Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-09-21
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

len persons nave peen ih04O.o"
Front Royal, Va, for selling liquor
without license. Front Royal is
dry town, but number of persons
have been dealing in whiskey illegally.
Over 400 lots were sold by tn
MARYLAND Development Company in
Corbett's Addition to Hagerstown
Yesterday. The prices ranged from
SIS to 81 600. the sale amounting to
over $4,000.
A fve-year-old son of Charles Bus
sard, living near Williamsport, Nd,
died in great agony Monday as a re-
suit of acute indigestion, caused by
eating grapes. The child was sick
only about an hour.
Senator ]. N. Camden, of West
Virginia, has purchased of Charles
H. Kemper, the Cedar Grove farm
in Fauquier county, containing lO3
acres, for $4,000. Up to the time
of this sale the farm had been owned
by the Kemper family for l6O years.
Long Fannie Jefferson, who escap-
ed from the Martinsburg Jail nearly
two weeks ago. has been captured in
Greencastle and taken back to Mar
tinsburg She walked all the way to
Greencastle and was hiding IN house
there. She will be taken to the peni-
tentialy at once.
William Miller, Frederick county
bachelor of 60 years, applied for
marriage license there Wednesday,
but forgot the name of his prospective
bride. A friend came to his assist
ance and stated that the iady's name
was Mrs. Harriet Keckley, a widow.
A license was then issued to Mr. Mil
Ter.
Harry B. Reynolds, young ma.
cbinist, committed suicide at his home
in Hagerstown Sunday morning by
inhaling illuminating gas. When dis
covered be was lying on the kitchen
floor with the detached end of a gas
tube in his mouth, an sheet COW
cred his head. He leaves a wife and
two children.
Philip W. Morris, colored, of Win
chester, Va, was among those who
were killed in the wreck on the elevat-
ed railroad in New York last week.
His widow has instituted suit against
the Metropolitan Railway Company
for $4,000. She alleges that the
death of her husband resulted from
negligence on the part Of the company.
Robert Washington. young negro
boy, Monday entered plea Of guilty to
an indictment charging him with hav-
ing attempted to wreck train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a short |
distance from Winchester, in August
last. He was sentenced to the Col
ored Reform School, near Richmond,
by Judge William NJ. Atkinson, in
the Corporation Court. Robert JEFF
ferson and George Brown, are under
indictment with Washington as ac-
complies.
Last Saturday night drunken ne
gro named Joe Winters entered Nor.
gans store at Gerardstown, Berkeley |
county, and became very abusive to a
number of white persons who were in
the place. He finally concentrated |
his attentions upon Warren Smith,
a white man employed by Gray Sill
yer, and Smith in self-defense, it is
alleged, struck the negro on the head !
with a poker. Winters was knocked !
senseless, but afterward revived and
went home. Next day he died, and !
Smith has been arrested for killing
him.
John B. Ferrel, claiming Hancock,
Md, as his home, who says that he is
a nephew of Senator Scott and has
been book agent, school teacher,
store keeper, detective and quarry
man, is behind the bars at Martins
burg, under conviction OF impersona-
ting an officer, in default Of $50 fine.
Saturday night he arrested Charles
Grub, of that city, on the charge of
having stolen quantity of jewelry
from hotel in Detroit. Ferrel holds |
commission as detective from an
agency in Cincinnati and got on the
trail of Grub, going to work in a
quarry to carry out his scheme. He
will probably be prosecuted, also, for
violation Of thesFederal statutes.