Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-26
FROM FREDERICK,
A Tragedy in the Neighborhood.
Correspondence Of TIE EVENING STAR.

Correspondents Of TIE EVENING STAR.
FREDERICK, Nd, August Is.
tragedy occurred last night which adds
another to the list Of sensational events that
have recently occurred in Frederick county.
At 5 o'clock yesterday evening ]. W. Show shot
and instantly killed VIM. Hooper while the lat
ter, it is claimed, was in the act Of firing upon
Shows wife with pistol. Both men live upon
small farms near Highland and about Is miles
from Frederick. Hooper was twenty-six years
old and leaves a wife and four children. Show
is thirty years old and has wife and four chill
dren. On Wednesday last Hoo per claimed to
have discovered a bee nest in a tree in the
neighboripg woods. Show claimed that be
found II first and was going to have
the honey. Neither man owned the
land on which the tree is located.
but they continued to quarrel over the matter.
Yesterday, shortly before o'clock, Hooper
visited shows place and the quarrel was re-
newed, and it is said that Hooper pulled pis-
toll and aimed it at Show, but it missed fire.
Snow at once got his gun and walked out into
the potato patch to examine his work. In the
meantime Hooper had turned upon shows wife
and was using vile language to her, il is said
when she suddenly picked up stone and hurled
it at him. He quickly pulled out his pistol,
and aiming it at her was just about to fire.
Show saw it all, and in an instant raised his gun
to his shoulder and fired. The contents of
the barrel struck Hooper in the left side of the
neck, tearing an ugly hole. Hooper died in
stantly. The murderer stood at least so wards
from the dead man when he fred the fatal shot
Show at once walked to the village of Bellsville,
three miles from the killing, and surrendered
himself to Magistrate Brandenburg. He was
mmediately taken into custody by the county
constable Of that district and brought to Jail
here. State Attorney Ed s. Eichelberger was
notified of the killing and ordered an investiga-
ton to take place today. 1t is now in pro-
gress. Show came to the jail singing NEARER
My God to Thee" and is confident that he
will be acquitted of murder on the ground
that he shot to defend his wife,
The meeting of the republican county GEN.
trail committee held in the grand Jury room at
the court hou'e here yesterday was the best
attended meeting of the kind that has been
held for years. Eighteen of the twenty-one
districts were represented. Chairman VIM M
Hardt presided. The object of the meeting
was to select dates for the county primary
meeting and convention. This could not be
done, however, because Of the fact that the
state central committee has not yet set a date
for the state convention. Chairman Hardt has
been authorized to issue call for the prima-
rles and convention to conform with the date
OF the state convention At the primary meet
ings district delegates will be elected to attend
the county convention. At the latter candi-
dates will be nominated and delegates selected
to attend the state convention.
Jas. Crunn of Liberty, for whom a warrant
was issued charging him with committing an
indecent assault upon Mrs. Grant Stetley, as
already reported in The STAR, was arrested
yesterday and will be given hearing next Sat-
urday.
There was q big excitement in the little
Christian church at Beaver Creek during sery-
ices few days ago. In the midst of the SER
mon black snake five feet long crawled from
under the pulpit. The members of the congre-
CATION saw it and small panic ensued. The
snake crawled through knot-hole in the floor
but the minister grabbed him by the tail and
pulled him out, when he was quickly dis
patched.
Mrs. Dahigren and other property owners on
South mountain have issued an edict that no
liquor shall be sold on their lands the day of
the unwilling of the new monument
Miss Ella Mehring of Washington is visiting
friends in this city.-Col. 8. s. Edmonston Of
Washington ia the guest here of Mr.. A. Gregg
Miller.-Mr. Vim. Dyer has returned from Q
pleasant visit to Washington Fannie
Graham has returned to Washington. She was
the guest here of the Misses Houck-Miss
Remington Of Washington has been visiting
Miss Mollie Owings here.-Mrs. II. L.
Stephens of Washington 10 the guest Of Hon.
M. J. Grove at Lime Kiln.-Mrs. e. A. George
of Washington is the guest Of Mrs. d. g. +.
Smith, this city. r. n.