Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-10-07
Notes From Nearby.

citizen of Middletown Valley, died last
week, aged II years.
A large force of men is picking John
Miller's big apple crop in Berkeley
county. It'll said he will get $24, 1000
for his crop.
Receivers have been appointed for
the firm of William Wade & Son, mer-
chants, of Sharpsburg. The debts are
said to amount to $1,000 more than
the stock on hand.
The Undine Milling Company Of
Williamsport has entered suit against
Cyrus J. Zeigler, farmer, for $l65,
for refusing to deliver wheat sold by
him at IS cents bushel Wheat was
up to SO cents at the time for delivery.
Mrs. Nancy Mccoy, of Sharpsburg,
Washington county, has retracted Ian
guage impeaching Miss Helen NJ. PEN
nel's. character and Miss Pennel has in
consequence withdrawn her suit for
SANDER against Mrs. Mccoy, who pays
the costs.
The Hagerstown Globe says that
Ross Fayman and George NJ. Fisher
have been prospecting in the noun
tains of Fulton county, Pa, where
they found valuable minerals in abund-
ance--gold, silver, lead, iron and paint.
1t sounds most too good to be true.
William P. Strait, residing on Lick
ing Creek, near Hancock, aged forty
five years, because he believed himself
incapable of being converted, com
mitted suicide by hanging. His child
saw him struggling and informed the
mother, who cut him down, but he
was dead.
Near Glade Spring, Washington
county, last week, colored man was
feeding an ensilage cutter, when his
hand was caught in the knives, and
before the cutter could be stopped the
hand and arm up to within few inch
es of the shoulder were drawn under
the knives and chopped up into small
pieces. The man died few hours
after the accident.
In the Berkeley county court at
Martinsburg on Wednesday a decree
was entered in the case of Susan G.
Magran and others against the Poto-
mac Pulp Company, directing the de-
PENDANTS property to be sold to satisfy
a debt of $13,728. The debt Of the
Beaver Greek Timber Company against
the Potomac Pulp Company, amount
ing to $18,45430, was also established.
Mr.. Milton Kohler, jeweler, pur-
chased of the heirs of the late VIM. K.
Tice and the late D. c. Hammond the
brick business block on West Wash
ington street, Hagerstown,for 81, OOO.
The Mechanics Loan and Savings In
stitute offered Mr.. A. J. Schindel
$4,000 for the Schindel three-story
brick building on West Washington
street in which the bank is now loca-
ted, but the offer was refused.
The Shenandoah Milling Company
has entered suit in the Circuit Court Of
Jefferson county against the Charles
town Water and Manufacturing Com
pany for $4,000 damages for convert
ing to its use a great amount of the
water from a stream which flows from
town to the Shenandoah river, and
thus renders the supply of the stream
insufficient for the mill, which was
erected several years prior to the wa
ter works.
Messrs. H. H. Emmert, F. S. En-
inert and David Stewart, special COM
missioners, sold the large lot Of real es-
tate of the late Robert Stewart on Sat
urday last. The home farm Of 1874
acres near Darkesville was purchased
by Col. J. W. Mcdonald at $44 per
acre. The same purchaser also bought
the 75-acre tract lying west of Darkes-
vile at $42.40 per acre. Mr.. II. H.
Rutherford, of this city, bought the
241-acre tract near Tablers at $37 per
acre. We hear that after the sale Mr..
Rutherford transferred his bid to Mr..
Harry H. Stewart Nort'"sbo~g
Statesman.
CDR" Elijah Addison, colored,
whose home was at Stevens City, Va,
and who was a pedlar of patent medi-
cines, was murdered half mile from
Brunswick, Md, Tuesday night on the
road leading from Brunswick to Pc
tersville. Some people going to work
yesterday discovered blood in the road,
and following the trail to stone quar-
ry nearby, found the body of Addison.
He had evidently been attacked with
stones and killed and the body dragged
to the quarry and thrown in. Several
large stones were on top Of the corpse.
The head was mutilated to such an ex-
tent as to be almost beyond recogni-
ton. The supposed motive for the
crime was robbery, as nothing of value
was found on the body. The sheriff
of Frederick county made an investi-
CATION, and suspicion pointed very
strongly to George and Gardner Piper,
who live near Brunswick. They were
arrested and lodged in Jail. The cir
cumstantial evidence against them is
very strong.
away With Melancholy,