Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-13
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

Iohn Nara, of the Fairmont vicinity,
, got mad at his wife last week and bit of
her nose.
Chas. w. Moore, member of the Har-
rison county bar, was indicted by the
grand jury at ClarksblTg last week for
gambling.
Grafton SENS to have peculiar system
of finance. The city proposes to issue
bonds with which to pay its floating in
debtedness.
After May 18th it will cost two dollars
for a marriage license in West Virginia,
instead Of dollar, as heretofore. You
can save money by hurrying bit.
In the criminal court of Fayette county
last week 81 prisoners were sentenced to
various terms in the penitentiary. This
shows what goes on in wide-open whis-
key county.
AT the city election in Huntington, w.
Va, on Tuesday under the new charter
four "wet" commissioners were elected,
although the temperance people put up
strong fight against them.
H. C.. Brightwell, of Charleston, has
been appointed national bank examiner
for West Virginia to succeed c. w. Rob-
son, resigned. Mr. Brightwell is SON.
in-law of DR.. |. c. White, of Morgantown.
A party of officers raided an Italian
lodge room at Peerless, near Bluefield,
this State, in order to catch some Black
Hand men. In the fight that followed,
two of the Italians were killed and eleven
arrested and jailed.
One OF the fool laws passed by the re-
cent Legislature was bill concerning the
carrying OF pistols. In order to carry a
revolver, man must give $500 bond
and 60 through lot of rigamarole that
will deter an ordinary citizen from arm
ing himself, thus leaving revolvers only
in the possession OF thugs and criminals
who will hereafter, as heretofore, take
the risk of being caught in the possession
of gun.
A mammoth tree was recently cut in
Raleigh county, by Everett Cuertiss, on
Clear Fork of Coal river. The tree made
five logs, II feet long each. The stump
measured eight feet across the top, one
way, and nine feet the other. They av-
eraged between six and seven feet in d.
ameter. An offer of $500 for the five logs
was made by D. G. Courtney, of Charles
ton. The Raleigh Register says that an
effort was made to ascertain the age OF
the immense poplar, and it was computed
to be 900 years old.
Although the Supreme Court OF West
Virginia declared that the vetoeS of GER
tain appropriations by Governor Dawson
were unconstitutional and therefore void,
Auditor Darst announces that he will not
pay the items, as they conflict with the
statutory law He will only pay out the
money upon direct order of the Supreme
Court, and there is doubt that this will be
obtained. Among the items that he de-
clines to pay are S., 900 for Storer College
at Harper's Ferry, $1,000 for the Kings
Daughters Hospital at Martinsburg, and
Sc 900 for colored institution at Hunt
ington.
Special Master Charles E. Littlefield
last Friday adjourned the VirginiaWeSt
Virginia debt hearing until June p, when
the hearing will be resumed in Richmond,
the accountants for the two States in the
meantime being under instructions TO re-
adjust their account so that each will con-
form to the other as TO dates. 1t was an
nounced that the argument will not be
had at the June sitting, but that the read
iusted schedules will be examined and
filed and another adjournment had in or
der to allow the attorneys time to study
any new material that may have crept in
to the situation.
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