Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-12
Items of Interest.

carried off the sherifi's clothes.
C. E, Reed, Is years old, a Baltimore
and Ohio brakeman, was killed by light
aine Saturday at Clarksburg while riding
ON top of box car. Every vestige OF
clothing was torn from his body and even
his shoes were torn off.
The government has completed ar
engagements by which itwillhereafter ship
its money and securities by registered
mail instead OF by express. This will
save $500 600 year which has been going
into the Golfers of the express companies.
West Virginia coal operators could
make use of thousands OF miners and are
Offering inducements to secure workmen.
A great many Italian miners have been
called back home to join the army, and
il is difficult to find men TO take their
places.
The temperance people OF Washington
county, Nd, are making an earnest Ell
fort TO have nominated tor the Legislature
men who will vote to submit prohibition
amendment TO the vote OF the people.
There will be much cutting of tickets this
fall if this manifestly fair proposition is
not agreed TO.
While hundreds OF persons looked on,
a mob of iniuriated men at Temple, Tex
as. took William Temple, negro, from
the iail and burned him to death in the
public square last Friday night. He had
confessed to criminally aSSaulting Mrs.
w. r. Grimes, killing her three children
and beating her husband into uncon scious-
ness.
VIM. E. Corey, former president OF the
United States Steel corporation, who has
Just returned from Europe, expresses the
belief that the great war will continue for
three or four years longer. He says that
the Allies are going to fight to finish
and will not agree to peace until Germany
is conquered. The present war, ne states,
is a contest which will be decided by
chemistry and mechanics.
The Ford Automobile Company an
nounces refund OF approximately $l5,-
600 900 TO owners OF Ford automobiles
who have purchased their machines since
August lst, 1914. On August lst, 1914,
the company announced that if 100000
machines were sold during the ensuing
wear, each purchaser would receive a re-
fund OF from $40 to $50. The 100000
mark was reached on July 10Th.
The 324 bound volumes of the briefs
and records of the West Virginia Supreme
Court of Appeals that have beenin Charles
Town are to be transferred TO Morgantown
and added to the University law library.
Since the Supreme Court will not here
after meet in Charles Town, the State
will no longer have any use for the library
il had maintained there. There are but
two other sets OF the bound briefs and
records-one in Charleston and one in
Wheeling.
While engaged at her household duties,
Mrs. Harvey Fox, of Lancaster, Pa, had
her right hand cut off completely by a
piece of iron which had been hurled from
tile Lebanon Chain Works yard, almost a
mile away, by the explosion OF dynamite.
The dismembered hand was hurled
through the kitchen, and after striking
the dining-room ceiling was picked up in
the parlor. The explosion, which show
cred the northeastern section Of the city
with flying fragments, was caused by an
overcharge of dynamite being set off 10
break up castings.
II was announced at Clarksburg that
third jury in Magistrate V. Carriers court
acquitted Andrew Tillman, young man,
OF having whiskey in his pockets on the
ground that the penalty therefor in the
State prohibition laws is "cruel and un-
usual punishment, within the meaning
ofthe general constitution. The minimum
penalty for the act is fine of 500 and a
sentence OF two months in Jail. Tillman
on the stand admitted having carried the
whiskey in his pockets. The caseis con-
sidered an important one, as the prose-
cutting attorney made it test and took
special efforts to have three representa-
tive juries try it. The first two jurieS
disagreed on the same ground.