Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-07-14
Notes From Nearby.

Charles Brown, of Hagerstown, rode
on bicycle from Hagerstown to Lu-
ray, Va, a distance of eighty-nine
miles, in little over FIVE hours.
Rev. Luther Miller, son Of Rev.
Victor Miller, of Leitersburg, Nd,
has accepted call to the pastorate OF
the Lutheran Church at Piedmont, ".
Va.
The school levy in Charlestown dis
trict has been fixed at q cents for the
teachers fund and 4 cents for the
building fund. The teachers salary
was made $40 per month.
Three carrier pigeons, belonging to
Edward Dunahugh, were liberated at
Shenandoah, Va, and few from that
place to Hagerstown, distance of lO7
miles, in two hours and ten minutes.
Messrs. E. W. Myers, of Shepherds
town, W. H. Kearfott, of Kearneys-
vile, and J. V. Quinn, Of Bedington,
have been made assistant marshals at
the Inwood Fair this year.-WartlHs-
burg Statesman.
Rev. ]. B. ChamberIin, pastor of
the United Brethren Church at
Keedysville, Nd, has rendered his
resignation and will 60 to the United
Brethren Mission Memorial Church,
in Washington, D. c.
The wife of Capt. W. E. Craighill,
United States Army, is now with her
father-in-law, General Craighill, in
Charlestown. She is the only sister Of
Lieutenant Byram, of the First Caval-
ry, who was wounded with the Rough
Riders in the first fight before Santi-
ago.
John W. Wright, veteran canal
boatman, plying between Cumberland
and Georgetown, died at the hospital
at Cumberland from exposure. His
boat sank, and he crawled from the
cabin to the deck, where he laid I'M
protected in the hot sun for an entire
day.
In Hagerstown Mrs. Frances Loose
Smith has sued the New York Home
Life Insurance Company to recover
$4,000 on policies held by her hus-
band, the late Robert Mel. Smith.
The company refused to pay the IN
surance on the ground that Mr.. Smith
was in bad health when be was in
sured.
The Williamsport whooly-gooly re-
ward case has been settled by the claim
ents agreeing to compromise and to d.
vide the reward, $500, among them.
The claimants were Sheriff Seibert, ex-
Sheriff Smith, Geo. Gatrell, Constable
Henry Curfman, William Sharer and
John CLANCY. Each Of the claimants
got $50.
A small tenant-house on the farm
of Squire Daniel Hehebower was de-
stroyed by fire on Wednesday last.
The building was a total loss and the
negro family living in it had every
thing burned up except what they
wore. The fire is supposed to have
originated from spark from the tlue.
No insurance. harlesto2cn Adr0cote.
Mr.. James Wiley, of Clarke county,
died last Saturday evening at the
home Of his son, Mr.. Charles E. Wiley,
in Berryville. The cause Of his death
was consumption. Mr.. Wiley was in
his 88th year. He leaves SIX children.
Mr.. Thomas w. Russell, a farmer Of
Clarke county, died at his home three
miles north Of Berryville, Sunday
morning. Mr.. Russell was 81 years
old.
The town of Front Royal, Va, was
startled Thursday afternoon by the
discovery Of the body Of popular
young man Of that place dangling by
the neck from a tree in the woods about
one and a-half miles from town. The
body was in a badly decomposed con-
dition, and was discovered by an old
colored woman picking blackbermes
The BODY was identified as that of
Hunter Peyton, 50 years Of age. He
had been missing from home since
Sunday. He was a great sufferer
from asthma, and the intense heat
probably aggravated his misery and
he determined upon death for relief.
a queer story of how a snake and a
rat kept company is told by Joseph
Garrish, WilIiamsport. Mr. Garrish
found good-sized oak log on the river
bank and proceeded to chop it into
frewood. When the axe cleaved the
log splitting it open great was his sur
prise to see a water moccasin about
three feet in length and a large rat &C.
cupying the same nest in the hollow.
Apparently being angered by the dis
turbance the snake coiled itself for a
spring at Mr.. Garrish, and the rat ut
tering its peculiar squeals attacked
him yiciously. Before he could re-
cover from the surprise the rat had
run up his leg to his waist and with a
quick blow he knocked the animal to
the ground and crushed its head with