Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-08-03
West Virginia Items.

Edward Spencer, prominent far
mer OF Wood county, committed sui
eide the other day by shooting himsell
in the head.
While Miss Ida Brown and MISS
Agnes Warner were out driving near
Grafton their horse became frightened
during a storm and ran away. Both
ladies were thrown from the vehicle
and killed.
There will be a special session at
Moundsville of the State Board OF Far,
dons on August Is. 1t is desired
that the prosecuting attorney OF every
county in the State be made acqualnt-
ed with the fact, that they may be
prepared.
Two young soldiers from Charles;
ton, this State, A. NJ. McVeigh and
W. W. Gould, jumped from a freight
train at Camp Meade, near Harris
burg, Pa, and were horribly injured;
McVsigh died in few hours and
Gould can scarcely recover.
Upward of 5000 miners employed
in mines of Flat Top and Elkhorn
coalfelds have been granted an IN
crease in the mining rate OF 10 cents:
This was due to the rapid decrease OF
miners, as more than 1000 men have
left that section for the coalhelds OF
Kansas and Indian Territory IN the
past ten days.
Col. D. T. E. Casteel, assistant ad-
iutant-gsneral, has resigned his posi-
ton and goes to Camp Meade, Pa,
having received a commission as cap
tain in the United States volunteer
service. He will become a company
commander in the Twenty-seventh
Regiment of Volunteers, which is now
being organized at Camp Meade
Miss Oracle Johnson, aged 20, of
Fairmont, while half awake, after the
porter called out Cumberland Monday
morning, stepped off a rapidly moving
passenger train on the B. & o. Rail
road, thinking she had arrived at the
station. She was picked up from a
bed of cinders unconscious, but was
not hurt, and was able to resume her
journey to Harper'8 Ferry five hours
later.
Mrs. Atkinson, wife of Hon. George
W. Atkinson, Governor of West Vir-
GINA, has offered a prize Of $50 IN
gold for the best all-round young wom-
an STUDENT West Virginia University.
Governor Atkinson established last
year a similar prize for the best all
round young man student in the Uni
versity, and this attracted so much
interest and attention that Mrs. At
kinson has decided TO give prize to
the young women. There were over 200
Young women students in the Unlver-
sity last year.
Work will be commenced in few
days on the proposed Greenbrier River
Railroad, which will run from Cald-
well, in Greenbrier county, about four
miles above Ronceverte, 70 Marllnton,
in Pocahontas county, distance Of
fifty miles. 1t will follow the left
bank of the Greenbrier river, on an
easy grade. 1t will pass Immediately
by Marble Hill, where is located the
finest building marble in the United
States. Already eight hundred work
men have been engaged, the intention
being to complete the road by Feb
ruary.
During the recent term Of circuit
court at Fairmont, Hon. Jos. More
land, of Morgantown, while presiding
as special Judge in the case Of the bank
cashier who allowed his patrons to
overdraw their accounts decided that
the said cashier himself is liable for
the amount. The case was that Of
the Peoples Bank Of Fairmont against
the estate Of the late John B. Crane,
who was cashier for long time, and
being very indulgent allowed some of
the bank customers to overdraw their
accounts, and some of these parties
now being insolvent, the bank sued
the estate of Crane and won the case.
Dispositions will be taken the 22d of
August in the case of the State Of
Maryland against the State of West
Virginia. They will be given at va
rious points in the northern part Of the
State, along the disputed territory. 1t
is expected that the remainder of the
month will be consumed in taking
them. This case is now pending in
the Supreme Court of the United States
and will be submitted at the fall term.
The State of Maryland will be repre-
scented by Attorney General Gather
and E. II. Sincell, and the State Of
West Virginia by Attorney General
FdCar p Rucker and Messrs. Flour