Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-04-24
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

! Arrangements diS oSihS hhopS W. 49,
erection of a large new building at st.
lanes College TO be used for gymna-
SUM.
Daniel Cost, colored, OF Martinsburg,
was fined $25 and costs and given 80 days
in Jail on the charge ofviolatiug the small
pox quarantine.
Company B, Hagerstown's military
company, has been mustered out OF SER
vice. The men disIiked the captain and
the company was disbanded.
BENJAMIN Brown, Jefferson county
negro, was arrested last week by Deputy
Marshal Brown for bootlegging. Several
Shepherdstown negro men are candidates
for term in Jail by way OF Judge Dayton'S
court.
Fourteen Italians were arrested lnlMar-
tinsburg Saturday for stealing lumber
and building material from contractor IN
that city. They finally paid for The prop
erty and costs of the proceedings and
were gwen their freedom.
The late Emory A.Pry, of Keedys lie
Md, left an estate of nearly $1,000. The,
bulk of il goes 10 his wife during her
lifetime, provided she does not marry
again, and at her death it is divided among
his children.
In Charles Town last Saturday F. A.
Brown, trustee, sold the real estate OF
Frank d. Butler at public sale. w. F.
Fowler bought the residence property for
81. 400, and F. w. Brown bought the Eagle
avenue property at 1915.
The tallest man in the Valley OF Viz
pinia is dead at his home at PoWell's
Fort, Shenandoah county. He was Sam
uel Bowman, a Confederate veteran, aged
10, and was I feet tall, and had seven
sons, all over feet in height.
Hon. George M. Bowers last Friday
retired from the office Of United States
Fish Commissioner, and DR.. Hugh IA.
Smith, deputy commissioner, succeeds
him. Mr.. Bowers will return to Martins
burg and engage il private business.
w. L. Showalter. OF Harrsonburg, Va,
bought the Forman farm OF rs acres one
half mile north OF lnwood, Berkeley
county. Possession is to be given him
in the spring OF 1914. The price paid by
Mr.. Showalter was $l4,350, nearly $l25
per acre.
During the severe electric storm which
passed over this section of the country
last Friday night, lightning struck the
barn on John B. Davis farm, near Cave
town, Nd. The place was consumed,
together with its contents and a number
OF animals persisted.
K. H. Ridgeway and w. H. KeeSecker,
two brakemen on the B. & o. Railroad,
were arrested in Cumberland last week
for breaking into and robbing the store
of J. A. HelSay at Sleepy Creek. 1t is
said that the stolen goods were found in
the possession of the men.
Under the direction of Prosecuting
Attorney w. w. DowneY policemen
made a raid on two diSreputable houses
in MartinSburg last Saturday night and
arrested nine men and eight women. A
Spe :laI grand jury TO investigate these
notorious places has been called for May
18th.
Mistaking for candy strychnine tablets
found on stand in the sick room of his
mother, James A. Cave, little son OF
John L. Cave, Hagerstown, ate small
boxful and died shortly afterward in vio-
lent commissions. He was found in the
back yard screaming with pain and before
physicians reached him was rigid.
A rear-end collision occurred at Basic
City on the Norfolk & Western last Sat-
urday night in which no one was injured
but which delayed traffic for 10 hours
and several freight cars were destroyed
and passenger engine badly wrecked
and derailed. Second division OF north
bound freight No. 81 was making its
way north heavily loaded and making
fairly good time, when passenger train
No. 2, also north bound, running fast,
dashed into the rear end of the train.
Two freight cars were demolished and
the passenger engine was derailed and
so badly damaged that it had TO be taken
away by the wreck crew.
In census bulletin just issued by the
census bureau, giving the composition
and characteristics OF the population of
West Virginia, we note that Jefferson
county has population of white males
1909; females $3.50; colored males H.
| 724; females LIS. Of men of voting
age the county has 1922. There are
children OF school age 4,S73, and OF
these 2,767 attend school. OF the total
white population, there are only 1870 I'M
able to read or write, and OF the negro
population there are POI iliterates. The
percentage is 90, as against Isl per
cent IN l9OO. The parents OF less than
half the county's white population, or
3,20S, are natives of West Virginia. The
families OF the county number 3,409,
while the number OF dwellings is 1859.
Waylaid by band of masked negro
thugs, Clyde J. Carpenter, young in
surance agent, who was shot during a
pistol battle on Main street, Winchester,
died Thursday as result OF his wounds.
The police have made wholesale arrests
OF negroes. In dying deposition, made
TO Prosecuting Attorney Reardon and
Chief of Police Doran, Carpenter declared
that he recognized two of his assailantS,
Edward Robinson and Houston Taylor,
both negroes, who are in jail. II is said
a.. (