Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-11-04
West Virginia News.

The Supreme Court of Appeals OF
West Virginia ia IN session at Charles
ton.
The town of Bayard, in Grant coun-
ty, had another big fire early Monday
morning.
1t is announced that ]. Forsythe
Harrison is to be appointed postmas-
ter at Piedmont.
Waitman Barbe, the hustling field
agent of the State University, will
move to Morgantown this week, where
he will make his home.
Mrs. Ballard has been appointed
jailer of Boone county, to succeed ler
husband, st. Clair Ballard, who died
recently.
Governor Atkinson has appointed
Hon. P. G. Eastman, Of Mason City,
to the regency of the State University,
made vacant by the resignation Of I.
G. Atkeson.
The county court of Cabell county
has passed all order compelling all
prisoners in Jail guilty of misdemean-
ors to work out their fines on the
county roads. Good idea.
The annual meeting of the West
Virginia Bar Association convened
yesterday at Morgantown. Several
important papers were read by D. e.
Westenhaver, G. Wood Daley and
others.
Judge Brazie, of the Fayette county
criminal court, put some sort of a pat
ent cure on bunion that bothered
him. Blood poisoning set in and he
had his leg amputated, but he finally
died few days ago. He was nephew
of the late Roscoe Conkling.
Chris. Bolyard and John Coalbank,
two young farmers, fought desperately
for half hour on account Of Anna
Pierce, pretty eighteen-year-old girl,
at the latter's home in West Virginia,
near Oakland. Mr.. Coalbank fought
with a poker and Bolyard with club,
the battle taking in three rooms, which
presented the appearance Of slaugh-
ter-house. Bolyard, whose skull was
crushed in, finally shot Coalbank to
death. Bolyard will hardly recover.
A large delegation of paper manu-
facturers, representing that industry
in New York, Rhode Island, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and
other eastern States, have arranged
to spend the first two weeks Of No
vember in the interior of Randolph,
Tucker and Preston counties, this
State, for the purpose of selecting
suitable locations for large plants
along the mountain streams in the
great tract of land recently purchased
by the Vanderbilt syndicate.
Mrs. William Lyons, Of Springdale,
near Parkersburg, Saturday ended
the ninth week of remarkable fast.
Her weight was decreased from 200
to so pounds. Two years ago she
was taken with a puzzling stomach
trouble which grew worse until she
was unable to partake Of food, Dur
ing her long fast she has been kept
alive by milk hypodermically injected
in her wrists. Physicians who exam
ined the case were unable to cope with
the mysterious disease, which doubt
less will kill the sufferer within a
short time.
According to report Of State Audi
tor La Toilette, the number Of taxable
lands returned delinquent for the
years 1895 and 1896 are nearly double
the largest number ever returned be-
fore for similar period. The great
est increase is in Cabell county, where
the space occupied on the delinquent
land book is greater for the last two
years than that occupied by the entire
State few years back for the same
period of time. The increase in the
number of tracts returned delinquent
is due in part to the increase in the
number of town lots. During the boom
period of 1898 and 1894 many new
towns were laid out and town lots sold.
In 1895 and 1896 the boom was over,
the towns were dead, and the owners,
realizing they had worthless property
on their hands, refused to pay the
taxes.