Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-10-20
West Virginia Items.

Mr.. Walter L. Ashby, half-broth-
er of the late Senator John G. Kenna,
has been nominated by the Democrats
for the State Senate in the Kanawha
district.
1t is said new railroad route is
being surveyed from Strasburg juno
ton to the coal fields of West Virgin
ia, the Southern Railway being the
projectors.
A dance at the residence of Nichol-
as Thorn, near Womelsdorf, termina-
ted seriously, G. W. SAKE, with whom
Mr.. Thorn had disturbance, shoot
ing the latter in the breast, making a
probable fatal wound. A general free
fight followed the shooting.
Jacob Baker, the oldest man in
West Virginia, died last week at his
home near Pennington, at the great
age of 10S years. He was born in
Uniontown, Pa, March Is, 1892. He
has daughter so years old. He had
seven children, all of whom are dead
except two. He had 33 grandchildren
and Al great-grandchildren, some of
the latter being over "a years of age.
DR.. Hale, last week, opened six of
the mounds in the Washington Woods
down the river, but nearly all the
skeletons were so badly decomposed
that he was unable to save any except
two. They were in fairly good con-
dition. They were apparently buried
lying down, both in the same mound.
They were rather small of stature, and
the skull indicated a very inferior de-
gree of intelligence. He also found
several arrow heads of very fine agate
flint which probably came from the
Rocky Mountains. There were also
some tomahawks but no other orna-
ments. In all the mounds he found
evidences of fire and rock which had
been in the fire. The Washington
Bottoms seems to have been a great
centre for the aborigines, as innumer-
able skeletons and interesting relics
have been found there.-Rauen;lcoOd
NeWS.
On Patterson's Creek in KanaWha
county, Mrs Jemima Zimmerly had a
thrilling encounter with wild dogs,
from which she only escaped with her
life. Accompanied only by her pet dog
she was picking up coal out of a dark
ravine in the mountains when sudden
ly two dogs rushed out from ledge of
rocks and attacked the old woman and
her dog. The two fought the dogs des-
perately for some time, but were final
ly compelled to flee for their lives.
The old woman was terribly bitten
about the face and hands and her dog
was almost killed. When she arrived
home faint and bleeding, her sons Sc
cured guns and went in search of the
dogs. When they arrived at the scene
of the fight they were attacked by the
dogs, but the dogs were shot and
killed. Hid in the ledge of rocks were
seven more young dogs and they were
also promptly killed.
At the Niger Head bend on Big
Sandy river in Wayne county an i'm
mense landslide occurred last week
which surpasses anything Of the kind
ever known on the Big Sandy river.
Fully FIVE acres of land on the hillside
of West Virginia sank down, upsetting
trees and causing boulders weighing
hundreds of tons to roll into the river.
The streams channel is completely
changed, and it may be necessary for
the government to do considerable
work before the stream is navigable
for steamboats, again. Hundreds Of
people from the surrounding country
visit the place daily. The ground was
sinking for fully twenty hours, and
the crash of the monster oaks being
rent asunder, and the immense boul-
ders rolling down the mountain side,
could be heard miles away, causing
much alarm among the citizens. The
county road was moved fully 200
yards out of position, and there is no
travel up that way now, as it is i'm
possible to even walk across the scene
of the slide.-HuntingtOa Advertiser.