Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-01-27
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

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Marion county Is ebthld a new Jail an
Faanont afa cest otsll5pW They can
provide elegant auaffers forthis sum-
At Wheeling last week jury awarded
Harry M. Schmidt a verdict for $1,000
damages against Frank L Miller. Tor all
euation OF the affections eof the formers
wife. Miller and Mrs. Schmidt had been
too intimate Tor some time past.---
r. The students of the West Virginia CHi-
yersitySchool OF Law took straw vote on
the Hubbard Scott race Tor the United
States Senate. Hubbard scored a signal
victory, The law students come from
tweuty-six counties OF the State, and FOR
this. reason the vote was Significant. In
the class of criminal law tweHty-seven
voted for Hubbard and three for Scott.
In the real property class Al votes were
cast Tor Hubbard and SIX for Scott.
Accompanied by Governor Glasscock,
party of West Virginia educators len
Charleston last Saturday for the Middle
West to study school methods. The tin
erary includes Wisconsin University, at
Madison; Armour Institute, Cook County
Normal School and Chicago University,
at Chicago; Valparaiso University and
Ohio State University. Those making
the trip besides the Governor are Presi-
dent D. B. Purintou, OF the West Virginia
University, and members OF the State
Board OF Regents and State Board OF
Control. The party viii be gone one
week.
Bernie Huffman, John Mynes and James
Skins were arrested in Lincoln county
last week, having been trailed to their
homes by bfoodhounds. They are cfIarg-
ed with the burning OF the Lincoln county
Jail. Huffman is d relative Of Henry HUFF
man, now in Jail at Huntington. charged
with being an accompIice in burning the
courthouse in the same county two
months ago The people OF Lincoln
county are thoroughly aroused, and had
the prisoners not been spirited away from
Hamlin on foot by the mountain route,
violence would probably have resulted.
Judge Joseph Sanders, OF Bluefield,
has filed suit against Attorney-General-
elect Samuel w. Williams at Huntington,
asking S24, 600 for injuries which the iurist
received from an Inkwell which was
hurled at him by Williams while a case
was being tried in Welsh. Judge VIII
liarns was indicted by West Virginia
grand jury for felony, but the case has
not come to trial, having been postponed
until February3. 1t is said that Judge
| Sanders is threatened with paralysis as a
result of the blow received The injured
man was formerly member Of the ST.
preme Court OF West Virginia.
There was aIiveIy episode at Keystone,
Mcdowell county Sunday night. Deputy
u. S. Marshal John Waldron had war
rant against woman named Nladge Muir
ry for selling liquor Illegally, and went to
the Murry resort TO make the arrest. On
his arrival he was assaulted by number
OF men within, beer bottles in profusion
being hurled at the marshal. Waldron
opened fire on his asSailants, and when
the shooting ceased Daniel Tate, Nor
folk and Western engineer, and Howard
Lawrence, a brakeman on the same line,
were found dead; two bullets had pierced
Tate's body. The tragedy caused much
excitement in Keystone, and further trou-
BILE is Anticipated