Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-07-15
Notes From Nearby.

Mr.. Solomon Neikirk, aged 81 years,
died at Boonsboro Monday Of heart
disease.
a tramp named Maxwell, from
Pittsburg, was drowned while swim
ming in the canal at Brunswick last
week.
Governor Atkinson has recently Sc
cured 500 stands of arms and half a
million rounds Of ammunition for the
use of the militia against the coal mi
ners should the latter strike and be-
come turbulent.
At Winchester last week the First
Hose Company of Hagerstown won the
leading prize of $3.50 for fast time in
the reel race, making the run of $50
yards and coupling in 443 seconds.
1t also received the prize Of $50 for
having the largest number of uni
formed men in line. The Independent
Company of Charlestown won a prize
Of S25 in the steam engine contest.
1t had no competitor.
In default Of bond Lewis Miller
was held to await the action Of the
grand Jury at Martinsburg on the
charge of shooting with the intent to
kill John Miller, his twelve-year-old
nephew. The shooting occurred near
Tomahawk on July t. The boy was
picking berries in front Of Millers
when Mrs. Miller ordered him away,
but as he moved reluctantly she tried
to hasten him with a stone, which he
threw back, whereupon Lewis Miller
appeared with a shotgun and, after a
few words, fired, few shot taking et-
feet in the boys face and back.
Miss Flora Miller received a severe
shock from lightning, and one which
came near proving fatal, at the home
of her brother, Mr.. William S, Miller,
near Arden, on Wednesday of last
week. Miss Miller was engaged in
some household duties on the back
porch, when the lightning struck a tree
in the yard. The current was con-
veyed to the porch by clothes-hne
running to the porch post, and Miss
Miller was knocked into insensibility,
in which condition she lay for more
than half an hour. A physician was
summoned, who applied remedies, and
the patient is now out of danger. -
WaytinSJ1rg Statesman.
The famous case Of Samuel \. Rowe
against the B. & 0. R. R. has been
compromised and Rowe will get $3,075
cash. Rowe sustained injuries at Har-
per's Ferry during the construction OF
the new tunnel at Harper's Ferry. He
alleged the injuries were due to the
negligence of the railroad \ rock
fell from a hill and struck Rowe's team
as he was driving by. The horse ran
off and Rowe was hurt. The suit was
docketed in Washington county, re-
moved to Frederick, where it was tried
three times, and it was once at the
Court of Appeals. Rowe finally got
Judgment for 81, 800, but compromised
after the road went into the hand of
receivers.
The Charlestown Adcocate says that
Mr.. Geo. w. NARROW, a prominent
farmer living near Bloomery, on the
Shenandoah river, takes the lead
among Jefferson county farme<s for a
large Weld of wheat this year. Mr..
NARROW planted lot containing one
and one-tenth acres, and threshed 81
bushels of wheat from It, The wheat
is new in this county, the seed coming
from Colorado. 1t is a smooth wheat
and is called "silver grain Mr..
NARROW is a 1G to silver man the
wheat was grown on the free silver lot
Of Mr. J. +. Eugle, who is also a lG
to oner; and "siIycr grain came from
the Bryan crazy State Of Colorado.
The whole crop was sold at $l.00 per
bushel.