Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-03-24
West Virginia Items.

There are now enrolled at the West
Virginia University 59l students, the
largest number in the history of the
institution.
The Republicans of Grafton elected
DR.. H. P. Love mayor by majority
of Ga, T. S. Roche recorder by 30, and
four of the seven councilmen. License
had a majority Of 22l.
John Kinds was arrested for alleged
murder and placed in Jail at Wayne,
He contracted typhoid fever and died.
Now his heirs propose to sue the coun-
ty for $4,000 damages for being re-
sponsible for his death.
Miss Chloe Shrewsbury, a young
school teacher Of Montgomery, COM
mitted suicide Tuesday afternoon by
shooting herself through the heart.
She died ten minutes after committing
the deed. She had been in poor health
for some months.
George S. Ziler and James Mason,
who left Berkeley Springs few weeks
ago with James Smith and James
Adams for the Klondike, have re-
turned from Seattle. They found the
tide was back this way. Adams and
Smith decided to continue the journey
to the gold fields.
Last November Rev. J. Wesley
Webb, who for forty years had been a
minister in the NJ. E. Church, fell on
the street in Huntington, this State,
and sustained injuries that recently re-
suited fatally. He was IS years old
and had been a lifelong Democrat.
Shortly before his death he asked that
a monument be erected over his grave
bearing this inscription: "Here lies
the body of J. Wesley Webb, firm
believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Methodist Church and Jettersonian
Democracy
Jesse Thomas and his wife, believed
to be over one hundred years old,
were found dead in their little log
hut, on Dogwood creek, in Fayette
county, Monday. Developments show
that their deaths occurred two days
apart. For years they have made
their home in the lonely hut. They
lived sparingIy, and even stinted
themselves of food and clothing.
Since their death a bag Of money,
containing $1,000 in paper money
and over 5000 in gold, has been found
on the prem ses. Neighbors believe
that there is yet a large amount Of
silver money hid away somewhere
about the house.
Miss Mary Lorentz, who gained con-
siderable notoriety in the State as the
first West Virginia lady to start for
the gold fields Of Alaska, has notified
her friends that she has given up the
trip and married. Miss Lorentz left
for Seattle about three weeks ago, in
tending to sail from there to the Klon-
dixie upon the opening Of navigation.
Upon reaching Seattle she purchased
an outfit, booked her passage and sat
down to patiently await the sailing Of
her vessel. The report of her intended
tim caught. the eve of Jackson Horn,
of Spokane, whom Miss Lorentz was
to have married but for a misunder-
standing five years ago, and he hur-
ried to Seattle, met her and persuaded
her to change her mind.
The famous old Berkeley Springs
Hotel, at Berkeley Springs, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire about , o'clock
Tuesday morning. The fire is thought
to have been Of incendiary origin, as
it was first discovered in an unoccu-
pied part Of the building. The hotel
was owned and operated by c. ?. Jack
and A. r. Unger, who purchased it a
few years ago from John I. Treg6.
Mr.. Jack had rooms in the building,
and his family narrowly escaped with
their lives. The loss on the building
and contents is about $4,000, and
the insurance $4,000. The hotel
was built in 1913 by Col. Strother.
For many years it was a very popular
resort, but for the past ten years or