Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-05-10
NOTES FROM NEARBY. :

A mad dog in Frederick county,
Va, caused a good deal of alarm last
week.
Jacob w. Vorous, well-known
Clarke county man and Confederate
veteran, died on Tuesday. aged 20
years.
Last week $4,000 young brook
trout from the U. S. Fish Commission
were placed in the Tuscarora creek
near Martinsburg.
Geo. II. Hagley has sold his store
room property in Charles Town to
Max Theodore, who now occupies it.
The prce was $1,000
The Democrats of Martinsburg have
nominated Peyton R. Harrison as
their candidate for mayor, and the
Republicans have nominated VIM. R.
K line.
The hardware store of H. S. Cush-
wa at Martinsburg was broken into
and robbed last Wednesday night.
The thieves carried off twenty re.
volvers, valued at 5000.
On Tuesday 10000 brook trout
were placed in Antietam creek and
other streams in Washington county.
A large number of white and yellow
perch are also to be placed in the An
tietam.
Joseph H. Copenhaver, who last
year was sent to the Virginia Peni.
tertiary from Clarke county for muir.
dering his wife, has become violently
insane and has been removed to the
insane asylum.
The barn on the farm of II. H.
Rutherford, two miles south, of Mar
tinsburg, was destroyed by fire last
Friday, together with farming ma
chinery, etc. The loss is $4,000, par
TALLY covered by insurance.
Edwards Collins, white man about
81 years old, and Nettie Pye, a negro
woman As or so years old, both of
the vicinity of Indian Springs, Wash
lngton county, Nd, were married
last week in Chambersburg Pa. Col
Inns formerly lived in Berkeley coun.
ty. The woman whom he married
owns farm of some 200 acres, and he
has been renting it. The couple had
some difficulty in getting a minister
to marry them, but negro preacher
finally performed the ceremony.
Friends of H. G. Turner, the dep.
uty game warden, who shot and killed
Joshua Ohler near Weverton, and who
is now in Jail at Hagerstown awaiting
trial at the May term, are much wor.
ried over the prisoner s mental con-
dition. Some of them think he is
losing bis mind. He is unable to
sleep at nights and walks up and
down his cell for hours without stop
ping or speaking. He told Sheriff
Deibert that he could hear bees buzz
zing in his ears all the time and that
the face of Ohler was before him con-
tinually. He says he killed Ohler
while in the performance Of his duties
and also in self-defense.
James N. w. Funk, for 25 years
senior member of the undertaking and
furniture firm Of Funk & Ray, Of Win
chester, Va, filed suit against the es-
tate of his dead partner, John Ray,
claiming about $4,000 to be due him
Mr.. Ray died suddenly in his store on
October 20, 1905, leaving the bulk of
his property to his widow, whom he
had married but short time before
his death. Attorneys for Mr.. Funk
allege in their bill that an expert &C.
countaDt. employed to go over the
books of the firm after Mr.. Rays
death, discovered page after page OF
false entries, errors Of omission and
commission. and erasures and substi-
tutions The bill further alleges that
the plaintiff did not make an entry
on the firms books until l6 months
before Mr.. Rays death. A settlement
between the partners was several times
suggested by Mr.. Funk, and few
hours before Mr.. Rays death, the
plaintiff alleges, he demanded settle
ment, with the alternative of throwing
the firm into receivers hands. Mr..
Ray, the deceased member Of the above
firm, lived in Shepherdstown for
number of years prior to moving to
Winchester