Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-04-02
West Virginia Items.

States bank examiner Tor the district
of West Virginia, Virginia and North
and South Carolina, to succeed Mr..
B. B. Harding, of Huntington, re-
signed. He is an officer Of one of the
Fairmont banks and was endorsed for
appointment by Postmaster General
Wilson and other leading West Vlr-
ginia Democrats.
Governor MacCorkle has pardoned
from the penitentiary John Maley,
sent up from Richie county in 1876
to serve life sentence for poisoning
his wife. He was chief cook in the
penitentiary. He served the longest
term of any prisoner ever confined
there. When sentenced he was TWEEN
ty-eight years old and weighed l65
pounds. He goes out tipping the
scales at 325. So large is he that his
dismissal had to be postponed until
suit of clothes could be made for him.
At Huntington last week Judge
Harvey handed down decision in the
case of the Ohio Valley Building and
Loan Association against the County
Court of Cabell County. twas claim
ed by the building and loan associa-
tons all over the State that the cap
ital stock employed by them Is exempt
from taxation. This was "A test case.
Judge Harvey decided that the cap
ital employed by building and loan
associations is subject to taxation the
same as the capital used by banks,
and. therefore. sustained the action Of
the assessor and the county court.
This is the first decision in cases
Of this kind in the State. All over
the State the question has arisen, but
as vet this is the only decision by a
Judge of circuit court.
The town of Weston, this State, was
visited by a very destructive fire last
Saturday night, causing loss ofabout
Sl25,OOO, on which there was an IN
surance Of but $4,000. Among the
buildings destroyed were the Hall
block, containing the postoitice the
Griffin & Edmiston -four mill the
Commercial and the Mcdonnell hotels;
several large business houses and dwell
lings and smaller buildings. During
the fire a suspension bridge which
spans the West Fork river, connecting
the hospital with the town, gave way
with crowd Of people. A number
OF persons Were injured in the fall, the
most seriously hurt being Deputy Sher-
if William WoodeIl, leg broken in two
places, and Henry Fisher. Weston
has three thousand inhabitants, and
the council was arranging to submit
the waterworks question to the people.
Weston has no fire department and 1t
was not until a heavy rain came up to
assist them that the bucket brigades
were successful in getting the flames
under control.
A dispatch from Hinton, this State,
last Sunday says Three persons We're
instantly killed and two others badly
injured this morning at Echo, min
ing town thirty-fve miles west Of this
city, by huge mass Of stones, trees
and earth, loosened by recent rains,
which broke loose from the mountain
side, and a large boulder crushed
down through the house Of a miner
named Tilman. The dead are Frank
and James Tillman and Lucy Law.
Their bodies were mangled and the
honse completely demolished. The
accident occurred Just before daylight,
while all the family were sleeping.
The house was situated on the banks
of the New river, at the base Of the
mountain, alongside the Chesapeake
and Ohio tracks. Henry Law, one Of
the occupants Of the house, who es-
capped, had the presence Of mind to
rush out and flag an east-bound ex-
press train which was Just due, and
would have otherwise been wrecked
on the rocks.