Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-04-23
West Virginia Items.

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to the St. Louis exposition had a
meeting last week to make plans for
our States exhibit at the fair. They
have $4,000 to spend.
Price W. Cooper, West Virginia
school teacher, died in the Philippine
Islands last week of smallpox. He
graduated from the University two
years ago. and shortly afterward went
to the Philippines to teach.
Scott Leonard must be very en-
ergetic young man. Two weeks ago
he went to Morgantown to pursue his
studies at the West Virginia Univer-
sity. The day he got there he met
Miss Margaret Davis, daughter of Law
yer John NJ. Davis. The two imme-
diately fell violently in love, and Sun
day they eloped to Cincinnati and
were married.
Ian Leffert, while clearing land at
the foot of a cliff on the William
Acker farm, near Bob, Raleigh county,
unearthed an iron baker which con-
tanned $4,000 in United States gold
coins. The coins are of various de-
nominations, varying from S. pieces
to 500 pieces. They are of various
dates, but the majority bear the date
Of 1852. No one has any idea as to
who buried the money.
Daniel G. Hudson, an engineer on
the Romney branch of the B. & o.,
whose home was at Romney, was
killed by B. 60, freight train at
BradY's Mill, Saturday. Hudson had
been in i'll health for year past and
was respondent because of his inability
to return to work. The engineer Of
the train that killed him Gays he be-
lieves he deliberately stepped in front
of the approaching train. He was
aged Al years, and leaves wife and
two children.
We'd like to know what sort of an
old curmudgeon it is that administers
Justice in Huntington, this State. A
news item from that place last Mon
day is as follows: Charles Tilling-
hast and his sweetheart drove down
the leading avenue of this city today
in each others embrace and were ex-
changing kisses freely. Several hun
dred persons were attracted by the odd
love scene, and the police went in
pursuit. The couple was overtaken
in the outskirts of town and were ar
rested. When arraigned before Judge
Lallance they were fined 5000 each.
They will appeal their cases to a higher
court.
A dispatch from Washington Mon
day night says: Senator Stephen B.
Elkins of West Virginia, is made de-
PENDANT in a suit-at-law for 100000
filed recently in the District Supreme
Court by Robert Burton and Geo. A.
Dubrueil. The declaration in the case
alleges that Senator Elkins employed
the plaintiffs, in November, 1901 to OBJ
tain for him certain information, plans,
data and legal opinions concerning the
Western Maryland Railroad Company
for the purpose of aiding him to &C.
quire controlling interest in the
road. He proposed to pay them for
services rendered him or his business
associates in this matter, provided he
obtained controlling interest in the
road. The declaration AYERS that
they accepted the employment on the
sections, and from time to time fur
nished the defendant certain informa-
ton at the expense of much time and
great labor, and also transmitted him
legal information, etc., which assisted
him in securing the controlling inter-
in the company. When, however,
they requested compensation for their
services Senator Elkins, it is stated,
failed and neglected to pay them. 1t
is declared that after the Goulds had
acquired the Western Maryland
Messrs. Burton and Dubrueil demand
ed their share, but that Senator Elkins
refused to pay, although he had made
millions out of the deal.
Senator Elkins utterly repudiates
the suggestion that he owes the men
anything He says he scarcely knows
them and never made any sort Of an
agreement with them.