Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-11-26
West Virginia Items.


at McRa's saw mill at Jackson and
was cut in three pieces.
The Republicans elected ten of the
fourteen district judges at the recent |
election in West Virginia.
The new building for Marshall Col
lege State Normal School at Hunting
ton has been finished and accepted by
the board Of regents.
Official reports from all the West
Virginia counties give Mckinley -
105 plurality, Mr.. Atkinson's plural
ity is in excess of that figure and Will
not fall much short OF 1880.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fry died in Green
brier county, last week, aged eighty
five wears. Mrs. Fry was daughter
of the late Rev. John McElhenney, D.
D., so long the beloved and honored
pastor of the Presbyterian Church in
Lewisburg.
The work of building the Charles
ton, Clendennin and Sutton Railroad,
which was suspended about three
months ago owing to the refusal OF
those backing it to put up any more
money, has been resumed and will be
pushed as rapidly as possible TIL 1t Is
completed.
The Moorefeld Examiner before cleo
ton had the following unique poltl-
cal announcement Joseph Matthias
requests us to say to the voters that if
they elect him assessor he will be out
of all in time to qualify and attend
to the business of the Office. He says
he wants the people to know that 1t IS
by a mean trick Of the people he ac-
commodated that he is in Jail.
The complete returns from the late
election for members Of the Legislature
show that the House of Delegates viii
stand SO Republicans, % Democrats
and 2 gold Democrats In the Senate
the Republicans have 20 members, the
Democrats 5 and Populists l. On joint
ballot the Legislature stands Repub-
Icans, 50; Democrats, 80 gold Dem
ocrats, 2; Popuhsts, l. There will be
no election of United States Senator
for two years, when new Legislature
will be elected.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
at its meeting at Hinton last week
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Romeo II. Freer, Grand
Master; Geo. C. Sturgiss, Deputy
Grand Master; W. E. Ruttencutter,
Grand Warden; E. A. Billingslea,
Grand Secretary; Henry Seaman,
Grand Treasurer; S. L. Dodd, Grand
Representative to Supreme Grand
Lodge. Clarksburg was selected as
the place for the next meeting Of the
Grand Lodge.
A recent dispatch from Romney
says: This section Of West Virginia
has many expert deer hunters and
many women who are crack shots with
the rife. TIL Saturday, however,
there was no record Of a woman kill
ing a deer, the wild turkeys being
the acme of feminine effort in the
hunting line. Such a record was es-
tablished, however, by Miss Susie
Harness, of Wardensville Her faith
er's home is located at the edge Of a
fine stretch of forest, on the Potomac
river, where deer frequently came to
drink before the country was so thick
" settled. Saturday Miss Harness
was standing on the front piazza,
when a fine buck came down to the
river about 200 yards away. She
went into the house, and got her faith
er's Winchester rifle, and the first shot
crippled the buck. A second shot
put him out of his misery. The antlers
are fine ones, and will be handsomely
mounted, with gold tips, and the skin
will make a hearth rug for Miss Har-
ness room.
J. H. Clarke, the detective who re-
Gently arrested the notorious cap
Hatfield, is now himself fleeing from
the vengeance of the Mounts and their
friends. Clarke and NJ. S. Bevins
undertook the arrest, at Delorme, Of
Anderson Mounts, who some time ago
killed his cousin in kentucky and for
whom a reward was offered. They
found Mounts in the custody Of his
father, charged with some infraction Of
the West Virginia law. He refused
to be arrested and the usual battle
followed. Clarke and Bevins klled
Mounts and mortally wounded his
father. Realizing that they had made
a mistake in trying to arrest man
already in custody, the detectives fed.
The friends of the Mounts at once
offered a reward for the detectives and
a party started in hot pursuit. The
pursuers managed to shoot Clarke in
the shoulder, but have not yet cap
tured him. During the night Clarke
and Bevins succeeded in crossing the
line into Kentucky, where they will
be protected by Sheriff Keadle. Clarke
will claim the $1,000 reward offered
for Anderson Mounts dead or alive.
Elias Mounts, father of Anderson,
says his son was killed without prov
ocation and offers $500 for the arrest
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