Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
Notes From Nearby.

Mrs. Gertrude Mealey, wife of Mr.
Edward w. Mealey, of Hagerstown,
died Monday of throat consumption,
aged IS years.
During the big fire in Hagerstown
Monday night the clothing and shoe
store of Max Reuben was robbed OF a
lot of goods.
Judge E. Boyd Faulkner, Martins
burg, in the Lamar-Cushwa election
contest, seated G. NJ. Lamar, Repub-
lican, as councilman.
An influential committee has been
appointed to visit Washington and in
vite President Mckinley and his cab
met to attend the Hagerstown fair in
in October.
Five large iron tablets, upon which,
in raised letters, is given an account
of the capture of Harper's Ferry by
tie Confederates in 1868, have been
placed near the B. & 0. depot at that
place.
Two northern tourists are reported
to have gotten into the old Reformed
graveyard at Sharpsburg, instead of
the National Cemetery, and were sur
prised that the government did not
keep it up better.
There is building at Winchester,
a commodious dwelling, in which no
provision for heating was made. The
work had gone on right merrily until
a day or two ago, when the workmen
discovered that there was not CHM
ney about the place. The roofers are
already at work and the oversight will
cause considerable delay and incon-
venience.
Capt. A. Newton Pierce, promi
nent citizen of Clarke county, died at
his home near -Wadesville Monday,
after lingering illness from COM
plication of diseases. Captain Pierce
was prosperous farmer, and had a
large relationship in Clarke and adj
joining counties. His wife was Miss
Mollie Bell, Of Jefferson county, who
survives him with ten children.
Ash, the negro murderer, was in town
a day or so ago and was seen and
talked to by some of his acquaintance.
According to this testimony he was in
Mr.. John yesterdays saloon early one
morning this week and on leaving there
went out across the boom in the di-
rection of Shenandoah Junction. He
has also been seen several times in the
vicinity of Summit Point. There seems
to be little effort being made to catch
him.-Cbarlestown Advocate.
Prof. George @. Pearson has issued
a call for convention Of peach grow
ers, to be held in Hagerstown, for the
purpose of devising means to extermi-
nate the yellows, which threaten to de-
stroy the peach industry throughout
the Blue Mountain belt and Washing
ton and adjoining counties. He says
the peach-growing industry is in great
peril. If the yellows and San Jose
scale are allowed to spread, he pre-
diets that the industry will be ruined
in few years.
The Round Top hydraulic cement
mill, a two-story frame structure owned
by Robert Bridges and Charles W.
Henderson, near Hancock, was de-
stroyed by fire last Saturday morning.
The loss will be about $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000. A bridge over the G.
& O. canal, connecting the mill with
the kilns, burned and dropped into
the canal, checking navigation for some
hours. The mill had just received a
good order and was running on full
time after periods of idleness. About
fifty men were employed, and the
product was about 800 barrels a day.
Messrs. Bridges and Henderson state
that they will rebuild at once.