Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-01-19
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Rev. E. A. Temple has resigned the
rectorship of Calvary Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Front Royal, Va, be-
cause of protracted sickness.
Jacob Dellinger and others caught
fourteen bushels of fish with dragnet
in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at
Dellingers whitewater, near Williams
port.
Charles o. Chew, prominent young
man of Waynesboro, Pa, died Satur-
day. His death, it is said, was caused
directly by excessive cigarette smok-
ing. He fingered helpless invalid
for weeks before his death.
Senator Wellington has introduced
bill to pay the Reformed Church of
Sharpsburg, Nd, $8O922, the full
amount of the civil war claim Of the
church, in accordance with the find
ings of the Court Of Claims.
The directors of the Hagerstown
Fair Association organized by elect
lug John W. Stonebraker, president;
George W. Smith, Jr., vice-president
Frank Wilmer and Clifford P Martin,
secretaries John D. Brewer, treasur-
er.
Clarence Sterne, youngest son Of Mr..
William Sterne, former well known
resident Of Williamsport, committed
suicide by blowing his brains out at
the home of his sister, Mrs. J. 0. Full
ton, in Topeka, Kan, last Tuesday.
Ill health is said to have been the
cause. He was twenty-four year. old.
1t is said thata company will be or
gained to extend the electric railroad
from Myersville, Frederick county, to
Funkstown, Washington county, dis
lance of eight and one-half miles, to
connect with the Hagerstown Electric
Railway Company's system. If this
extension is built Frederick and Ha-
gerstown vii! be connected by twenty
SIX miles of electric road.
Mr.. J. Baker Kearfott is lying seri-
ously i'll at his home in Martinsburg,
as the result Of fall about two weeks
ago. While walking along the street
he slipped and fell on the hard pave
ment, but at the time he thought he
was not hurt and did not take any
notice of it. About a week ago he
was taken with what he thought was
the grip, but it turned out not to be
the grip, but injuries received from
the fall. He is partially paralyzed in
both his limbs.-Maytins5Tg World
Mr.. Worth Anderson, who resides
near Summit Point this county, re-
ceived the sad news by telegram on
Thursday last that his son Eugene had
been killed on the railroad the day
previous in the State of Washington.
Young Anderson, who had about
reached his majority, left his home
here last summer and went to Nevada,
where an uncle resides. From there
he drifted into the State Of Washing
ton. We have not the particulars at
hand as to how the young man met his
death, but it it is inferred the acct
dent occurred while engaged in active
railroad duties.-CHarleStoVa Aduo-
cute
1t is reported on what is regarded as
good authority that the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company is endeav-
orng to purchase the Washington,
Ohio and Western Railroad, which runs
between Alexandria and Round Hill.
They will, should they succeed, com
plete the road to a point on their line
at Berryville or Boyce. This would
give them an outlet, long sought, to
Washington, and would also serve as
connecting line with the Bismark and
Potomac Railroad between Winches-
ter and Bismark, W. Va, which is
projected with the view Of reaching
tidewater, and which could easily be
extended the additional eight or ten
miles necessary to complete the con-
nertiOu