Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-22
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

DcSidiihs uidt Juicy Jus SopN'o"
had seriously affected its business. the
Charleston Interurban Railroad Company
Monday asked the Public Service Com
mission to allow if to discontinue traffic
on two Of its lines.
Il IS again reported that natural gas is
10 be piped through this section from the
central West Virginia territory to Balti-
more and Washington. The city officials
of Baltimore have been approached on
the subject and the matter is being gener-
ally discussed.
Miss Mary RAIDER. aged about 20 years,
was drowned Monday while in bathing
with her sister in the Potomac river near
Petersburg, w. Va. Her sister came near
losing her life, but was rescued by
young man named Barger, who went back
after Miss RAIDER, but was unable to save
her.
AT Buckhannon, this State, on Tuesday
Mrs. Flora Thomas shot herself through
the heart with rifle, dying instantly.
Her husband had caused a commission
to be appointed to investigate her sanity.
She was declared to be of sound mind,
whereupon she killed herself. She was
drug fiend. :
Charles Whey, Lewis Whey and John
Doe, of Clarksbufg. were arrested and
taken off OF the B. & o. accommodation
train in Piedmont few days ago. They
had with them as baggage three quarter
barrels OF beer, 4S quarts ofwhiskey, five
gallons of alcohol and 4S bottles of beer.
They were en- route from Cumberland to
Clarksburg. They were held to await the
action of the grand jury.
A series oil crimes in and about Logan
seemed to have reached climax there
Saturday in the cutting of Howard Hat
field, Is years old, and the serious injury
OF number OF others. Hatfield was a
member OF the clan which carried on the
feud with the McCoys. Hatfield is dead
and Cal Thompson, frightfully cut, is dy-
ing. Four men engaged in a knife battle
in the street. George Smith, himself badly
cut, is in Jail and Officer John E. Woody
was badly injured. The police charge
that the men had been gambling. This
follows up series of crimes within two
weeks. A boy was shot to death, John
Henry Estep was shot through the foot
when bandit tried to shoot up restau-
rant and others have been injured.
State Labor Commissioner Jack Night
engale has issued an order to the ice
dealers OF the State requiring all ice to
be sold by weight at the time OF sale, the
new law effective after July LIST. The
order issued by Commissioner Nighten-
gale is as follows: All ice sold by weight
must be weighed at the time OF sale.
Wagons used in the sale of ice in the
original cake must be equipped with a
scale OF at least 400 pounds capacity.
Wagons used in the sale of ice in quanti-
ties of less than 100 pounds must be
equipped with scale Of capacity OF not
more than l25 pounds. All tongs must
be stamped with their approximate weight
in even pounds, and when these tongs
are weighed with the ice the weight
stamped must be deducted from the gross
weight.
Ii is estimated that this years crop of
peaches in West Virginia will total be-
tween 5000 and $500 cars. OF this
amount nearly 5000 cars of the output
will be produced in what is known as
the West Virginia peach belt, extending
along the main line OF the Baltimore q
Ohio Railroad from KeySer to Martins
burg, and along the South Branch OF the
same railroad from Green Spring to
Petersburg, taking in the counties OF
Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley,
Hardy and Grant. The only other COM
mercial peach-growing district OF any
size in the State is located in Brooke and
Ohio counties in the western panhandle.
There is also large number'of orchards
scattered at various points along the Ohio
river. Last year there was total OF
/ ,l6S cars shipped by freight, which, in
Guiding the local movements by express,
brought the output last season up to nearly
1000 cars from the shipping stations in
the big peach belt. This year railroad
officials in touch with the situation esti-
mate the production will be fully Is TO 80
per cent larger.
"No person shall operate motor We
hicle." says the West Virginia statute,
"on public highway at rate OF speed
greater than is reasonable and proper,
having regard to the traffic and use OF The
highway, so as not to endanger the life
or limb of any person, or the safety OF
any property or in any event on any
public highway where the territory con-
tguous thereto is closely built up, at
greater rate than ten miles per hour; or
elsewhere in city or village at a greater
rate than fifteen miles per hour or else
where outside OF a city or village at
greater rate than twenty miles per hour.
Upon approaching a bridge, dam. sharp
curve or steep descent, and also in traver-
sing such bridge, dam, curve or descent,
person operating motor vehicle shall
have it under control and operate it at a
rate of speed not exceeding tive miles per
hour, and upon approaching a crossing OF
intersecting highways at a speed not
greater than is reasonable and proper,
having regard to the traffic then on such
highway and the safety Of the public.