Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-08-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
On Monday 1000 foreigners ar
rived in New York.


rived in New York.
Last year more than 1900. 900
pieces of mail went aetray In the
United States and were sent to the
Dead Letter Office.
The Virginia Corporation Commits
sion has given notice to the railroads
of that State that it will take up the
question of fixing the maximum rate
for passenger travel at two cents a
mile.
Jesse Fries, a farmer OF Frederick
county, Va, was notified that his niece,
Mrs William ]. Hudson, was shot and
killed by her husband on July % in
Pasadena, Cal. Hudson afterward
swallowed carbolic acid, with fatal re-
suits. he and his wife had quarreled
a short time before the tragedy.
The milwaukee Avenue State Bank
one of the biggest banking institutions
in Chicago, failed on Monday. Its
officers bad robbed 1t of almost mil
lion dollars. When the news of the
failure of the bank became known one
of its depositors died from heart dis
ease and another, who had just depos-
tied the savings of a lifetime, shot and
killed himeelf.
Jesse Briggs. negro murderer of
Fayette county, has had his fervent
prayer answered. He was to have
been hanged August Is, but the other
day Cove. nor Dawson, who spent the
night as the guest of Warden Haddox,
heard Briggs petition and committed
his sentence to life imprisonment.
Briggs was to have been executed two
years ago, but at various times BE-.
cured respites.
On sale in John street, New York
is perfect pearl weighing 6S grains,
white and rounded, for which the ask
ing price is $4,000. The man who
found it in mussel shell on the Wis
consin bank of the Mississippi river
only few weeks ago sold it for IS
cents. The pearl came in shell the
size of silver dollar. Another pearl
from the American fisheries in middle
western rivers, offered now for SIS. 900
in the Maiden Lane district, is of SO
grains and is a pearl. shaped drop Of
pink tint.
A beer fight is on at Clarksburg,
this State. Recently the Clarksburg
Brewing Company announced that it
would sell ice for 10 cents per hun.
dred pounds. The Reymann Brewing
Co. retaliated by furnishing saloons
and other consumers free of charge.
This aroused the Clarksburg brewery,
and an announcement was made that
beer would be furnished all con.
sumers free for five years, and as
a result free beer is being distributed
throughout the city to all saloons and
other consumers. The Weidman Com
pany stands pat while the Hoster
Company has joined in the fight which
promises to be merry one, as neither
company will agree to surrender or
compromise.
Oscar James, liveryman and farm.
er, of Waterford, Loudoun county, Va,
committed suicide Sunday night after
making an attempt to kill his SIS
ter.ln-law, Miss Blanche Brabham.
James, it is said, was jealous of the at
tention his sister-in.law received from
others and threatened her at the bush
meeting at Purcellville, which she at
tended in company with friends. At
the supper table he drew his pistol,
fred four times at Miss Brabham at
close range, one bullet slightly wound
ing her. When she fed from him, des-
pite her injury, and called for aid,
James turned the pistol on himself AMI
shot himself in the right temple, his
death resulting within a short time.
Miss Brabham is the sister of James
deceased wife and has been living in
his family for long while.