Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-04-30
Notes From Nearby.

OllaS f1uHer ana VI. w. DIlHudHl,
well-known residents of Boonsboro,
died during the past week.
Mr.. w. L. Irwin, publisher of the
Boonsboro Times, and Miss Mary
Blocker were married last week.
The fourth reunion of Lutheran
ministers born in Middletown Valley
will be held at Burkittsville in July.
The "drys" won the election at
Shenandoah, Va, last week, and now
liquor cannot be sold anywhere in Page
county, all the other districts having
gone dry some time ago.
J. F. Kimler, of Williamsport, mail
clerk on the Western Maryland Rail-
road and a brother of Prof. a. G.
Kimler, of this place, had his eyes
painfully hurt the other day by hav-.
Ing hot cinders blown in them.
The four-year-old child of Mr..
Charles Abbott, who lives near Sandy
Hook, was drowned in the Potomac
river few days ago The child was
playing with others and fell into the
water, and was drowned before it could
be rescued.
Rev. Charles L. Ritter, Of Fayette-
Vile, Pa, has been called to the pas
torate of the Lutheran church at
Burkittsville, Nd, and Rev. Wilson
L. Remsburg, of Omaha, Nebr., has
received a call from the Myersville
charge, in the same vicinity. Both
will probably accept.
One day last week considerable
commotion was caused in Sharpsburg
by report that young man named
VIM. H. Fry had assaulted a young
girl named Mary Cox. He was ar
rested for the alleged crime, but the
developments of the case at the trial
caused the justice to dismiss the
charge and set him free.
1t is reported that the Norfolk and
Western, the Western Maryland and
Cumberland Valley Railroads have en-
tered into an agreement whereby the
freight traffic Of the three roads will
be consolidated in Hagerstown. There
is talk of the erection of union freight
depot. 1t is stated the transfer depot
was too expensive for the Norfolk and
Western.
Portersville, little village mile
and a-half beyond Sharpsburg, had a
sensation the past week in the way OF
an elopement, the parties being John
Carter, who leaves a wife and seven
or eight children, and Annie Fasnacht,
who deserted her husband and one
child, taking one child with her. They
left on Saturday night for parts un-
known, but it is believed they went to
Pennsylvania.
1t is stated that a great many bass
and other fish have been dying in the
Potomac river in the neighborhood o.
Williamsport. Some persons believe
that the fish are killed by the acid
from the pulp mill at Dam No. 5
while others say that it is the work o.
persons who explode dynamite in the
water so as to catch the fish. Oul
local fishermen say that the bass have
not been biting at all this spring
though the conditions have been IA
vorable.
Dr. Peter Fahrney, the millionaire
Chicago patent medicine man, is con
struting memorial near Mapleville
in Washington county, Nd. He is re-
modelling the old Fahrney homestead
which he recently purchased anc
was at one time owned and occupied
by his grandfather, practicing ply
sioian. On each side of the door he
will place marble tablets, containing
the names of all his near relatives
He will construct a brick vault to th'
house, in which to store relics Of the
Fahrney family. Along the road he
will have memorial fountain for the
free use of man and beast.