Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-04-22
West Virginia News.
Melvin G. Fuller, B. & o. agent at
Piedmont, died yesterday.

Melvin G. Fuller, B. & 0. agent at
Piedmont, died yesterday.
Henry Ballard, a prominent lumber
dealer of Logan county, committed
suicide by jumping headforemost into
a well.
At Elizabeth Sunday night Will
Akers, ffteen-year-old son of John
Akers, got up in the dark and took
big drink of poison liniment, suppos-
ing he was getting medicine for cramps.
He died Monday morning.
Governor Atkinson has appointed
H. X. Howard, of Mason county, a
Democrat, and Leroy Shaw, of Preston
county, and J. NJ. Hayden, of Lewis
county, Republicans, members of the
board of directors of the Spencer In
sane Asylum.
At Parkersburg five desperate pris-
oners-Wm. Robertson, Lee Cakes,
Charles Sandy, J. ". Cain and JEFF
Dobbins-escaped from jail. Cakes
left note addressed to Jailor Wright,
in which he says he will return and
kill Detective Mehen, the man who
arrested him.
Annie Davis, aged eighteen years,
was instantly killed by passenger
train on the West Virginia Central
Railroad, near Thomas. She was re-
turning with her stepfather from a
visit to a neighbor's and they were
walking on the track to take short
cut home.
Preliminary surveys have just been
completed under the direction Of En-
gineer Brock Reinhart for connecting
link between the Chesapeake and OHIO
Railroad and the Dry Fork Railroad at
Horton. Senator Stephen B. Elkins
ex-senator Henry G. Davis and Hon
Richard C. Kerens are interested in
the new road, which will give a close
route to seaboard from the upper Po'
tomac coal region, owned principally
by the Davis Coal and Coke Company
The story of a strange crime comes
from Barboursvllle. 1t is said that
last Monday night, on Budges creek,
Mrs. Amos c. Reynolds was beheaded
and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles
Reynolds, is charged with the dreadful
crime. Charles Reynolds had left his
wife recently and had taken his two
Oh. dren to his mothers home. The
Young mother wanted possession Of
them again, and when she called at
the old lady's home the door was
locked and she was refused entrance
1t is charged that she became incensed
and, procuring an axe, broke open the
door, and, after knocing the old lady
in the head and telling her to the floor
she proceeded to decapitate her. The
young mother took one Of her children
and made her escape. The murdered
women was a wealthy widow.
The Berkeley County Fruit Growers
Association held a meeting last week
to take steps to check the spread o.
the San Jose scale, which threatens to
do considerable damage to the fruit
trees in the county. The scale was
discovered about a year ago in the
county on trees from Northern nurs.
cries, and has since made its appear.
ance in a number of orchards in differ.
ent parts of the State. A committee
Of one from each district was appointed
to inspect all the trees in the county
and report to the next meeting. DR.
a. D. Hopkins, entomologist of the
West Virginia Experimental Station
was present at the meeting and exhib-
tied specimens of the scale and other
fruit-tree pests and suggested methods
of determination. He said the scale
was the most destructive insect to fruit
trees known; that it attacked all va
rieties and spread very rapidly, one
female scale being sufficient to popu'
late a small orchard in less than a
year, but that it worked only in the
valleys.