Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-04-07
West Virginia Items.

county last week while trying to ford
the stream with a four-horse team.
The proposition to bond Tucker
county in $4,000 for the erection OF
a new courthouse at Parsons was de-
feated by the vote of 698 to 3O6. a
light vote was cast. The county court
Will now have to build the courthouse
by direct taxation.
J. W. Wolford, living near Rom
ney, was riding horse to water and
leading one. He carried his little
girl on the horse in front of him. One
Of the horses scared, pulling Wolford
off the horse, causing him to fall on
the child and crushing it to death.
John C. Barrickman, deputy sheriff
of MonongaIia county under Sheriff
Silas Hare, made an assignment few
days ago ofassets to the value of$8 1000
to meet obligations amounting to twice
that sum. Saturday night he left home
telling his family that be would not re-
turn.
Mrs James Wilkes and her six
months-old baby were burned to death
in their home near Sistersville Monday
morning. The circumstances sur
rounding the firing of the dwelling,
and the previous action Of the hus-
band, lead to the belief that he com
mitted the crime, and he has been ar
rested. There is danger Of lynching,
At Bloomery, Hampshire county,
on Tuesday, Miss Anna Kent, aged
twenty-eight years, was thrown from
a carriage by runaway horse and IN
stantly killed, her head striking rock,
splitting her skull. Her escort, George
Zinkle, was so severely injured that
he may die. The young couple were
to have been married in May, and were
driving to talk over wedding arrange
ments.
A Wheeling man has been indicted
because of an unseemly line he put on
a tombstone. A man in that city died
several years ago and this man fur
nished tombstone that has not yet
been paid for. The other day the
friends OF the deceased were walking
through the cemetery and saw another
line had been added to the epitaph
saying "This tombstone has not yet
been paid for An indictment was
accordingly brought.
At Ripley, this State, Monday even
ing Mrs. Carney, wife Of W. II. Car
ney, principal of the Ripley public
schools, appeared to her husband un-
e1pectedly from a visit in Ohio and
found him enjoying the society of two
women at his home. Mrs. Carney
cleaned out the house, and Carney and
his women visitors were chased through
the streets and relted with eggs by a
crowd of young men Mrs. Carney had
gathered. The trio finally found ref
uge in barn, dripping with eggs.
They agreed to leave the community,
and were released at s o'clock.
The recent floods caused a danger
GUS landslide at the old Boggs Run
Cemetery, in Wheeling, where over one
thousand bodies of the first settlers in
the Ohio Valley were inferred. The
slide cut through the cemetery, moving
hundreds of bodies from their resting
places. Twenty-eight Of them have
been dug out of the mass of clay and
crushed stone, but owing TO the fact
that all traces of hundreds Of graves
have long since been obliterated, many
of the burying places cannot be located.
The cemetery was first opened III lloI,
and several of the early interments
were the bodies Of victims Of Indian
slaughters. The discoverer Of Boggs
IsIand-Wiliam Boggs, and the owner
ofmuch lands buried in the old Gem
etery, all of which is slipping into a
creek.
Recently Mrs. Melissa Rtunty, an
inmate of the poor-house at West
Union, answered an advertisement in
New York matrimonial journal for
wife. She secured reply from Rev.
J. R. Welch, a wealthy pastor Of the
United Brethren church, at Webster
City, Ia, and the correspondence re'
suited in their betrothal. Mrs. Prunty
was undecided as to the marriage,
however, until Rev. Mr.. WEIGH for
warded $50 for her expenses to Web
ster City, and she left two weeks ago.
Upon her arrival she was met by her
intended husband, and they were mar
ried in their own parlor Monday,
March q, by Rev Nine, Of Preston
county, this State. By the marriage
there will be another romance. Ac-
cording to Melissa, a Mr. Stampley,
who resides near Wheeling, and Is
well-to-do, was corresponding with
her while she was corresponding with
Rev. Mr.. Welch,and beggedher strong
ly to marry him. She persuaded SIAM
pley to marry Mrs. Evaline Jones,
another one of Doddridge county's
poor. the wedding will take place
next week.
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