Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-10-28
West Virginia News.

Joseph S. Hickman, of Greenbrier
county, committed suicide last week
by shooting himself with pistol.
Samuel Beach, aged q years, COM
mitted suicide at Charleston Monday
by taking morphine. Unrequited love
was the cause.
Silas Patterson, who was lieuten-
ant in the Confederate service during
the war, died at his home, one mile
from Romney, aged sixty-nine years.
Tuesday afternoon a passenger To-
comotive on the Norfolk & Western
Railway jumped the track near Vivian,
this State. Engineer A. ]. Mays was
killed.
The voters of Lewisburg, at an cleo
ton held last Saturday, decided in
favor of issuing $13, 800 in bonds for
the purpose of constructing water
works.
Rufus Raymond, of Clarksburg,
one of the most prominent capitalists
and politicians in the State, became
insane last Friday, and was yester-
day taken to the Weston asylum.
GAINESVILLE, Preston county, this
State, according to the Maryland sur
vey of the disputed boundary line be-
tween Maryland and West Virginia,
will fall inside the Maryland line.
Lieut.. R. NJ. G. Brown, the hero of
the Samoan disaster Of several years
ago, has taken up the practice of law
and has been admitted to the bar in
Monongalia and Randolph counties.
At Albrightsville, near Oakland,
the three-year-old daughter of Asher
ry Liston got up in the night to get a
drink of water and drank from can
of concentrated I've left near the wa
ter bucket. The child died in a few
hours.
The annual meeting of the West
Virginia Bar Association will be held
at Morgantown, on the Sd and 4th of
next month. Government by injunc-
ton is one of the live questions for
discussion by the leading lawyers of
the State.
Wiley Deal, prominent citizen of
Clay county, accidentally killed him
self Friday. He took down a rifle
which he supposed contained no load
to clean it. He pressed back the
hammer with his foot and blew into
the muzzle of the gun. His foot
slipped and the gun went off, the bullet
passing through his head, killing him
instantly,
Invitations have been issued by Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Howell Armstead, Of
Brooklyn, to the marriage of their
daughter, Elizabeth Irwin, to Mr..
John T. Davis, son of ex-senator Henry
G. Davis, of West Virginia. The
wedding will take place at the home
of the brides parents, 455 Green ave-
nue., Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Novem-
Der 10, and be followed by reception
NJ Jordan, aged thirty-fve years,
of New Creek, six miles above Key
sey, was arrested at Potomac, Allega-
ny county, Nd, Tuesday, on the
charge of alleged bigamy and perjury.
1t was charged that on last Friday he
deserted his wife and family, with
whom he had been living fourteen
years, kidnapped Anna Barr, the ff-
teen-year-old niece of Harvey Barr,
of New Greek, and was married to her
in Cumberland on Saturday. The
Barr girl had been assisting for few
weeks at Jordan's house, and when he
left with her, it is charged, he told h is
wife that he was going to take the
girl TO Elk Garden. He also threat
ened his wife if she said anything
about him and the girl going away.
The pair married. Jordan swore that
the girl, who is quite pretty and
wears short dresses, was seventeen
years old, which is the ground for the
charge Of perjury. He is a one-armed
man, and with the family was sup
ported by his wife. He was commit
ted to jail at Cumberland by Justice
Turner. The West Virginia authori-
ties want him for kidnapping.