Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-01-18
West Virginia Items.


Bernie S Morgan, one of the pub
fishers of the Morgantown Post, died
last week of consumption, aged about
thirty years.
A huge wolf was killed recently in
Webster county-said to be the last
in West Virginia. About so sheep
were devoured by it each year. Its
mate was killed two years ago.
Luther C. Anderson, at present
chief clerk in the Office of the State
Superintendent of Schools, has re-
signed and will accept the assistant
attorney generalshlp Of West Virginia,
to succeed E. NJ. Keatley.
Theodore w tson, assistant chemist
at the West Virginia Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station, died Sunday at
Molgantown of typhoid pneumonia,
aged 25 years. His remains were
taken to Mobile, Ala, for interment.
1t is now charged that the reason
why William Wilmington left Nor
gantowr so suddenly after his recent
failure there is because he is forger.
Notes sggregaring $1,000 have been
discovered with the name of Whiting
ton father-in-law forged upon them
An epidemic of smallpox has bro
ken out in Fayette county near Stone
clffe and in several mining towns.
The people are panlc-strcken. The
cases so far ale OF mild form, and AS
quarantine measures have been taken
it Is hoped the disease will not spread.
There is also case of smallpox In
Lewis county.
In response 10 his inquiry, U S. G.
Pitzer, OF MArtinsburg, received tel
egram Mon lay from Congressman
Romeo H Freer, of the fourth con-
gressionsl district, stating positively
that he is candidate for the Repub-
licam gubernatorlal nomination Mr.
Freer was reported to have Withdrawn
in favor of A. B. White, of Parkers-
burg.
Miss Lula Sirbaugh and Mr. Joseph
Z Shanholts, both OF Hampshire coun-
w. w Va, came to Hagerstown On
the late Norfolk and Western train
last night, routed out Deputy Clerk
Geo. F Burkhart, who issued them a
marriage license, and then proceeded
to the Hotel Central. where the knot
WAS tied by Rev. J. T. Hennicke -
Herald
Robbers forced An entrance into the
Tygart Valley Bank, of Phiippi, some
time Tuesday night and blowing open
the safe secured between s. 600 and
$4,000. Il was first reported that they
had taken 100000 The robbers got
away safely with their plumber and
there Is no clue to their identity They
escaped on hand car to Grafton. No
one sleeps in the building in which
the bank is situated and no one heard
the robbers while they were at work.
Senator EIkins introduced a bill in
the Serate Monday arpropriating
$4,000 for the erection of fish
hatchery at some point in West Vlr-
GINA. The bill provides that the site
for the hatchery shall be determined
BY the fish commission, after the money
for it has been provided by Congress
Some time since Fish Commissioner
George NJ. Bowers found that the
growing needs of the commission for
fry fish for distribution throughout a
section which included West Virginia,
demanded that an additional fish
hatchery be built Accordingly he
requested the West Virginia delega-
tion to urge the necessary approprla-
tion for such a building. Senators
Ekins and Scott will attend to the
passage of the bill in the Senate, and
there is little doubt that handsome
fish hatchery employing anywhere
from three to ten men will short y BE-
rected in the State.