Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-09-18
NOTES PROM NEARBY.

Martlnsburg, aged ABOUT Six years!
died last Sunday from lockjaw caused
by stone bruise.
Winchester is pestered with In.
cendiaries. There have been four fires
of apparently the same origin during
the past few weeks.
Mrs. Nancy Rowland, Hagerstown'
oldest resident, celebrated her 99th
birthday few days ago. She is still
in fairly good health.
Miss Florence Hawk, of Martins
burg, aged Is years, was severely in
iured by being thrown out of a car
rage in Frederick county.
Robert G. Gordon, an aged resident
of the mountain district Of Berkeley
county, died last Sunday. He was
"a years old, and had never been on
railroad train.
At Leesburg, Va, on Monday, Scott
Bradley was acquitted of the charge
of helping to lynch the negro Craven
some weeks ago. The jury was out
only nine minutes.
Robert G. Thornburg, well-known
contractor, died in Hagerstown last
Friday, aged Is years. He built the
court house, the Baldwin and Hamil-
ton hotels and others important build.
ings in Hagerstown.
F. W. Maddox, of Oak Hill, Eau
quier county, Va, has sold his beau
tiful property, "Heartland," the rem
devious of Mosby's men during the
war, containing 240 acres, for $4,000
cash to A. ]. Chappalaer, of Paris.
The Washington county commits
sioners have set aside $4,000 Of the
$434.OOO received from the Fuller
syndicate for the county's interest in
the Western Maryland Railroad for
the redemption of the balance ($7O,-
1907 of the county's bonded indebted
ness. The county has redeemed $2O7,-
400 of the bonded Indebtedness out Of
the railroad money. In other words,
the county is now out of debt and has
surplus of $l25,l54.95 in the treas
ury.
Michael Barnes, farmer, As years
old, committed suicide Monday at his
home 10 miles west of Hancock, Md,
by shooting himself in the head. A
note was found in Barnes pocketbook,
which stated that he had contemplated
suicide for some time. The note end
ed with this sentence: 81 have been
guilty of some things, but l never
murdered anyone" Barnes family
do not know what he meant by this
note. He leaves a widow and six
children.
Miss May L. Jennings, of Front
Royal, Va, and Mr.. Hugh 81. Wood
ward, of Strasburg, Va, were mar
ried September l l at St. Paul's Meth
odist parsonage, in Hagerstown, by
Rev. H. F. Downs. The bride said
she left her home at 4 a. m. and had
driven in buggy so miles to Win
chester, where Mr.. Woodward tried
to get license but failed, as neither
he nor she was from Frederick county,
Virginia, where they asked for the
license. Then they went to Hagers-
town, where the knot was tied.
James II. Marshall and wife have
conveyed to E. A. Colston tract of
q acres of land near Summit Point,
which adjoins the farms of Mr.. Coils
ton and that of ]. H. Dutteler, was
part of what is known locally as the
"Coyle" farm. The mountain farm Of
333 acres, recently purchased at COM
missioner sale by Robt. E Boyd and
wife, formerly owned by Israel v.
Boyd, has been sold to Hyman Zirkin
and Leo Geschickter, of Washington
City. W. A. Higgs has disposed of
35 acres in Kabletown district, adj
joining the lands of B. W. Kanode
and VIM. Turner's heirs, to E. E. Al
len, for 81, 7223.-Advocate.
The family of William Bovey, who
live at Pinesburg, near Williamsport,
along the Western Maryland Rail-
road, had an exciting experience the
other night. All the occupants of
the house were fast asleep, when a
car in a passing freight train jumped
the track and plunged through the
house, blowing its way straight through
the brick walls. Four children were
asleep in the front room, the father
and mother in a rear room and three
boarders were in bed upstairs. Two
of the children were thrown out Of
their beds and landed in the room &C.
cupied by their parents. The other
two children were found in a pear
tree in the yard after the collision.
They were hurled out of bed and car
ried through the opening in the walls
made by the car and hung up among
the branches by their night clothes,
which held them fast until they were
rescued. Mr.. and Mrs Bovey and
two children were carried out into the
yard, bed and all. The legs of the
bed were cut off as clean as though
done with saw. The beds occupied
by the three boarders were also tum-
bled into the yard. The furniture is
smashed generally and the house is a
complete wreck. David Smith and
Samuel Davis, two of the boarders,
were buried beneath the coal, with
which the cars were loaded, but they