Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-02-22
Notes From Nearby.

Three shares OF the OltlZen s NaClon-
al Bank at Martinsburg were sold at
public sale at $ll3,25, par value 500.
The Undine Milling Company, of
Williamsport, Nd, Of which Francis
H. Darby was president, has made an
assignment. The liabilities are $780,
600, and the assets about half as much.
Last fall P. r. Shaw, of Williams
port, Pa, agreed to buy the Martins
burg electric light plant for S43, 900,
and put up forfeit of $500. lie
now declines to close the deal and
will forfeit his $500,
Frank MacGill, aged As years, died
a few days ago at the home of his SIS
ter Mrs. Molie MacGill Rosenberg,
Galveston, Texas. He was the son of
the late DR.. Charles MacGill, of Ha-
gerstown, surgeon-general in the Con-
tederate Army.
At a negro dance in Martinsburg
the other night Emanuel Crawford cut
and stabbed James Poinsdexter, al
most disembowelng him. They had
quarreled over the right to a banjo. a
warrant was issued for Crawford, but
he made his escape.
The barn on the farm of William
Seibert near Arden, Berkeley county,
was destroyed by fire last Wednesday.
Children playing with matches started
the blaze. The same day house on
G. w. McKown's place near Gerards-
town was also destroyed.
Mr.. Warren Ely, residing near
HaIltown, while about his barn with
lantern Thursday night, saw two men
in the field near by, and approaching
them was fired upon. 1t has not yet
developed what the scoundrels were
after, or why they fired upon Mr..
Eby.-9piyH.
Gebhart L. Butcher, the missing
Count, for whom a fortune Of $780,
600 is said to be waiting in Germany,
which Dean & Johannsen, Of Balti-
more, have been asked to collect, IS
an inmate Of the Soldiers Home at
Bath, n. Y. Is he a son Of Count
Won Blucher who married in Harpers
Ferry during the war Of 'Gl-5 ?
Free Press.
Mrs. Hannah Y. French, "a demented
woman, who fed from the home Of her
nephew, near Sharpsburg, to an old
dilapidated hut on the mountain and
barricaded the door, was forcibly re-
moved from the hut by three men and
carried to Mrs. James Moores, where
she will be kept until she can be sent
to Bellevue, the county almshouse.
She made desperate struggle with
her captors and fought them fercely.
Her feet and hand froze during her
stay in the hut, and she would have
starved but for neighbors, who forced
food into the house through holes be-
tween the logs.
DR.. Scott, alias Harry Murphy,and
L. S. Anderson, two alleged Aimaam-
mers, were arrested at Boyce, Clarke
county, Va, last week, upon a war
rant sworn out by Francis Tlnsm& -, Of
Loudoun county, charging them with
swindling him out of $40. They were
JAILED at Berryville, and later were
taken to Loudoun county and tried
for the oTense before Justice Throg-
morton. Scott was found guilty and
fined $50 and costs, but afterward
compromised by the payment Of about
$50. Both parties were taken back
to BerryvilIe on Saturday and tried
before Justice Grow upon warrants is
sued by Decatur OSburne and E. W.
Daily, merchants in Clarke county,
who were deeced out Of S. each. Scott
was sentenced to pay 425 fine in each
case and to serve a term Of six months
in Jail. Anderson was permitted to
20 free, as the evidence showed that
in each instance he held the horses
while Scott entered the store, made a
small purchase, presented either a $40
or a $50 bill in payment, and, in
making the change, 50 manipulated
the money that the storekeepers were
euchred out Of from S. to $40. a
woman, claiming to be SCOTS wife,
went on from Harpers Ferry. She
seems to have plenty Of money and is
making every effort to get Scott re-
leased from custody.