Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-02-04
West Virginia Items.
Mrs. Jones, aged go, froze to death at
the almshouse near Berkeley Springs.


the almshouse near Berkeley Springs.
Three murderers and three other
prisoners sawed their way out Of the
Fayetteville jail last Saturday night.
Governor-elect Atkinson has an
nounced his intention to appoint Isaac
V. Barton, of Moundsville, to be State
commissioner of labor.
At Sistersville last Sunday while
party of boys were sledriding their
Sled went over high embankment.
Roy Douglass was killed and three
others badly hurt.
The State Board of Examiners will
hold examinations for teachers at
Wheeling, Grafton, Athens Concord
Church), and Huntington, on March
25, 26 and q, 1897.
Rev. P. L. Miller, former pastor of
the E. L. Lutheran Church, at Ste
phen's City, Va, has accepted call
from the church at Benton, o., where
he will move shortly with his family.
The hotel at Fayetteville, owned by
Major H. w. Brazie, and run by
Evans & Tansell, was totally destroyed
by fire Monday. There was insurance
on the building and furniture amount
ing to $4,000. The loss is about
$4,000.
The wife of the notorious Jake KEN
pie, a Republican politician who used
to hang around Wheeling, and who
was perhaps the most vulgar man in
West Virginia, committed suicide in
Maine Lost week, the alleged reason
being i'll treatment by her husband.
Several of the Republican members
of the House Of Delegates of the West
Virginia Legislature refused to attend
a reception and ball given by citizens
at the State House last Friday night,
because Chris Payne, the negro mem
Der from Fayette county, was not IN
vited
A dispatch from Parkersburg says
that Lee B. Mcfarland, teller at the
Second National Bank, is a defaulter
to the amount of $4,000 He con-
fessed that he had stolen the money,
and said he lost it in specializing. 1t
is said that he has rich relatives who
will make good the deficiency.
Among the appointments given out
during the past week by Governor
elect Atkinson are the following
Howard Atkinson, his son, private
secretary Isaac Barton, of Marshall
county, commissioner Of labor, and W.
w. Rogers, of Ohio county, assistant;
Guy Scott, of Ohio county, librarian.
Last Wednesday Mrs Rose Ann
Butts, wife'of Joseph Butts, living two
miles southwest Of Cherry Run, while
attempting to light a lamp, set fire to
her clothing and was horrible burned,
from the effects Of which she died be-
fore medical aid was procured. The
husband, Joseph Butts, is 81 years
old and his wife was 10.
Berkeley Springs was thrown into
excitement last Saturday night by a
supposed mad dog running through
the streets. 1t bit a number of dogs,
but did not attack people. After an
exciting chase it was killed with a
stone. A son Of Peter Yost was bit.
ten a few days ago by a rabid dog,
but has not yet shown any signs Of
hydrophobia.
Wednesday night Of last week
large mastiff dog, affected with hydro
phobia, appeared on the streets in the
business portion of Wheeling, and be-
fore it was killed, at 7 o'clock next
morning, had bitten eight or ten peO-
pie. The dog was a powerful brute,
and dragged several men to the ground,
tearing their faces and threats badly.
The grand jury Of Mingo county,
which has just adjourned from a four
days session, returned $50 indict-
ments, of which number Is We're for
first degree murder. The criminal
docket Of Mingo county showed about
500 indictments standing before the
recent grand jury began this session.
This now makes the number on the