Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Filipinos are still fighting, and
in battle last week killed number
of American soldiers.
The planning mill of the Norfolk &
Western Railway at Roanoke was
struck by lightning and destroyed by
fire last Thursday night. The loss is
100000.
Rev. DR.. Julius D. Drehsr, former
ly president of Roanoke College, at
Salem, Va, has been appointed
American consul to Tahiti, Society
Iclands.
A new form of postal card, nearly
square, and printed in delicate blue,
is beginning to make its appearance.
It bears an excellent likeness OF Pres.
ident Grant. In form and appear
ance it is a decided Improvement
over the card now in general use.
The War Department is in dispute
with Henry H. Lippert, of Chicago.
He was the lowest bidder for con-
tract to furnish 100000 blankets to
the government, but the department
awarded the contract to the Blanket
Trust at SIS, 900 more than Lipperts
bid. He is fighting the award to the
trust very vigorously.
The four living ex- Governors Of
West Virginia have been named by
Governor Dawson to represent the
State at the jamestown Exposition
next year. They are Governor Akin
son and Governor White, the Repub-
lican e1.Governors, and Governor
Fleming and Governor McCorkle, the
Democratic e1-Governors. They will
act as the commissioners in charge of
the West Virginia exhibit.
The Supreme Court of West Vir-
GINA last week rendered a decision
in the case of G. W. Dillon, tax com.
missioner, against the county court of
Braxton county. The county court
had made levy in excess Of the 7
per cent increase permitted by the
law, and Commissioner Dillon brought
suit to prevent this. The decision of
the Supreme Court was in his favor,
and the county court was ordered to
make a new levy in compliance with
the law of 1904.
The rottenness Of Clarksburg, this
State, is being probed by Mayor Har-
mer's administration, and fearful
stencil is the result. One night last
week gambling joint was raided,
and it was revealed that the place
was kept by member of the council.
Monday night disreputable house
was pulled by the police, and one of
the lively visitors caught there was the
chief OF the fire department, who was
fined $40 and sentenced to thirty days
in Jail. The ministers of the town
are commencing Mayor Harmer from
their pulpits.
If Admiral Evans had good naviga-
tors on all his bsttleships of the At.
lantic fleet, they could msneuver, with
out colliding, in the beer produced in
this country in the year ending June
80 last. If necessary, all the battle
ships afoat, no matter what their ma.
tionality, could be berthed in a basin
filled with the products of American
breweries. Even then there would
be more than enough left, according
to the opinion Of the teetotalers, to
quench the thirst of the crowds that
would gather to see the 2l0 battle
ships, which is the number the world
owns. The production Of beer, &C.
cording to the preliminary report is
sued by the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue, WAS 1851 ,637 barrels of
thirty.one and half gallons each, or
l,72l, 526,664 gallons, about twenty
billion huge "schooners" of the liquid.
That gave each Of the 100000 Of
Americans an allowance Of about 260
schooners. Cutting the allowance
down to the ordinary sized "beer"
that comes over the bar to the thirsty
one who produces the necessary nickel,
the allowance will easily be more than
400 glasses to each individual.
A Mystery Solved
"How to keep off periodic attacks of