Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-02
Notes From Nearby.

Harry Cross, aged &C years, died of
paralysis near Boonsboro last Friday.
A dispatch from Winchester to the
Baltimore San of this morning says
Charles Ash, colored, who is wanted
in Jefferson county for the killing OF a
colored man near Charlestown, about
two weeks ago, has been seen by sew
eral persons on Capt. J. K. Nc
Cams farm, near this city. Young
Cochran, who has seen and talked
with Ash, says he is heavily armed.
A posse of about twenty farmers has
been searching for him since yester-
day morning.
The REGISTER last week told Of a
man being killed near Rileyvllle, on
the N. & w. Railway. His name was
Andrew Jewell, an old man Of that
vicinity, and he was struck by the
south-bound passenger train. He was
struck in the head, the upper half of
which was torn away. The passengers
knew nothing of the accident till a
cloud of sifted -four poured in upon
them at the windows. Mr.. Jewell was
carrying a sack of -four when struck.
He leaves wife and five children.
A lively fight took place at Failing
Waters, on the West Virginia side Of
the Potomac river, in which a boy
named Snyder was badly beaten and
may die. Susan Yanigan and Matilda
Johnson, two young colored girls hv-
ing in that neighborhood, were on their
way to the village grocery, when young
Snyder came along the road. The
girls thought they would have some
fun at the boys expense and began
teasing him. This ne resented by call
ing them "NigSers." This name so en-
ragged the girls that they threw him to
the ground and beat him in a horrible
MISUNDERSTANDING World.
Horace Carter, Thomas Sprinkles,
Vincent Burk and George Myers, four
colored young men of Charlestown,
had a hearing Saturday before Justice
Howell on warrant charging them
with burglarizing the saloon of James
A. Thomas on the night of June %
last. Myers had been previously ar
rested and charged with the otfense,
for which he was lodged in Jail, and
while there he turned States evidence
against the others. They were all
held for the grand jury and in default
of bail were committed to jail by the
Justice. Several burglaries have been
committed in Charlestown within the
last three months and it is thought
that this is the gang chargeable with
them.
Word was brought to this city this
morning that the threshing machine
of Walker Bros. had been burned at
their home near Knipetown last night.
One of the proprietors went to the
field last night where the machine was
standing and discovered that it was
ablaze. He Immediately summoned
help but by that time the entire ma
chine had been consumed. There
seems to be no doubt from the reports
that the machine was set on fire. 1t
seems that Walker Bros. have been
threshing wheat at two cents per bush
ell while others have been asking three
cents for the same work. Threats
were made that if Walker Bros. did
not charge three cents for threshing
their machine would be burned. No
notice was taken of these threats but
il is now supposed that when the ma
chine was on the ground Of the pro-
prietors on Sunday and it would not
endanger other peoples property, it
was considered a good opportunity to
set the machine on fire and thus do
away with the threshing Of wheat at
two cents. The machine was insured,
however, and Walker Bros. loss will be
small outside of the time which they
will lose in threshing.-Marttnsbu
World.