Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-12-24
Notes From Nearby.
Young toughs in Williamsport stole
the clapper from the bell of the Lu-
theran church the other night.

the clapper from the bell of the Luz
theran church the other night.
Under the new assessment it is be.
lieved that the taxable basis of
Hagerstown will be increased from
$4,5OO,000 to 100000.
Determined West Virginians tore
down 200 feet of the fshpot dam near
Williamsport, about which there has
been so much controversy
The town council of Boonsboro lev
led ten cents on the hundred dollars
for 1897. The taxable basis is $685.
1913. The expenditures last year were
1886.
It's proposed to increase the capt.
tai stock of the Martinsburg Brass
Manufacturing Company $4,000 by
popular subscription to stock. Already
$4,000 has been subscribed.
An election of officers of the Ha-
gerstown Fair Association will be held
on January 2. 1t promises to be
spirited one. A new set of officers,
opposed to the policy Of part of the
present board, will be run.
A very pretty wedding occurred at
the Z. B. parsonage, Inwood December
9, 1896. The contracting parties were
Mr. James W. VOORHEES, and Miss Lot
tie Brown. The ceremony was SOL
emnized by the Rev. B. P. S. Busey.
-.State,man.
On Saturday franklin Nose paid
an election bet by wheeling Herbert
Snayely from the square in Sharps-
burg to the Antietam Station on the
n. & W. Railway and return. The
wheelbarrow was drawn by two mules
ridden by VIM. Frye. Mr.. Nose was
fantastically dressed and had a pla-
card on his back with the inscription,
Free Silver wheeling Gold.
Fire early Friday morning destroyed
the frame building and its contents on
North Walnut street, Hagerstown, oc-
cupied by William F. Full as a saloon
and owned by the Cumberland Valley
Railroad Company. The double brick
dwelling-house adjoining on the north,
also owned by the railroad company,
and occupied by William Wallace and
Joseph Anderson, was badly damaged.
The couple who were married at
the Reformed parsonage in this place
on Saturday, December 9Th, and re-
quested the pastor, Rev. Hoffmeier, to
keep the affair a secret for one month,
were Mr.. Thomas Beale Miskimmon,
of Harper's Ferry, and Miss Cora V.
Hobbs, of Frederick, daughter of Capt.
Evan n. Hobbs. The bride could not
keep the secret, however and informed
her parents of the wedding a few days
after the event. Mr.. Miskimmon re-
turned to Harper's Ferry the same
day he was married, where he is en-
ployed in a drug store,-MjddletOru
Register.
The Harper's Ferry Sentinel says
Mr.. Albert Cockrell went cunning
last week and fired a gun that had
been loaded to kill a beef The gun
bursted into many fragments, burning
his wrist and face, but not seriously.
Whilst he was gone his wife, reclining
in rocking chair, dreamed that he
had been shot. Before he returned
home she ran over to her sisters, a
short distance from home, and related
her frightful dream about her husband,
and before she had finished repeating
the same to another neighbor, Mr..
Cockrell appeared nursing his ounds.
The frightened wife exclaimed befo re
giving the husband an opportunity to
tell her of his accident, "You are
shot =
A dispatch from Martinsburg to the
Baltimore San of yesterday says; The
Citizens National Bank of this place
has brought suit on the official bond of
John B. Wilson, It's former cashier, to
recover an alleged shortage Of $5929l.
Mr.. Wilson is also liable to criminal
action. He is at present at Cripple
Creek, Col. His sureties have engaged
counsel, but have not yet outlined
their defense. Less than six years ago
Mr. Wilson was one Of the most pros
porous business men here. He had a
large income from investments and was
cashier and afterward president of the
Peoples National Bank. About that
time boom was started here. To
help it along Mr.. Wilson built the cleo
trio street railroad, which failed, in
volving a loss to him Of over $4,000
The like failure of other enterprises in
which he was interested left him bank
rupt. In the meantime, he lost his
position with the bank, but succeeded
in organizing the Citizens National
Bank and was elected cashier. He
lost this position also about one year
ago, when he was unable to renew his
bond. In 1894 much sympathy was
felt for Mr.. Wilson on account Of his
financial troubles, and he was elected
mayor by a large majority, and he
came within a few votes of getting the
Republican nomination for county
clerk Just before the last election.
Since then he has been out West seek