Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-05-06
West Virginia News.

Grafton is considering the advisa-
bility of establishing hospital and
the Baltimore and Ohio is encourag-
ing the project.
Moses w. Donnally has sold the
Charleston Daily Gazette to Col.
O'Brien Moore, of Washington, D. c.,
who will conduct it as a straight Dem
ocratic paper.
Miss Lizzie Alexander, aged sixteen
years, was drowned in Georges creek,
near Piedmont, last Sunday. She was
crossing the creek on foot-log when
she slipped and fell into the swift cur
rent. Her body was not recovered.
Two men broke into the house oc-
cupied by Mrs. Shook, an aged woman
living near Sistersville, and tortured
her cruelty until she told where her
money was. They stole $500 and es-
capped. She may die from the burning
and beating they gave her.
S. B. Lawson, Of Harrison county,
has brought suit in the Gilmer county
circuit court against the faculty Of the
Chenille Normal School for alleged
malicious and illegal dismissal from
the school. The damage claimed Is
$4,000. Lawson was expelled from
school for alleged cheating at examl-
nations. He says he didn't cheat.
A number of Confederate veterans
met at Charleston Tuesday and decid-
ed to effect a State organization Of the
| National Association of Confederate
Veterans. For the purpose Of organ
ization the State was divided into dis
tricts, each district to be under the
control of a brigadier- general and a
rnaior-general to have command Of the
whole. Robert White, Of Wheeling,
was chosen as maior-general and S. S.
Green, of Charleston, and David l..
Johnston, of Mercer, were made brig
heterogeneous. The plan Of building
home for INDECENT Confederate SOL
diers was abandoned and it was decid-
ed that each camp should take care Of
| its own disabled members. The money
raised by the committee to erect a sol
diers home was ordered to be expend-
ed as the committee may deem best.
|
During the high water the first Of
the week part of Dam No. 6 was
washed out again. Two benches of
cribbing next to the bank were washed
down the river and the bank for sixty
or more feet torn out, causing damage
even greater than that Of February,
which had Just been repaired by the
canal company at cost Of nearly $lO,-
OOO The torrent wore within ten
feet of the railroad tracks, and so
much apprehension was felt that trains
were ordered to slow up at that point.
Chief Engineer Manning at once put
a large number Of men at work build
ing a breakwater Of stone to prevent
the water from further wearing tho
bank toward the railroad The trou-
bic was caused by the high water get
ting in behind the cribwork recently
erected in place of the West Virginia
wing wall, washed out in February,
The river is rushing through the
breach at furious rate, and it will be
a costly and difficult job to repair the
damage.
Two defenceless women in Weston,
in this State, We're set upon by twenty
men on Friday night, coated with hot
tar, and so badly injured that they
may die. The men thought their VIC
TINS were bad in character, and, there
fore, not to be tolerated in the com
munity. The women are from Clarks-
burg, and their names are Ida Duncan
and Bertha Merriman, They were oc-
cupving a house on the outskirts Of the
city and were alone when a crowd OF
men, estimated to number 20, broke
down the doors, stripped them to the
skin, and, with whitewash brushes ap-
piled hot tar to them. They We're
warned to leave the town on penalty
of death. When news Of the assault
became knownin town physicians were
sent to the women and every effort
made to relieve their suherings, The
hot tar had blistered them in many
places, and efforts to remove it tore Oft
the skin in patches. The Merriman
woman can scarcely recover. The Dun
can woman is not in so pitiable plight
as her companion. The tar had been
heated till it was Of the consistency Of
molasses. The men who applied II
were masked, and gave no heed to the
screams Of their victims. Thus far
there is no clue to the identity Of the