Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-03-25
Notes From Nearby.

ander are actively pushing him for the
Democratic nomination for Attorney
General of Virginia.
Conductor Harvey E. Miller was
thrown from a runaway freight car on
the Frederick and Middletown electric
railroad yesterday. He was impaled
upon a fence-rail and instantly killed.
During the thunder storm yesterday
morning lightning struck the house
occupied by Howard Sheely in Hagers-
town. The dwelling was filed with
the fumes of sulphur and the occupants
were frightened almost out Of their
wits, but no one was hurt.
Martin Sheets, telegraph operator
at Shenandoah Junction, has invented
a wheel which he attaches to his BIZ
cycle and enables him to ride on the
rails of a railroad track. Mr.. Sheets
resides in Charlestown, and rides to
Shenandoah Junction in Is minutes,
a distance Of FIVE miles.
J.H Pierce, J. D. McCabe and ].
Payne, employed as labcrers in the B.
g. o. Railroad yard at Brunswick,
were caught by fall of the earth and
injured Saturday. Pierce was com
pletely buried by earth and stones
and, it is thought, injured internally
and probably fatally the other two
escaped without serious injury.
After thirty or more years Of train
ing and trimming, and being admired
by thousands of visitors, the National
Cemetery Board have ordered the
beautiful evergreens that encircle the
graves at Antietam National Cemete-
ry to be dug out and removed The
order is deplored by the residents Of
Sharpsburg, who fail to see anything
in it but a sacrilegious despoliation of
the beautiful trees.
Mrs. Julia Sheehan, wife of Dennis
Sheehan, whose death occurred on the
18th instant, died at the residence Of
her late husband near Berryville, on
Saturday, aged IS years. She had
been i'll with pneumonia for several
weeks, but had been relieved of that
trouble and was about well, but not
long after her husbands death she
told her physician that she would join
her husband Saturday, which was the
day she died.
Some son.of-a-gun, few days ago.
out of pure mischief or malice, shot one
of Mr.. Geo. T. Lights match-blacks
the mare. The wound seems to have
been made either with cat rifle or
small pistol, and while it is not re-
garded as dangerous, yet the fact re-
mains that it might have been Of
character that would have jeopardized
the life of very valuable high bred
animal. The ball has not been located
and the mare seems to be getting along
all right. It's a pity that the ofense
cannot be traced to the offender
CharIestoun Adrocate.
W. H. Dovel, near Stanley, Va,
and Miss Emma Buchanan, Of Shen-
andoah, Va, were quietly married
last week by the Rev. Henry E. Cot
ton. Mr.. Dovel met Miss Buchanan
at the Adams House, Roanoke, Va,
for the first time in 1891 and became
engaged. He at once left on business
for Washington Territory, and while
there he lost all traces Of his prom
ised bride. He arrived in Hagers-
town, February %, 1897, and, learn
ING that Miss Buchanan was in town
visiting relatives, he called upon her
and the old engagement was renewed.
R. G. Greer and L. R. Wolfus, both
of Martinsburg, W. Va, and J. NJ.
Santman, of Germantown, Nd, were
arraigned before Justice Richardson
in Chicago last Saturday upon com
plant of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road. They were arrested by Police
men Donahy and Hogan, who were
called into the office of a Clark street
broker, who had the men in charge.
1t was claimed that they had tried to
dispose of B. & o. mileage book,
which the broker thought had been
stolen. The police also found another
ticket broker to whom the young men
had sold three return tickets to Ger
mantown. The three young men de-
clare they came to Chicago for pleas
ure. The case was continued.
Mr.. Calvin Myers, living with Mr..
Gray Silver near Gerardstown, one day
last week had a thrilling experience
with vicious bull in which Mr.. Myers
exhibited heroic courage. Mr.. Myers
went to Mr.. John D. Gray's barn
yard to bring the animal to Mr.. Silver,
but the brute made a dash at him
when he went into the yard and drove
him back against the log barn, and
being small in stature he was forced
through between the logs, but seized
the bull by the nose and horn. Hold |
ing on for dear life the bull pulled
him out again and the wrestle began.
The bull reared and pitched about but
Cal. held on and threw the beast sew
eral times, finally mastering him and
leading him off with a rope on his
horns. With the exception of a few
bruises Mr.. Myers was uninjured.-
Martinsbmg Statesman.