Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-11-30
Notes From Nearby.

Notes From Nearby
CO. Lambert, of Martinsburg, killed
hog last week that dressed $50
pounds.
About 200 men are working at the
Hagerstown bicycle works. 1t is said
that the force will soon be greatly in
creased.
The Lutheran church at Middle
town, Nd, has recently been remod-
eled and improved at cost OF about
$4,000. including new pipe organ
costing $4,000. The church was re-
dedicated on Sunday last.
Harry Mentzer and Jack Spitzno-
gle, of Williamsport, speared in the Po-
tomac nine carp weighing Is pounds.
The largest fish weighed IS pounds.
Hill Ardinger, of the same place,
trapped l25 muskrats in one week.
In attempting to arrest couple of
negroes at Middleburg, Loudoun coun-
ty, Saturday night, Sergeant Milton
Seaton was so badly hurt that he may
die. One of the negroes cut him with
a razor, literally disemboweling him.
An escaped convict from the Mary
land House of Refuge at Jessups Cut
was arrested at Charlestown Tuesday.
He had or convict's uniform. Three
men wearing the same sort of suits
were seen at Halltown Sunday night.
R. S. Crawford, the bicycle manu-
facturer, will sell his real estate and
other property in Hagerstown and quit
the place. He will reside in New
York, where he is an officer in the
trust that recently bought the Hagers-
town plant.
Sam Johnson, the negro who as
saulted little Annie Kerfoot, is to be
hanged at Hagerstown Friday of next
week, December Sth. Johnson is IN
a fearfully nervous state and eats and
sleeps very little. He spends his time
in reading his Bible, praying and be-
moaning his fate.
Ex-Justice John A. Dugan, Of Will
Transport, was arrested last week on
the charge of violating the pension
laws by taking an illegal fee. He
was held in the sum of $500 for
hearing, He secured a pension for
Mrs. Ann Anderson, a widow, of
Williamsport, Of between $700 and
$500 back pay. Mr. Dugan says he
commenced work on the case in 1888
and entered into a contract with Mrs.
Anderson that he was to keep 25 per
cent Of the sum secured. A United
States statute limits pension fees to
$40. 1t is said the contract was made
before the law was passed. Mr.. Du-
gan saysthat he has spent over 800 Of
his own money in working up the
case. He thinks he can clear himself.
The hero of our dog population just
now is Teny," little yellow dog at
the residence of Mr.. Samuel a. Wit
kins, en- West Washington street.
Nearly year ago Mr.. Wilkins, be-
fore moving from Front Royal to
Charlestown, gave the aforesaid canine
to q nephew s miles south of that
place, and had not seen him since I'M
til Sunday last At about 3 o'clock
that afternoon Mr.. Wilkins was on
his front porch when up came TONY"
jumping and barking with delight.
Strange to say the little dog was never
known to have been in Charlestown
before, and how he managed to find
his old master here, fifty miles from
his former home, over strange ground,
is mystery.-ChwlestOIrn SPIRIT.
Hedgesville district is making
name for itself. Justice William E.
Light enjoys the distinction Of trying
a case, at the same time being COM
plainant and only witness. While
driving along one of the county roads
near Hedgesville one day last week
he noticed in field near by some boys
handling an old revolver He went
back to his Office, swore out COM
plant before himself, and had his con-
stable to apprehend them. They were
brought before him and tried, he be-
ing the only witness for the State.
He held one boy, Clarence Young, for
the action of the next grand jury, and
the other three, James Faulkwell, Alb
raham and Isaac Murphy, were sem
fenced to jail for ten days. The boys
employed an attorney and the justice
on his own action annulled the case,
and struck it from his docket.-Mar-