A Family Poisoned — The family of Mr. George T. Jones, bookseller, near the University of Virginia, consisting of himself, wife and five children, and his clerk, were poisoned last week, but not fatally. Suspicion rests […]
JOHN BROWN’S OUTLAWS. — The Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee had another meeting on Thursday. The Sergeant-at-arms, who has been in search of John Brown, Jr., has returned, and informed the Committee that he is in Ohio, […]
Walter Land, of Princess Anne county, Va., has been sent to the penitentiary for killing his brother-in-law, Benjamin F. Flanagan. He ought to have been hung. He sent for Flanagan and deliberately shot him as he […]
It is stated that the expense of C. T. BUTLER, Esq., is attending the capture and delivery in the Charlestown Jail, of his fugitive slave Moses Horner, amounted to the sum of $1100.
Murder. — In Floyd county, Va., a few days since, Ambrose Cox entered the house of Mr. Moore, his brother-in-law, and shot him dead with a rifle. The cause of the murder was the division of […]
A man named Sanborn was last week arrested in Massachusetts, by Deputies of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, for contempt in refusing to appear before the John Brown Investigating Committee. He was forcibly taken […]
Dr. J. S. STONE, Judge of the Miner’s Court of Pike’s Peak, who was severely wounded in a duel with Governor BLISS of that Territory, on the 5th ult., is a native of Harper’s Ferry. The […]
Another Fraud Exposed. The Potomac Refining Company, a concern which has been pecking around an old abandoned limestone quarry on the Maryland side of the Potomac river between Shepherdstown and Harper’s Ferry, has been proclaimed a […]
William Reinhart, who sold maps, etc., in Shepherdstown, a few weeks ago, came to grief in Martinsburg last Thursday. He got on a spree, used money that did not belong to him and was arrested for […]
AUTOIST FACES CHARGE Marvin Eichelberger, Dargan section, was arrested yesterday afternoon near Funkstown by Deputy Leister Isanogle on a charge of operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor. The officer reported the Eichelberger car […]
One day last week while the family of Mr. James Flanagan, near Bakerton, were away from home some one entered the house and stole a number of articles. Among the valuables missed was an old-fashioned silver […]
