Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-07-21
West Virginia Items.

Mrs. Harriet Golf, the mother Of
Judge Nathan Golf, died i'll Clarks-
burg Monday, aged IS years.
Blaine W. Taylor, of West Virginia,
has resigned as chief clerk in the
Pogtofice Department at Washington.
Raphael Hayden, young lawyer
of Fairmont, this State. fell from his
Office window last Monday and was
instantly killed.
Major W. ]. W. Cowden, leading
citizen of Wheeling and former
postmaster of that city, died yester-
day in his 58th year.
Prof Joseph E. Hodgson, native
of Virginia and recently a teacher in
the preparatory school at Keyser, has
been elected president Of Davis and
Elkins College at Elkins, this State,
the Presbyterian institution founded
by Henry G. Davis and Stephen B.
Elkins.
Among the Democrats named as
possible candidates for the gubernato-
rial nomination in West Virginia are
c. Wood Daley, John T. McGraw,
Lewis N. Tavenner, ]. N. Camden,
John W. Davis, Sam V. Woods, David
E. Johnston, 0. S. Mckinney, VIM.
A. MacCorkle.
State Superintendent of Schools T.
G. Miller has issued warning to the
school teachers of the State that no ex-
cuses will be taken hereafter for nom
attendance on county institutes.
Many were excused last year on ac-
count of the scarcity of teachers.
This year, however, every applicant
for teachers certificate will be re-
quired to comply with the law.
At Grafton the other day a little
girl nine years old was sent by her
mother to an icecream establishment
to make a purchase A negro youth
who was employed there took her in
back room and attempted to assault
her, but her cries alarmed him and he
ran and hid. He was arrested and
placed III jail, but there was such gen.
eral wrath at his conduct that he had
to be taken to Wheeling to prevent
him from being lynched.
The State Board Ct School Exami-
ners will hold examinations for pro-
fessional certificates on July 80 and
80, at the following places: Mounds
Vile, Keyser, West Union, Hinton
and Williamson. Any further infor-
nation may be obtained by writing to
any member of the board: U S Elem
ing, Parkersburg Robt. A. Arm
strong, Morgantown; Chas E. Car
rigan, Benwood; Josiah Keely, Mont
gomery G. R. Murray, Huntington.
The following are the members of
the recently organized Democratic
State Central Committee: First dis
trict, R. A. Kincheloe; second ]. J.
Slipner; third, Greed Collins fourth,
Grif Smith fifth, George l. Neal
sixth, W. H. Sawyers seventh, R. S.
Carr ninth, S. W. Walker; tenth,
Andrew Price; eleventh, J. T. Nc
Graw; twelfth, J. Carl Vance thir-
teenth, Stuart H. Bowman; fourteenth
T. B. Davis fifteenth. John j. Corn
well.
o. G. Smith, a convict, escaped
from the State prison at Moundsvllle
on Tuesday by concealing himself in
a box. He was employed in the enam-
elware department preparing boxes
for shipment and he crawled in one
that he had labeled. The shipment
was loaded in wagon and taken to a
railroad station a mile away. The
driver saw Smith get out Of the box
and run toward the hills and he mott
fed the guards, but Smith had too
great start. Smith was serving
two-year sentence for housebreaking
in Wheeling and would have been re-
leased in September, but he feared
rearrest, as he was wanted in Califor-
MIA and also in Allegheny, Pa, where
he broEa ioil