Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-07-22
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Hotel Randolph Company at Ell
kins has gone into bankruptcy. The as
SETS are 10000 and the liabilities SO,OOO.
The Board of Public Works has fixed
the State tax rate for West Virginia at live
cents on hundred dollars-the same as
last year.
A fire burned out The heart Of Mason
town Monday night, destroying hotels,
business blocks and dwellings. The loss
is said to be 100000.
AT the recent meeting of the West Viz
GINA Bar Association at Webster Springs
a resolution was adopted to eliminate
wine from its banquetS.
Mrs. Alex McVeigh. Miller, West
Virginian authoress and wife OF State
Senator Miller, of Greenbner county,
has sued Mrs Kefshner for alternating the
affections of her husband.
Governor Glasscocklef yesterday with
his family for the Alaska-YuRon exposi-
ton at Seattle, where he will deliver an
address on West Virginia day, July 29th.
He will be gone about month.
The board OF control of Charleston,
this State, angry because the council re-
fuses to grant licenses for liquor saloons,
ordered that the electric lights be cut off
and the town placed in darkness. Their
excuse was that without the money from
license fees there was no fund to pay for
lights. The electric light company, how
ever, has kept on the lights, and says that
il is willing to take the risk.
West Virginia is to lose another benefit
of the two-cent railroad fare law. The
third suit OF this sort was filed in the Ka
nawha Circuit Court on Monday, when
the Virginia Railway asked for an injuec-
ton to restrain the Attorney-General and
the prosecuting attorneys of the counties
through which the railroad operates, from
enforcing that law against that road. The
case will be heard July "a. In Similar
cases brought by the Coal and Coke and
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Companies
Judge Burdett held the law unconStitu-
tonal and void.
The assessment made by the Board OF
Public Works OF the public service cor
porations in West Virginia tor 1909 shows
a gain over last year OF SIC, 425, 500. This
years assessment foots up $263, 036, 033,
the largest sum the State has ever assess
ed against the corporations. In Jefferson
county there is falling off for some rea-
son, the total being $3,7O7, 306, against
$,907, l25. Berkeley county shows an in
crease, the figures for 1909 being 81, 397,-
S23, and for 1908 S4,03O,234. Marion
county has the highest assessment, $l4,-
53O,793, and Hardy county the lowest,
$5,75l.
We haven't heard in long time from
E. Randall, the evangelist, who some
twenty years ago travelled through
this section painting Scriptural texts upon
the rocks, but he is still alive and doing
business. The Weston Independent OF
this week says: "E. Randall, who has
traversed much of this side of the globe
as humble evangelist, came back to
Weston yesterday, after an absence OF
several years. He came here from
Charleston and was all smiles because the
saloons are closed over there. Learning
that there are no longer any saloons in
Weston, he looked the keen diSappoint-
ment which he must have felt-not be-
cause he wanted a drink, but, like Alex
ander the Great, he was seeking worlds
to conquer. How long he will stay we
do not know; but the town is sort O.
crowded with evangelists just now.
However, there would seem to be room
for all to work."