Shepherdstown and area brief highlights from the Register
Local notes from Shepherdstown and surroundings recount a town hall event next Tuesday, a Methodist Sunday School picnic, and a firework display in the town square. Scouts from Baltimore visit the Potomac area, and excursions by the Western Railway sell tickets to Atlantic City in August. Community notices include a wheat crop insurance ad, school staffing, a dynamite incident at Keedysville, and calls to curb street burning practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autice
Arial
Pup
Cam
Owens & Miller
Owens & Miter
Jefferson County
Shepherdstown
J. W. Davis
Abary
Reunion
Island Park
Harper's Phupalay
Marshall
Pulaski
Wassborough
Town Hall
Methodist
Morgan's
la Hagerstown
Barnum
Circus
Sen Wan
Jette Juiley
Summit Point
Ilou
Solenberger
Win _ garned
Winchester
Thompson
Eas Maudonattong
Martinsburg
Perry
Western Railway
Atlan Cay
Uritt
Benjamin Hartzell Priery
Fide
Green's
Molde
Amd
Milwlle
Ors Business College
Mender & Cooke
W. Au
Jon Helyers
St. Bartholomew's
W. Slader
Geodon i
Ciit
Ie Chen
Norfolk
Solway
Kaphore
Telegraph
Myers
Suinoiis
Mewinder & Cooke
Baema Calvals
Terry High School
J. Kate Chambers
Mary Winters
Agnes Reinhart
Keedysville
Howard Lynch
Clinton Miller
J. F. Leeper
Presbyterian Church
Strasburg
Winchester Presbytery
J. H. Lacy
D. D
F. M. Woods
Charles Ghiselin
Middleway
W. A. Lynch
Methodist Church
Bakerton
Shenandoah Junction
C. Sydenstricker
Shepherd
Presbyterian
Kearneysville
Local notices and accidents mix with farm market chatter
The column bundles insurance pitches, a child’s serious finger injury, wheat market quotes, and local appointments. It notes a San Francisco casualty manager appointment, a Jefferson County writ of error, and a Harper's Ferry battefield superintendent, plus a Martinsburg fevered heat spell and a fatal horse accident near Martinsburg. Also covered are elopement in Hagerstown, clergy calls in Shepherdstown and Strasburg, church services and Sunday schedules across nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Snyder & Co
Shepherds
F. W. Myers
Washington
Alexander & Cooke
Laura Hutton
C. J. Knoll's
G. T. Hodges
Carter & Thompson
Faulkner, Walker & Woods
Supreme Court of Appeals
E. B. Spedden
N. & W. Railway
New England
Geo. W. Graham
Harper’s Ferry
Antietam Battefield
C. W. Adams
Graham
Senator Watson
West Virginia
Harry Mason
San
Elijah Mason
Berkeley County
Faulkner-Bowers
Martinsburg
Winchester Pike
Murder at Spencer saloon near Harper's Ferry shocks region
A mass brawl at Albertus Spencer’s Maryland side saloon near Harper’s Ferry ended in two Italian men killed and multiple injuries. Jim Welcome, a Harper’s Ferry Black man, fled after firing six shots at an Italian, while Gude Braxton and the Italian gunman were later killed. Maryland and Washington County authorities seized suspects, with Italian Marcelli Gualo jailed in Hagerstown for Braxton’s murder and warrants issued for others. The incident prompted calls to close the Spencer joint as a regional menace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Ferry
Albertus Spencer
Maryland
Potomac River
Jefferson County
Jim Welcome
Page Belardino
Gude Braxton
William Hale
Engle's
Berardino
Braxton
Charles Town
Millville
Washington County
Snively
Long
Fridinger
Shepherdstown
Engle’s
Hale
Welcome
Spencer
Marcelli Gualo
Hagerstown
Farm fires wipe out Captain Rouss's property and more
Lightning struck several farms near Shanondale and Sandy Hook causing total destruction of Captain Milton Rouss’s farm buildings with about 2000 dollars loss and 1100 dollars insured. Nichols barn and tracks burned with 2500 dollars loss and 2000 dollars insured. Coulter’s bank barn and wheat crop losses estimated 3000 to 4000 dollars with partial insurance. Burns farm near Charles Town suffered 5000 dollars loss with insurance. One accident near Shepherdstown left Butler Jones with a badly broken leg after a collision with an automobile driven by Sheriff Snively party. Jones and brother Armstrong were riding a sorrel colt when struck. Six horses saved, several hundred bushels of wheat destroyed. Twenty-two killed and thirty injured on the Ligonier Valley Railroad near Latrobe, Pa after a freight train collided with a passenger train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Rouss
Shannondale
Captain Rouss
Washington, Alexander & Cooke
Charles Town
A. Nichols
William Coulter
Sandy Hook
Marshall Burns
Shepherdstown
Butler Jones
Billmyer's Mall
Mr. Jones
Armstrong Jones
Jos
Billmyer's Mill
Banks
Burwell
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Thornton Tayloe Perry, Jr
Lucille C. Scott
Charlotte
N. C
J. S. Simon
Trinity Lutheran Church
H.C. Getzendanner
Margaret Getzendanner
George Oswald
J. W. Ware
Culpeper
Trinity Episcopal Church
M. E
Bethesda
Avilla
Sharpsburg
Thos. C. Miller
Shepherd College
Fairmont
Will Hill
Hangerstown
Moselle Johnson
Chas. A. Johnson
Miss Johnson
Lewis R. Bell
Baltimore
Bell
Boyd Keller
George
New York City
Kate Bang
Hanover
J. W. Osbourn
New York
Richard Edwards
Logie N. Foulk
Columbus
Ohio
Minnie Magruder
Anna Magruder
Lynnie Waddell
Columbia University
Katherine Hartzell
Naomi Garrett
L. R. Bell
Front Royal
Black
M. H. Crawford
George Gilass
Berryville
Kathleen Baker
Roanoke
Ella Billmyer
Alice Billmyer
Wm. C. Link
John Ed. Schley
Philadelphia
Rockland
Gladys Marlatt
Elizabeth Banks
Blanche Beaton
Charles A. Licklider
M. B. Hendricks
J. L. Welshans
Gardiner
C. H. Whiting
Lewisburg
W. Va
J. Hampton Triplett
Albert Charles
Cumberland
Richard Spohn
Samuel Keller
Sydney Place
Virginia Frazier
Harrisburg
Hildred Marlatt
William Lemen
Kingsley Connor
Marguerite Billmyer
Warrenton
Ella Grant
Newton Moler
Bolivar
Henry Moler
Halltown
12Th
Virginia Cavalry
George Nicewarner
Charles Smith
Ola Moler
Moler
Daniel Moler
Hedgesville
B. F. Moler
Milton Moler
Keller's
D. H. Back
Bessie Moss Ware
John F. Ware
Castleman’s Mill
Wesley Myers
Kansas
Wm. W
Jacob S. Myers
J. W. Knadler
J. W. Cookus
Mary E. Graves
David Kelsey
Dayton
James T. Graves
Ella M. Kelsey
John Fries
Fries
Entler
Elmwood
Margaret Hodgson
J. R. Criswell
North Mountain
Hodgson
Robert Hodgson
Seibert
Mary Elizabeth Engle
James D. Engle
Peyton Engle
Priscilla Phillips
Chas. W. Phillips
Maria Clarke
John JC. Lambert
Bellefonte
James Norris Robinson
L. W. Robinson
Priscilla Robinson
Clearspring
King’s Daughters’ Hospital
William E. Baker
B.&o
Russell Colston Blessing
Jessie Spickler
David F. Magaha
E. Rush Turner
Farmers’ Bank
Main Street
Board of Education
Advocate
F. A. Byerly
Junction School
McGarry
Byerly
Florence Lancaster
James W. McGarry
David E. Sites
Wiltshire's
Fred B. Moler
Ramey’s
T. J. Yates
Mechanicstown
John Penwell
Manning's
Daisy W. Engle
Lillian Stump
Miss Engle
Garland H. Moore
New York Journal of Commerce
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Arkansas
Missouri
Ilinois
Oregon
Idaho
Ligonier Valley
Latrobe
Scott
Colt & Bowne
MoemBell
Licklider
China
Bocas Ae
M. R. Moler
Shepherdstown, W. Va
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Mae
Napa
Ocerr Seoeay
F. L. Johnson
Owens & Miller’s Soda Water
Jeff
Leiter Bros
Kayser
West
Washington St
M. G. Tabler
Queem Street
Martinaburg
W. Ve
Dr.King
Eirias
Walter
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