Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-01-07
Notes From Nearby.

A big black bear is frightening peo-
pie in the vicinity of Cumberland, Nd.
Burglars broke into the postofice at
Brunswick, Nd, Tuesday night of last
week and stole $8l worth of postage
stamps. A safe containing $500 in
cash was not disturbed.
Ruth Snavely, three years old, fell
into we'll in Hagerstown, in which
was IS feet of water. Although she
was in the well ten minutes she did
not sink, and was rescued unhult.
Mr.. Thomas Diffendall recently
shot a ninety-six pound deer in South
Mountain. 1t was year old and was
tracked by hounds. 1t is the first
deer to be shot in that locality for
years.
The big furniture establishment Of
Julius Lansburg in Washington City
was burned December 28th. The fire
came within one door of the timing
establishment of Mr. W. L. Brother
ton, formerly of Shepherdstown.
Bruce Knepper, near Clear Spring,
killed the big hog that he had on e1-
hibition at the Hagerstown Fair
When cleaned it weighed 896 pounds,
and made nearly seven cans of lard.
The hog lost considerable weight since
the fair.
Luther F. Williams, of Martinsburg,
B. & O. brakeman, was killed at
Cherry Run the day before Christmas.
He was helping the fireman clean the
locomotives ashpan when a shunted
car ran over him and killed him. He
leaves a wife and two children.
Eureka Lodge, No. 105, A, F. and
A. NJ, Sharpsburg, elected: Worship
full master, Charles G. Biggs; senior
warden, Nesbit Cox; secretary, ].
Wesley Eavey treasurer, Jacob Nc
Graw tyler, Charles Pry. They, with
the other officers to be appointed, will
be installed Saturday evening, Janu-
airy 9.
A man named Hartman, of Berkeley
county, undertook to explore the cave
near Falling Waters last week. He
lost his way in the cave and couldn't
get out. He had been there two days
when his friends in searching for him
found his hat at the entrance to the
cave and went in after him. They
found him almost dead from cold and
hunger,
The hoodlums of Williamsport have
been getting in some fine work during
the past couple Of weeks. When the
congregation had assembled in the
Lutheran church for service early
Christmas morning, the organist dis
covered that the organ was completely
ruined and unfit for use. The act
was committed Thursday night by un-
known parties, who entered the church
and broke off half the stops and
marked the keys Of the organ, poured
water into the pipes, which froze, and
otherwise damaged it. New year
morning the law-breakers placed dy-
Mantle in an omnibus Of Liveryman
]. V. Hershey and blew it into pieces.
On top of Laurel Hill the dynamiters
wrecked fifteen heavy tile pipes for
the Hagerstown Electric Railway Com
pany. Houses on the opposite side of
the street were shaken. An explosion
in the street in front Of James Halls
house knocked the plastering in the
house down. A long piece of fuse
was found in the keyhole of the front
door of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Other explosions took place
in front Of the Lutheran Church and
in the rear of the Presbyterian Church.
Last Sunday morning when Rev. M.
D. Gavsr, pastor Of the Lutheran
church, went to his front door he found
sticking under the door long fuse
attached to a big cartridge. The peo-
pie have at last realized that the law
lessness must be stopped, and they are
using every endeavor to catch the
perpetrators. One or two arrests have
been made, and it is believed others
Will fol1ou