Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-01-03

3draDyf III Oidlho county, Va, 10
Moses Foley, for $14 600. The place
contains $50 acres.
Burrell Martin, a well.known resi-.
dent of Martinsburg, died suddenly
Yesterday of apoplexy. He leaves q
wife and three children.
Rev. Lewis T. Iampe, formerly pas
tor Of the Reformed Church, of Low
ettsville, Va. died last week in Som.
erset, Pa, aged 40 years.
Claggett Swain was arrested and
fined $l5 in Sharpsburg the other
day for numerically driving horse
belonging to G. F. Hildebrant.
The bank barn on the farm Of David
Gross, near Rohrersville, Nd, was de-
stroyed by fire last Thursday, togeth-
er with FIVE cattle and the crops of
the past season. The loss is heavy
and there was no insurance.
Stuart W. Walker has purchased
the Old National Bank building ont
Queen street Martinsburg, paying
$l4, $50 for it. He will remodel is
making the first floor into store-room,
and the second into oficesand dapart-
ments.
Irene Nave, ten-year-old daugh-
ter of Bradley Nave, living near Will
Transport, Nd, was brutallY assault
ed near her home on Tuesday. The
man who committed the dastardly
deed made his escape, but there are
strong suspicious as to who he is and
he will probably be caught, sooner or
later.
Miss Julia II. Hamilton, eldest
daughter Of the late Gov. William T.
Hamilton, of Maryland, and James
Thompson Briscoe, Jr., manager, sec
rotary and treasurer of the Hagers.
town Mail Newspaper Company, were
married last week at the home of the
BRIDES mother, Mrs. Clara Hamilton,
in Hagerstown.
E. A. Pry, the well.known peach
grower of Keedysville, is enclosing
about 800 acres of land with wire
fencing for sheep rancho. Mr.. Pry
purchased a number of sheep and
they have thriven so we'll that he de-
cided to engage in the industry on
larger scale. He has erected num-
Der of buildings for housing the sheep.
Charles H. White, formerly assist
ant postmaster at MartiDsburg, was
arrested few days ago on the charge
of embezzllng 81 23l of the postofice
funds. He was released on $1,000
bail to await the action of the federal
grand jury, which convenes in Par
kersburg on January 9Th. Postmas.
ter Il. E. Mundey is among the wit
nesses summoned to appear before the
grand jury.
John Yohe, farmer of Hedgesville
district, Berkeley county, was killed
the other day on the tracks of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near
North Mountain. He attempted to
recover his hat, which had blown upon
the track. and was evidently not
aware of the approach of a fast freight
train, which struck him as he was
picking up the hat. He was badly
mangled. He was As yerrs old and
unmarried.
The United States Court of Claims
has allowed Jefferson county claim
of $4,000 for damages done to the
courthouse during the Civil War.
The claim has been pending for some
time, it having first engaged the at
tention of the Court of Claims at the
suggestion of Capt. ]. s. Melvin when
he was member of the county court.
Attorney G. W. 2 Black, who has the
claim has given the information about
the favorable action of the claims
court through letter to Captain Mel
vin.-Advocatc. =
A man supposed to be Will knight,
from Marietta, Ohio, was killed by a
train on the B. & o. Railroad short
distance below Dufields some days
ago. He was lying on the track and
was run over by the engine of the
noon accommodation train, the sup.
position being that he had been struck
and knocked there BY another train.
He had on his person a Bible, some
tracts and other papers. and in
satchel some good clothes, but no
money. His remains were buried in
the graveyard at the county poor
farm.
John Pope and John Fadeley, of
got in an alteration at
O'Brien's cress pond and later In the
evening they met and another quarrel
took place. Fadeley claims that Pope
pulled a pistol, shot into the air and
to kill him, and then he
drew his pistol and shot Pope twice,