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

In the Republican primary election
in Preston county last Monday Daw-
son had about 5000 majority over
Teter for Governor.
Prof. Alexander L, Wade, Morgan.
town, died last Sunday night in hos
pital in Richmond, Va, aged Y years.
Prof. Wade was widely known through
out West Virginia as educator, teacher
and author, and his death will be re-
GREETED. He was agent for the Lip
pincott publishing firm for many years.
The four saloons and wholesale
liquor houses in Elkins closed finally
last Saturday night. This is the end
of one of the bitterest temperance
fights ever witnessed in West Virgin
ia, For six years the "dry" people
have voted majority, but the major
ity of the council has as regularly
granted license. At the election
March l "dry" mayor and majority
of council were elected. The wet
majority il the old body granted
licenses Immediately after the cleo
ton. At the next meeting three
"wet" members were absent, and the
licenses were rescinded. A special
session then attempted to reissue them
but the county court refused State
licenses.
A dispatch from Fairmont, this
State, says: One of the most peculiar
deaths that has ever taken place in
this section occurred Sunday morning,
when Mrs. Jessie Herdman, wife Of
George Herdman, of Barnesville, died.
Mrs. Herdman had felt better than
she had for years on Friday morning,
and went to the house Of Stephen Hess
to aid Mrs. Hess in her housekeeping.
During the day Mrs. Herdman assisted
in papering room. Friday evening
she went to her home and the next
morning she was very i'll. At o'clock
on Saturday night the color Of her
body began to change, and in a few
minutes her skin had turned to dark
brown. Death came at $40 o'clock
Sunday morning. Some of the physl-
clans thought it possible that Mrs.
Herdman had in some way swallowed
some coloring from the wall paper and
poisoned herself, but it is the general
opinion that death resulted from kid
ney trouble. Mrs. Herdman was 26
years old.
Sister Mary Alma, nun in st.
Joseph's Convent at Wheeling, W. Va,
was the victim of a second atrocious
crime last week. Sister Alma an
swered a ring at a side door of the
convent, and found white man there,
who demanded money. He wanted
a dollar, and when the Sister told him
they did not give money in that way
he left. In few minutes he return
ed, and upon answering second ring
of the bell Sister Alma received the
contents of a pint bottle of carbolic
acid in the face. She sank with
scream to the floor, and the tramp es-
capped. Doctors were summoned, and
have been working constantly with the
run, and though her eyesight may be
restored she will be terribly disfg-
ured. A peculiarly sad feature of the
affair is Sister Alma s terrible previous
experience with negro fends. When
attached to st. Johns Orphans Home,
at Elm Grove, last September, she
was tied and assaulted and brutally
beaten by FIVE or six negroes, three of
whom have been sent to the State
prison for long periods. The nun had
about recovered from the shock of that
ordeal when she became the victim of
the awful injuries she is now suffering.
The church authorities are not inclin-
ed to give her worldly name, but it is
known that she came from New York
city, and that her only living relative
is a brother, who is in business in the
metropolis. She is about q years
old, and was beautiful before her fea
lures were eaten away by the acid
thrown by the man last week. 1t is
believed that the acid was thrown
upon her by accomplices Of the negroes
who were sent to the penitentiary on
her account.