Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-07-23
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.


Congress. About 200 delegates were
present.
Sam Dodson, a negro Of Bluefield, this
State, who tried to beat the liquor laws
by running blind tiger, is in very bad.
He was arrested a few days ago. and
will be prosecuted by the city OF Blue
field The State OF West Virginia and the
United States Government
The Mammon and Fletcher families in
Nicholas county, this State. have tor
years been quarreling over line fence
Last Saturday they got into pitched
battle. John Mammon, Joseph Fletcher
and Ernest Bailey were shot and killed,
and Maston Mammon is in a hospital,
badly wounded.
Maude Nicholson and Mrs. A. School
craft, near Wendell, Taylor county, were
lodged in Jail in Grafton in default OF
81 900 each for violation OF the new pro-
hibition law. The women claim they
found a barrel of whiskey in the creek
near Wendell. They asked some one
about it, and were told to 60 ahead and
tap the barrel if they so wished. They
drew out goodly supply OF liquor.
Neighbors were invited and big ca
rouSal followed, it is alleged.
William Arm and Harry Purdy, we'll
known citizens OF MoundSvllle, were
shot TO death by AL Moore, striking
coal miner, at river camp below
Moundsvile, Thursday afternoon. Ac-
cording TO the statements OF eye wit
nesses TO the shooting the double muir
der was uuprovoked and was committed
in cold blood Moore, after the shoot
ing, crossed 10 the Ohio side OF the river,
but was afterward captured and put in
the Jail at MoundSvile. Moore claimed
a fish-net which Arm and Purdy had in
their boat, alleging that it had been
stolen from him the previous summer.
An attempt was made to lynch Moore,
but he was hurried TO the penitentiary
for saiekeeping.
Five hundred and thirty-Six barrels OF
beer, containing over 1900 gallons, the
property OF the Pdrkersburg Brewing
Company, was made unfit for use last
Friday afternoon and then run into d
sewer under the supervision of internal
revenue department officials. The beer
had been manufactured prior to July Isl,
when West Virginia went dry, but was
not ripe for sale at that time The brew
cry officials first planned 10 destroy ii be-
lore prohibition came, but learned by so
doing they would be compelled to pay
the government the usual manufacturer
| license tax. The beer was then held in
the vatS while permission was secured
from the department at Washington TO
destroy it under the direction of revenue
officers.
Captain Swagert, one of the Oldest
conductors in point of service on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, between
Clifton Forge and Huntington, said Yes
terday that during his many years on pas
senger trains he had never seen so few
drunken men in trains through this sec
lion as in the last two weeks and that it
seems 10 him that the West Virginia pro-
hiblion law is prohibiting drinking. cit
is an evident fact that there is less drink
ing" said the conductor, land conSe-
uuently there is less of drunkenness:
Ninety eight per cent OF the disorder in
trains is due 10 drinking men, and that is
the reason that in the years gone by there
was usually so much trouble in excursion
trains that were formerly run on the
Chesapeake and Ohio and other roads
through this part OF the country" -
Charleston Gazette.
One out OF every 534 residents of West
Virginia was treated during the month OF
June for mental unbalance. Reports OF
the movements of population at the States
three hospitals for the insane for that
period have been received by the State
Board OF Control showing that 2, 246 pa
tents were treated during the thirty days
preceding July |. AT the West Virginia
Hospital for the Insane, al Weston, the
total number treated was 1861, there
being so men and boys and 500 women
and girls. On the last day OF the month
the institution was caring for l,035 pa
tients. The total number treated at the
West Virginia Asylum at Huntington was
636, there being BAT males and 2S9 fe-
males. The institution was caring for
627 patients, 343 males and 2S4 females,
on the last day OF the month. AT the
Second Hospital for the Insane, located
at Spencer, the total number of patients
treated was $40, there being 3l2 males
and 237 females. On the last day OF the
month the institution was caring for 539
patients, including 3O4 males.
Joe Ringer, OF Valley Point, W. Va,
has solved the mystery of bump"
which appeared on his shoulder with
each "locuSt year." A real live locust
was recently extracted from the strange
bump. In 1880, which was a 'locust
year," Ringer was stung by one OF the
insects while he was clearing land in New
England. He says the pain OF the sting
knocked him as flat as if he had been
shot During the next locust year, 1897,
a lump appeared on his shoulder and he
found it necessary to rest for couple OF
weeks on account of the great pain. Al
ter several weeks the knot disappeared
entirely and he was not troubled with it
again until recently, this being another
"locust year" in this region, when the
swelling increased more than ever before
and attained the size OF hen egg. FL