Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-02-03
West Virginia News.

and best-known citizens of Grant
county, died last week.
Col. John A. Robinson,a well-known
resident of Mineral county, is said to
be very sick at his home at Patterson S
Depot.
The West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Company has been awarded the gov
eminent contract to furnish seven diff
ferent lots of book paper at two and
nineteenth cents per pound.
The boiler of locomotive on the
Norfolk & Western Railway exploded
Sunday night near Welch, killing fire.
man William Jackson and fatally in
juring engineer David O'Leary.
Mrs. Ida Ward, wife of Justice S. B.
Ward, near Elkins. died from burns
caused by newspaper igniting from
an open fire, before which she had,been
reading. She had fallen asleep and
the flames set fire to her dress.
Too i'll to stand up, Miss Lydia Kerr,
aged eighteen years, was united in
marriage last week to James Allen
while seated in an invalid's chair, at
Wardensville, near Moorefeld. Just
four days after the ceremony, death
claimed the young bride.
Col. R. W. Eastman, who was re-
Gently convicted of involuntary man
slaughter, for the killing of Frank E.
Thompson, at Parsons, was paralyzed
last Sunday and is now critically i'll
in Jail there. His condition is some
what better, but he cannot speak or
move himself. 1t is thought by many
that the wound he received in his fore
head caused this attack.
State Treasurer Kendall has made
out his monthly report and finds the
receipts for January, 1898, to be the
largest in the history Of the State, the
total amount being $654,78212. Ac-
cording to Treasurer Kendall's books,
there is balance in the State treas
ury of $1,095, 644.47. In addition to
that is $613,173 invested in bonds and
otherwise, making a grand total Of
81, 706, 1880 of State money and Sc
curities.
A dispatch from Parkersburg, this
State, yesterday, tells the following
interesting story: Ex-senator Johnson
N. Camden's nephew, DR.. Rolla Cam
den, who has just returned from An
unsuccessful attempt to reach the
Klondike gold fields, and Miss Blanche
Dellicker, daughter of Mr.. L. B. Del
ticker, clerk of the Federal Court for
the West Virginia district, both prom
inent in society circles, created a great
surprise today by announcing that on
October q, 1894, in Trinity Church,
New York, they were married by
Rev. Mr.. Miller. At the time young
Camden was a student in Philadel-
phia and Miss Dellicker was in New
York on a visit. After the ceremony
Camden resumed his studies and grad
uated and returned here, intending to
claim his bride, but instead Joined an
expedition to Klondike, remaining
away several months, but only getting
to st. Michael's, when he was advised
to turn back by his brother, who is an
officer on the revenue cutter Bear,
stationed in Alaskan waters
Representative Miller and State SEN
ator c. L. Brown, of West Virginia,
have bought Of the Rogers heirs, in Bal
timore, tract of land comprising l ,l34
acres, located in Jackson county, and
bordering on the Ohio river, This is
the largest tract of native forest land
on the Ohio between Pittsburg and
Cincinnati. The price paid was $780,
900. This land was granted by King
George Ill, Of England, to George
Washington in 1872, and has been in
the line of descent ever since. 1t was
willsd by Washington to Mary GUSTS,
and from her it descended to Lloyd n.
Rogers, then by devise to Edmund Law
Rogers. Finally, by descent, it came
into possession of Caroline Smith, wife
of Kirby F. Smith, by whom, together
with the widow of Edmund Law Rog-
ers, the deeds conveying the property
to Messrs. Miller and Brown were
signed. The records Of the property
show that the tract was surveyed by
George Washington with Col Craw-
ford. A file Of the Baltimore Amerl-
can Of 1878 contains an advertisement
over Washingtons name offering the
land above referred to for sale.
The town Of Bramwell, on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, in Mercer
county, W. Va, was thrown into a
state OF excitement Tuesday morning
by murder and lynching. Henry
Draper, night Waterman at one Of
the long tunnels on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, was on duty Mon
day night, and about 10 o'clock an
unknown colored man came along the
track and started through the tunnel,
but was stopped by the Waterman,
who had orders not to allow anyone
pass through after night on account of
the danger of being killed by the
trains. This enragsd the negro, who
started through anyway. The watch
man grabbed him and prevented him
from going and in almost the twink
ling of an eye the negro pulled his re-
volver and shot Draper, killing him
instantly. Several persons happened
to be near the scene of the trouble, and
posse was organized and soon sue
ceeded in capturing the brute, who
had ran through the tunnel. He was
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