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

A persistent and long-continued
scourge of diphtheria prevails in Mar
shall county.
Ora Mickle, Jr., a resident of Kama
wha county, being unable to get whisky,
drank four bottles of hot drops and
died from the effects.
Frank Morgan, one-legged man
living in Keyser. fell under train
last week and had his only leg crushed
off. He died a day or two later.
The winter term of the West Vir-
GINA University opened Monday with
an enrolment of 43O, which is said to
be record. breaker in the way of at
tendance.
James Cart, miner living near
Charleston, drank twenty-six bottles
of essence of cinnamon the other day
in lieu of whiskey. His funeral took
place three days later.
The work at the Seven Curves on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
below Cumberland, will be completed
in few weeks. The short reverse
curves at this point, which are being
Strengthened, were very ruinous to
rolling stock.
Miss Victoria Jackson, a school
teacher of Wayne county, was assault
ed in her schoolroom by woman,
who knocked her down with an iron
pin, cutting an ugly gashin her head.
She said Miss Jackson had made re-
marks about her. The woman was
arrested
It has been claimed for some time
that Fayette county court has been
squandering the taxpayers money, and
now that they are tired of useless e1-
pense an investigation is to be had.
1t is alleged that 100000 has been
paid out on the new courthouse, when
the contract called for only $34, 400.
Col. Philip D. Elkins, father of Sen
ator Stephen B. Elkins, died on Sum
day last at his home in Elkins, this
State. He was in the SSth year of
his age. Col. Elkins was lifelong
Democrat and served in the Confeder-
ate army. His son, the Senator served
in the Union army and was a Repub-
lican.
A woman who had stolen a pair of
shoes was taken to the mayors office
in Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, and per-
Knitted to choose between term in Jail
and wearing a placard on her back
bearing the words; I" / am shoe thief
Look out !" She chose the latter and
paraded the streets during the day
with the placard.
Upshur county is the first in the
State to have female deputy sheriff.
Mrs. Susan Smith, daughter of Sheriff
elect Fowkes, has been sworn in as his
chief deputy, and has given bond the
same as the male deputies She will
do her turn in the cou. room and
Jail. Mrs Smith is a robust woman
and is amply able to do her duty, no
matter what it may be-
With its issue of last week the South
Branch Intelligencer, published at
Romney. suspended publication. The
material has been purchased by Messrs.
Cornwell Bros, and will be consolida-
ted with the Hampshire Review. The
Intelhgencer was established over
half century ago by the late VIM. Har-
per, and for a great many years was
the leading paper of that section of
West Virginia.
There's no discount on the grit of
the Hatfelds Emory Mullens, a Uni
ted States prisoner, escaped from the
Logan county Jail while Wayne, the
ttteen-year-old son OF Jaller HATFIELD,
was serving breakfast to inmates. The
lad chased the prisoner through the
streets and finally felled him to the
ground by firing bullet through his
body. Mullens may recover. The lad
is relative of Captain Hatfield.
An epidemic resembling diphtheria
has broken out at Bayard, on the West
Virginia Central Railroad. Ten days
ago little daughter Of Stingley Clark
died and the funeral was public. While
the child was sick, her little school
mates were permitted to see her. A
few days ago son Of Rev. Mr.. Enlow
died from the same disease. He was
among the number of those who visited
the Clark child. New cases have since
developed, and the community is much
wrought up.