Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-11-19
West Virginia Items.


a missionary to Japan for ten years,
has returned to West Virginia to live.
He is brother of Hon. B. NJ. Amber,
of Parkersburg.
The aged father of Senator Elkins
is critically i'll at his home in Elkins
having been paralyzed. a son Of
the Senator is also seriously sick at
Yale College with typhoid fever.
It is generally believed that Gov
ernor-elect Atkinson will appoint as
his Secretary of State Vim. NJ. O.
Dawson, who has been chairman Of
the Republican State committee for
the past twelve years.
A carload of French Canadians
passed through Morgantown Monday
en- route from Michigan to Braxton
county, where they are going to form
settlement. They have purchased
5000 acres Of land near Sutton.
General Manager W. NJ Greene, Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has
informed the citizens Of Keyser that
bids will be let at once for the con-
tract for the erection Of the company $
repair shops, which Keyser has secured
by raising bonus Of $4,000. The
shops, which will employ 200 men,
will be 90 by 500 feet in dimensions.
The board of regents of the West
Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind, which is located at Rom
ney, Hampshire county, has resolved
to ask the next Legislature to separate
the school by creating an institution
for the blind, to be located elsewhere
in the State. The students at the
Romney School are increasing so rap
idly that such a move is regarded as
very necessary.
A paper has been produced in
Wayne county, which is alleged to be
a contract between Sheril-elect
Hurston Booth, Republican, and NJ. L.
Dean, a Democrat, whereby the latter
was to serve two years as deputy sher-
! if if Booth should be elected. If the
contract be proven genuine Booth $
election will be void under the statute
and the county court will appoint a
sheriff to act until the next election.
In being elected Governor of West
Virginia Hon. George Wesley Atkin-
son has realized political aspiration
which he has had from his youth up.
George w. Glass, a roommate of the
| Governor-elect when they were stu
dents at Delaware, Ohio, in speaking
of this ambition says "When we We're
roommates at college every few days
Atkinson would slap me on the shoulder
and say, George, some day I'm going
to be Governor Of West Virginia. "
Tuesday evening A. L. Dulaney, a
wealthy farmer and connected with
the best families in the county, was
killed in the streets of Wileyville by
James z. Taylor, also a farmer, who
came to Wetzell county from Penn
sylvania five years ago. The men
| quarreled, and Taylor ran into the
house and got double-barreled shot
gun, while his wife appeared at the
door and begged her husband to re-
turn. Taylor raised his gun and fired
at Dulaney, killing him instantly.
Taylor escaped into Ohio.
Three prisoners-Samuel Halde-
man, James Thorp and Joseph Ma
thias-escaped from jail at Mooreheld
last Sunday night by tunneling
through the jail wall. Haldeman had
his hobbies on. Nearly every male
resident of Moorefeld started in search
of the fugitives, all Of whom are dan
gerous characters, and Thorp was
found in the road in a dazed condi-
ton, almost nude, having been stripped
of his clothes by Haldeman and Ma
thias. A number of prisoners remained
in the Jail, making no attempt to es-
cape.
At Parkersburg, on election day
Mr.. John T. Gibson, a Republican
United States commissioner, issued
warrants for Lee Kirtley, T. J. Graves
and J. ]. Dickson, Democratic election
officers, for alleged violation Of the law
They promptly furnished bond. a
day for hearing was set by the com
missioner, but the cases were dismissed
unceremoniously, This action was due
to the receipt of a letter from United
States District Judge J. J. Jackson tc
Mr.. Gibson, in which he said:
"The marshal of this district, through
one of his deputies, has reported to me
the arrest Of several citizens upon war
rants issued by you as United State:
commissioner for violations Of section;
SOIL and 55l5 of the statutes Of the
United States relating to elections
I am greatly surprised to learn that
there is a commissioner Of my court
who is Ignorant Of the fact that al
the acts relating to the federal election
laws were repealed February S, 1894
There is no statute to authorize yor
to issue any such warrant, and your
proceedings are wholly irregular an6
without authority of law
Do You Want TO be a Martyr?
Probably not! But If you do, try and ge
the dyspepsia by unwise feeding. Then you'll
suffer mart vrdom with vengeance! some
people are martyrs TO this complaint from
childhood TO the grave, suffering from all I'll
| attendant no rrorS of heartburn, wind ant
| main I'm the stomach. weary slumber anC