Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-08-08
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS

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Seven prisoners escaped from the
Huntington Jail last Friday night. They
knocked down two of the guards, badly
injuring one OF them.
The Martinsburg Military company,
Captain George L. Viewer commanding,
was ordered to Paint Creek, the scene OF
the miners strike, and left for that place
last Saturday.
Edgar Carver, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Rowlesburg, has disap-
reared, and so has $4,000 of the banks
money. No trace has been found OF man
or money. The bank has been closed.
AT Brunswick last Saturday a car filled
with peaches was damaged and the peach
es were sold at retail by the company
The people of Brunswick got 600 bushels
of extra fine peaches at dollar bushel.
&c. Gibson, of Masontown, Preston
county, has been nominated for Congress
by the Prohibitionists of the second dis
trict. Preston presents three candidates
for Congress - Democratic, Republican
and Prohibition.
The entire National Guard OF West
Virginia has been called out by Governor
Glasscock to preserve order in the Paint
Creek coal region, where the miners are
on a strike. 1t is an expensive thing TO
the State, but the strikers seem to have
no regard for local officers.
Nearly three and one-half million dol
lars is the increase in the value OF the oil
and gas companies classed as public SER
vice corporations in West Virginia in 1917,
according to the valuations placed on them
by the Board of Public Works for taxation
purposes. The total assessed valuation
of these oil and gas properties for 1872 is
SS9, $50, 81 as against S86, 1874, 233 for 1911,
or an increase of s., 336,07S.
Along with other members of Congress,
Congressman Brown is hoping for an ear
ly adjournment. He has been kept here
almost continuously since the first OF last
December, and is anxious to have short
rest before entering upon his campaign
for reelection. The indications for ad-
iournment at comparatively early date
are better now than they have been. Mr..
Brown expects to 60 home for short
time Immediately after adjournment, but
intends to visit every section OF his dis
trict some time during the campaign.
II is said that two dinosaurs, one OF
immense size, are being uncovered at
Jensen quarry, near Rock Springs, this
State. Already IS of the yertebrae, begin
ming with five lengths of the neck and
extending far out to the tail of the larger
skeleton, have been uncovered and found
to be in place. The animal was appar-
entity IS feet long. II will be added to
the Carnegie museum, Pittsburg. Prof.
Earl Douglas is in charge OF the excava-
ton. The other skeleton is almost as
large, but not in so good state of pres
ervation.
Because Circuit Judge w. r. Bennett
used the short and ugly word in address,
ing c. w. Dillon, a leading attorney, a
fight resulted the other day at Fayetteville,
this State. Judge Bennett was knocked
down. Regaining his feet, he grabbed
some rocks, but byStanders restrained
both men. The trouble grew out OF the
fact that Judge Bennett had revoked the
pistol licenses OF M. L. Parker and J.. A.
Wren, because, it is alleged, they took
sides with the New River Company
against the receivers in the recent case.
Mr.. Dillon, representing these men as
attorney, applied to the Supreme Court
for prohibitory writ which upset the &C
ton of Judge Bennett, and the serving OF
the writ was followed by the encounter.