Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-05-02
Notes From Nearby.

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The West Virginia Editorial Asso-
citation will meet at Fairmont in June.
The public schools of Washington
county closed yesterday for the sum-
mer.
The Grand Commandery of knights
Templar for West Virginia will meet
in Martinsburg on May s.
The town council of Charles Town
has increased the price of license for
liquor saloons from $50 to $75.
G. F. Mayors has purchased the
Thomas H. Kern estate, Brown Lea,
258 acres, in Clarke county. for $751;
900 cash.
James Benjamin Ford, a well-known
farmer of Clarke county, died last week
after brief illness from pneumonia,
aged 80 years.
George W. Bowers dropped dead
April 81 from heart disease while walk
ing across the parlor of his house IN
Washington county.
The State Board Of Examiners will
hold examinations for State certificates
for teachers May 10 and IL, at Charles
ton. Martinsburg, Benwood and Par
kersburg.
William II. Terrell, a colored SOL
der from Charles Town serving IN the
Tenth U. S. Calvary, committed sui
eide recentlyin Cuba by shooting him
self in the head with his revolver.
The Akcester Club of Waynesboro,
Pa, which camped near Shepherdstown
last summer, has bought from Charles
Webb, of Hagerstown, a clubhouse on
the Potomac river near Falling Waters
William Dovell, "a Norfolk & Western
freight brakeman, who makes his home
with his sister, Mrs. ]. W. Duslng, in
Hagerstown, has contracted case Of
genuine smallpox. The house has
been quarantined.
The Martinsburg Ne1cs seems to be
in what the Statesman calls state Of
suspended animation. There certain
ly is no need of two daily papers in
Martinsburg, and the World has been
covering the field very acceptably,
Hon. John E. Massey, one of the
sblest and most widely known public
men in Virginia, died last Wednesday,
at his home near Charlottesville, aged
SO years. His first wife was Miss
Margaret Ann Kable, of this county.
Some unknown person put couple
of crossties on the Cumberland Valley
Railroad track two miles south of Mar
tinsburg Monday morning, and only
the watchfulness Of the engineer of a
passenger train prevented wreck,
At the election in Martinsburg Mon
day the voters authorized the council
to issue $4,000 worth of bond. for
the improvement Of the water works
system. There were asa votes in IA
vor of the bonds and l22against. On
ly about one-third of the usual vote
was polled.
A. R. Renner, merchant of Sharps-
burg, has filed bill in equity asking
the court to annul a deed for prop
erty valued at $1,700 in Sharpsburg
which he made to his daughter, Miss
Bessie V. Renner. He claims that
the condition was that she should not
marry Nesbitt Cox and that he should
stop his attention to her. This was
not written in the deed, however-as
he claims, by mistake His daughte
married Cox and they are now living
in Hagerstown. She never took pos
session Of the property.
While attempting last Saturday af-
tsrnoon to sink 40-foot shaft in the
west end of the Mount Airy tunnel, for
the new improvements on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad near Ridge
Vile, twenty miles from Frederick,
about 5000 tons of earth fell upon the
workmen in the tunnel, entombing at
least half dozen of the seventy.fve
men who were there. Arthur Frazier,
Douglas Hicks, Michael Coyne, fore
man, and Michael Kearns, foreman,
were crushed to death. The workmsn
had been advised Of their danger and
had been requested to come out of the
tunnel, as a blast had been set off in
the shaft and the earth was crumbling
They withdrew hurriedly, but as much
earth had not fallen in thirty or forty
minutes, some of them were seen to
return to their work. At 5 o'clock,
one hour from the time the blast was
set off, there was terrific rumbling
and a crush. The dynamite had loos-
ened the earth to such an extent that
when the props below gave away a
hole fifty feet in diameter was made,
entombing the workmen
Miss Annie Newton, aged IS years,