Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-05-11
Notes From Nearby.

year-old son of Charles Aulick fell
into tub Of water and was drowned.
Mr.. Earnest Pearrell and Miss Lii
lie Herring, both OF Brunswick, Md,
were married Wednesday of last week.
Miley Bros, of Charlestown, have
purchased the B. c.. Washington coal
yard and elevator in that place for
81, 400.
Frank Roden, who is believed to be
a notorious postofice robber, was ar
rested at Martinsburg Monday by
government detectives.
Judge John T. Lowell, clerk Of War
rem county, Va, and for many years
editor of the Front Royal Sentinel,
was paralyzed yesterday and is IN a
critical condition.
Rev. William Goodrich, for thirty
four years pastor of st. Johns German
Reformed church, Clearspring, and st.
Paul's church, near Conococheague,
died Saturday night at his home in
Clearspring, of heart trouble, aged
about seventy years.
They do not, evidently, know era
zy woman when they see her, at Mar
tinsburg. Miss Florence Meyers, whom
they recently sent to the asylum, was
sent back home, there having been
some mistake about her not being
clothed in her right mind.
Lewis Fine, brother of Mr.. Fine, Of
the firm of Fine & Snyder, died on
Tuesday night at the University Of
Maryland hospital in Baltimore, where
he had gone to be treated for dropsy
and Bright's disease. His age was 80
years.-MartjnSb1ug Statesman.
Mr.. John NJ. Miller and Miss Fam
ME Hoffman, daughter Of Hon. E. L.
Hoffman, of Bunker Hill, were mar
ried Tuesday evening, April %, at
7 o'clock, at the home Of the brides
brother, Mr.. Randolph Hoffman. Rev.
Ashlin White performed the ceremony.
At a recent meeting Of the town
council of Berryville a committee,
composed Of Mayor D. II. Jones and
Councilman H. ". Baker, was APP
pointed TO employ an engineer to COM
plete and put in working order the
system of water works started for the
town in 1891.
Philip II. Wingert, well-known
resident of Washington county, died
at his home near Hagerstown last Fri
day of paralysis, aged 10 years. He
owned many houses in Hagerstown
and good deal of land. He was for
years a director in the fair and Ha-
gerstown Bank.
The Harrison Granite Company, of
Barre, Vt, to which was awarded the
contract for the memorial to the Union
and Confederate dead on the battle
field of Antietam, expects to begin the
work of erecting the monument next
Monday. The monument must be com
pleted by September 18th, when the
unwilling ceremonies will take place.
Jacob C. Moler, aged 70 years, and
Mrs. Cathariue Goodyear, aged so,
were married last Thursday at Me-
chanicsburg, Pa. Moler had been
Tilted two days previous by Miss Marie
Robert, of Hagerstown, but he was de-
termined to get wife, and lost no
time in finding some one who would
marry him, He is well-to-do, and
has several fine farms.
a dispatch from Berryville to the
Baltimore Sun Of this morning says:
"a young man named Roderick, Of
Charlestown, shot himself through the
leg, between the thigh and the knee,
while handling a pistol in the dining
parlor Of Jones confectionery here to-
day. The wound is a very painful one,
and had the bullet passed little higher
up, it would have severed an artery
and death would have resulted.
The Frederick Fair Association has
named the following board Of directors
for Jefferson county: NJ. B. Baker
chairman; Towner Schley, secretary;
B. S. Pendleton, B. f. Harrison, VIM.
A. Chapline, c. T. V. S. Butler, G. 7.
Licklder, Isaac w. Williams, R. W.
Morrow, c. D. Wysong, J. P. KearfOtt,
George L. Hoffman, Dr. Allen S.
Reynolds, E. H. Remnant, John H.
little, G. T. Hodges, Daniel Getzen-
danner, D. S. Rentch, VIM. Gilbert,
DR.. G. w. Banks, Harry L. Snyder,
Capt. Frank Manning, D. Lynn Ma
gruder, John W. Marshall, Jonn c.
Lambert, c. E. Jones. The next fair
will be held October II to 20.
There are troublous times in the lit
tie village of Smithburg, Washington
county, Nd. One day last week
young man named Richardson was ar
rested for shooting at J. 7. Towson,
having fired upon him in the dark.
Richardson was jailed in Hagerstown.
Harry Emily, who is said to have
been with him, was also put in Jail
and held as a witness. Saturday night
Mr.. Towsons warehouse was burned,
and Monday Percy Emily, brother of
Harry, was arrested and placed in Jail
on the charge Of being implicated in
the incendiary act. There is much
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