Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-10-09
West Virginia Items.

One night last week II ofthe 65 pris-
oners in the Fayette county Jail made
their escape. Several of them were
recaptured.
Mrs. Sarah Parsons, who was the
last pensioner in West Virginia of the
war of 1912, died last week in Tucker
county, aged SO years.
Senator Elkins is said to be at the
head of project to build direct line
of railroad between Wheeling and the
Connellsville coke region.
Two freight trains met head-on in
a tunnel on the Parkersburg Branch
of the B. & o. near CORVALLIS last
week. Three trainmen and two
tramps were killed.
Col. Thomas B. Davis, one of the
regents, has donated a $500 town
clock foi the preparatory branch build
ing of the University of West Virginia
being erected at Keyser.
Four prisoners, William Gardner,
William Palmer, colored, CALVIN Crosse
and John Runforth, escaped from
the West Virginia Penitentiary at
Moundsville Monday night.
The miners employed in the seven
teen mines of the Kanawha and Hook
ing Company, near Charleston, went
to work on Monday after being OF
strike for four months. They got
slight concessions from the operators.
Hon. Ira E. Robinson, Of Grafton,
has been appointed chief counsel for
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for
West Virginia, succeeding Hon. John
T. McGraw. Mr.. Robinson is we'll
known in Shepherdstown, being one
of the regents of Shepherd College.
Democrats of Morgan county have
made the following nominations: House
of Delegates, R. M. Fisher; county
clerk, Thomas H. B. Dawson circuit
clerk, William G. Hovermale; supelin-
tendent of schools, O. Z. holland
county commissioner, W. a. Rockwell.
Thomas H. B. Dawson is the independ-
ent Republican candidate for clerk
having filled the office for Sc years,
and the Democrats have Endorsed him.
A very sensational tragedy is re-
ported from Wheeling. Last Friday
the body of Miss Gay Smith was found
in the river, and her mysterious death
puzzled the people greatly. Tuesday
Miss Rodella Balm, milliner, confess
ed that she had murdered Miss Smith.
1t transpires that both young women
were in love with Henry Nolan.
Miss Balm said she was pleading with
Miss Smith to give Nolan up to her,
but the latter refused, whereupon she
pushed her rival into the river and
saw her sink to the bottom. The
murder occurred September Goth,
and Miss Balm said she had been un-
able to sleep since. Remorse so
weighed upon her that she had to
confess the crime. She is on the verge
of nervous collapse and has tried to
commit suicide.
The Republican leaders have patched
up a sort Of peace in West Virginia
among the warning factions who have
been fighting so vigorously in several
senatorial districts. In the third dis
trict, where four Republicans had been
nominated to fill two senatorships, one
was selected from each ticket, Charles
r. Caldwell and T.. A. Brown being
accepted, and the others will with
draw. In the sixth district both can
didates were withdrawn and Rev. w.
H. Cook was named to fill the vacancy
on the ticket. In the eleventh the
nomination of G. W. Swisher and Ira
E. Robinson were indorsed and recog-
nized. Cook is to vote for whomso-
ever the next senatorial convention IN
his district instructs him for United
States Senator. The Caldwell COM
mittee was recognized in the third
district.