Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-07-01
West Virginia News.

appointed hrst assistant ulsVrlcI atlor-
ney for West Virginia.
Charles Hedrick, secretary of State
for West Virginia from 1873 to 1877,
died last week in Charleston, aged 81
years.
Mrs. Alexander Campbell, widow of
the founder of the Christian Church,
died at Bethany, Sunday, aged ninety
FIVE years.
Rev. DR.. David H. Greer, the new
ly elected coadjutor bishop of Rhode
Island, is native of West Virginia,
and is forty-four years old.
Guy Morrow, aged sixteen, of Pala.
tine, died Sunday from the effects of
cigarette smoking. He asked that
this statement be made to warn other
boys.
Clark Lewis was hung at Fayette-
vile last Friday for the murder of
Charles Gibson. He met his death
calmly. The hanging was public and
was witnessed by ten thousand people.
Governor Atkinson has appointed
Hon. Thomas E. Davis, of Grafton,
commissary-general on the Governors
staff. This will hardly fill the void,
however, occasioned by the loss of the
collectorship.
Hon. N. B. Scott, Of Wheeling, be-
fore sailing for Europe, few days
ago, announced that if he did not get
the revenue commissionership when
he got back he would be candidate
for United States Senator.
General J. W. st. Clair, of Fayette,
noted West Virginia politician, re-
Gently received slight stroke Of par
alysis. One eye was considerably at
fected and the vision impaired. 1t is
feared that he may become blind.
The State Teachers Association
convened at Clarksburg yesterday.
The Board of Regents of the State Nor
nal Schools is also in session at that
place, and will appoint the normal
school teachers today or tomorrow.
The notorious John L. Fehr, who is
regarded by some persons as the great
est rascal that has ever pestered West
Virginia, is now wanted in Frankfort,
KY, for stealing diamonds. Several
penitentiaries are yawning for this
fellow.
Here's the way the Lincoln Citizen
brushes its contemporary, the Lincoln
NearS "The NewS is in the habit Of
getting hurt when it monkeys with our
buzz-saw. We would kindly suggest
that it pull down its shirt-tail and
wipe its nose,
Miss Ada Stewart, daughter of a
farmer residing in the back part Of the
county, committed suicide in the law
Office of R. L. Moore, at Sistersville,
by shooting herself in the left breast.
The act was the result Of Moore re-
fusing to marry the girl.
The grand jury of Tucker county
found an indictment for misdemeanor
against Col. Robert Eastman, who shot
and killed Frank E. Thompson on a
train a few months ago. The punish
ment for misdemeanor is so slight that
the Judge refused to consider the in
dictment, and a new grand jury will
consider the case.
The contract has been let for an adj
dition to the penitentiary at Mounds
Vile, to cost $4,000. 1t will be 100
feet long, 60 feet wide, with four tiers
of ninety cells each and an arrange
ment for the building of more when
ever they are needed. The addition
was made necessary because Of the
great increase in the number of State
criminals.
Col. Robert S. White, of Wheeling
with the cooperation Of the camps in
the State, is preparing a book, giving
a sketch of the life of each soldier from
West Virginia who served as private
in the Confederate army. Colonel
White is commander of the West Vir-
ginia Division of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, and as such has organ
lied eighteen camps in this State.
Mrs. Davis, wife of ex-senator Hen
ry G. Davis, has signifed her inten-
ton to build a hospital at some point
along the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railroad, for injured en-
pIoyees of the road, as a memorial to
her son, Harry Davis, who was acct
dentally drowned in the Atlantic
ocean last year while returning from
South Africa. 1t is thought Parsons
will be selected as the most suitable
location.
For the information of cigarette
dealers we will state that the law in
reference to selling to minors under
sixteen years of age is still on the stat
ute books. 1t was the law that placed
a $500 license on cigaretts that was
repealed. The penalty for selling to
a boy under sixteen is not less than
$25 nor more than 800 fine, or con-
fnement in jail not more than SIX
months. This law will be found in
the Code Of 1891
While peeping into window at the
house of George White, railroad man,
in South Grafton, Mr.. White being
away, about l o'clock last Wednesday
morning, John Keefe, machinist in
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