Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-12-03
Notes From Nearby.

Young man of Winchester, died yes
terday of typhoid fever. He was q
years old.
The Winchester Leader was until
the late campaign Republican paper.
1t took up the free silver cause and
has now suspended publication. The
plant is for sale.
Rev. DR.. H. Louis Baugher, former
" of Gettysburg, has become manag-
ing editor of the Lutheran World,
published at York. He succeeds Rev.
Fred G. Gotwald, who resigned.
In an ARRAY on Sunday night near
Clearspring, Washington county, Bud
Miller was stabbed in the head with
penknife, the blade piercing the brain.
The wound will probably be fatal
Frank Gallaher and others were in the
fracas. 1t is said they have fed.
Charles Byrum was found guilty in
Hagerstown of obtaining gun from
DR.. S. J. Wishard under false pre-
lenses, and Judge Stake sentenced him
to the penitentiary for ten years. He
had given the officers of the law great
deal of trouble, hence the heavy SEN
tence.
George Frantz, a blacksmith, who
resided near Cearfoss, Washington
county, and aged about thirty-fve
wears, was killed on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad at Kaufman's Sta
ton, thanksgiving night. He had
been in Chambersburg to see the fire.
mems parade and became intoxicated.
His body was ground into fragments.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. D. F.
Drenner was the scene of a wedding
last Wednesday night, the marriage
of their daughter Minnie Drenner, to
Mr.. A. NJ. Staubley of Martinsburg
The couple were attended by Miss
Carrie Mullen, of Baltimore, as maid
Of honor, and Mr.. G. a. Plant, Of
Washington, as best man. Rev, c. 5.
Trump performed the ceremony. Mr..
and Mrs. Staubley will reside in Mar
tinsburg.
The transfer of the express business
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
from the Adams Company to the
Southern Express Company has made
a number Of changes among the mes
sengers. H. B. Unger and ]. W. Long
have been retained and Charles Null
Ter will continue his run on the Fast
Mail. G. E. Hench and J. W. Haw-
kins are new messengers between
Roanoke and Hagerstown, with head
quarters in Hagerstown.
Elijah Addison, a middle-aged col
ored man, who says Jefferson county
is his home, was arrested near Hagers-
town Monday night Milton Porter
field told the officers Addison threat
ened to burn down his barn. He
turned all the horses out of the stables
and hurried to town after the officers,
who found Addison in possession Of
the house when they went to arrest
him. Addison acted as if he were
crazy. He was selling chicken pow
ders.
General Dickerson, of Hartford,
Conn, presented Travelling Passenger
Agent c. E. Dudrow with a very
handsome rug for his parlor 1t is
beautifully figured and is emblemati-
cal of the G. A. R. 1t will be remem-
bered that General Dickerson was in
charge of the Twelfth Regiment Asso-
citation that recently stopped off at
this place on their return from Win
chester, where they dedicated in the
National Cemetery monument to the
honored dead. The courteous and
obliging Travelling Passenger Agent is
always popular with the travelling pub
lic.-Hayper8 Ferry Sentinel.
The regular winter crusade against
the canal boatmen at Georgetown was
commenced by Humane Officer Rab-
bitt. Every year about this time the
boatmen, just as the season closes on
the canal, leave the mules out on the
towpath all day and night The Of
fcers Of the Humane Society insist
that this is cruelty, and endeavor to
force the boatmen to keep them on the
boats Six captains were arrested
Monday evening on this account, but
they were subsequently released or
collateral. They gave their names as
George Hlte, William Anderson, Will
lam Patten, Lafayette Dick, Jacob
johnson, O. G. Hammond and Daniel
Sailor.
The abandonment Of the Strasburg
and Harrisonburg Railroad by the B.
& O. Railroad makes important chang
es in travel by rail in the Shenandoah
Valley. Passengers must now change
cars at Harper's Ferry, Strasburg juno
ton and Harrisonburg for points south
of the latter place. B. & o. connec-
ton is made with the Southern Rail-
road at Strasburg, and the latter again
connects with the B. q o. at Harri-
sonburg. Travel from the south is
via the same plan, The Southern
Railroad now runs trains direct from
Washington to Harrisonburg. The B.
& O. has withdrawn the early mail
train from points along the Valley
Branch. Only two trains day are
now advertised from Baltimore to the
Valley-one leaving Baltimore for the
Valley Division at 9 o'clock a. IN. and
the Winchester accommodation at 4.30
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