Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-05-18
Notes From Nearby.

erect handsome and commodious
theatre in Martinsburg.
c. T. shugert has purchased of S.
w. Wysong the Coyle dwelling,
Charlestown, for 1890.
Walter S. Ely, of Frederick, fell
from the top of B. O. freight car near
Brunswick Thursday night and was so
badly hurt he died Saturday.
The B. & o, Railroad, it is stated,
will build twenty-five miles of new
track in Frederick county, Nd, in or
der to avoid the heavy grades between
Lime Kiln and Woodbine.
The big Crawford bicycle works,
Hagerstown, have been absorbed by
the great bicycle trust recently formed
in New York, along with hundred
other bicycle factories which are in
the combine.
A party of Hagerstown capitalists
and business men last Saturday drove
over the route upon which it is pro-
posed to build trolley line to Myers
vile, there to connect with the road
to Frederick.
Refunded bonds to the amount of
$4,000 were sold Monday by the COR
poration of Charlestown to the Bank
of Charlestown at $l04!. The bonds
bear per cent interest and run for
thirty years.
The town of Williamsport, Nd, will
issue bonds and erect an electric light
plant Of its own, to cost $4,000. The
plant will furnish twenty arc lights
and give power besides for an mean
descent system.
II. L. Ronemous has purchased the
lot of D. J. Howell, adjoining the
properties of Samuel Howell and Dr.
J. NJ. Ransom, on Main street, and will
improve it by the erection Of a dwell
ING house. Press.
At Hancock, last Thursday, two
barns and a warehouse owned by P. 7.
Little, general merchandise dealer,
and William Z. Little, his brother,
boatman and coal merchant, adjoining,
were totally destroyed by fire, with all
their contents. Loss $4,000.
The Hagerstown fair board has re-
considered its plan to hold the fair
five days, and Will have the exhibition
open but four days-October 10 to IS.
Max Huyett, Of Cavetown, was chosen
as chief marshal. a new exhibition
hall is to be built in place of the old
one.
The store-room of J. T. Sprint, at
Boyce, Clarke county, was destroyed
by fire yesterday morning. Mrs. Z,
c. Sprint occupied the storeroom and
her stock of goods, together with the
buildings, was lost. The origin Of the
fire is unknown. The building was
insured
A marriage license was issued last
week to Thomas A. Tucker, of Ante
tam, and Miss Martha E. Gross, Of
Rohrersville. This is the second IL
cense issued to this couple. The first
one was issued last November, but Mr..
Tucker found that the lady was locked
up by her parents and he destroyed
the license. The parental consent was
recently obtained and the wedding
has taken"place.
A law in Virginia permits the whip
ping Of children under sixteen years Of
age for certain misdemeanors. 1t was
enforced at Winchester the first time
the other day, when William Layton,
a colored youth about fourteen years
Of age, pleaded guilty to stealing from
a store and was sentenced to receive
twenty-five lashes. Officer Mccartney
inflicted the punishment in the station
house in the presence of the boys
mother.
John W. Dodd, the well-known auc-
tioneer, has leased the Continental
Hotel, the old popular house, and will
engage in the hotel business. The sta
bles, which have undergone Thorough
overhauling and enlarging, are now
open and the public Is welcome to
hitch in the yard free Of charge. The
hotel, which is now undergoing thor
ough renovation, repairing, repaint-
ing and refurnishing, will be opened
as soon as the work can be completed.
Mr., Dodd will run the hotel on the
latest and most modern plans and will
make it a frst-class hotel.-Nartj1S-
burg Statesman.
The Martinsburg Statesman says:
DR.. n. D. Baker received a letter few
days ago from his son Julian, who is
now in Cuba, having gone there as
soldier. He and Hugh Frazer have
now good paying positions as civilians
and are getting along very nicely.
Julian writes that he was offered
large salary to go to South America,
but the contract bound the employer
to send his body back to the United
States when he died. Baker states
that he could not stand that. Ifit had
read if he died lie would not have OBJ
jected. He states that the Cuban mos
quitos are as large as chickens and
have bills like storks.