Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-07-09
West Virginia Items.

a cannon cracker, about eight inches
long, in his right hand When it ex-
ploded, it blew his hand to pieces.
The State encampment of the West
Virginia National Guard will be held
at Huntington August4th to 10th. The
Charlestown military company expects
to be there As strong.
At Kenova few days ago John E.
Bloomer was shot dead by his father
without cause or notice The frantic
father tried to kill another son and
commit suicide, but failed and was
arrested. He pretends to know moth,
ing about the affair
The Democratic convention for the
fourth Congressional district was held
at Parkersburg last week, and result
ed in the nomination of Walter Pen
dleton, of Roane county, for Congress
1t was red-hot silver gathering, and
adopted resolutions favonng free coin
age at the ratio of Is to /.
A rain that was almost like a water
spout swept over Wheeling and Mar
shall county Sunday night. The
streams became torrents that swept
everything before them. Wheeling
creek got very high and carried away
part Of the B. & 0. depot On the
Ohio side of the river house was
swept away and two women drowned.
A young man named Royce, of Phil
adelphia, who was spending the sum-
mer with his family at Keyser,
drowned in the river July 4. He
went. to help boy who was drowning
and was taken with cramps. Another
companion went to Mr. Rogee's assis-
lance and was grasped so tightly by
him that he could not even get out
himself but was compelled to hold his
breath until Royce was drowned and
relaxed his held. The boy was also
drowned
R. NJ. Thompson, of BelingtOn, was
run over by the cars and instantly
killed a short distance south of Elkins,
Saturday. Thompson, it is said, was
living on the track intoxicated. A
small boy discovered his dangerous
position, and after futile attempts to
remove him started to flag train
which came around the curve at live
" rate and before it could be stopped
the engine and tender had passed over
the mans body, mutilating him horrl-
bly,. He had been married but a few
months.
Friday night a big ball was given
on Breeder creek, near Huntington,
at the home of Wesley Fain. During
the evening Fain and two of the guests,
Jack Spaulding and Clark Salmon,
quarrelled. Fain used knife on Sal
mon, and he is in serious condition.
Late in the evening William Hearsy,
father-in-law of Fain, was giving him
some advice, when Fain turned on him
with a knife and cut his throat from
ear to ear. Hearsey died instantly
and Fain made his escape. Fain S
wife and little children were witnesses
to the tragedy.
DR.. Hopkins, of the agricultural ex-
pertinent station at Morgantown, who
has given the subject much study, says
that there is great danger Of the early
destruction of the Ohio as a navigable
highway, and along with it the Poto-
mac, James and Tennessee rivers. To
save these rivers, representing 1000
miles in the aggregate, it is necessary
to save the forests in a small part OF
Pennsylvania and Maryland and a
considerable part of West Virginia
and Virginia. From an estimate given
by DR.. Hopkins it appears that an
area of about 100000 acres should
be reserved if we hope to save to pos
terity these immensely valuable high
ways of commerce.
A meeting Of the Board Of Regents
of the State Normal Schools was held
at Charleston last week. Among the
charges in teachers we note the follow
ing: Prof. L. j. Corbly was elected
principal of Marshall College, at Hunt.
ington, succeeding Prof Thos. E
Hodges, resigned Miss Mary McConn
of Ohio county, was elected as teacher
in Shepherd College, Shepherdstown
in place of Miss Pearl Hosie, and Mis-
Hattie Johnson was promoted to be
second assistant Of this school. Miss
Mary Myers, of Shepherdstown, was
elected sixth assistant at Fairmon
school The board ordered that be-
ginning with the school year 1875
no person shall be graduated who hai
not spent at least one full year with
out interruption in the normal from
which he is a candidate for graduation
The normal course was heightened ont
year by the addition of another yea
of Latin and some other studies. A
committee, consisting Of Messrs. Carr
Barbe and Harmer, was appointed Oh
furniture for the various new building
now going up.
In the vicinity of Boquet, Westmore
land Co., Pa, almost any one can tel