Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-11-29
Notes From Nearby.

check for 500 to the Citizens Fire
Company of Charlestown.
The typhoid fever continues to be
very serious in Martinsburg, but the
death rate is not so large.
George NJ. Jones, a cigar-maker,
died near Winchester last week. He
once lived in Charlestown.
David Petrie, a teacher near Win
chester, by changing his name to
Cruikshank, comes into a fortune Of
$4,000 left him by relative in Scot
land.
Edward c. Bruce, a well-known
Winchester gentleman, died last Sat-
urday at the home Of his son-in-law,
Charles R. oldham, in Moundsvllle,
this State. He was rs years old.
William A. Hite, aged 70 years,
and Elizabeth Lang, aged SO, were
married few days ago at the home
of the bride in Back Greek Valley, in
the western part of Berkeley county
While Wade Anderson, aged l6
years, was hunting in Washington
county, near Clearspring, the other
day, his gun burst. He was very
badly hurt. and may die from his in
juries.
In the future it will be unlawful
for stock to run at large on the county
roads and without the enclosures of
owners in Middleway district. The
question was submitted at the last
election and voted upon with the above
result.
Ground has been broken on Cave
Hill, mile west of Luray, for a $lO,-
900 sanatarium for diseases Of the re-
spiratory organs. The mode Of treat
ment is a novel one, it being proposed
to use the air of the famous Luray
Caverns as cure for consumption
and similar diseases.
The three-year-old son of William
Starliper, living near Keedysville, died
last Saturday morning in terrible
agony from being scalded by falling
into kettle of boiling water Friday
afternoon. He died in a convulsion
after lingering fifteen hours with his
flesh almost cooked.
Joseph West, of Martinsburg, Sec
ond Oldest engineer in the B. q 0.
Railroad service, has been retired
from active service and placed on the
pension list. He gets gold medal,
which is also life pass over the road.
He is rs years old and has been in
the B. & 0. service for SO years,
Miss Bessie Stuckey, a trained
nurse in the Virginia Hospital in
Richmond, was shot and badly wound
ed last Sunday night by c. S. Will
hanson, medical student who was in
love with her but whose attentions
were rejected. Miss Stuckey former
ly lived in Berkeley county. 1t is
thought she will recover.
Charles c. Cu8hen, of Funkstown,
has arrived home from the Klondike
He left on Christmas day, 1897, for
Dawson City. The first winter he
tried placer mining, but with only par
tial success. When he quit placer
mining he became gold dust weigher
at the Gold Hill Hotel, and says he
made more money in the few years he
was in the Klondike than he could
have made in 25 years in the States,
yet he advises no one to go to the
Klondike. He says the suferings
and privations are beyond magma
ton.
All Saturday night and the greatest
part of Sunday were spent by about
fifty men and boys of the vicinity
Of Roxbury, Washington county, hunt
ing for James Duncan, aged so years.
He started home from the house of
John Harp, neighbor, Saturday even
ing, but wandered around in the storm
and cold until Sunday evening, when
he was found exhausted in a field
along the Funkstown pike. He was
taken into the nearest house and fed
and clothed. He is now in critical
condition, and can give no reason for
his having wandered away, except
that the JACKIE lanterns deluded him.
Jacob Johnson, farmer and dealer
in hickory, of Bunker Hill, came to
town Tuesday morning and swore out
a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Sadie
Lamon, wife Of John Lamon, ex-deputy
sheriff, for assault. 1t seems that Mrs.
Lamon heard frequently that Johnson
had been talking about her in an I'M
complimentary manner, and Tuesday
morning she purchased cowhide, and
meeting Johnson soon after on the
street proceeded to chastise him.
Johnson is a big, stout man and Mrs.
Lamop is only Of about $50 pounds
weight, but it is said that she succeed
ed in her attempt remarkably well.
Mrs. John Lamon, who assaulted
Johnson while armed with the dan
gerous and deadly weapon called
cowhide;" was before Justice Byers
Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Johnson,
the complainant, stated that he had
reason to fear that the defendant
would do him bodily injury, to which
statement she made no defense and
was placed under bond of 500 to
keep the peace towards all citizens and
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