Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-10-01
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things Of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

for the REGISTER. From now until
the lst of January for rs cents.
Miss Ella V. Cole, who was a guest
at Mr.. and Mrs. 7. H. Davis's Wing
ert Cottage the past summer, died last
Saturday at her home in Baltimore.
Al. Tlngstrum, a Martinsburg to-
bacconist, committed suicide last Sat
urday night by taking an overdose Of
laudanum. He was 80 years old.
The public school-house at Newtown,
in Berkeley county, was destroyed last
Friday night by fire of supposed IN
cendiary origin. The building was
insured for $3.50 by H. L. Alexander,
of Martinsburg. Miss Fannie Byers
was teacher Of the school.
If the country editor were to snap
at all the great inducements held out
he would soon be a millionaire. If he
ran paper according to the popular
notion he would be in a poor-house.
If he published half the items that are
sent him he would be in jail one half
the time and in the hospital the other
half.
a queer outfit passed through town
this morning. 1t was a two-horse
covered Wagon occupied by man
and his wife and two children. They
were from Pennsylvania and were
bound for Florida They appeared to
be quite comfortable and said they
would reach their destination in about
a month.
There have been various irresponsi-
bic rumors that James Durham, the
murderer of the McGhncy family in
California, has been recently seen about
| Shepherdstown. One report had him
working at the Antietam Cement Mill,
while another was that he was seen at
Col. Morgan's, near town. 1t is not
| likely that Durham is anywhere near
this place.
A serious confagation was narrowly
averted at Dufhelds few days ago.
A spark from B. & o. locomotive set
fire to the roof of Mr. R. L. Wysong 5
warehouse, and the blaze was becoming
pretty big when discovered. The
bucket brigade by active work sue
ceeded in quenching the flames after
a hole as big as door had been
burned in the roof.
The barn on the farm of Capt Lee
H. Moler, occupied by Mr.. Berry Car
ter, near Moler's Cross Roads, was
blown down during the storm Tues
day night and completely demolished.
! A horse was caught under the timbers,
but was rescued without much injury.
Several vehicles were demolished and
some injury done to farm implements.
The barn was a very old structure.
Yesterday while DR., l. S. Tanner
was driving to Martinsburg his stick
wagon was run into by another team
and overturned The doctor and Mr..
Dunn, who was with him, were thrown
out, but fortunately escaped injury.
The horse became frightened and ran
of, but the Doctor, who was bound to
see and hear Bryan, let him go and
continued on his journey. The horse
was recovered later.
Mr.. Joseph L. Cookus, of this place,
had his pocket-book, containing over
forty dollars, stolen at Martinsburg
Yesterday at the Bryan demonstration.
He was in the big crowd at the B. q
O. station when some light-hngered
rascal dextrously extracted his purse,
! Pickpockets were very active, as we
have heard that a number Of persons
were robbed. 1t is said that Senator
Faulkner had his pocket picked of
5000.
We greatly regret to record the Sc
rious result of the accident to Rev. J.
NJ. CIymer, of Hancock, referred to a
couple Of weeks ago. 1t will be re-
membered that his COW tossed her
head and struck him in the eye with
her horn. Mr.. Clymer went to Wash
ington to have his eye treated. DIR.
| Bell, an occulist, Of that city, made an
examination and finding the eye past
treatment, Mr.. Clymer underwent the
painful operation of having it removed.
He is now at the home Of his daughter,
Mrs. F. w. Pitman, Poolsvllle.
One Of the neatest and best houses
| in Mt Pleasant, near Summit Point,
and owned by Brown Franklin, was
DESTROYED by fire last Monday about
noon The fire is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin. The house
was occupied by Richard Walker, who
left early that morning to attend a
funeral some six or eight miles distant.
The front door was broken open and
the fire started up stairs. All the
clothes, household goods, and $25 in
money belonging to the occupant was
DESTROYED. There are some suspicious
expressed as to the probable incendiary
-Adr0cate.
Funkstown, near Hagerstown, fur
nishes the unusual example of a very
i'll woman who believes that every
body has an appointed time to die
and to take medicine, therefore, would
be useless. This parsonage is Miss
Ella Williams one Of the best known
residents of the town. She is i'll with
dropsy, but persistently refuses to take
the medicine which her physician, DR.
Frank S. Newcomber, prescribes, She
SAYS that the time for her death, as
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