Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-10-12
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

The splendid new Y. NJ. G. A.
building at Parkersburg, which cost
$4,000, was dedicated last Sunday.
J. E. Watson, the well-known coal
operator, has given $4,000 toward the
erection of Y. NJ. G. A. building in
Fairmont.
Thomas Rice. aged IA years, was
hunting squirrels near Fairmont on
Monday, when he accidentally shot
and killed himself.
Leonard Luttrell, well-known res
ident of Morgan county, was struck
and killed by B. & o. train at Great
Capon last Monday.
At Huntington the other day Miss
Daisy Fillinger saw her lover walk
ing with another girl, whereupon che
took fatal dose of carbolic acid.
The capitol building at Charleston
is to be greatly improved. New tile
floors and marble wainscoting in the
corridors are among the proposed re-
pairs.
The American Car and Foundry
Company have decided upon the
erection of pressed steel car plant
at Huntington, in connection with
the main plant, which will cost close
to 81 100000. The new plant will
employ 1,4O0 additional men. 1t
will have a capacity of 30 steel cars
daily. Huntington is booming.
A verdict against the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company for 81, $50
damages in favor of the administrators
of the estate of Mrs. Mary Tolbert
was returned IN the federal court.
Mrs. Tolbert died from smallpox as a
result Of the railroad company leav-
ing cars containing smallpox patients
near her residence at Dingess, Mingo
county.
1t will be only few weeks until
the Coal and Coke Railroad will be
connected up with the West Virginia
Central Railroad, thus giving
through route from EIkins to Charles
ton. The Coal aud Coke road is be-
ing most substantially constructed,
and when finally completed will be
frst-class railroad. 1t Is practically
owned by Senator Elkins and ex-Sen-
ator Davis.
At Point Pleasant last Saturday
Robert Sneed had one of the most
miraculous escapes from a horrible
death ever witnessed. Sneed was
employed at the Comstock mill at
that place and was inexperienced.
While removing a plank from the
carriage he slipped and fell, bringing
his foot in contact with a buzz-saw,
which stripped every garment from
his sock to his neckband, only leaving
a few flesh wounds.
They're fixing for hot time in the
old county of Mercer. The county
court has submitted to the voters the
question of moving the courthouse
from time-honored Princeton to young
and buxom Bluefeld. and entered an
order calling a special election to be
held on tuesday, Dec. II, for the pur-
pose of deciding it. The Bluefelders
have filed a bond in the sum Of 5000
guaranteeing the expense Of the cleo
ton. Princeton is naturally resist
ing the movement with might and
Manufactured Watchma1.
The eleven-year-old son of Owen
Dorsey, a B. & o. conductor, met
horrible death at Keyser, the other
day. He with his brother and some
other companions was playing about
the pipe used for air in testing air
brake hose on the cars in the B. & o.
yards. While seated at one end of
this pipe one OF his playmates turned
the air cock and the full force of air
under pressure of a hundred pounds
to the square inch, struck him. The
shock was so violent as to tear him
to pieces internally and he suffered
awful pain until the end came.
At Fairmont last week Charles
Jones was sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment in the county jail at hard
labor and fined $500 upon his con-
fession Of attempting to extort money
from John Mason, an aged farmer,
last June. Mason found one morning
a letter fastened to his front gate de-
handing that he leave $500 at GER
tain place for the gang of Is" or he
and his home would be blown to
pieces. Bloodhounds were put on
the trail and soon followed it to Jones
house, where the dogs were with diff
fculty kept from tearing him to pieces.
Jones confessed and Judge Mason
declared that he was sorry that the
law did not allow him to inhict a Sc.
verer sentence. The extreme limit
was given the prisoner.