Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-06-14
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

The West Virginia Educational AS.
ISOLATION will meet in Fairmont June
25.
S. B. Caldwell, dentist of Wheel
ing, fell off steamer at Sistersvllle
and was drowned.
The Board of Regents of the State
| Normal Schools will meet in Wheeling
Saturday of this week for the appoint
ment of teachers.
Bernard King and John Miller were
arrested at Bluefeld, charged with
passing spurious gold coin. About
81, 500 of the queer" was found on
them.
Clarksburg is to have vegetarian
society. This is one result Of the dis
closures of the conditions at the Chi
cago stock yards and Packertown in
general.
Governor Dawson has issued proc
lamation appointing Wednesday, June
Goth, as flag day and West Virginia
day, and aaks that the national and
State flags be displayed then.
There are about 1925 prisoners in
the State Penitentary at this time, and
three-ffths of the number are negroes.
There are 35 women in the number
and nearly all are colored. For the
entire number only 55 guards are nee
essary, besides the matron, who has
charge of the females.
Alvey Meadows, blind boy, stu
dent at the West Virginia State In
stitution for the Deaf and Blind, at
Romney, is under arrest. charged with
murderous assault on Supervisor Bum
gardner, of the boys school. The boy
got mad at Mr.. Bumgardner and gave
him frightful slash across the face
with a razor.
Several distressing cases of drowning
are reported this week in the State.
At Petersburg Wallace Wilson, aged
s years, son of Henry Wilson,
wealthy lumber man, and Bonnie Ste.
vens, 10 years old, son Of Mrs. Sarah
Stevens, were drowned in a run in the
city, perishing before help could reach
them. Near Huntington Reuben
Mays and Harold Williams, aged re-
spectively Ii and ii years, were
drowned in the Ohio river, and at
Guyandotte Emery Henderson, aged
Is years, fell in the Guyan river and
lost his life.
About $3O,OOO,000 more has been
placed upon the tax books as a result
of the assessment by the State Board
of Public Works on the pipe line and
water and light companies doing bus
mess in West Virginia. The valua-
ton of the pipe lines is fixed at $27,-
762,47l.99 and that of the water and
light companies, 81 ,254, STOOL. The
total of the two is $29,017,151 80.
The pipeline companies returned
property to the value of $l3, l89,454,
ana the State board more than dou-
bled this amount. The pipe lines
were assessed last year at $0.90l 1854
and the water and light companies at
$250.734.
Eighteen million feet of natural gas
is being consumed each day by a fire
at the little town of Burnt House, in
Richie county. The flames are rising
300 feet in the air and the great foun-
tain OF fire at night lights the surround
ing country. The column Of fire sways
with the wind and its ever-chaneing
is watched by thousands. The well
was drilled in last Friday, and the
tremendous pressure made it impos-
sible to cap the hole. Saturday after
noon workmen were endeavoring to
stop the flow, when they saw thun-
derstorm approaching. Hardly had
they quit, when a fash of lightning
ignited the gas. There was a fash
which lighted up the whole country,
and the well has been burning ever
since.