Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-08-29
Notes From Nearby.


ance in Charles Town.
The Washington County Free Lii
brary at Hagerstown was opened to
the public on Tuesday.
Front Royal district, Warren coun-
ty, Va. Monday last by majority of
lis voted against granting licenses to
sell liquor.
The engine at the electric plant in
Charles Town was almost completely
destroyed by some unknown cause
Tuesday night.
AT Harrisonburg, Va, last Monday
night Andrew Morris had a quarrel
with his wife and in a fit of anger
shot and killed himself.
Mics Bertha Pofenberger. aged IA,
and Thomas Miller, aged Is, eloped
from Frederick county, Va, last week
and were married in Hagerstown.
The Free Press says that Capt.
NJ. H. Rouss, of the Kabletown vicin-
ity, sold his apples, about half crop,
on the trees for $2.250. Looks as if
this pays.
By an explosion of dynamite and
powder in the Bessemer quarries near
Martinsburg yesterday Enoch Sprad-
Ter, James Thompson and j. w. Fravel
were pretty badly hurt.
Several York excursionists were
arrested for being drunk and disorder
ly at Harper's Ferry on Saturday and
were locked up until they pay their
fines. Their friends refused to send
on the money.
In Hagerstown yesterday Judge
Stake sentenced Abraham Saunders, a
negro, to receive 20 lashes on the bare
back for beating his wife. The woman
swore he struck her eight times and
dislocated her jaw.
James G. Anderson, fagman, was
run over in the Western Maryland
Railroad yards in Hagerstown Satur-
day morning by shifting freight train,
and died in the evening from his in
juries. His legs were cut off.
Mr.. E. w. Vanmeter, a well-known
Berkeley county man who is in the
government postal service in Cuba,
is at his home near Martinsburg for a
months vacation. He likes Cuba and
says it is delightful place to live.
Rev. DR.. R. A Cooke, of Waynesboro,
Va, died Friday last in hospital in
Chicago, whittier he has gone to under
60 surgical operation. He was a
prominent member of Lexington Pres
bytery, was As years of age, and had
been pastor of the Waynesboro Pres
byterian church for twelve years.
The business men of Charles Town
have organized board of trade, with
the following officers: President, Thos.
R. Moore; vice-president, Samuel NJ.
OFT; secretary W. o. Norris; treasurer,
G. N. Coleman executive committee,
L. Somehow, c. N. Beard, R. w.
Alexander, S. H. Lands and G. w.
Brown. The purpose ofthe organiza-
ton is to increase trade and to secure
new manufacturing plants. Negotia-
tions are now going on for the estab-
lishment Of a hose factory, which will
employ between rs and 100 girls.
II. G. Turner, of Weverton, Nd,
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
in Cummings livery stable, near
Weverton, about l o'clock last Satur-
day morning. George w. Pittman, of
Knoxville, was arrested and committed
to the county Jail, charged with the
shooting 1t is stated that the trouble
commenced in saloon. Pittman was
on bench asleep when Turner and
some other men came along and aroused
him by striking him with barrel stave.
He jumped up and vowed vengeance,
He procured a revolver from home
and subsequently finding Turner in
the stable, opened fire on him. Two
bullets struck Turner, one in the head
and the other in the shoulder.
A dispatch from Martinsburg, dated
last Monday, says: Quite little ex-
element was started here today by
the purchase of slate land at a very
high figure. For some time there
have been some parties opening up
slate quarry on the slate ridge about
two miles northeast OF this city. Re-
Gently they secured the service of some
experienced slate workers, who have
made wonderful developments in the
quarries. They announce that the
slate splits better and is as good in
quality as the famous Peach Bottom
slate, the quarries of which have for
years supplied all the slate useo IN
this section of the country. Several
capitalists have been here investigating
the slate deposits during the past
several days and today purchased
tract ofland belonging to John Bowers,
located near the present quarries, con-
tanning Is acres, and paid for it $l0.-
600 cash. This land has been selling
for from S. to $40 per acre.
There is more Catarrh in this section
Of the country than all other diseases
nut tnDether and until the last faw