Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-11-30
West Virginia Items.

~. A. EDWARDS, railway anu GA
press agent at Elkins, this State, was
arrested Tuesday on the charge of
embezzling 81 900 of the funds of the
West Virginia Central Railway.
Charges have been preferred against
the officers and men of Company D,
First Regiment, West Virginia Ma
tional Guard, of Berkeley Springs, for
dlsobeying orders in not participating
in the practice march of the regiment
last summer.
Henry Brannon and Morris Smith,
two young sports Of Weston. had a
lively fight in the corridors of the in
sane asylum the other evening. They
fred six or eight shots, but nobody
was hurt. They quarreled about
young woman.
1t is stated on good authority that
Harry Anderson, John and Thomas
Morrison, the three young men Of
Winchester who are in jail at Romney,
indicted for robbery and charged with
assault with intent to kill on John
Cooper, will plead guilty to the latter
charge, and the other indictment will
be dropped.
President Wesley Mollohan. of the
State Bar Association, has announced
change in the time for the meeting
of the association at Martinsburg from
December 18th and l4th to January
4th and 9Th, 1900. The change was
made SO as not to conflict with the GER
emonies to occur in all Masonic lodges
in the State December l4tb on &C
count of the anniversary of the death
Of George Washington.
Admiral Dewey has accepted an in
vitation to visit Wheeling on Feb
ruary %, 1900, upon the occasion of
unwilling of a tablet on the site of
Fort Henry of revolutionary fame and
the presentation at the same time of
sword to Lieut.. John Doddridge, U.
S. Navy, a West Virginian, in recog-
milton of his services contributary to
the great victory won by the Admiral
in Manila bay,
The annual report Of Superlnten-
dent W. Z. Stathers of the Weston
Insane Asylum gives the following
statistics: Number at beginning Of
year, 1913 admitted, l73; total
number treated, 1,l86; discharged re-
covered, So; discharged not insane,
2; discharged on bond, 35; died, 10;
eloped, l +; daily average in hospital,
1920; per ceDtum OF recoverles In
admissions, 3l.7; per centum Of deaths
Oh number treated, 6. &c highest num-
Der in hospital at one time, l,O3l ;
lowest number in hospital at one time,
1,O07 remaining, l,0l1.
Monday afternoon United States
Deputy Marshal J. P. Paulding and
Sheriff NJ. S. Harrison, of Morgan
county, w. Va, arrived at Wheeling
from St. Clairsville, Ohio, with pris-
oner alleged to be Newton j. DOMAIN,
charged with the murder of Absalom
Kessler and Ann DOMAIN, in Morgan
county, on September 22d with the
robbery of the postof1ice at Dufields,
Jefferson county, July 10th, and with
the robbery of the home of George W.
Boyer at Bardane, Jefferson county,
August 10th. While the officers en-
gagged in a dispute at the depot over
who should pay the prisoners fare to
Berkeley Springs, DOMAIN exclaimed
I'm tired Of this. Goodbye" and es-
capped,
A dispatch from Huntington says:
George Payne, prosperous farmer OF
Wild Cat creek, has disappeared with
his wife's stepmother and all efforts to
locate the pair are futile. Payne went
70 Huntington several months ago with
bis family from Ohio. His father-in-
law, Sylvester Johnston, who is 70
years of age, lived with him and four
weeks ago welded Miss Ella Owens, a
handsome young woman, though Payne
and his wife most strenuously objected.
The Payne couple even refused to re-
ceive the elderly groom and his bride.
But matters were arranged amicably
at last and the newly welded pair
spent their honeymoon in the Payne
household. But there was much sur
prise Sunday morning when Mr.. john
ston discovered that his wife was gone
and Mrs. Payne found that her hus-
band was missing. An investigation
showed that the two had left in the
same night.