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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-07
JOS. McMURRAN.
New Stock of Goods !

NV store is brim full of New Goods
of all lines and classes to which | in
vite an inspection. Feeling assured
that can meet any and all competi-
ton, 1 will not attempt to enumer-
ate, as they must be seen to realize
and appreciate. Special induce
ments offered to cash buyers. All
marketing that can be handled taken
in exchange for goods.
J. S. MELVIN.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-07

Briggs-"I'm blamed il / amt be-
ginning to think life amt worth liy-
in" Boggs-"Um. When did your
wife commence house-cleanine 81
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-07
Boss Clothing Man {!

You Will there find suits to be as perfect In
nj and finish as any merchant tailor can
make. ! have quite q number OF STYLES In
Mems anu Youths Suitings. Among them
YOU viii Hnd Fancy and Plain Cheviots, Cas-
slmcrcS aud Worsteds. Blue Black and Plain
Checks, Plaids, Stripes and Fancy Weaves
The quality of this line Is far in advance of
amy we have ever seen offered ut the price
M fact. the incest and largest assortment OF
Mems, Youths, Boys and Cnildren's
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-07

Why Is a horse curious feeder!-
Because he eats best when he hasn't
a bit in his mouth.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-07
y l.. SNYDER. PUBLISHER.
THE BOSS
CLOTHING MANS
SPRING GREETING
FOR
1 8 9 3

Now If You wish TO look at something
nice, Just step Into the Boss Clothing Mans
store and YOU Will see one OF the finest
spring Displays OF Spring Goods that has
ever been brought to Shepherdstown, lfyou
wish TO see the Latest Novelties and Newest
IDEAS Tor the season, come and see us. Ifyou
wish TO see the very best in Standard STYLES
ana Reliable Make, come and see us. Ifyou
want value for your money, purchase your
goods from the
The morning call., 1893-09-19

tN ANTED BY INDUSTRIOUS AND COM-
w peteat EngIshmaR (maIrled) a foOrman in
livery, or would take position fTst-class coach
man; city country; good city reference Ad-
dress q. K, box 81. Call Branch once. se16 4t<
The morning call., 1893-09-19
The Floods in Japan.

Details Of the recent floods show that
great damage was done and many lives
lost. Thirteen districts, exclusive of the
city Of Gifu. were inundated, and Is, 73S
persons are being fed by the authorities.
Embankments to total length Of % miles
gave way in 800 places, 557 houses we're
swept away, 14O25 dwellings were flooded,
81 persons were drowned and 16 wounded.
In The Gunio-gun, at the source of the
Niagara River, entertainments to a total
length Of 81. $40 feet have been damaged at
1S4 points. 125 houses destroyed and 191
partially destroyed, % persons killed, IA
wounded and 1867 are now subssting
solely on the charity of the Government.
Another report puts the number of killed
and wounded in the 13 districts and Gfu
city al 600 and the bridges destroyed aud
partially destroyed al 500, while in the
GunjO-gun IL computes the deaths to have
been 10. Landslips were innumerable,
and there is now hardly road or bridge
intact in the inundated districts, and COM
municatlOn is greatly interrupted in conse-
OQence
The morning call., 1893-09-19
The Floods in China.

A Peking telegram to Shanghai states
that owing to the damage caused by the
recent disastrous rains at the capital and
its suburbs, an imperial decree was issued
on the 4th inst, commanding the Governor
of Shuntien-fu to make a list of casualties
in order that the necessary aid might be,
granted from the imperial eXcneQuer. Ten
thousand piculs of rice have already
been distributed TO the poor sufferers
who are t1ockIug into the capital begging
for food. The distress caused by the re-
cent floods seems 10 be much greater than
was at first supposed, 1900 villages having
been DESTROYED in the Metropolitan Pre-
lecture of Shnntien-fu alone. The Gov
ernor Of Shuntien-fu is stated to be help
less with the meager funds in his hands,
So that most likely an edict will be asked
for commanding tile famine lists to be re-
opened once more, although they were
stopped. so far as Chill and Shuntien-fu
were concerned, only within the last month
or So,
The morning call., 1893-09-19
BANCROFT LIBEL.
The Historian Sued by His
Nephew.
EVIDENCE OF THE PLAINTIFF
He Recounts the Indignities to Which
He Was Subjected, and Estimates
His Relatives Wealth.

The long-pending case of Bancroft vs.
Bancroft, nephew against uncle. was COM
menced before a jury yesterday in Judge
Slack's court.
The history of the case has been repeat
edly published. w. B. Bancroft is suing
II. II. Bancroft to recover $4,000 for GER
tain libels and ISLANDERS. These consisted
in the utteraDce and publication of certain
words with reference to a suit instituted
By the nephew to recover S135. 200 worth
of shares in the Bancroft Company. Hu-
bert Howe Bancroft is alleged to have
stated that his nephew never owned these
shares, but merely held them in trust; that
his account as secretary of the company
was very much oyerdrawn, and that he
bad done certain acts which laid him open
TO very serious charges. These statements
were published in a morning newspaper
The morning call., 1893-09-19

my printing business in consideration of
my acceptance of quarter interest in the
company which he was forming and
salary of $3.50 month as secretary"
The plaintiff denied that his printing
business was in debt when he trans
ferred it. He said there were only few
small debts, which Of course II. II. Ban
croft had to pay. After this the company
was formed, consisting of $500 shares of
the par value Of 500 each. and in consld-
GRAFTON of a note for $4,000 the witness
received 1850 shares. Soon afterward be
was compelled 10 pledge these shares TO
secure a loan of $500 from the Peoples
Home Savings Bank.
Had the pledging offs that stock any
thing TO do with your leaving the COM
pany?" asked Galpin.i
81 don't know"
"Why did you leaye?"
"H. 81. Bancroft pursued a course of ILL
treatment toward me. Besides, he ar
ranged to increase my salary from $3.50 TO
$500 month and then went back on his
word"
w. B. Bancroft was led through a long
series of events wherein he told how 81. II.
Bancroft had redeemed the pledged shares
and had squared his overdraft with the
company, costing altogether S4772. Ii was
not true that be had offered to go'out of
the com pany in consideration of this being
done for him and the balance OF 5000 put
in his hands. Nor was it true that the
The morning call., 1893-09-19

on October 8, 1891, and W. B. Bancroft
claims TO have been seriously injured
thereby IN his business prospects.
4 jury was empaneled on Thursday last,
and so there was no time lost in proceed
ing with the case yesterday. The opening
statement was made by Mr.. Van Fleet,
who. with Attorneys Belcher, Mastick and
Eugene Deuprey, represents the plaintiff.
He said that the plaintiffs object would
be TO show that the language complained
Of as libelous was uttered by the defend
ant in the course Of an Interview with
Joseph I. CnOney. a reporter, who had
called upon II. b. Bancroft to solicit his
version of the trouble that had TuptureQ
the business relations of the Bancroft
family and had plunged them into litiga-
tiOD. It would be shown tnat the defend
ant gave his version of the story on the
occasion and, being dissatisfied with the
notes taken by the reporter. he insisted on
debating word for word the libelous arti-
Gle which appeared IN print the following
morning.
W. B. Bancroft, the plaintiff, was the
first witness called. In a comparatively
brief examination he detailed the history
OF his connection with the Bancroft Com
pany up to his final rupture with his uncle
in 1891 He had at his uncle's request
managed the entire business of the COM
paDv at very moderate salary, and the
stock that he held in the concern be had
PAID I0r Dy Inc transfer Oh very pT0Qt-
able printing business and 2 note for
$4,000, which was afterward worked of.
The historian had made it so hot for him
that he was obliged TO leave him.
Then followed long and tiresome cross
examination BY Attorney Galpin, repre-
senting the defendant An attempt was
made to show that II. II. Bancroft had
befriended his nephew on several occa-
sions, and on one occasion when W. B.
Bancroft was unsuccessful in business in
San Diego his uncle had come forward and
paid his debts. The witness, however,
stated that be had made over a store and
lot to his uncle which amply covered this
amount.
Subsequently. Nephew Bancroft had
gone TO work soliciting lads" for his uncle
at $40 month, after which he was made
manager Of the History firms manufact-
uring departments. In this capacity he
stayed from 1873 to 1886, when the works
were destroyed by fire, his salary increas-
ing during that period from S65 to $500 q
month.
After the fire." said Nephew Bancroft,
VI started printing works on Stevenson
street on my own account. Business pros
pered with me, and l moved my works into
the DOnahue building. After ten months
work, during which time | made 5000, my
uncle came to me and offered to take over
The morning call., 1893-09-19
TWO OUTLAWS.
evans and Sontag' al
the National.
The Play Goes on Without Interrupt
tion or Drag + Eva Makes a
Successful Debut.

The National Theater was too small to
accommodate the people eager TO see the
play Of Evans and Soutag" last evening.
The house will Seat from 22OO to 300 on
occasion. but standing room only" was
announced. and patrons aud patronesses
had to maintain horizontal positions in the
aisIes thereafter.
The well-known ia cts ia the story of the
two outlaws were closely followed IN the
dramatiZation. There were represented
the Mussel Slough home stead. the Coils
train robbery, the attempted capture and
escape Of Evans and Sontag. the pursuit
of those individuals, their fight al I ouug' ;
cabin, siege Of Fort Defiance and the nn al
downfall Of the pair at the straw hea 5"
fight.
Naturally, the central interest is made
TO revolve round Evans (MoTtimer Snow
and SOntag (Al HalletO, while IN the femi-
nine roles Mrs. Evans and Eva Evans oy
the originals in the Fresno tragedy. at
tIacted lively interest. OF the other char
acters there was little expected, although
| Willy Smooth, the hated Corporation de-
teetive," and Lige Perkins. represented
respectively by Messrs. Hess and Rey-
nolds, were given some prominence to
lighten the prevailing gloom.
Eva Evans made an excellent impress
sion, enunciati1g her lines with remark
able clearuess, and never betrayinE the
least nervousness. Her defiance Of her
would be lover and the despised detective,
Smooth. elected a round OF applause, as
/ aid her frequent appeals on behalf Of her
/ father. Mrs. Evans part was made sub
! ordinate. and she managed to get through
successfully.
The author had rather a difficult task to
represent the varied career Of the outlaws.
/ and to do so effectually called in the aid OF
/ the tableau. There were no less than six
/ acts with an average of three scenes to the
| act. so that the play proved rather long.
The people, as FIRST night audience,
/ showed much diserimi n alton in their ap-
! plause, and were evidently not inclined TO
/ be led away by any false sentiment for
/ crime. At the same time they appreciated
/ the rapid action of the piece with its con-
/ tinuous reports of guns, pistols, "siuge
! filings" of Indian scouts and detectives,
"alarums and excursions" tumutuous
! farewells, entrances of real horses, etc. Ii
was all indulgent audience not inclined &c
| pick holes.
Ore or two scenes were vivdly por.
/ trayed, notably the agonlZing progress Ol
! Evans after having been shot, as he drags
| himself across the stage in search OF water
| The finale was rather weak, perhaps. But
/ altogether. the management was wei
| satisfied with the start and predict {
| successful run.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
A Catholic Houored.

Bishop Anser. the head of the German
Roman Catholic Mission in South Shan
tung. has been honored by the Emperor OF
China with the light-blue button 0hird
class. This distinction has been conferred
upon him in consideration of his distin-
guished merit in preserving concord be-
tween native Christians and non-Chris-
tians. With the exception of the old
Jesuit missionaries the honor has been
conferred, as far as is known, on only two
other missionaries, namely, the late Bishop
of Peking, Mgr. Tagliabue, and Pere
FavieT, who received this distinction for
their services in connection with the
transfer of the old Peitang Cathedral at
PekiDC
The morning call., 1893-09-19

company was doing bad business; on the
| contrary, a that time il showed a net
profit of S114.000.
You say II. Fl. Bancroft is worth
s1,5Go. coo; How do you reckon that?'
We'll. he has property on Market street
worth S5O0,0OO Then he has two ranches
and some property at San Diego worth
another bali million. He has a valuable
house on Van Ness avenue, and besides
his interest in the History Company he
possesses library which he wants to sell
to the Government for $500, ,000"
Re-examned by Eugene Deuprey. w. &.
Bancroft said that as to there being any
trouble about the Peoples Bank loan il
had actually been negotiated by I. A.
Dowland, who always represented II. 81.
Bancroft.
II managed the whole business myself
and worked hard. My account was over
drawn, certainly, but so was II. II. Ban
crofps, continually. and l could get no
dividend from the concern. My uncle said
he wanted the capital stock Of he COM
pany to get up TO par value before declar-
ing dividend"
After his rupture with the company the
witness said he accepted SO a week from
his uncle pending his obtaining a situation.
He only drew it two weeks, however, as
on each pay day he received an insulting
letter from his uncle. The two following
epistles were produced and read in court
SAN FRANCISCO March %, 1891.
Dear VII: Please return my pistol and
Blue Book transfer
Don't hatter yourself that you will ever pay
me back anything. because you never Will.
There is the $1,000 10 pay back as much as the
so a month.
II you are so good at printing, why don't you
give Us a thousand or TWO dollars week and
so earn The S25? You used TO say that $3.50 A
month was no indueement for you 10 work and
90 your best; hadn't YOU better 20 out and do
your pest a little While and let us see what that
Is. and perhaps we can give you $3.50 weeN {?
II. II. L.
Dear WfU: When you draw the $50, please
leave always with the cashier a written state
ment-sealed If you like-Of what you have
done for the Bancroft Company, putting down
what you have accomplished thai day; not who
you have seen or talked TO, or wha you have
attempted 10 do. but what you have done, in
the feWest possible words, and OblIge
II. II. B.
[ would like back the pistol YOU borrowed Of
me, not that l am IN the least afraid you viii
hlll yourself, but / want il.
Not content with that Il. II. Bancroft
wanted TO send his nephew TO Chicago
with just enough money 10 keep him a
month. Then came the publishing of the
article which utterly ruined his business
chances.
Joseph T. Cooney was called to prove
the dictati0n TO him of the article in ques-
ton by II. II. Bancroft. after which the
court adjourned for the day.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
Suicide Through Dependency.

Ernest Spahr, who lived with his parents
in the Potrero on the corner of Napa and
Illinois streets. committed suicide last
night about o'clock by shooting himself
through the heart with a 32-caliber re-
volyer. He had been a machinist ia the
Union Iron Works, but had to give up his
work some months ago through falling eye
signI. This made him very despondent,
and while the other members OF the fam
ily were sitting in the kitchen he went to
his bedroom and they were startled by
hearing shot. They rushed to the bed :
room and found him dead, with the re-
volver by his side. He was a German, %
wears of age
The morning call., 1893-09-19
TOdt in Trouble.

j. p. Todt, clerk with StulZ Bros, 533
Montgomery avenue, was arrested yester-
day on warrant charging him with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses. r.
Harris. 700 Powell street, who is the COM
planning witness, says that Todt came to
hIm few days ago representing that he
was auth rized by his firm to borrow S10O
for his personal account, giving as an ex-
cuse that the banks were closed. He got
the money and gave a note payable in one
day. When the note was presented for
payment Todt refused to honor it, and the
firm disclaimed any knowledge Of the
transaction.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
SENTENCED TO HANG.
Date Set for the Execution of Sparf
and Hansen.

The two sailors of the bark Hesper. Her.
man Sparf aud Hans Hansen. convicted
recently of the murder of the second mate.
Morris Fitzgerald, in the South Pacific
last January, were sentenced by Judge
Mckenna in the United States Circuit
Court yesterday. He designated Novem-
Der "a as the date for their execution.
The men did not seem to display very
much concern when the court passed sem
tence upon them, or they are adopts at
c0ncealing their real feelings. They had
been anticipating ii, however. for three
weeks, and besides they have hopes of
having their cases successfully appealed
TO the United States Supreme Court.
The arguments upon the bill of excep-
tions in the St. Clair case will be heard
tomorrow. Thomas St. Clair, for the
same crime. was previously sentenced 10
hang October 6.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
As Strange as Fiction.

A curious circumstance happened on
board the British four-masted bark Sa-
marian on the voyage from New York to
Shanghai. says the Mercury. On the 18th
of May, when the ship was approximate
in latitude 80 deg. south. longitude 23deg
west. upward of 1000 miles from the nearest
land, she encountered a squall of extra
ordinary violence, which caused the ship
TO lurch heavily to leeward. and she failed
to right herself for some hours. On clean
ing up the decks the sailors found shat a
large cask had fOated on board. covered
with shells, crabs and barnacIes. 1t was
found on being brOaehed to contain an ex-
cellent Marsaa wine. Captain Dexter of
the Samaritan calculates that the cask
must have been floating in the water al
least two years. The occurrence is cer-
tainly remarkable and is one which we
would expect 10 find in the domain Of
fiction rather than of sober reality
The morning call., 1893-09-19
The Story of a Wreck.

1t was while on her way from Nanao
past Wagura to Anamizu, all in Noto. that
the steamer WagO-maru struck on a rock
off NiiZaki. The passengers, of whom
there were seventy-nine. all went on deck
and cried for help with all their might, as
they were only quarter of mile from
the shore. While The crew were trying to
persuade them to 90 within again. two of
the passengers slipped by accident into
the sea. The people all went 10 the side
from which they lell to look at them, and
al the same time the vessel turned over.
They were all thrown into the sea. Frty
were afterward saved: the rest. it is
feared, were all drowned. The Wage
maru was early on the 26th raised and
two corpses OF women were found within.
Five bodies have been so far found and
recognized
The morning call., 1893-09-19
Anti-Foreign Feeling.

Referring to the anti foreign feeling
which seems to be growing in China, a
newspaper writer says that in Marking
there WAS never more bitter auti-foreign
feeling than exists there now, aud that il,
is freely expressed in the schools. in the
streets and in the teahouses. He mentions
that day of special prayer and fasting
among the resident missionaries had been
fixed "to supplicate heaven on behalf Of
our ellOw-missionares, whose lives and
property seem so mercilessly at the hands
of such unjust authorities and tTeacherous
people
The morning call., 1893-09-19
A Little Boy Drowned.

Andrew Anderson, the seye1-year-old
son of ii. Anderson, ship-builder, Ninth
avenue and street, South San Francisco.
was drowned about 10 O'Clock yesterday
morning off his fathers shipyard near
Hunters Point. The body was recovered
in about an hour How the accident oc-
Cured is not definitely known, but it is
supposed the boy and companion were
amusing themselves by jumping from ore
beat to another, when he fell into the
water. As it was purely an accident it
was not deemed necessary TO hold an in
quest
The morning call., 1893-09-19
ANOTHER SEIZURE.
SearCher Sprague Gets Sixty Tins
on the CarroIIton.

Surveyor Paris Kliburn's force Of search
ers has been doing good work lately in
securing illegal importatiOns of opium,
and yesterday another seizure of the drug
was made
Inspector Sprague was the lucky office
this time, and the amount Of the contra
band got by him was sixty 5-tael tins
about $40 worth. He found the stuff in
the chaln-lOcker of tie bark Carrollton,
which had just arrived from Nenamo in
the mornlng, with a cargo of coal.
No arrests were made; in fact, nobody
seemed to know anything about the opium
A seizure of this kind is made on III g
ground that the drug does not appear on
the ships manifest.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
EartlouaIse in the PhiIippines.

An earthquake took place in the province
of Suragao, in the Philippines, August 21
At Jativa the current of the Agusan River
was reversed in direction and the water
rose two meters, running uD stream in
stead of down for the space of ten minutes
and then rushed down stream at an enor-
nous rate. carrying everything before it
and wrecking a number of boats moored
to the banks. Some thirty houses were
destroyed by the earthquake. including
the convent and the schools, but no loss Of
life is recorded.
The morning call., 1893-09-19

asleep. Three of them are sisters. Fanny
Rosie and Katie Fuller. aged respectively
Il, IL Il and 9h years. and Evene Grlfeih,
10 years. Their parents live in San Jose.
rms Is the third institution the Fuller
girls have run away from. Chief Crowley
was notified and an officer detailed 10 hunt
up the girls. He ascertained that they
were last seen on Clay street Sunday
morning. They took the train TO San
LeandTo, and the conductor was notified 10
bring them back. On the return trip they
left the train at East Oakland, and that is
the last heard of than
The morning call., 1893-09-19

CINGLE MAN WANTS ROOM WITH PLACE
- for fire. unfuTnished and Down town Drefera-
Bile: state price. Address j. A, Call Ofiees box
50. sci
II ing Agency. 1927 Market ST. SELF -
The morning call., 1893-09-19
China,s Poor Navy.

a Chinese paper states ION excellent
authority" that the real reason why none
of the Peiyang squadron went to Bangkok
was that il was found there was not one of
the squadron prepared for such a voyage
without retitting, the internal condition of
the ironclads and cruisers of China's
much -vaunted new navy having fallen 10 a
very low ebb since the ships were handed
over to the paternal care of the Fuhkien
clanSmen
The morning call., 1893-09-19

ID DESPECTABLE MIDDLE-AGED GERMAN
IL woman is a good cook and housekeeper
wants situation in small American family. Apply
26 tell sells Us
The morning call., 1893-09-19
A Fatal Thunderstorm.

Newchwang dispatches state that the
KicEirin district in Manchuria has been
visited with heavy thunderstorm. Thir-
ty buildings were struck by lightning and
some 40 persons are known to have been
killed, while houses and property have
been swept away wholesale in the floods
caused by the overtio wing of the rivers.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
FROM THE ORIENT.
The Anti-Foreign Feeling
in China.
VICTIMS OF GREAT FLOODS.
Several Fatal Disasters on Sea and
Shore-A Terrible Earth
quake Shock.

BY the arrival of the steamship Peru
from the Orient we have advices from
Rongkong to August 25 and from Toko-
hama 10 September T.
The morning call., 1893-09-19
SITUATIONS wANTED-MALE.

ARDENER, COMPETENT IN ALI THE
branches. wants situation: sober. in INDUSTRIOUS:
can milk II necessary; references given. Address
J. NJ. box As. this Office sel9 5t*
y DUNG MAN, WITH FIRST-CLASS REFER
ences wants situation as bartender or waiter
MAITZ, $50 Market st saloon. seI9 ATS
XoUNG MAN. ~, WANTS SITUATION IN GRO
L cery-Store or drive delivery wagon. Please
address L. W., box 1l3, Call Branch once sic 3t<