Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-07-20
Notes From Nearby.

Boyce, was destroyed py nre last Oat-
urday. Sparks from a locomotive on
the n. & W. Railway are supposed
to have caused the fire.
Mayor schindel of Hagerstown We
toed the ordinance granted the Postal
Telegraph Company, because the fran
chise was too liberal and did not pro-
tect the interests of the city. The
Postal people say they will go around
the town.
Fish Commissioner George NJ. Bow
ers sold to Judge E, Boyd Faulkner
$50 acres of land in Arden district of
Berkeley county for $1,000. Mrs. A
E. Stribling and Mrs. A. ]. Arm
strong sold to Charles R. Stribling real
estate in the Hedgesville district for a
consideration of$2,223.5O.
The Charlestown Free Press says:
The W. G. Earnshaw property was sold
Tuesday as follows: The brick house
on Liberty street, between George and
Charles streets, to R. NJ. Moore for
the sum of 81 $50; the frame dwell
ing house on Liberty, west of West
street, to w. F. Alexander at $500.
A charter has been issued to the
Belvidere Brewery Company, Of Har-
pers Ferry, with an authorized capt.
tai of 100000. The incorporators
are J. NJ. Mason, Jr, of Charlestown
J. H. Savage, of Kenston ]. P. Had
docks, of Winchester, Va, and E. F.
Abner and P. A. Drury, of Washing
ton, D. G.
The dedication Of the Maryland
monument in memory Of the Union
and Confederate soldiers on Antietam
battlefield, which will take place next
September, promises to be a very in
teresting occasion. President McKin-
ley and General Miles have promised
to be present, and General Gordon
will probably make an address also.
Prof. C. Edwin Carl, principal of
the Hagerstown male high school, and
Miss Sallie Belle Smith were married
last Saturday. The groom is i'll with
typhoid fever, and the ceremony took
place in his bedroom. The marriage
was to have been performed on July
&c, but was hurried because the de-
voted fancee desired to assist in nurs-
ing Professor Carl back to health.
The grocery store of B. L. Slusher
& Co. and the agricultural implement
warehouse of Scott A. Affleck, on north
Market street, Winchester, were par
italy destroyed by fire about o'clock
Saturday morning. Mrs. NJ, Z. Hot
tel, who lived over Slusher & Co. s
store, narrowly escaped being burned
to death by refusing to leave her room
until her effects had been removed.
Martin Snyder, retired farmer,
died last Sunday night at his home
near Keedysville, aged "a years. On
Saturday night, as he lay in dying
condition, cyclone swept over Wash
ington county and struck his brick
house, knocking out the gable end
and carrying off the roof. Twenty
men worked all Of Sunday putting the
house in habitable condition. The in
jury to the house was kept from the
dying man, whose room was not in
jured in the least by the wind or rain.
Among the personal property of
the late Ex-Governor Holiday, which
he priced highly, has been found
pair of fine riding boots which be-
longed to Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Of
Greenway Court, who owned the en-
tire Shenandoah Valley, and who was
the founder of Winchester. The boots
have been in the possession of the
Holiday family since they were given
by will to DR., Mackey. Governor Hol-
iday asked that they be presented to
the Virginia Historical Society at
Richmond, which will be done.
Dorsey Foultz, Washington negro
whom the police have tried to arrest
for the past year on charge Of muir
der, is said to have been at colored
picnic at Island Park on Monday.
From those with the man at the time
and from others about Harper's Ferry
it is learned that the supposed muir
derer has lived in a cave near that
place, or on the hills tbereabout, for
eight months, and that he has also
served in the Ninth United States
Cavalry. Two detectives have been
sent to Harper's Ferry to find the
man, whoever he may be,
L. G. Shull, of Hagerstown, was ar
rested at Winchester on Saturday
night by Constable ]. W. Stottlemyer
and lodged in Jail on a charge of car
rying concealed weapon. He was
tried before Justice J. W. Kefer and
sentenced to 80 days in Jail and fined
500 and costs. Shull had threatened
to kill a young man named Joseph
Rodetfer at a yard party at Stephen
sons. Young Rodeffer was endeavor-
ing to prevent Shull from seeing his
sister, with whom he had been going
and a fight ensued. When arrested
Skull had large rock in his possess
ion. The Judge construed this to be
concealed weapon. His attorney gave
notice of appeal aud will have writ
! nf haheas nornus issued