Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-12-20
Notes From Nearby.

| Mr.. Walter D. Hollis and Miss Mel.
lie Slingluff were married in Martins.
burg last Wednesday by Rev. S. G.
Ferguson.
Mr.. J. A. Stuart, Jr., of Harper's
Ferry, and Miss Margaret Garrett, Of
Silicott Springs, Va, were quietly
married at the home of the brides.
aunt in Washington, D. c., Thursday
November 90, 1900.
Decisions in the following cases were
rendered in the Supreme Court Of
Appeals Saturday last {: Hess VS.
George, Jefferson county, affirmed
Becker vs.. McGraw, Jefferson county,
affirmed Wicks & Company VS.. Daw-
son, Jefferson county, reversed in part
and affirmed.
A serious horse disease seems to
some extent to have become preva-
lent in this section. James M. Roper
has lost three horses, and we under
stand Lewis Staub has lost four and
H. w. Crittenden and A. Brenneman
one each. R. w. Luthan lost colt,
and B. E. Beavers, we have heard,
has some of his horses Subsidiaries
torn Spirit.
Abraham T. Smith, car inspector
at the Cumberland Valley station
at Hagerstown, was accidentally killed
last Friday night. He was under a
Norfolk & Western passenger train
disconnecting the air hose when a
draft of runaway freight cars struck
the train and knocked it back just
far enough to crush the life out of the
poor fellow. He was 3S years old and
leaves a wife and two children.
The Independent Steam Fire Com
pany No. l, Of Charlestown, will cele-
brate the birthday of their generous
benefactor, Charles Broadway Rouss,
on February IL. A reunion of the
surviving members Of the Baylor Light
Horse, Company B, Twelfth Virginia
Cavalry, will be held in the afternoon.
The banquet to Company B, ex-Con-
federates and other citizens will be
held in the evening. Prominent speak
ers from a distance will be present.
A bold robbery took place last Sat-
urday night at the residence of D. B,
Williams, manager of the Charlestown
Brass and Iron Works, when an un-
known white man entered his room
where he and his wife were sleeping
and took his clothes, containing S2S
and Baltimore and Ohio mileage
book. His wife awakened just as the
thief was leaving the room, but was
unable to identify him. Suspicion
rests upon a certain man, and 1t IS
expected that his arrest will follow.
Clarence Snyder, of Summit Point,
met with a very serious accident on
Thursday last. While returning home
from Summit Point, as he entered his
field he started in race with his dog
as his racing opponent, and as he
turned a curve MS horse slipped and
fell on him, breaking his leg above
the ankle. Mr.. Athey, who was
near at the time, came to his assist
ance, and helped him home, and sum-
moned DR.. G. A. Davis, who rem
dered the necessary surgical aid.-Ad-
rOcate.
Rev. James B. Stonesifer, pastor of
Centenary Reformed Church in Win
chester, has accepted the call to the
pastorate of the Reformed church in
Carroll county, Maryland, near West
Minister, and will assume his duties
on January l. A special meeting Of
the Virginia Chassis has been called
to meet in Centenary Church Deem
Der 81 to dissolve the pastoral rela-
tons existing between Mr.. Stonsifer
anu Tue CuuICu. iue CIdSSlS Will dioO
dismiss Rev. A. B. Bauman, Of the
Harrisville charge, to Pittsburg, Pa,
where he has accepted call.
Chas. E. Martin, private in Com
pany B, Forty-sixth United States
Volunteer Infantry, arrived home in
Hagerstown Saturday night from the
Philippines. He enlisted in the fall
of 1899, but has been in the hospital
several months in the Philippines.
He got his discharge and he says he
will not return. He came home on
the transport Thomas, which had $50
sick soldiers aboard. He said there
were hundreds of soldiers sick in the
Philippines and many dying of ma
laria and chronic dysentery, and that
the American people will never be
able to live in that climate He said
it was reported when he sailed that
Aguinaldo was with his soldiers in
the mountains.