Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-22
LITTLE LOCALS.

It's folly to suffer from that horrible
plague of the night, itching piles. Doan's
Ointment cures quickly and permanently.
AT any drug store, 50 cents.
An eastbound FIRE ght train on the ~
mile grade Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was wrecked Sunday evening at
Everett's tunnel. Three cars were de-
molished and trains delayed some time.
One hundred tickets were sold at this
station Tuesday for. Chambersburg on ac-
count of the Street air and Carnival now
ia progress in the sister city in Pennsyl-
vana. The Martinsburg Fire Department.
Comrey's Concert Band and few men,
bers, the Tuscarora T,ibe of Red Men in
their war paint and Indian costumes, went
over on the early train. A few also went
on the noon train. A special train will be
run back tonight, leaving Chambersburg
at eleven o'clock.
The extensive improvements which the
Peoples National Bank has been making
to the front of the handsome building oc-
cupied by the bank and w. L. ZONES Jew
elry store, are completed The changes
made to the front of the building give tia
greatly improved appearance. Mr.. Jones
now has one of the largest display Win
dows in the city and he has already taken
advantage of it by tastefully filling it with
his beautiful line of goods.
General Passenger Agent Riddle, of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad, has re-
ceived word of the arrest of two negroes,
John Ward, alias Woods, and George
Bailey, alias Richard Coleman, at Pitts
burg, who were held on a charge of hav-
ing stolen tickets from the Cumberland
Valley office at Gettysburg Junction. The
men offered the tickets for sale at various
points in Pittsburg, and large quantity
were found in their pockets.
The interior of the Berkeley barber
shop, Henry Hopewell, proprietor. has
been greatly improved by new wall paper.
The entire interior of the room has been
repapered with green lowered paper,
which, with the handsome oak finishing,
give the room royal appearance. A
new automatic chair has also been added
to the furnishings of the room, making
the fourth one, all in charge of competent
barbers, and the shop is now one of the
best equipped barbering establishments in
the city.
Mrs. s. A. CrabilI, wife of Rev. Crabill
of Winchester. who is an invalid under
the care of DIR. Hoover, passed through
here Tuesday en- route to Baltimore,
where she will enter the Johns Hopkins
Hospital. Mrs. Crabill is suffering with
epilepsy and is in serioun nervous con-
dition. For the past week she had from
six to ten convusions day, which have
racked her entire nervous system. She
was brought down on the SIS c. V.
train and taken to Baltimore on b. & O.
train No. s.
!. Roger McSherry, counsel for the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad filed papers in
court in Frederick Tuesday to institute
condemnation proceedings against several
persons through whose land the new
route of the company's lines will pass in
Frederick county. AT Hartman's the
company will construct tunnel 900 feet
long. When completed the grade from
Frederick Junction to Mount Airy will be
reduced from 90 to IS feet per mile which
will enable the company to haul one third
as many more cars and without the use
of helper engines, which they are now
required to use.
Tuesday on the early south-bound
c. V. train, Samuel Hartzel, Charles and
George Hickman and c. c. I thompson
(colored) as guide, OF Carlisle, Pa, passed
this CITY, They left the train at Inwood,
and by private conveyance made their
way across the mountain to Back Creek.
They are on pleasure bent, and fishing
will be their sport. They are equipped
with complete, up-to- date ishing outfit,
and expect big catch Of the fine, large
bass which are reported to be plenty in
the now peaceful waters of Back Creek.
they will spend two days fishing and re-
turn to Carlisle tomorrow evening. Good
luck to them