Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-04-18
West Virginia Items.

Attorney-General Freer says that
he will not resign his present office to
run for Congress-at least, not just yet
There are now 1893 prisoners in the
West Virginia penitentiary atMouDds-
vile. Four are under sentence OF
death.
Judge Nathan Golf will erect splen-
did new hotel in Clarksburg. 1t will
be five stories high and constructed OF
stone, iron and brick.
A company has been formed at Par
kersburg with 5000, 1000 capital to erect
seven-story hotel building. 1t is to
cost upward of $4,000 and will be
the handsomest hotel in the State.
The smallpox situation at Grafton
is still serious, and the number OF
cases is increasing somewhat. All
the schools and courts are closed and
there were no services in any of the
churches last Sunday.
Judge jackson, of the United States
Court, has appointed Governor White,
C. H. Shattuck and Dennis O'Brien
receivers for the Little Kanawha Rail-
road. This road extends from Par
kersburg distance Of Is miles up the
Little Kanawha river.
Col. Wellington Vrooman, Republi-
can, who defeated Col. Nelson Chan
celor for mayor of Parkersburg recent
ly, by four votes, at the first meeting
Of the new council presented his resig-
nation on account of ill-health. The
Republican council will appoint his
successor.
Mrs. Rachel Frye, wife of Mr.. John
w. Frye, one of the best-known citi-
zens of Wardensville, Hampshire coun-
ty, while suffering from alteration of
mind caused by recent illness, wan
dered from her home early Friday
morning and drowned herself in Ca
pom river.
The State Board of Examiners will
hold examinations for State certificates
for teachers on Friday and Saturday,
May 10 and II, at Charleston, Mar
tinsburg, Benwood and Parkersburg.
The examiners are R. A. Armstrong,
G. E. Carrigan, Josiah Keely and u.
S. Fleming.
c. Wood Daley, of Elkins, promi-
nent lawyer and politician, met with
a painful accident Monday on the K.
and NJ. train which arrived in Charles
ton about 5 o'clock. As he rose to leave
the seat he occupied he fell, breaking
one of the bones in his right leg below
the knee. Mr.. Daley was assisted
to hotel, where a physician was call
ed and set the broken member.
The faculty of the West Virginia
University has decided to discontinue
entirely the summer quarter, notwlth-
standing the members had agreed
to give courses free Of charge. The
action of the faculty was taken in order
to conform to the wishes of the Legis-
lature, that body having refused to
appropriate any funds for the summer
quarter. 1t has been discovered that
the Legislature also refused any al
lowance for the school of domestic
science and that department will be
abolished. The faculty has made some
changes in the elective system, which
was a hobby Of President Raymond.
A recent dispatch from Moundsville,
this State, says: When Mrs. Della
Hicks eloped from here leaving a hus-
band and boy, last March, to go with
Lindley Long, who left a wife and
daughter both sick in bed, she was one
of the most popular women in town.
Long was also highly respected. Sat-
urday Marshal Evans brought them
back from Muncie, Ind. They were
met at the train by half the town.
population, who hooted and jeered
them and talked of tar, feathers, rails
and ropes, The march to the Jail was
between close-packed lines OF former
neighbors and friends, who kept up
running fire of threats and contemptu-
Gus raillery. They were glad to get
into the jail, where they will stay I'M
til their hearing on forgery charge
comes up Monday. Mr.. Hicks is com.
pletely Frustrated. and Long is little
better.