Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-07-03
West Virginia Items.


a rail in Mingo county a few nights
ago, and agreed to leave the community
before daylight.
Eight prisoners escaped from the
Parkersburg Jail Tuesday night by
unlocking the doors with keys they
had made themselves.
A convict named John Conley es.
capped from the penitentiary atMounds-
vile last week. 1t is believed he
came to this section of the State.
The West Virginia Christian En-
deavor Convention will be held at
Sistersville July s, 9and 10. A very
excellent programme has been ar
ranged, and reduced rates will be
given by the railroads.
The Camden Interstate Electric
Railway has sold out its lines in Hunt
ington, Ceredo, Kenova, Catlettsburg,
Ashland and Ironton, to New York
syndicate. Senator Camden owned
the lines, and be gets about 1000, 900.
Robbers raided the town of Nc
Mechen, near Wheeling, Tuesday
night and blew open several safes, Sc
curing about a thousand dollars.
There was : 1T with citizens, who
had been aroused, but the burglars es-
capped.
At the primary election in Marion
county last Saturday Charlie Swisher
got l 300 of the ZOO votes cast, Geo.
c. Sturgiss getting less than 400.
This practically puts Strugiss out of
the fight, and swisher will be nom
mated for the State Senate.
The town of Salem, near Clarksburg,
is stricken with malady that is puz-
cling the physicians and causing a
great deal of alarm. 1t is thong hit the
trouble is due to the drinking water.
1t is sort of bloody fux, and the
same disease has been prevalent in
Grafton.
A negro tramp was killed in a
freight wreck on the N. g. W. Rail-
way near Glenvar, last week, and
81, 134.45 in cash was found on his
dead body. This was strange. Next
day a still stranger thing happened.
An editor claimed the money. saying
the negro had robbed him of it.
The coal miners in West Virginia
have nearly all returned to work, and
great quantities of coal are being
shipped from various fields in the
State. The hearing Of Mother Jones
and the other agitators, before Judge
Jackson in Parkersburg, was adjourned
until July 18th, when the case will
again be taken up.
At Parkersburg yesterday Harr y
G woodward, "a years old, walked
away from four old and experienced
politicians with the Republican nom
ination for Congress in the fourth dis
trict. He absolutely controlled the
convention, and was nominated on the
third ballot. The convention in
dorsed Stephen B. Elkins for President
and Endorsed Senator Scott for re-elec-
ton.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Pullman Automatic
Ventilator Co. was held on Saturday
afternoon at the National Bank. The
following directors were elected for
the ensuing year: Sprigg D. Camden,
of Parkersburg; M. G. Lilley, of Co.
lumbus, O.. N. E. Whitaker, of Wheel
ing; Geo. L. Duncan, Of Clarksburg;
Neil J. Fortney, of Kingwood W. F.
Cunningham, of Martinsburg; B. D.
Gibson, of Charles Town; Sheldon
Carey, of Cleveland, O; A. D. Follett,
of Marietta, O.; John L. Bushnell, Of
Springfield, o; Chas. D. Hauk and
Frank H. Hitchcock, of Washington,
D. G. The directors organized by
electing the following officers Presi-
dent, B. D. Gibson; vice-president,
N. E. Whitaker ; general manager and
secretary, VIM. Campbell ; treasurer,
E. M. Gilkeson; general counsel, H.
P. Camden. The report of the gener-
al manager showed.a very successful
year and a satisfactory dividend was
declared, payable July l0th.-Pm-
kerSburg Sentinel.
Joseph Ray Irons, aged II years,
son of l. B. and Ella Irons, of Morgan
town, w. Va, died on a Baltimore
and Ohio train Sunday night, from
hydrophobia. The lad was being
taken by his mother to Baltimore for
Pasteur treatment. Last April the
boy was bitten by a cat, which had
previously been bitten by dog. The
wound was treated and it having
healed 1t gave no concern. On Satur-
day about midnight the boy developed
decided symptoms of hydrophobia and
physicians advised that he be sent at
once to Baltimore. While on the
train the boy frothed at the mouth
and at one time took his mother s arm
between his teeth. She asked him if
he would bite his mother. He had
startled appearance and, as if realizing
what he had done, said he would not.
Ee began to sink as the train neared
Cumberland and soon died. His body
was taken from the train at Cumber-
land and prepared for burial. His
mother, at 7 o'clock next morning, left
with it for West End, near Tunneltcn,
w. Va, her former home.
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