Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-09-30

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Mr.. Harry Lee Doll, Of this city, to Miss
| Miiicent Scott Jones, Of Winchester
The wedding viii take place in Christ's
church in Winchester, Thursday, Oct. ~
at O'Clock.
The infant child OF Mr. and Mrs John
| Bogert died Sunday of brain fever, aged
two months and twenty-four days. The
funeral took place foom the house this
| afternoon at four O'Clock. Rev. Staley con-
Quoting the services. Interment in Green
Hill cemetery.
MIR. Charles L. Sencindiver, who has
been lately working for the IT, S. Fish
Commission, has secured a position in
the Government Navy Yard at Newport
News. He left Friday for Washing
ION, where he will report and then go to
Newport News.
f. d. Bowley, caugh in the Potomac
at Shepherdstown. carp on fly rod,
which weighed s. II pounds. II B..
Maddox also caught four carp. One
weighed 81 ~ pounds, two "a pounds,
one 10 and the other II pounds.
The daughter of Joseph Stokes. ofnear
Stokes schoolhouse, has been declared in
sane and papers showing her condition
have been sent to the Insane Asylum.
She and Mrs. Frank Zepp will probably
be taken u Weston at the same time.
She IS about twenty years of age.
Mrs. John w. ptzer was taken sud-
denly i'll with acute cole at two O'Clock
Monday morning and has been sufferingn
tenselv ever since. At times she loses
all Consciousness and her condition is
considered rather serious Her many
friends hope for her speedy recovery.
Dennis Collins, one Of the oldest Sec
ton hands on the Valley Branch OF the
Baltimore and Ohio. was killed near
Stephensons, Monday afternoon. Mr.
Collins was engaged IN distributing rail-
road ties from hand car. In attempting
to board the car he slipped and fell.
On exhibition in the show window OF
w. l.. Jones & Co, is a large peach
which was raised by Sheriff J. H. Smith,
supposed to be the largest peach raised
this season in Berkeley county. The card
on it SAYS it weighs fraction less than
Il ounces and is peach
VIM. Ford. the twelve year old son Of
J. c. Ford, 4o7 Faulkner avenue, while
PLAYING bal ON the boom Monday even
ing fell and broke his left arm below the
elbow The young man was picked up
by his playmates and carried to bis home
a d physician summoned.
Over IN Tucker county man was found
dead in a stream and on his person was
revolver and $50. A Justice OF the
Peace had the corpse arrested tor carry
ing concealed weapons, fined it $50 and
took the money. 1t is not stated whether
he sold the corpse to medical college or
soap factory in order to save The expense
of burying 1t.
Odette Tyler, the wife of RID. Shepherd,
found boxlul of gems belonging to a
Johannesburg diamond king in New
York cab. She advertised her find, like
good little girl, and the happy loser pre-
sented Miss Tyler with one of the largest
stones in the bunch for her honesty and
as a mark of gratitude. The police and
detectives had several important clews TO
the missing kit in several cities, OF course.
The funeral Of Mary Dorathy the hf-
teen-months old daughter of MIR. and Mrs
Frank Hollis took place from the Misses
Marstela, on Burke street, Sunday at
; O'clock Rev. DR., Price ofticiated, and
the interment was IN Ncrbourne cemetery.
Oswald Bender, Robert Stewart Lewis
Koeelschatz and Noble Friskey actedas
pal-bearers.
The City School Board was TO have
met in regular bi-weekly session, Monday
night, but owing to no quorum being
present the meeting was postponed. The
| only commissioners present were Messrs.
! ID. NJ. Kilmer and A. F. Bentz. The
other commissioners live at the far end OF
town and did not venture out in the rain.
The next meeting will be held on the
second Monday IN October.
Rose Martin appeared at the Mayors
office Tuesday and aid that Laura
| Belts had threatened TO kill her and that
she wanted a peace warrant sworn out
for her arrest. Such quarrels and occur
rences are frequent among thatcrowd and
Mayor Henshaw would not issue the war
rant The complainant then went away
saying that il Laura Belts ever attempt
ed TO carry out her threat she would give
her the best in the house
Thomas Pendeton, the negro arrested
here last week by officers Hollis and
Hardy for a robbery in Hagerstown, re-
fuses to be taken into Maryland without
requisltion papers. An officer was 10
come over from HagerstoWn after him
Mondaynight, bur whenPendeton heard OF
it he said he would not 90 without reoul-
stion papers. Sheriff Smith then tele'
phoned him not to come without the re-
, QUESTION papers and he will not be taker
there until the necessary papers are got
ten.
A FreScOer.
: Mr.. II. J. Duke, Of Shippensburg, Pa.
p, spent sometime in this city today on m