm were broken, and
he suffered numerous bad bruises.
Mrs. Smith tried to get down over the
trestle, but she was too late, and the
train cut off one leg and one arm, be-
sides making numerous cuts and
bruises.
An unknown negro entered the par
lor of Thomas A. Wetherell, teller of
the Parkersburg National Bank, last
Saturday night, and attacked his elev-
en-year-old daughter, Lulu, who was
playing the piano. He beat her over
| the head with mallet, cutting her
frightfullv, after which be carried her
out through the back yard into an al
lev. The child's screams frightened
the brute, whose tracks were traced by
her blood for over square. Intense
excitement prevails, and if the assail-
ant is caught he will undoubtedly be
lynched.
For several years past the officials
of the West Virginia experimental sta
ton at Morgantown have been asking
the Legislature to buy farm for the
use of the station. That body has reg,
ularly refused the request, so the sta
ton men set aside each year a portion
of the government appropriation and
the income from the sale of vegetables
and few days ago purchased farm
of eighty acres near town. The farm
will be fitted up and experiments will
be made on a larger scale in raising
stock, grains and vegetables.
Thomas Allen, one of the oldest
men in the world, celebrated his one
hundred and fifth birthday last Sun
day. He lives near Morgantown, a
the little village of Pennington, in Tay
lor county, and to see him walking
about his premises one would not sus'
pect he is more than seventy-tive
| He is a war veteran of more than or
binary distinction, having been
messenger to the Duke of Wellington
at the battle of Waterloo, and served IL
the English army in their campaigns
AGAINST Spain. France and Portuga
in the early part Of the century. HI
was a soldier in the United States
army during the war against Mexico
and fought in the Third Virginia Reg
iment during the civil war. He wa
never married.
For some time past information ha
been coming to the ears of Presiden
Goodnight, Of the West Virginia Uni
versity, at Morgantown, that a numbe
of the students were too frequentl,
engaged in the game Of draw. TIL
president has been moving about sine
the opening of the second term, but di'
not succeed in locating their headquar
tiers until last Saturday night. AT
late hour he went to the room Of
student and knocked. Come in,
yelled one of the crowd, who had
big stack of blues in front OF him
The president walked in upon tn
amazed! an sfaechiess crowd. A five
handed game of poker was in progress
over the table, and a game of crap wa
going on on the bed The presiden
was asked to take a chair, but after
few brief and formal remarks, whlc
fell with freezing effect upon the stu
dents, he withdrew. A special meet
ing of the faculty was held Saturda
afternoon, and the seven students wer
brought up before them.
One of the most sensational tragedlt
known in that section for long Will
occurred last week in Lincoln count.
1t was claimed that a big reward wa
offered for w. G. Hogan for wreckin
a train in Illinois recently. Hoga
i but recently came to the above plac
and Charles Berger and Harry Brun
, field concluded to make the arrest an
hold him for reward. They arme
themselves and went to the house whel
; Hogan was stopping. As soon as o
: dered under arrest Hogan pulled tV
, revolvers and began firing at ther
! The firing was returned and Hogs
fell with three bullets in his body. b
, fore Hogan was killed, however, !
,, shot Berger in the arm and once IN II
!; head, and he is now IN a serious co.
5 dition. Next day it transplred tn
4 the man called Hogan was really Jes
|: Montague, who recently came to Ii
9 coin county from the West. He sa
r inst before he died that he had been