Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-09-11
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Most of the employees of the Ha-
gerstown bicycle works have been laid
off.
The annual meeting Of the advisory
boards of the Hagerstown fair will be
held September Goth.
A contract has been awarded for
Confederate monument to be erected
at Mount Jackson, Va, to cost 81 800.
The water supply of Hagerstown is
so bad just now that the drinking
water for the schools will have to be
boiled.
The Martinsburg city council has
very sensibly refused to sell its water
works system to syndicate of foreign
capitalists.
By an explosion of a can of gaso-
line in Hagerstown Mrs. Ezra E. Fox
and her two little girls were dread
fully burned.
David Gossard died recently in Ha-
gerstown, aged rs years. He was
twice married, and had "a children,
20 of whom are living.
Mr.. John P. Reynolds and Miss
Estelle Jones, both of Berkeley coun-
ty, were married Monday in Charles
Town by Rev. Jas. H. Wolff.
Thieves broke into the store of U.
S. Myers at Sharpsburg early last
Friday morning and stole $l2 in cash
and quantity of merchandise.
The eastern convocation of the do
cese of West Virginia will be held in
Zion Episcopal Church, Charles Town,
September 18th to 18th inclusive.
Miss Laura Strider has been ap-
pointed teacher in the Charles Town
graded school, taking the place for
merly filled by W. Gilmore Neill.
The barn Of Mrs. J. F. Zuczern,
near Sandy Hook, was destroyed by
fire Sunday night, together with the
contents. Loss. $500; partly in
sured.
The printing and bookbinding firm
OF S. NJ. Hickman g. Co., Of Hagers-
town, has failed. Roger T. Edmonds
and George G. Snyder have been ap-
pointed receivers. 1t is thought the
creditors will be paid in full.
Judge Prentiss, of the second cir
cult, presiding for Judge Harrison, in
the Clarke county circuit court, gave
Mr.. Thomas D. Gold, general receiver
for the Berryville Land and Improve
ment Company, judgment against
Reed & Mccormick, who were large
stockholders in the company before it
went down. An appeal has been
taken.
Mary Ovelman, of Waynesboro, Pa,
aged 16, mortified because her mother
had whipped her in public for trying
to run away from town, attempted to
commit suicide Tuesday evening by
swallowing carbohc acid. The girl is
a daughter of w. G. Ovelman, and
ha, been wanting to leave Waynesboro
to follow a circus man she was in
fatuated with. She drank a lot of the
poison, but will get well.
Lloyd F. Lewis, bartender at the
Farmers Hotel in Martinsburg, died
Tuesday in spasms, resulting from the
shock of a fracture Of his left leg, and
from the excessive use of alcoholic
stimulants. He was injured in the
crowd at the Baltimore and Ohio sta
ton Friday night, when President
Roosevelt passed through. After his
leg was set he got out of bed while in
a delirious condition, and broke his
foot completely off. He diedin terri
bic agony.
Senator John W. Daniel, of Vir-
ginia, accompanied by Gen. William
H. Payne, Of Warrenton, visited An
tietam battlefield last week. The SUI
perintendent of the battlefield, Chas.
w. Adams, escorted the two Vir-
ginians around and was exceedingly
and courteous to them. He
is thoroughly familiar with the histo-
ry of the battle and could point out
to his visitors the location of the va
rious Incidents Senator Daniel was
not in the battle of Antietam. He
followed Lee across the Potomac into
but was painfully wound
ed in the battle of South Mountain
and 80 was unable to be with his COM
mand at Antietam. Superintendent
Adams will apply to Congress for an
appropriation of $4,000 to construct
a road from Sharpsburg to Burnside's
bridge and other roads on the battle
field. He told his plans to Senator
Daniel, who was greatly interested in
them. He said he would like to see
the State of Virginia erect a monu-
ment to her soldiers who fell upon
this field.
500 Reward, $loo.