Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-03-09
Notes From Nearby.

Mr.. Thomas Comiskey died in
Martinsburg last Friday, aged 7S
years.
Harry Stinebaugh, boy eight years
old, was killed in Hagerstown yester-
day by falling under Western Mary
land locomotive.
Mr.. G. D. Ely has sold to Mr.. L.
A. Osbourn the house and lot west Of
and adjacent to the latters premises,
on West Washington street, for $525.
SPIRIT
H. H. Emmert, special commission
err, sold the "Drinker farm" near
Bunker Hill, Berkeley county, to 0. B.
Lefever and NJ G. Tabler. The farm
consisting of 2l9 acres, and the con-
sideration was $7,008.
At Boonsboro on Monday John R.
Fletcher was elected burgess, Michael
Bender assistant burgess, and Joseph
| Keedy, T. w. Williams, F. E. Storm,
w. F Bast and Jacob Young COM
missioners The new board is said to
be opposed to the waterworks, though
the system has been established and
the people are paying well for it.
At the town election in Williams
port on Monday the candidates in
favor of electric lights and water
works were elected by good majorities.
George Thompson was elected burgess,
G. w. McCardell assistant burgess,
and VIM H. Beard, VIM. II. Norris,
Samuel Preston, P. L. Lemen and H.
S. Ardinger commissioners. The con-
test was bot one.
Last Sunday night FIVE masked men
visited the home OF Miss Eliza Waltz,
an elderly lady who lived about a
mile from Cavetown, in Washington
county Nd, and demanded her money.
They tied her and little boy who
lived with her to the bed, and then
ransacked the house. They finally
came upon her money, amounting to
nearly $1,000, which they carried off,
leaving their victims bound until re-
leased by friends next morning. The
robbers have not been discovered.
1t is said that a large black beaI
has been infestlng that section of the
country between Sandy Hook and We
verton adjacent to the Potomac river
for two weeks past The animal is re-
ported to have carried off pigs and
other domestic animals belonging to
farmers, who have hunted bruin in vain
with guns to kill him. Thursday night
while returning home Joseph EIgln en-
countered the bear on the road, and
ran back to Weverton to give the
alarm. A large party armed with
guns and pistols stated out to hunt
for the bear, but failed to find it,
Harry E. Sands, son of William D.
Sands, Hagerstown, who ran away
from home in 1879 because his father
whipped him for invading a neigh
boris melon patch, came back to Ha-
gerstown last week. He has seen
large slice of the world during his alb
sence. He ioined a party Of thirty
Klondikers, who organized the Mon
tana Exploring Company. They bought
a steamer and sailed from San Fran
cisco to Cooks Inlet, and after pros
pecting seven months located mine
that yields $40 ton. He paid $40
share for his stock, but has lately
refused $500 share for it, He brought
his wife with him to his old home,
A woman who said she was from
near Martlnsburg deserted her four
year-old boy IN a cab in Hagerstown.
The little boy says his name Is Herman.
The woman was well dressed. She told
the cabman to drive to the Orphans
Home. There she failed to have the
child admitted, as she was not resi-
dent of Washington county. Driving
thence to "A store, the woman told the
cabman to wait until she made some
purchases. He waited over an hour,
and the woman did not return. He
took the child to his home. 1t will be
placed in the Orphans Home if not
called for. The woman wore rich
silk dress, diamond ring and a gold
watch. She arrived over the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad and held re-
turn ticket to Martinsburg.