Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-04-21
West Virginia Items.

There are l,OOl patients IN the IN
sane asylum at Weston, this State.
Joe Collins, Gilmer county man,
drank twenty-four bottles Of extract
of lemon, as a substitute for whlskey,
and it killed him.
The Alexander Lumber Company,
of Alexander, one Of the largest lum-
bering companies in the State, has
made an assignment.
a nitrO-glycerine magazine near
Warrington blew up one day last
week. Two men who were handling
the stuff were scattered into small bits
of flesh
Ex-Congressman Eustace Gibson is
raising a company of light artillery at
Huntington to fight the Spanish if war
is declared. He is an old Confederate
soldier.
Miss Susie Hagaman, aged seven
teen years, committed suicide at Hunt
ington by taking morphine. She had
been grieving several days because
she was rejected by her lover.
The trial Of Mrs. Atkinson, wife Of
Governor Atkinson, upon charge Of
forgery, which was to have opened
last Friday in the Gilmer County Cir
cult Court, has been postponed until
June.
A town council in favor of hcens-
ing saloons has been elected at Clarks-
burg, and open bar-rooms will be per-
mitted for the first time in sixteen
years. Speakeasies have Aourished
there.
A horrible accident occurred near
Glenville, Gilmer county, last week.
Harry Williamson eight-year-old boy,
accidentally fell into kettle of boil
ing wax being used for grating trees
and was cooked alive.
The West Virginia and Pittsburg
Railroad, running from Clarksburg to
Camden-on-Gauley, is in financial diff
fculties. 1t has failed to pay the in
terest on its bonds and will probably
90 into the hands of receiver. EX-
Senator J. n. Camden is president of
the road.
Miss Madge Bennett, daughter of
Judge w. G. Bennett, Of Weston, was
married in that place yesterday to Mr..
Robert Grain, a wealthy lawyer of
Baltimore. Miss Bennett is highly
accomplished and educated, and is re-
garded as one of the handsomest wo-
men in West Virginia.
Commissioner Isaac Y. Barton, Of
the West Virginia Department Of La
bor has Just compiled an analysis Of
the conditions of manufactures in the
State. The report shows that IN all
the industries in the State there are
800 establishments, which report 90
54l employees on pay-rolls January l,
1897. and 22,529 employees on pay
rolls January l, 1898.
Col. Clarence L. Smith, in command
Of the First Regiment Of the West
Virginia National Guard, has been
notifying the officers Of the several
companies of the regiment to hold
themselves in readiness to respond to
call to the front at any moment.
If the guard should be called out they
will mobilize at Grafton, and will be
sent from there as the War Depart
ment may direct.
Governor Atkinson has addressed a
letter to the sheritis and prosecuting
attorneys in all the counties Of the
State instructing them to see that all
fines are paid. He says "While | do
not desire to be considered as finding
fault with court officers in looking af-
ter their own fees, it seems to me that
they should be required to also see to
it that the State should have the bene-
fit of the fines and costs.
Engineer Kennedy, on the Clinch
Valley division Of the Norfolk and
Western Railway, was smothered to
death Monday in a long tunnel, and
his fireman, conductor and brakeman
we've carried out in an insensible con-
dition. The train, which was pulled
by one engine and pushed by another,
became hung up in the tunnel and
the engineer died from the gas and
smoke before help reached him.