Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-10-20
Notes From Nearby.

Mrs. Isabella Norris, OF Washing
ton, D. c., owner of more than half OF
the ground rent on property. in Will
Transport, is selling out her rights to
the property owners.
Ambrose Macneil, M. A., Scotch
artist, will visit the battlefelds in this
section and make studies and sketches
for several large paintings which he
will produce for exhibition in Europe,
where, he says, American subjects are
much appreciated.
Robert Chapman and Benjamin
Cline, two Winchester boys, were scuf-
fling in friendly way for the posses
sion of an old musket when the weap-
on was accidentally discharged. The
contents entered Chapman's side and
he is now lying at the point of death.
Owing to the storm on Tuesday
the walls of the power-house of the
Hagerstown Street Railway Company,
now in course of construction, were
blown down by the high wind. The
bricks and mortar fell on machinery
worth $1,000 that had just been
placed in the building
Frank D. Watkins and wife have
decided for $4,000 two acres and for
ty-eight perches of land, near Blue
Ridge Summit, to the Hospital for the
Relief of Crippled and Deformed Chill
dren of Baltimore City. Suitable
buildings will be erected on the land
for the care of deformed and helpless
children.
From the Hagerstown Mail: "Let-
tiers received here from Mrs. Adelaide
Allderdice and Mr.. Edw. W. Mealey
notified various of their friends of the
fact that their wedding was to take
place in San Francisco Saturday, Oc-
tober Is last. AS the date is past
friends of the couple are sending let
tiers of congratulations to the far
West.
Charles Wright, who was arrested
and held on the charge Of assaultlng
and robbing Mr.. Fayette Souders last
week, was examined before the mayor
on Thursday afternoon, States Attor-
ney Brown appearing for the State
and Judge Frank Beckwith for the
prisoner. The evidence against Wright
was deemed insufficient to hold him
for the ofense and he was discharged.
-Advocate.
Mrs. Joseph Miller, living near Ha-
gerstown, was fatally burned Monday
while attempting to save her fourteen
year-old daughter. The child had an
epileptic fit and the mother tried to
keep her from falling into the fire.
Mrs. Miller's clothes took fire, and she
rushed into the yard, completely en-
veloped in flames, screaming for help.
Her husband wrapped her in wet
cloths, but most of her clothes were
burned off. She was horribly burned
from shoulders to ankles. She died a
few hours after the accident.
The suit brought by Heath and Co..
against the American Book Company
was dismissed by Judge Jackson in the
United States Court at Martinsburg at
the cost of the plaintiff. The suit was
brought to prevent the use of Harvey S
grammar, published by the American
Company, in the free schools. nearly
all the counties in the State having
adopted the book. The Heath Com
pany first attempted to stop the use
of the book by threatening letters to
teachers, that failing, they brought
their suit against the publishers.
The Antietam Battlefield Commits
sion, of Maryland, has awarded to
Wilkinson & Neville, of Baltimore,
the contract for the erection of eight
granite blocks on the battlefield Of An
tietam to mark the positions Of the
MARYLAND Union and Confederate
troops engaged in that battle. The
markers for each command will be
of Woodstock granite, three feet eight
inches in height, one foot eight inches
square. The commission is engaged
in preparing specifications for fine
monument to these commands to cost
$4,000, which will be erected next
year in the neighborhood Of the Dunk
ard Church, at which place majority
of the Maryland troops were engaged.
Designs for this monument will be In
vited from artists throughout the
country. The last Legislature appro-
priated $4,000 for this work.