Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-12-03
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

DR.. ]. NJ. Willis, surgeon in the U. ).
Army who has been stationed at Fort Smell
ing, Mimi, has been transferred with the
18th Infantry Regiment to the Vera Cruz'
Mexico. DIR. Willis is son OF the late
Rev. A, !. Willis, OF Middleway.
There was lively fire in Williamspon,
Md, Tuesday night, when three stables
went up in smoke. Two automooiies
we're also destroyed. The bucket ongaoe
fought the tire, as the hook and LADDER
company was not in working order
While several Hagerstown boys wer
hunting near that town on thanksgiving
day Frank Norris pointed cat rifle at
Max Boward and pulled the trigger.
Neither thought the gun was loaded, Out
il was, and bullet penetrated Boward'S
abdomen, inilicting wound which caused
his death the next day. The boys were
fifteen years old.
In the circuit court at Hagerstown last
Saturday the jury rendered a verdict OF
guilty of murder in the second degree
against Claude McCusker, tried for the
murder OF Iustus Roman near Hancock.
McCusker shot and killed Roman about
four years ago. He made his escape and
evaded arrest until few months ago,
when he was apprehended in Pennsyl-
vania.
Asensation was created in Gerardstown
district OF Berkeley county, when Steward
Barrett, a weil-known resident OF the COM
munity, brought suit for $500 damages
against Joseph g. Stevens, a neighbor Tor
alienation of the affections OF BaHetts
wife. The bill alleges that Stevens alien
ated the affections OF Mrs. Barrett, Who
left her husband and has gone to the west
10 live. The two men married sisters.
Last Saturday the two-story building OF
the Interstate Evaporating Company at
Inwood, Berkeley county, collapsed be-
cause OF the heavy weight OF apples on
the second floor, and Hobson Furley,
aged 10 years, was crushed TO death.
Mrs. Holly Braithwaite had several rloS
fractured, and other persons were slightly
injured. The collapsed structure caught
fire from a Stove and was totally destroy
ed. The plant was valued at 81 500, and
there was 5000 insurance upon 1t,
About fifty persons were employed, and
700 bushels OF apples were used every day.
The hoof and mouth disease among
cattle seems to have been stamped out by
the energetic action OF State and national
inspectors. There was no case OF The
disease at any time in West Virginia. In
Washington county, Md, no new case
has been reported for week or more.
In Washington county there have been
slaughtered Is out OF % infected herds,
and these comprised total OF S42 animals,
including COS cattle, SO sheep and l46
hogs. The amount to be paid by the
State is 6,632 81, and on the basis of the
States paying half and the federal gov
eminent half, the value OF the animals
killed is $33, 24664.
MRS. Alice V. Creque, mother OF George
Leslie Creque, who was killed year ago
oy Baltimore & Ohio Detective Benjamin
L. Prince, near the Baltimore & Ohio
passenger station in Martinsburg, while
the detective was endeavoring to arrest
him, has filed two $4,000 damage suits
IN the circuit court. one being against
Prince and his bondsmer, the Citizens
Trust and Guaranty Company OF Parkers-
burg, and the other against the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company. The bill OF
complaint charges that Detective Prince
used his revolver illegally in shooting
young Creque, and that he and his bonds
men are therefore liable for damages under
the State bond required Tor carrying re-
volver. The suit against the railroad
mpany is brought because Prince was
employ ed al the time OF the shooting, as
now, by the railroad. Prince was tried
last April for killing young Creque, the
Jury returning verdict Of manSlaughter.
The verdict was set aside and d new trial
granted by Judge Woods on the ground
that the verdict was not justified by the
evidence.