Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-04-15
Notes From Nearby.

Hagerstown fair stock sold Tuesday
at par value, $25 a share.
The epidemic of measles has broken
out among the children of Hagerstown.
The circuit court for Berkeley coun-
ty is in session, Judge Faulkner pre-
siding
Passenger trains on the B. & o.
Railroad have recently been stoned
near Winchester.
George W. Hartman has filed suit in
Hagerstown for divorce from his wife,
Martha Jane Hartman.
On Saturday John Runkles, Jr., was
thrown from runaway horse i'll Mar
tinsburg and badly hurt.
Mr.. Samuel Suman, a Boonsboro'
farmer, died Friday morning at the
age of seventy-two years.
A swindler is loose in the valley
selling fraudulent orders for photo
graphs. Look out for him.
DR.. D. Ryder, of Martinsburg, has
been appointed veterinarian by the
State Board Of Agriculture.
A committee has been appointed to
invite President Mckinley to the Win
chester fair next September.
1t is said that the next encampment
of the West Virginia National Guard
will be held at Martinsburg.
There is an effort to have the an
nual meeting Of the Daughters of the
Confederacy in West Virginia meet in
Martinsburg in July.
A fire at Leesburg, Va yesterday
destroyed the grain elevator, mill and
warehouse of W. S. jenkins. The loss
is $4,000, insurance $4,000
Mr.. German Smith, owner of the
Winchester sumac mills, died Satur-
day, leaving an estate valued at about
100000 and life insurance for $40,-
600.
Eight carloads of bicycles-l 800
in all-were shipped by the Crawford
Bicycle Company of Hagerstown last
week. They were sent to the Boston
selling agency.
A bed in which John Brown slept
in 1859 when he was on his way to
Harpers Ferry was sold at Greencas-
tie, Pa, the other day for $3.50. 1t
was a four-poster made in 1880 at a
cost Of $75.
Pensions granted Elizabeth Rey-
nolds, Harper's Ferry Chas. S. Rob
inson, Brown Freeman, Mary Stevens,
Martinsburg; Hannah NJ. Tucker, Van
clevesville. Mrs. Tucker gets over
5000 back pay.
The Harpers Ferry correspondent
of the Charlestown SPIRIT says that
Mr.. Richard Randolph Mcmahon, who
was recently appointed one of the re-
gents of the West Virginia University,
is in politics a silver Democrat and in
religion a Catholic. He married
daughter ofthe late Mr.. Jerome Young,
of Harpers Ferry, and they now re-
side there.
There was quite a large lot Of valu-
able property offered for sale at the
front door of the courthouse on Sat-
urday last. Mr.. F. G. Foreman pur-
chased the Potts tract of land at $40
per acre, Mr.. G. S. Roush purchased
the Carper house at 81 1926, and ]. c.
Cox bought the John ]. Hollis land at
Gerardstown at $3.50 per acre.
A chapter Of the Daughters of the
Confederacy has been formed at
Charlestown, with the following Of
fcers: President, Mrs. Margaret Ais
quith; vice-president, Mrs. W, W. B.
Gallagher; treasurer, Mrs. Logan
Shut; secretary, Mrs. G. n Coleman.
The name adopted was Lawson Bolts
Chapter of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy."
Maj. S. ]. c. Moore, of Berryville,
Va, a gallant ex-Confederate and able
speaker, Will deliver the address on
memorial day in Charles
town, Saturday, May %. On the
night of memorial day a lecture or
musical entertainment will be given,
proceeds to go toward securing head
stones for the graves of the Confeder-
ate dead buried in Edge-Hill Gene
terry.
Annie, the seven-year-old daughter
of Mr.. R. B. Mcdonald, who lives on
the place of Mr.. VIM. Lucas, three
miles north of this place, met with the
misfortunate of breaking her leg above
the knee on Wednesday evening. Mr..
had just started to town in
a buggy, and the little girl swinging on
behind the vehicle caught her leg be-
tween the spokes, resulting as above
stated. DR.. Bishop rendered surgical
attention.-AdUocate.