Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-02-19
Items of Interest.


IA. Viquesney. of Belingion. has been
reappointed by Governor Hatfield TO a
four-y term as Forest, Fish and Game
! Warden.
The business of the express companies
has decreased so greatly that in New
York City alone 5000 employees have
been thrown out of work.
Governor Hatfield has appointed DR.. ].
M. Williamson. of Moundsville, to be a
member of the State Board of Control for
the term of six years. succeeding DR.. E.
B. Stephenson. resigned.
Peter A. B. Widener, a Philadelphia
millionaire, paid last week 500. 600 for
the Small Cowper Madonna" paint
ing by Raphael. This is the largest price
ever paid in the United States for paint
ing. The picture is Is by "a inches in
size.
A few days ago John D, Rockefeller,
IT,, made this statement: al have never
drunk drop OF intoxicating liquor in my
lite; neither did my father nor his father
before him." He added: al hold that
total abstinence from alcoholics will make
man worth while"
Lutheran ministers ofYork, Pa. have de-
cided either to discipline or dismiss from
their congregations all church members
who sign petitions for liquor licenses
The signing OF liquor license petitions is
in violation OF a rule of the West Penn
sylvania Lutheran Synod.
Whiskey got two more last Saturday
night. In Bob Buskirk's saloon at Mate
wan. this State. Dan Adams and Dave
Alderman got into quarrel and began
shooting. Adams tell MORALLY wounded,
bul before his strength failed he raised
himself on his elbow and put nine bullets
into Alderman. Both men left families.
c. F. Wall shipped ten carloads Of cat
tie from various railroad stations in the
county last week In these shipments
was herd OF forty cattle bought Of Mar
shall Burns, tor which over $4,000 was
paid. The terms of the sale by Mr..
Burns are private, but it is believed that
the price was IA cents pound.-Ad-
pOcQte
Announcement was made in Charles
ton that the public service corporations OF
West Virginia paid taxes to the amount
OF almost 100000 during January. Of
this total the railroads have provided
nearly 81 $780, 900. and ofthIs $2)0.00o will
be placed to the credit OF the StiIe funi.
while county and district funds will get a
lille over ST 100000.
A Calhoun, The negro politician and
capt. list of Mcdowell county, w. Va,
has had warrants issued for S. Hyman
and F. L. Doolittle, well-known business
men OF Huntington, and E. c. Holiday
and E. c Thompson, ot Winchester, KY,
charging them with stealing $45 900 from
him or The pretense OF selling him certain
lands in Kentucky which he now finds
have no existence in fact. The Hunting
ton men waived examination and gave
bond last week. acquisitions have been
applied for the Kentucky parties. The
case promises to be sensational.
1t is said that $500 100000 worth of
hogs die from cholera in the United States
each year. and the Senate last week pass
ed bill appropriating $500, 900 for the
Department of Agriculture, TO be used in
fighting the pest and seeking remedies.
The department in recent bulletin says
that the important thing is TO recognize
hog cholera as soon as possible after its
appearance in herd in order that the
serum be applied before the disease pro-
crosses too far. Good serum may be
depended upon to protect well hogs, and
even to cure large percentage OF those
in the earliest stages OF the disease, but
il will not be of much avail when used
upon hogs that are already viSibly sick.