Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-05-05
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.
Claude w. Fertig, a teacher in the K

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Claude W. Fertig, teacher in the Key
ser High School, was fined by Mayo
WEIGH OH a charge OF assault and battery
upon Leonard Engle, IA years old. lh'
boy was severely chastised for being in
corrigible. Fertig appealed the case Il
the circuit court, upon the advice OF the
Keyser board of education.
The police of West Virginia towns have
been requested to be on the lookout fol
eight boys who made successful geta,
way from the State Reform School a
Pruntytown, and who executed quite
coup in making their escape. They tool
along with them the bloodhound kept fol
the purpose of tracking boys who escape
E. C. Henshaw, MartinSburg'S new
postmaster, has double clinch on thai
desirable office, for he has been con-
firmed twice by the Senate. After the
first confirmation. political charges were
made against him, and he was held up.
An investigation showed that there was
nothing in the charges, and the Senate
again confirmed him.
The Supreme Court has denied the mo-
ton of the State of West Virginia to take
further testimony in the suit brought by
Virginia to recover one-third the amount
of the value of the outstanding bonds al
the time the two States were one, and
granted Virginia's motion to set date
for the argument OF the case. The court
then assigned it for argument on October
II next.
Upon the petition of friends of Con-
greesman Hubbard, candidate for the seat
of Senator Scott, Circuit Judge Burdett
at Charleston on Monday issued an order
restraining M. T. Roach, receiver for the
News-Mail Company, publishers OF the
Charleston Daily and emi-Weekly Mail,
from further criticising the action OF the
Kanawha County Republican Committee
or further supporting the candidacy OF
anyone for nomination in the Republican
party. These newspapers have been BIT
terly antagonizing Mr.. Hubbard.
The date for the State wide agricultural
educational meeting at ClarkSburg has
been set for Saturday, May %, to inaugu-
rate the movement to encourage agricul-
tre in West Virginia. Persons OF inter
national prominence, but whose names
have not been announced, will address
the meeting. The movement is the result
of Governor Glasscock's slogan OF "Back
to the farm" to reduce high cost living
and following an investigation by the
| Governor and other State officials OF ag-
ricultural education in Wisconsin, Michi-
gan and other States.
The other day in the suit which Mrs.
Alexander McVeigh Miller is bringing for
the alienation of her husbands affections
she announced that she had found the
erstwhile Republican statesman between
the handles of pillow, and by her literary
skill and work had afforded him the OPP
portunity to advance himself. She de-
clared that in spite of the fact that he was
a lbertine and rascal and thief, and
almost everything that he should not be,
he had become leader in the Republican
party, and that she had given him the
opportunity to make himself.-CharieSton
Gazette.
Following the death of Daniel Thomp-
son, the eccentric bachelor who lived
near Louisa, on the West Virginia side
of the Big Sandy river, relatives made a
search of his shanty and discovered$l ISL
in silver wrapped in a sheepskin sack
and concealed under the floor. Thomp-
son, who was IS years OF age, lived a
peculiar life. He had penchant for halt
dollars, always trading his money for
coin of this denomination. He boarded
1902 of these silver pieces, all OF which
were found in this sack. The little for
tune will be divided equally between his
brother and sister, the only surviving
relatives.
The Hampshire Southern Railroad,
which has just begun to run trains between
Romney and Moorefield, is bound to be-
come popular, for it is willing to 60 the
limit in accommodating the people. The
other day a man standing along the track
waved his hands so vigorously that the
engineer stopped the train. The amateur
flagman proved to be John 7. VanMetre,
who lives nearby, and he asked if Mr.. Vet
terwas on the train. The conductor rushed
| in and called for Mr.. Vetter. Mr. Vetter
hurried out, and Mr.. VanMetre asked him
about the watermelon seed that had been
promised him. After satisfactory con-
versation concerning the watermelon
seed, the train proceeded to its desina-
ton.
One of the most remar kable crimes in
the annals of Cabell county was perpe-
trated on Trace Fork, near the Mason
county line. when J. E. Smith, farmer
was tied to tree by robbers and LEFT
there. He was found after two days Of
terrible suffering He had been to Mil
ton to deposit some money in bank and
was en- route home when he was held ur
at the point of revolvers by two men ant
taken far into the woods and compelled
to dismount from his horse. Failing to
find any money, the highwaymen tieo