Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-07-13
Notes From Nearby.

There Is talk Oh Dullolng trolley
line between Winchester and Berry
vile.
Mr.. ]. Frank Miller and Miss Viola
Burhans, two well-known Hagerstown-
ers, were married last Thursday.
Hagerstown is to get a captured
Spanish cannon from the government,
and ex-Mayor S. NJ. Bloom will spend
$1,000 in mounting it and making a
handsome park forit.
Rev. W. T. Seyfert, of Reading, Pa,
has accepted a call to the Presbyterian
Church at Berkeley Springs. He re-
Gently completed his course Of studies
at Princeton.
Charles Broadway Rouss, Of New
York, has Just sent check for $500
to pay for full set of new uniforms
for the Charley Rouss Fire Company
of Winchester
During the storm last Thursday
evening lightning struck the b. q u.
signal tower at Fauvers, near Martins
burg, and setting it afre burned it to
the ground. The operator escaped
unhurt.
The presidents of the FIVE boards of
education in Jefferson county, together
with the county superintendent Of free
schools, held meeting in Charlestown
last Friday and appointed Mr.. Wright
Denny, principal of the Charlestown
Graded School, as member of the
county board of examiners.
Monday morning youth, II years
old, named John Cushion, hailing from
Milton, Pa, was run over while at
tempting to board westbound freight
train at Harper's Ferry. His left leg
was cut off below the knee. The flesh
was torn from lis other leg, and the
scalp from off the back Of his head.
He was sent to hospital in Wash
ington,
A bold robbery occurred at Wood
stock, Va, last Sunday. Miss Crane,
of Maryland, was visiting at the home
of Rev. Mr.. Bushong, and about the
middle of the day was in the yard
alone when tramp grabbed her. He
pulled three rings from the young
lady's fingers and hastily made his es-
cape. Later in the day two of the
rings were found where he dropped
them. Miss Crane was frightened
into Inconsistencies.
J. NJ. Barr, who resigned as general
manager and vice-president of the
Norfolk & Western Railway, will get
the place of third vice-president of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way, and will be in charge Of the oper-
ating department. The N. & W. has
announced the following changes in
its officials: L. Z. Johnson, general
manager, to succeed Mr.. Barr; James
C. Cassell, general superintendent, to
succeed L. E. Johnson J. W. Cook,
superintendent Radford Division, to
succeed James G. Cassell; Thomas
Low, superintendent Shenandoah Val
leyDivision and Salem Winston Divis-
ion, to succeed ]. w. Cook.
Rev. C. S. Trump, of this city, went
to Buck Hill, about four miles west Of
Gerardstown, Sunday afternoon and
organized the st. Peters Evangelical
Lutheran Church. The services were
conducted in the woods at Buck Hill
in the presence of large audience.
The church was organized with twelve
charter members. James Emory was
installed as deacon and j. W. Lewis as
elder. After the services Rev. Trump
baptized the largest number Of infants
and adults that have ever been bap-
tized in Berkeley county at one time.
Six adults and twenty-five infants were
baptized. The congregation will erect
a church at Buck Hill in about year.
-Martinsb,0y World.
The land assessors recently appoint
ed by the Board of Public Works will,
from what we understand, have con-
siderable to look after in the way Of
lots at different points in the county
which have been improved (some of
them handsomely and are not taxed
with the improvements. One case we
heard of where lot upon which is
good house is assessed at about $40
and pays somewhere about Is cents
tax. All taxable property should be
taxed on an equal footing. Personal
ty may in some cases be hid, but realty
shows for itself, and our assessors
should-and we have no doubt will
look carefully after all late improve
ments, of which there are number
in Observation-Disclosures Spirit.