Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-05-25
Notes From Nearby.

Ex-Sheriff Benjamin F. Reichard
died at his home in Hagerstown of
paralysis on Monday, aged 60 years.
The body of young colored man
named Peter Fletcher was found IN
the canal near Great Falls, above
Washington, last Sunday, bound hand
and foot.
Mrs. Jennie Mickey was sent to
Jail for thirty days last week by Justice
Miller, at Fairplay, Washington coun-
ty, for being a common scold and
disturber Of the peace.
A fire at Martinsburg the other
night destroyed the building used by
the colored band as a practice hall.
The band instruments and the uni
forms Of the members were also de-
stroyed.
Last Friday Charles Tracey, the
six-vear-old son of Blacksmith Tracey,
who formerly lived in Sharpsburg, fell
into vat full of mash at Ahalt's dis
tillery, near Burkittsville, and was
smothered to death.
The splendid barn Of R. H. Dulany
in Loudoun county was burned last
week, causing a total loss Of $4,000,
including its contents Six valuable
horses, eight or ten vehicles and many
farming implements were destroyed.
John NJ. Jolliffe, a prominent resi-
dent of Clarke county, died in his
store at Boyce last week. An empty
laudanum bottle was found beside
him. He was member of the Second
Virginia Regiment during the civil
war.
The grain elevator at Clearbrook
station, on the Cumberland Valley
Railroad between Martinsburg and
Winchester, was destroyed by fire
early Tuesday morning. J. W. Bar
ricks, who conducted store in the
building, lost all his goods.
Mr.. Alex Shepherd recently found
terrapin on his fathers farm about
four miles south of this city which was
evidently an old chap. His terrapin-
ship had the name Mr.. Bose Shepherd
cut on his shell, with the date 1858,
forty-one years ago.-Nat"'86"rg
Statesman.
The family of William Lapole, con-
sisting Of husband, wife and four
small children, living along the Poto-
mae river, two miles below Sharps-
burg, were made i'll by eating polk,
which they mistook for greens. DR..
S. H. Gardner, of Sharpsburg, was
summoned and found the four chill
dren in a serious condition. The pa
rents were only slightly affected. The
physician worked with them for sew
eral hours before they were considered
out Of danger.
Carl Riggles, stonemason, aged
about forty years, lies at the house of
Harry Harper in Hagerstown with a
bullet in his right side. Riggles said
he was shot by man whose name he
refused to divulge. He stated the
man who did the shooting lived in
West Virginia and had quarreled with
him some time ago over young lady
with whom both were in love. The
men had not seen each other for some
time until Monday, when the two met
in West Antietam street, had some
words and the stranger finally shot
him. Riggles is a native Of Ripon,
w. Va, and went to Hagerstown a
couple of years ago.
Col. J. G. Hurst and Deputy Sher-
fife. H. Trail, Harper's Ferry, attend
ed court here last Tuesday. They
drove a livery horse and it was subse-
quently developed that the horse at
one time was an active member Of a
metropolitan fire company. AS they
were returning home, storm came up.
When in close vicinity to the railroad
crossing at Halltown, the electric bell
began vigorous ringing. The noble
steed, hearing the bell, thought, for
the instant, that he was back in the
engine-house of his native city, and
that the fire alarm had been turned on,
while the occupants Of the buggy
thought that train was approaching.
The horse, however, not caring what
the drivers thought, acted upon his
own suggestion, and started in full
run for the imaginary fire, leaving the
drivers to calculate at about what
place the approaching train would
strike them. Mr.. Trail, who was driv-
ing, finding he could not control his
steed, passed the ribbons over to Col.
Hurst, and led in prayer Col, Hurst,
too much occupied to take up a collec-
ton, vigorously applied himself to
controlling the horse, but to no avail,
for his horseship was determined to
arrive at the confagration ahead Of
competitors. The crossing was passed
in safety, aud the impetuous equine
finally brought to, when it was devel-
oped that the ringing Of the bell was
a freak of the lightning, and no train
was anywhere in that vicinity. The
reaction was noticeable in an increased
'down-pour of rain. No damage was
done except that the buggy was
minus a dashboard. Ciarlest0pn
Adrocate.