Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-01-28
Notes From Nearby.

| organized the Shenandoah Valley
| Poultry and Pigeon Association, and
are now arranging for an exhibition to
be held the 25th and 26th of February
The following gentlemen have been
elected town officers Of Bolivar corpor-
alton: Mayor, E. T. Kirby; Recorder,
R. L. Loman Council, Daniel Dinkle,
David Beck, J. E. Baden, John Brin-
der, w. NJ. Chambers
George s. Jennings. time clerk in
the B. & O. Railroad yards at Bruins
wick, was accidentally killed by the
cars last Friday night. His body was
not discovered until next morning.
He was formerly in the grocery bust
ness in Martinsburg.
Mr. W. T. Millessn, tenant on the
farm of Rev. ]. ]. Engle, near this
place, lost last week two horses from
horse-diphtheria. The disease is some
thing like CHAMBERS. Another of his
horses is affected with the same dis
ease.-BerryriUe Courier.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, who has
stock farm near Asburn, Loudoun
county, Va, sent eighteen thorough
bred horses to large stock sale in
New York last week. The entire lot
brought $2,975, less by $25 than he
paid for one mare two years ago.
News has been received from Bailiff
Miller, the missing Boonsboro man.
He had gone away December I'd, and
nothing had been heard from him I'M
til Tuesday, when telegram was re-
ceived from the missing man, saying
he was at West Union, W. Va, and
would leave for home the following
day.
Mr.. Frank G. Carpenter, the we'll
known newspaper correspondent, who
purchased last summer tract OF land
on the summit of the Blue Ridge noun
tains near Mount Airy, in Clarke coun-
ty, has force of workmen now engag-
ed in erecting a handsome house and
other buildings thereon and will make
that his summer home.
DR.. John W. Hilleary, one Of the
most prominent physicians in Fred
erick county, Nd, died at his home,
in Petersville Tuesday night of pneu-
monia, aged sixty-six years. He was
well-known in that State and Virginia,
where he has been practicing medicine
for forty years. He leaves widow
and one son, Edgar Hilleary.
A boy at Raphine, in Rockbridge
county, was caught in fodder cutter
one day last week Beginning with
his fingers his arm was cut off two
inches at a time, until the wheel knife
reached the elbow. During this ter
rible experience the boy did not faint,
but remained perfectly cool. The ma
chine was run by horse power.
James Booker, colored, got into a
quarrel over a game of crap with Will
lam Ross in saloon in Hagerstown,
and shot him in the head with 49,
caliber revolver. The bullet struck
Ross squarely in the head, but his head
was so hard that the ball merely fat
tened and fell to the floor. Only
slight scalp wound was inflicted.
The kitchen attached to the property
of the heirs of Capt. John Avis, occu-
pied by Messrs. Elmer Stonesifer and
R. H. Taylor, took fire yesterday about
one o'clock. Timely discovery and
prompt service of citizens and the fire
department, however, prevented Sc
rious confagration.- Mar1eStO'cn Splr-
1t.
Rev. David Long died last Sunday
at his home, near Fair Play, Washing
ton county, of pneumonia, aged seven
ty-six years. For forty.seven consec-
utfTfe years he preached to the congre-
cations at the Manor, Sharpsburg, the
Marsh and townsville. The Sharps-
burg Westinghouse in which he ofici-
ated is the one so famous as the prln-
cipal landmark on the Antietam bat
tleGeld, pictures of which are familiar
all over the land.
The village of Gerardstown is quiet,
unpretentious little town, but it is
noted for the large fortunes made by
some of its residents. A gentleman
reminded us few days ago that in
years gone by four Of its residents
made each over hundred thousand
dollars. They were: Messrs. John P.
Wilson, grandfather of Mr.. Wilson P.
Coe John S. Bowers, father Of Hon.
Geo. NJ. Bowers Mr.. John W. Stewart,
whose children now live in Alexandra
and Richmond, Va. /; and Mr.. Ebenez-
er Coe, father of Nj. W. P. Coe,-
Martlnsburg Statesman.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has resumed its through
passenger and freight trains via staun-
ton and Harpers Ferry to Washing
ton and Baltimore, having arranged
a traffic contract with the Southern
Railway Company, whose capture of
its track from Harrisonburg to Strss-
burg a few weeks ago left the Balti-
more and Ohio Company with long
gap in its line through the Shenan-
doah Valley to Lexington. Local
business between Harrisonburg and
Strasburg will be exclusively handled
by the Southern Railway, but on
through business the Baltimore and
Ohio restores its passenger and freight
rates as before the trouble between