Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-08-14
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

The State Board OF Public Works has
added SIC, 10000 to the assessment OF
the natural gas AMI oil companies in West
Virginia.
The meeting of the Virginia and West
Virginia debt commissioners 10 have been
held in Washington on Tuesday has been
postponed and will not be held until
September.
Investigation Of the financial affairs Of
Fayette county by accountants from the
office OF the State Tax Commissioner in
dictate shortage of over $4,000 in, the
accounts of the several officials.
]. Slidell Brown has resigned as editor
of the Kingwood Argus, to take charge
of new daily paper TO be started in
Grafton. He is succeeded by VIM. g.
Lavelle as editor OF the Argus. which is
owned by Congressman VIM. g. Brown.
VIM. 6. Barnhat, young lawyer OF
Kanawha county, has been named as U.
s. district attorney for the southern dis
trict of West Virginia. Among the dis
appointed ones are Geo. |. Neal, Adam
B. Litttlepage, John A. Preston, John L.
Rowan and number of other good men.
II is believed that an organized band OF
thieves, with headquarters at Charleston
and Bluefield, have been Systematically
plundering Norfolk & Western and Ches-
apeake & Ohio freight cars in West Viz
ginia. The losses the past few weeks
are said to amount TO 500, 700, merchan-
disc OF every description having been
stolen. Many detectives are trying to
round up the thieves.
Conductor A. L. Posey, employed on
the Monongah division OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, has been placed on
the Honor Roll of the company for the
saving of the life Of a child on trestle
bridge near West Clarksburg. The boy
is supposed TO have attempted to cross
the bridge and while doing so was over
taken by train. Realizing his danger,
the child undertook to hang suspended
in mid-air from one OF the projections OF
the bridge. AS his train proceeded
across the bridge, Conductor PoSey no.
ticed the child and stopping the train,
swung down from the side Of the Car and
rescued the boy who was in completely
exhausted condition and would have
likely been compelled TO release his hold
within few minutes.
Like knight Of old, Henry Hoover
Atkinson, of Gun Mar, PocohontaS coun-
ty, w. Va, stole away his lady love, Miss
Lillian Myrtle Blethen, aged IS, from her
irate father, at White Sulphur Springs,
and after having to give up his broken
down automobile and swim across the
Greenbrier river with his bride elect on
his back, the couple were married at the
Imperial Hotel in Cumberland, Md. Mr.
Blethen objected 10 the marriage, but Ad-
kinson stole the girl at night, and in his
auto crossed the mountains, holly pur-
sued by her father, who it is alleged had
a rifle with him. The machine broke
down when near the river, and, fearing
capture OF his sweetheart by her father,
Atkinson placed Miss Bethen on his
back and crossed the river safely. They
then went on TO Cumberland, reaching
there next morning.
A dispatch from Charleston, this State,
says: Scores of persons were on Mon
day turned away disappointed from the
offices of the committee appointed to re-
deem the rebate coupons issued by the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad while the
constitutionality OF the two-cent passen-
ger fare law was being tested in the court
Chairman M. F. Matheny announced that
the coupons would be received, audited
and a report made TO the circuit court o
appeals before the money was paid
This, he thought, would require one
year. Many instances Of speculation ir
coupons came to light. A negro news
boy presented $1,000 worth, and wait
ress from railroad restaurant in the coal
region came with $1,000 in coupons,
while a travelling salesman had $4,000
worth, most of them picked up at slight
cost from fellow travellers who had less
faith in the law. II is estimated that
coupons to the amount Of 100000 are
outstanding.
The Anti-Tuberculosis League of West
Virginia is about to send car through
the State with free tuberculosis exhibit.
This car will be painted white through
out, with the cross Of the Red Cross
Society in red conspicuous on its sides.
II is intended TO visit one or more places
in each county, and lectures will be given
in places that cannot be reached by the
exhibit car. Moving picture men have
expressed their willingness TO show
slides and moving pictures on tubercu-
losis. The B. & o. Railroad has given a
car and transportation for same over all
lines and branches as also the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Kama
wha & Michigan, Western Maryland and
Coal & Coke. DR.. Harriet B. Jones, Of
Wheeling, will precede the car week or
ten days, and deliver lectures on tuber-
culoSis in every place where the car will
stop and in surrounding towns where it
is desired and place provided for the
lecture. Talks will also be given to the
school children. Lectures, talks and ex-
hibits will be free. II is the intention 10
give the people of every part Of West
Virginia necessary knowledge OF a dis
ease which is destroying the very power
of our manhood and womanhood, and
killing more persons than typhoid fever,
scarlet fever and diptheria. II is the