Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-08-21
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sessed girls who would like to get
some one else to possess them.-Lead-
er.
The Independent Fire Company of
Charles Town is attending the Vir-
GINA Firemen's Convention at Ports
mouth this week.
Prof. Fred Luscomb, the well-kDown
Martinsburg musician, has accepted a
position IN Hainesville, Ohio, and will
move to that place.
John D. Woods, an aged colored
man of Martinsburg, was struck and
instantly killed by a B. & o. train at
Green Spring Run on Monday.
Patrick Russ, millionaire of Har-
risburg, Pa, will, it is said, build a
trolley line between Berryville and
Winchester, distance of eleven miles.
James R. Smith, one of the wealth
lest residents of Hancock, died last
Friday, aged 81 years. He conduct
ed canal store at Hancock for many
years.
The Eureka Hotel at Edinburg,
Va, was struck by lightning and en-
tirely destroyed by the fire that en-
sued yesterday afternoon. 1t was IN
sured.
The people of Berryville have been
good deal exercised the past week
by the wholesale poisoning of dogs by
some persons unknown. Fifteen dogs
were killed last Saturday night.
Jacob A. Mentzer, a well-known
resident of Leitersburg, Washington
county, Nd, fell from a pear tree yes
terday and hurt himself so badly that
he died within an hour. He was AZ
years old.
Miss Alma Dayhof, of Hagerstown,
committed suicide last Saturday by
hanging herself in Philadelphia, where
she was visiting her brother. The
young woman, who was % years old,
had been in bad health for some time.
Miss Daisy D. Strickler and Mr..
Leslie B. Burner, both of Luray,
eloped to Hageistown and were mar
ried on Monday. Tie groom is the
only son of his parents, who are
wealthy, and they didn't want him to
marry.
A ram on the farm of Jacob Young,
near Middletown, Nd, attacked Mr..
Young aid his wife and daughter-in-
law. 1t knocked them all down,
breaking Mr.. Youngs leg and badly
injuring the daughter-in-law. 1t was
strong butter.
A syndicate of Philadelphia capt.
talists want to buy the system of wa
terworks in MartinsDurg, which now
belongs to the city. They offer to
improve the service and also establish
sewerage system. There is great
opposition to selling the waterworks.
Here's good fish story from Vir-
ginia: All of the fish in the pond Of
G. B. Skinker, in Fauquier county,
have been killed by lightning. An
iron pipe emptied in the center Of the
pond, and barb wire had been run
through the water to prevent seine
hauling by trespassers. 1t is supposed
the wire attracted the lightning.
William w. Lloyd, who this week
bought the E. A. Rodrick store in
this place, has sold a half interest in
the farm of the late William Lloyd,
near Ripon, to Jas. A. Clipp at $65
per acre. Messrs. Lloyd and Clipp
bought the farm jointly last spring Of
the Lloyd heirs at $62.50. The farm
contains III acres, with 40 acres in
fine orchard.-Aduoeate.
Zanaddas Assad, a Syrian peddler,
aged about 80 years, was knocked from
Crooked Run trestle, near Riverton,
Tuesday morning about 9 o'clock by
Norfolk and Western passenger train
No. %. He fell distance of 90 or IS
feet to the rocks below and sustained
injuries which may prove fatal. The
injured man was brought to Hagers-
town, where he lived.
Rebecca Albin, a pretty sixteen
year-old girl of Winchester, commit
ted suicide on a prominent street in
that city last Saturday by taking
strychnine. J. R. Pinnell, book
agent from Philadelphia, was arrest
ed in connection with the affair. He
had been with the girl almost con-
stantly for several days previous to
her death, and she seemed to be in
fatuated with him. He was after
ward released.
They are having trouble with their
town council in Hagerstown, too. The
council ordered the trolley company
to discontinue furnishing light and
power to private consumers, so that
all this business would 60 to the
towns plant. Many business men
run machinery by electricity, and it
would cost them heavily to change
their motors to suit the current fur
nished by the town, so they appealed
to the council to rescind the order.
This the council refused to do, and the
war is on.
A recent dispatch from Berryville
to the Baltimore Herald says: This
year the Blue Ridge is fairly alive
with rattlesnakes. Within the past
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