Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-04-04
Notes From Nearby.


A pension of So month has been
granted to Mrs. Nancy E. Mccoy, OF
Sharpsburg.
The Main furniture factory at Ha-
gerstown was destroyed by fire early
Tuesday morning. The loss is about
$4,000, insurance $4,000.
Senator VIM. NJ. Stewart of Nevada
has bought $500 acres of land in Lou
doun county, Va, which he will de-
vote to stock-raising and dairylng.
Rev. DR.. J. P. Hyde, who has been
at the head of the Valley Female
Seminary in Winchester for twenty
years, will resign the presidency of
this institution and retire at the end
of the current year.
G. W. Boyer has taken as an asso-
ciate in the management of the Mar
tins burg Statesman w. G. Kilmer, a
prominent young lawyer of Martins
burg. The new firm will be Boyer &
Kilmer, and we wish it lots of good
luck.
Henry J. Seibert has purchased the
Mount Rock farm owned by Thomas
G.. Flagg and located about two
miles from Martinsburg, on the Ger
ardstown pike, for $1,000. The farm
contains about 220 acres and is very
desirable place.-&ate8man.
Harry Coins, colored, aged about
25 years, was arrested in Hagerstown
Saturday morning by Lieut.. Ale1an-
der on the charge of arson and larceny
at Charlestown. 1t is charged he fired
the house in which he lived and at
tempted to kill his wife. Deputy
Sheriff Charles W. Conrad went to
Hagerstown after Coins, but the latter
declined to 60 without requisition pa
pers. These will be secured.
Notwithstanding continued and
careful search, the body of Miss Mary
Callan, who was drowned in the Pc.
tomac river at Little Orleans three
weeks ago, has not yet been found
Barbed wires were stretched across
the river below the scene Of the drown.
ing with the hope that the body might
be caught, but it is now believed by
many that the water carried it ia,
down the river. Two divers from New
York have been engaged to make a
further search for the body. Her pa,
rents are greatly distress on acco unit
of the sad occurrence.
The interesting elopement of an Ell.
derby widower and sixteen-year-old
girl created good deal of talk il
Clarke county the past week. Thu
runaways were Mr.. Abner Lloyd and
Miss Annie Hummer, both of Gaylord
Mr.. Lloyd has eight children, severa
of whom are older than his bride
They drove to Winchester but were
unable to get a license. They ther
took the night train for Hagerstowr
and were married. The brides father
Alexander Hummer, a prosperous far
mer, heard of the elopement, anc
started in pursuit. Hewent the wrong
way, and got as far as Shenandoah
Junction, when he found he was toe
late. Returning home, he encountered
the newly married pair on the same
train, and a stormy scene ensued
He was finally pacifed, and the cir
bride is minding her husbands eigh
children. She is satisfied.
Roland R. Heck and Miss Frances
E. Zepp, of Martinsburg, were mar
ried at Winchester last Thursday nigh
under romantic circumstances. They
had previously tried in West Virgin
la and in Maryland to secure mar
riage license, but had failed. owing II
the opposition of the groom's father
>. M. Heck, to his son marriage Of
account of his youth. The coupl
LETT Martinsbarg the day previous il
a buggy, accompanied by the bride
sister, Miss Lottie Zepp, for Hagers
town, where they hoped to secure
license. The groom father, however
had telegraphed to Clerk of the Cour
0swold not to issue it, and the coupl
were refused. Then they drove bacl
to Martinsburg, and thence to Win
chester, a distance in all of 81 miles
reaching there late at night. Deput,
Clerk E. G. Hollis was hunted up, tn
license was secured and the ceremon,
was performed by Rev. j. S. Sibley
of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. an
Mrs. Heck then returned to Martins
burg,