Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-10-11
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Henry Eakle, retired farmer, died
of paralysis Sunday at Funkstown
aged Is years.
The talk of building bridge across
the Potomac river at Williamsport
has been started again.
Boonsboro is to have electric lights
A local manufacturer will furnish 80
incandescent lights for $500 year.
1t is said that the usual gang Of
sharpers and pickpockets are headed
toward the Hagerstown fair. Beware
of them.
Dipttberia is prevalent in the vi
cinity of Falling Waters, and the
Martinsburg World says that the pub
lie school there has been closed.
Lewis H. CAN'T, proprietor and
owner of the Hotel CAN'T, Hagers-
town, died Monday, Of brain fever, in
the 49th year Of his age.
Seven prisoners broke out of the
Hagerstown Jail and made their escape
by knocking down the turnkey last
Friday night. Only one Of them was
recaptured.
The Louis McMurray Packing Com
pany, an important industry at Fred
erick, Nd, for thirty years, will re-
move its large plant to Appleton, Wis
consin. 1t will be heavy loss to
Frederick.
1t is reported that warrants have
been sworn out at Sharpsburg for the
arrest of farmer and his sons who
live in that neighborhood for husking
corn on Sunday. Complaint was made
by neighbors, who stated that the ac-
cused plowed and did all kinds of
work on Sunday.
Four small children who live at
Mount Airy, near Berryville, Va,
were bitten by a cat which had hy-
drophobia. The children were taken
by their parents to Bloomfield, Lou
doun county, where the far-famed
maidstone was applied to their wounds
by its owner. The children are low
doing well.
The county court of Berkeley coun-
ty at special term Monday passed
an order submitting the question of
the adoption Of the alternate road sys-
TEN, as provided by law, to the voters
at the coming general election. The
petition upon which this action was
taken has been on file in the clerks
Office for eight years and there has
been a constant demand from the peo-
pie that the matter be submitted, but
the court has never yielded until now
Last Sunday morning the body of
John Lockley, Berryville colored
man, was found on the N. & W. Rail-
way a mile south Of that place. The
body had been cut into pieces by
freight train that had passed over it.
At first it was thought that he had
been killed by a train, but later there
was evidence that indicated foul play,
and four negroes, who are known to
have attended a dance with the de-
ceased few hours before his body
was found, and one of whom had in
his possession Jockeys watch and
bloody handkerchief, were arrested.
A coroner's jury rendered verdict
that the man had been murdered, and
the four accused men, Walter Martin,
William Robertson, Gibson Banks and
George Jackson, are held in Jail sus-
pected Of the crime Of numbering
Lockley.
Rein Oliver Champion, a former
boatman on the canal, was killed by
Clinton Gray, young man whom he
had known all his life, Saturday af-
ternoon on the road one-quarter OF a
mile west Of Georgetown. Both were
natives of Antietam, Washington
county. Champion was jealous of
Gray, whom he caught talking to his
wife, and in the encounter which en-
sued Champion was shot three times,
dying soon after. Gray said that the
killing was in self-defense, as his ene-
my had attacked him viciously with
stones. The men were second cousins.
Champion is son of Thomas Cramp-
ton, who lives at Antietam. Gray's
father is farmer in the employ of
S. S. Stoufer, near Antietam. Cramp-
ton leaves FIVE small chilren who are
thrown upon the support Of the moth
er. Gray is a sickly youth OF Y
years.
Stepped Into Live Goals.
when child l burned my foot
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