Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-05-12
West Virginia Items.

Association is in session at Fdlrmont.
Rossi NJ. Fisher, of Morgan county,
announces that he will bring suit for
libel against Hon. John j. Cornwell,
of the Romney Review. Fisher will
be up against the real thing when he
tackles Mr.. Cornwell.
Two Italians who were employed
on the Wabash Railroad were drown
ed at Titles Lock, near Pattersons
Creek, last Friday. Nine men tried
to cross the canal in small boat,
when it sank with them, causing two
of them to be drowned.
Prof. r. c. Miller has returned from
st. Louis, where he had gone to attend
the opening exercises. He says that
the educational exhibit from West
Virginia is the finest in the fair and
that the exhibit made by the Fair
mont Coal Company excels anything
in the mining building.
The Republican primary election in
Richie county last week resulted In
victory for the Dawson faction. At
torney- General Romeo H. freer, who
has been against tax reform, was a
candidate for circuit Judge, but was
overwhelmingly defeated. Anthony
Smith, State Senator, was also defeated
because Of his opposition to tax reform.
According to the Parkersburg State
Journal, Hon. William NJ. o. Dawson
has virtually been nominated as the
Republican candidate for Governor of
West Virginia. To date he lacks but
So votes OF the nomination, and in the
convention he will have SIS votes in
his favor out of 1893. This is a con-
servative estimate. The Jefferson
county delegates are put down IN the
Teter column in this estimate.
Garrison Mcclure, who wants to be
sheriff of Monongalia county, this
State, is running his campaign on
thoroughly original lines. Mr.. Nc
Clure offers to each district of the
county and to the city Of Morgantown
his note for $1,000, payable before
four years have elapsed after his cleo
ton as sheriff of Monongalia county.
The notes have been executed and
will be delivered to the county court.
These notes are to be paid in case he is
elected. The proceeds from them, as
stipulated in the notes, are TO be ex-
pended in improving the roads OF the
several districts to which the notes
are assigned Mr.. Mcclure will 60
on the Citizens ticket in the general
election by petition. Many Of his
Republican neighbors will unite to
sign his petition for place on the
ticket. The total amount of the offer
is $4,000. Mr.. Mcclure says that
the county might as well have that
much money as the man who may be
elected sheriff.
Near Arden, W. Va, the miners in
the Tygarts Valley coal mines found
Imbeuded in the coal, at distance of
two thousand feet from the opening of
the mine, the petrifed body of what
Is supposed to have been a sea serpent.
The shape was found in the centre of
vein Of coal, securely imbedded, and
was discovered by the workmen when
first uncovered. 1t was very care
fully extracted from the coal and tax
en- to the open air, where it was min
utely examined by many people
The serpent measured within a frac-
ton of seven feet in length, eight
inches through, and weighs thirty
seven pounds. The scales, the pecu-
liarly shaped head and other portions
of his snakeship are very lifelike and
distiuguishable at the first glance.
The point at which the petrifed body
was found is directly under hill, es-
timated to be seven hundred feet high.
1t resembles nothing of the snake
species ever seen in that part of the
country and is exciting great deal
of curiosity. 1t has been placed on
exhibition in the Arden Supply Com
p.ny's store and will be kept by the
n, q ro1;c IF MINING