Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-08-09
Notes From Nearby

Geo. M. Fisher, one-armed Hagers-
town man, have had backset. He
is now in Jail for beating his wife.
Mr.. Hunter B. Cunningham, Of
Berkeley county, has purchased the
F. G. Cunningham farm, two miles
east of Bunker Hill. Price $500.
A Bryan and Stevenson Club has
been organized at Williamsport with
about 800 members, among whom are
many Gold Democrats who refused to
vote for Bryan in 1896.
Mrs. Hattie Bushong, wife Of Rev,
A. A. J. Bushburg, pastor of the Luth-
eran church at Woodstock, Va, died
very suddenly last Friday, aged 60
years.
Married, at the Watson House in
Charlestown, August l, 1900, by Rev,
H. H. Kennedy, Mr.. James Ernest
Fowler and Miss Annie E. Horner,
both of Castleman's Ferry, Va.
Edward Benjamin Fisher, a white
married man, aged about 33 years,
was committed to Jail at Hagerstown
last week, on the charge ofan attempt
ed felonious assault upon Caroline
White, colored, l6-year-old girl.
Nathan Anthony, who lived in
Back Creek Valley, Berkeley county,
was killed by the cars near Cherry
Run Sunday night. He had been
stealing a ride on freight train, on
his way to Pittsburg, when passen-
ger train struck and killed him. A
wife and two children survive him.
lakewood Farm, near Winchester,
the scene of one Of the most noted bat
ties of the late Civil War, has changed
hands, Judge Vinson, Of Rockville
Nd, disposing of his interests to Mr.
D. P. Pierce. The old homestead,
besides being the scene Of many bloody
battles, was also at one time occupied
by Gen. George Washington.
Clerk Oswald, of Hagerstown, act
ing under the act of 1900 ivesnotice tc
all canal creditors holding valid judg-
ments against the company and claims
for work and labor done between
January l, 1877, and January l 1900
who filed their claims with Auditor
G. A. Little, but innocently failed to
file their claims in court, to file
their claims with the clerk by Sep,
TENDER l, otherwise they will be pre-.
cluded from the benefits of the acts Of
1896 and 1900.
Trinity Lutheran Church of Boons-
boro has instituted suit against Vir,
GINA V. Whittier and Vinton L. Eakle
executors Of Maria W. Hufer, de-
ceased, to recover 1000, the amount
of note made by the deceased to the
church. 1t is said Mrs. Hufer de-
sired to leave the church something
but instead of making provision for it
in her will, she made note payable
on the church. She kept the note
however, until shortly before she died,
when she gave instructions for it to
be delivered after her death. The note
was not delivered and the church now
sues her executors, setting up the
claim against her estate. The exec
utors claim that, as the note was not
delivered during her lifetime, no In
debtedness was created, as the mere
verbal instruction to deliver a volun-
tary evidence Of Indebtedness was nei-
Their bequest nor debt during her
lifetime.
There was an interesting elopement
from Stephens City, Va, the first Of
this week. Miss Bessie Venable, the
seventeen-year-old daughter of Chas.
Venable, and Elmer Clevenger desired
to unite their hearts and hands. On
Sunday night Miss Venable went to
her married sisters home, ostensibly
to spend the night. She quietly
slipped out Of the house about mid
night, met her lover, who was waiting
in buggy, and drove to Winchester,
where they took the early train for
Hagerstown. The father, who opposed
the match, started after the couple
with shotgun, but was put on the
wrong track and went to Woodstock,
while the young folks hurriedly got
married in Maryland. The fathers
opposition was due to their youth,
the bride being only II and the groom
but %. He has forgiven them, how
ever, and everybody is happy.
Luther Shoop, a farmer of Fairview,
Washington county, is lying at the
point of death from injuries received
Friday evening by the collapse of a
small wooden bridge near Broadford-
ing, which he attempted to cross with
his traction engine and threshing ma
chine. The bridge was 10 feet long,
spanning a small stream, and was
about 20 feet high. When his engine
got in the middle the bridge gave way
the ponderous machine turning over,
landing upside down in the stream,
which is about four feet deep at that
point. Mr.. Shoop was caught by a
wheel and pinned down with his back
against the hot boiler and pipes. He
managed to keep his head out of the
water, and although the water was very
cool the boiler kept hot. He was held
in this frightful torture for nearly an
hour-the hot boiler on his back and
the chilly waters on his breast. Sew
eral men worked desperately to free