Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-10-12
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cred % bushels of chestnuts, which he
sold for $240 per bushel.
Policeman Dutrow, who brutally
assaulted Editor w. E. Hoffheins, was
suspended by the Martinsburg city
council Tor twenty days. He gets of
mighty easy.
Samuel S. Stouffer has in his orch
ards near Sharpsburg about 5000
bushels of apples. He sold the entire
crop to Philadelphia firm, who are
now shipping them by the carload.
The Washington county branch OF
the B. & 0. Railroad, which has long
had the reputation of being the rough
est piece of road in this section, is be-
ing improved and relaid with new
steel rails.
William Houser, of Sharpsburg, shot
an eagle along the canal the other day
that measured seven feet from tip to
tip. 1t was beautiful specimen, and
he sold its tail feathers at ten and ff-
teen cents each.
Lieutenant Chas. P. Faulkner, who
entered the regular army last summer
with a commission as second lleuten-
ant, has been promoted to the rank of
first lieutenant. He is now with Gen
eral Lawton in the Philippines.
William D. Garvin, a prominent
grain dealer Of Boyce, Clarke county,
died Wednesday night after pro-
tracted illness with typhoid fever.
Mr.. Garvin was 81 years of age and
leaves a widow and five children.
The barn on the farm of Mrs. R-H.
Borum, near Tabler's Station, in Berke-
ley county, was destroyed by fire last
Saturday evening, causing loss OF
about 5000. The fire was caused by
the explosion of lantern in the barn.
The marriage of Miss Edith Howard
Allen, very attractive young lady,
daughter of Mr. R. O. Allen, of the
Summit Point vicinity, to Mr.. Hugh
Holmes Mccormick, of the law firm OF
Marshall Mccormick & Son, Of Berry
Vile, is announced to take place on
November I'd next.
"Thurmansmeire," in Clarke coun-
ty, the estate of Gen. Charles Thur
man, formerly Of Nashville, Tenn,
which he bought few years ago, has
been sold to Mr.. James Graham, Of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, for 800, 800. This
property is one of the prettiest homes
and finest farms in the valley of Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. Lavinia Marshall, near Keedys-
Vile, had an epileptic fit the other day
and fell against a hot stove with her
arm in the baker. She lay there
for long time before she was dis
covered, and her arm was literally
roasted. She is in critical condition
and the arm will have to be ampu-
tated.
Mr.. Becker, we have been informed,
lost over half of his tobacco crop on
the mountain on account of the frost
Sunday night; estimated loss, about
eight thousand dollars. The crop was
very fine, but Mr.. Becker, since the
death of his brother has had too much
to attend to and put his crop in too
late and neglected to gather it soon
enough to escape the frost,-Hmper's
Ferry Sentinel.
Editor Clifford, colored, of the Mar
tinsburg Pioneer Press, has been in
dicted by the federal grand jury, in
Clarksburg, for sending unavailable
matter through the mails. His trial
is set for October l6, in Martinsburg,
while the Federal District Court is in
session there, with Judge Jackson on
the bench. The indictment was found
on the information of Postmaster Clo-
han, Geo. w. Feidt and Thomas Rus
sler.
Harry T. Dorr, son of VIM. T. Dorr,
of Martinsburg, had a serious accident
happen to him at Sandy Hook Sat-
urday night. He had been working
for the B. & O. at Brunswick, and in
attempting to Jump train at Sandy
Hood fell between the cars. The
wheels passed over his right leg above
the ankle and cut his foot clear off. He
was taken home and Dr. Myers dressed
the severed limb. He is getting along
as well as could be expected.
Charles A. Martin, the oldest man
in Washington county, died Tuesday
evening of general debility, aged near
ly 98 years, at the home Of his SON.
in-law, Jacob E. Fisher, in Hagers-
town. He was never sick day. He
was born in Baltimore in 1902. He
went to Hagerstown in 1920, when
that place was hamlet of few hun
bred people. He married Miss Mar
garet Wright, who died, and then Mrs.
Hatfield, a widow, who also died sew
eral years ago. He was cigarmaker
by trade, sexton Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and for so years was
policeman, constable and city market
inspector.
The celebrated market square case
at Winchester has at last been settled,
after about twenty years litigation
between the city and the county.
The square, which constitutes large
plat of ground in the centre of the
city, was decided jointly to the city
and county by Lord Fairfax over 100