Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-06-10
West Virginia News.

There were two suicides in Wheel
ing last Friday, making ten so far this
year.
The residence of DR.. W. H. McClung,
of Greenbrier county, was burned last
week. Loss $4,000 insurance 81 800.
]. K. Thompson, who succeeds c. E.
Wells as q. s. marshal for West Vir-
GINA, is an ex-Confederate soldier
Wells is Union veteran.
]. NJ. Culp, traffic manager of the
Southern Railway, was robbed of a
$500 diamond stud on a Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern passenger train,
near Rowlesburg, few days ago.
The commencement exercises Of the
West Virginia university were held
this week at Morgantown, and passed
off with much enthusiasm. A great
many prominent persons attended the
exercises.
While Mrs. Tanner, who residesat
Richardson, near Parkersburg, was
asleep with her twin babies by her side,
rats attacked one of the little ones and
killed it. When the woman awakened
from her sleep she found that rats had
horribly mutilated the babe.
Florence Williams killed her lover
in Mcdowell county Tuesday evening
after a quarrel and escaped. Both
are members of prominent families.
There is much excitement over the
matter. The man was killed in fit
of jealousy, and was at the time pre-
pairing to take up large tract of
timber land.
A. J. Layton shot and killed Will
lam Skinner near Coketon, Tucker
county, last week. Layton had been
drinking, and hearing that Skinner
had gone to W. Dice's clearinghouse
to meet his wife, went to that place,
where he shot and killed the man.
Layton escaped to the woods. He
and his wife had parted several times
on account of her alleged intimacy
with Skinner.
Peter Zimmerman. says the Mounds
vile Echo, has the longest prison rec
ord in the State. He is 70 years Of
age and has served 40 years of that
time in prison. He has served time
in seven penitentiaries. Every convic-
ton has been for horse stealing, for
which he has mania. His general
appearance has anything but crimi-
nal cast. He is well preserved for a
man Of his years, and looks like the
average well-to-do farmer more than
the graduated convict.
A short time ago a sorrowing son of
Lincoln county sent the Citizen long
obituary notice reciting his fathers
many virtues. Inasmuch as the said
virtuous corpse, when alive, never
patronized his home newspaper, but
supported the Toledo Blade and En-
quirer, we decline to interfere with
the eternal destiny of the corpse.
Maybe the Blade or Enquirer can
give the corpse pass to the Golden
Jerusalem. We are a free silver
paper.-Lincoln Citizen.
The statistical reports presented at
the annual session of the Episcopal
council for West Virginia at Point
Pleasant last week give the following
figures for the work of the last year:
Balance on hand of the permanent
and episcopal fund, $3,706, with no
disbursement; collections for the Epis-
copal and contingent fund, $2,773.57,
leaving deficiency of $634.43, which
will be made up by the collection of
tardy assessments; number of families
in the diocese, 1927; communicates,
$3.50; baptized persons, 1882 pres
ent communicates, 6,034; Sunday
schools, sc; teachers, 483; scholars,
1926; combinations, 266; parish
schools, II ; Indebtedness on church
property, Sal, 1924; arrears on rec
tors salaries, 81 ,029.94 churches, 70 j
parochial contributions, $58,9l7;
diocesan contributions, So, 794. 81 out
side, $2,422.42, making total contri-
buttons $71,l33.88. The bishop re-
ported $4,000 in trust funds on hand.
The number of communicates neces-
sary to elect a vestry was reduced
from 20 to 10 per cent after lengthy
debate, and the church canon provid-
ing for election of a rector was amend
ed SO as to make it imperative on the
vestry to confer with the bishop be-
fore making the election. The coun-
Gil meets next year at Weston.