Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-07-14
West Virginia Items.

Nearly one-third of the population
of West Virginia attend the pubic
schools.
The Hancock handle factory, near
Hancock Station, in Morgan county
was destroyed by fire on Monday
An infant in the arms'of its mother,
Mrs. Kate Shuber, died from fright
on a B. & 0. train as it was leaving
Wheeling the other day.
Private Walter Rose, of the Hinton
company, is in letters at Camp Atkin-
son, W. Va, and Will be court-mar'
tailed for shooting at Lieutenant
Kuntz with his revolver.
Near Ravenswood the four-year-Old
child of Widow Marian Davis fell into
a tub of scalding water and was cooked
alive. Nearly all the flesh dropped
from the child's bones when 1t was
lifted from the tub.
A Clarksburg paper tells Of pecu-
liar contest in that town. Sllas Cor
don, colored, bet Tom Swiger ten cents
that Swiger couldn't knock him down
with a baseball bat. Gordon was car
ried home on a shutter.
Charles Dotson, twelve years old,
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was bitten by mad dog at West
Union Saturday, and his condition IS
critical. The dog also bit numerous
other dogs before being killed, and an
epidemic of hydrophObia Is feared
among animals.
A shocking accident occurred on the
Ohio River Railroad, near Ravens
wood, Friday night. \ tive-year-old
son of a. Barnett, which was playing
on the track, became tired and went to
sleep with its head over the rail. the
flyer came along, and as the place Is in
a sharp curve the child was not no.
ticed until the engine was too near to
be stopped. The entire train passed
over the child's body. Its head was
severed, and hardly piece Of the little
one could be found large enough to tell
the victim was human.
John B. Laidley, a prominent at
torney of Huntington and who Is well
known over the State, committed sui
eide in the city jail at Huntington
Tuesday by hanging himself with a
rope made of blankets. Laidley had
been drinking heavily for week past,
and his own relations requested that
he be locked up that night with the
hope Of restoring him to a state Of So
briefly. Laidley was forty-eight years
old and had served in the State Legis-
lature. Laidley became famous owing
to his suit against C. P. Huntington for
a large boundary Of land on which
large portion of the city Of Huntington
now stands. Only few days ago the
suit was decided in the Supreme
Court in LaidIey's favor, after twenty
years litigation. Laidley was given
possession of the property, and he i'm
mediately became intoxicated and died
in that condition.
1t seems like our people will never
stop biting at patent right humbugs.
Thousands Of dollars have been paid
by citizens Of this county for State and
county rights on patents, and not one
has realized a cent Of profit from 1t.
There is not one patent in ten thous-
and that will sell when an agent goes
among the people with it. The right
on at least twenty different kinds OF
churu power has been sold in this
county and there is not one Of them IN
use today. Every man who comes
along with new tangled washing ma
chine can sell the right without any
trouble, but the man who buys it can
not sell single machine. If you DO
not want to be humbugged and cheat
ed out Of your money, let patent
rights alone. If you never have any
money until you make it out Of a pat
ent right, you will always be poor.
Every dollar that You put into coun-
ty right is a dollar wasted. Look
about You and learn something from
the sad experience of your neighbors
who have been victimized.- Wayne
Ne~S.
The Bear Lithia Springs Hotel, in