Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-03-30
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

FOR the past lnIee weeks IeLlRIOue
revival has stirred the neighborhood
around Six Nile Creek, in Lincoln
county. Never in the history of the
county has the excitement been 80 in
tense. Miss Dora Hatfield and John
Silbee, who were converted at the
same time, decided to be immersed
and married while standing in the
water. Their decision went out all
over the county and, after services
last Sunday, an immense crowd gath
cred to witness the novel ceremony.
Rev. Mr.. Harbour led the couple into
the chilly waters up to their waists,
and the marriage ceremony was per-
formed.
Nearly all the window panes in the
village of Great Cacapon, opposite dam
No. 6, on the Potomac river, 10 miles
west of Hancock, were blown out by
the conclusion from a blast set off on
the Western Maryland connecting link
on the Maryland side of the river on
Monday. A passing Baltimore and
Ohio accommodation train had nearly
every window pane on the side expos
ed to the river broken. The pasSen-
gers were for a moment panic-strickeno.
The town of 800 inhabitants looks
as if it had been visited by violent
windstorm. The windows of reSiden-
ces are stuffed up with pillows, while
the display fronts of the stores are
boarded up. Since the blasting for
the Western Maryland roadbed has
been in progress heavy rocks have
frequently been hurled clear across
the river. Some of them weighed sew
eral hundred pounds. The contract
ers have a number Of steam shovels
employed removing from the bed Of
the chesapeake and Ohio canal de-
bris from the bluff blasted away to
make the roadbed. This is being
dumped into the Potomac river.
Tax Commissioner G. W. Dillon
has appointed Hon. John Sherman
Darst to position in his department
of the State government. Mr.. Dsrst's
duties will be to 60 on the road and
inspect the work of the assessors in
the various counties and get the work
of assessing property uniform through
out the State. Tax Commissioner
Dillon last Saturday presented in the
Supreme Court petition on behalf
of the State of West Virginia and
county of Berkeley praying for
writ of error in the case Of the Old
National BaLk of Martinsburg and
the Citizens National Bank of Mar
tinsburg. These banks were exonera-
ted by Judge Daley in the Berkeley
circuit court from the payment of tax
es amounting to $1,000 on United
States bonds held by them. The court
authorized them to deduct from their
taxes the amount levied on these bonds.
The application for e1oneration was
first made to the Berkeley county
court and refused. Afterwards
Judge Daley reversed the county
court.
"If the first night of my married
life oan't-b happy, one the rest
would be hell" With these words
Mrs. James Gullion, bride Of four
hours of Huntington, this State, leaped
from the bed where she lay by the
side of her young husband, and. jerk.
ing revolver from the dresser, fred
bullet through her body. She can
not live. At 8 o'clock Tuesday night
Fiona Sauers and James Gullion were
married at the home Of the brides
mother, in Huntington. After a
wedding supper the young couple left
for the little home on third avenue,
which had been cozily furnished by
the groom for his pretty girl bride of
eighteen years. They retired at II
o'clock and began to quarrel, when
the husband accused her, it is alleged,
of flirting with young man named
Summers, a guest at the wedding, and
former sweetheart of Mrs. Gullion.
She denied the accusation, but he
tainted her until she began to cry.
Finally, almost heartbrOken, the girl
bride, before husband could stop her,
leaped from the bed and fred the
ehot that will result in her death.
She was taken to the Huntington
hospital, where the bullet was removed,
but there is no chance for recovery,