Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-11-05
West Virginia Items.

Mrs. Addie Cole, aged So years,
committed suicide at her home in
Parkersburg last Sunday night by
hanging herself.
CAPTAIN Hatfield, the notorious lead
err in the Hatfield McCey feud, killed
two men and wounded others yester-
day at Matewan. He is still at large.
A tempest in teapot was stirred
up in the University at MoIgantown
last week between the faculty and the
students. The war seems to be over,
but we haven't heard who surrendered.
Harry c. Culp, aged twenty-three
years, a Baltimore and Ohio freight
brakeman, fell from his train at Key
ser, Monday and had both hands and
legs cut off He lived only a short
time.
James Murphy died at the resi-
dence of his son, Mr.. Davis Murphy,
near German, aged ninety-four years.
He was one of the early settlers and
was a great hunter, having killed
many deer and bears.
The 1lth annual meeting of the
West Virginia Bar Association will be
held at Huntington, November l and
u. The programme includes the an
nual address by the president, Col.
Forrest w. Brown. Mr.. Benjamin
Trapnell, of Charleston, will read a
paper on The Logical Conception Of a
Corporation.
A horrible tragedy, in which two
men were killed and a young woman
fatally wounded, occurred last Monday
at Slacktown, near Wheeling. The
victims were Dot Gray, who was shot
through the body William Matzger,
shot through the body and killed, and
Scot Linton, who shot and killed him
self. The shooting was all done by
Linton. He found Matzger in Miss
Gray room, and drawing revolver
shot and killed Matzger, then shot the
girl, then fired bullet into his own
brain. They were all hard cases and
Linton was Jealous Of the other man.
Mrs. Margaret Dorsey, wife Of John
w. Dorsey, Baltimore and Ohio fore
man at Okonoko, w. Va, twenty
six-miles east of Cumberland, was
killed under peculiar circumstances
last Sunday. She was walking along
the track toward moving west-bound
freight train with a pail in her hand,
on her way to milk COW, and when
directly opposite the engine the fire
man threw off a lump Of slate coal,
which struck her on top Of the head,
crushing in her skull. She was picked
up unconscious and remained in this
condition six hours, when death en-
sued. The fireman had not observed
her when he threw off the coal. The
lump weighed about forty pounds and
the train was moving at the rate Of
twenty-five miles an hour.
The campaign closed at Wheeling
with a great popular demonstration
in honor Of Mary Ellen Lease, in
which both silver and gold bugs took
an equal part. Two thousand and
five hundred men were in line, dressed
in female attire, and some exceeding
" elaborate costumes were worn, while
several brass bands, many drum corps
and multitudes Of humorous banners
and transparencies made the spectacle
not only fine one, but highly pictur-
esque as well. The advance was Ia
ken by twenty old maids, attired in
curl-papers, night caps and night
gowns, each carrying lighted candle,
and close behind was Mrs. Lease her
self, represented by an imitation
young lady in an elaborate white silk
party costume and white fur-trimmed
opera cloak, seated in carriage,
drawn by four horses and Aanked by
a body-guard of end of the century
girls, in knickerbockers, smoking
cigarettes. The parade was the finest
of the sort ever given at Wheeling
and attracted the entire population tc
the streets.