Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-10-06
Items of Interest.

actress, died. at her summer home, at
Duxbury, Mass, after an illness OF
six months from enlargement of the
heart.
Mr.. VIM. Haycock, who lives up on
the creek west of Summit Point, lost
his wheat crop last week by fire, which
is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin. The loss is total one, as
there was no Observation-Disclosures.
G. S. Jackson, a Richie county
farmer, was held up by three masked
men on a covered bridge at Beeson,
who demanded his money. The plucky
farmer instead drew his revolver and
began firing at them, one of the trio
dropping as if shot. The remaining
two continued firing, one Of the shots
taking effect in Jackscn's chest and
passing out, going through his coat,
whereupon he fed.
Last week Mrs. Samuel P. Smart
wood, Of Mountain Top, Wilkesbarre,
Pa, became the mother of baby girl,
her twenty-ffth child. Mr.. and Mrs.
Smartwood were married about twen-
ty-fve years ago, and Of the twenty
FIVE children born to them there were
two sets of twins. Twenty-Five of the
children are alive, and all live at
home, making crowded house. The
eldest is twenty-four years old and is
railroad brakeman.
The War Department is negotiating
for the lease of the summer hotels at
Oakland, Deer Park, Mountain Lake
Park and Loeb Lynn Heights as quar-
tiers for the soldiers. The department
looks upon the proposition favorably,
and as the proprietors are anxious to
rent, it is believed that the camp will
be established. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has rendered the use
of all its cottages at Deer Park, as well
as its hotel. The Mountain Lake AS
ISOLATION has done likewise.
A large American eagle belonging
to cavalry company, at Fort Sneri-
dan, near Chicago, swooped down
from its perch one day last week and
attacked a stuffed bird which adorned
the hat of woman who was walking
past. Beak and claws were sunk in
to the body OF the stuffed bird, and the
eagle not understanding the tenacity
with which its victim chung to the
hat, finally carried hat, bird and all
back to its roost. The big bird tore
the hat and trimmings.
Coffee is to be cheaper. This is to
be one of the results of the war. Near
ly half of the worlds coffee crop comes
to the United States. We consume
almost II pounds per annum for every
one of our population and spend on an
average nearly 100000 year for
coffee. Two-thirds of the world sup
ply of coffee comes from Brazil, which
places an export duty of II per cent
upon the fragrant berry. The finest
coffee in the world is grown in Porto
Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, and
under the stimulation of American en-
terprise these countries will, within a
few years, be able to supply the world
with coffee.
W. H. Billmyer, of Kenova, has
been at Ronceverte for a couple of
months buying yellow poplar and wal
nut logs for the Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company, of Coal Grove, Ohio. Mr..
Billmyer shipped this week six car
loads of very fine yellow poplar logs,
and during the past few weeks has
shipped six carloads Of walnut and
poplar. All this timber is sent via
the c. & O., direct to Glasgow, Scot
land, and Hamburg, Germany. The
company ships abroad to Liverpool
and London about seventy-6ve car
loads per month. Mr.. Billmyer is a
gentleman and most excellent lum-
herman West Virginia Neuos.
A dispatch from Woodstock, Va, to
the Baltimore Sun of Monday says :
The Richey scandal continues to ex-
cite the people of this place. On
Thursday deed of trust was admitted
to record, signed by Richey, convey
ing all of his effects to Judge E. D..
Newman, as trustee. The trust was
signed by him at York, Pa, on Sep
TENDER 10. He also gave Judge New
man a power of attorney authorizing
him to settle up his affairs. This,
along with the receiver, will simplify
affairs and permit the business to run
in the endeavor to pay off the out
standing Indebtedness, which now
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