Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-08-14
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

fourth Judlclal circuit ol MAI yianu'
died in Cumberland last Saturday.
Miss Anna Hess and Mr.. Clarence
Leggett, both of Martinsburg, were
married in Hagerstown last Thursday
by Rev. A. NJ. Evers.
Hon. Geo. NJ. Bowers, of Berkeley
county, U. S. Fish Commissioner, has
been elected president of the Ameri-
can Fisheries Association.
E. A. Roderick has sold his general
merchandise store in Charles Town to
w. w. Lloyd, who formerly conducted
a store at Ripon. The price paid was
$4,000.
At Williamsport the other day a
boy threw lighted match in the bung-
hole of whiskey barrel. The barrel
was blown to pieces and the boy slight
ly hurt.
Troop A of the Maryland National
Guard, of Pikesville, is encamped at
Charles Town, where it will remain
for a few days. There are thirty
men in the company.
Prof A. C. Hines, formerly Of this
place, was severely shocked by stroke
of lightning at Stephen City, Va,
some days ago. The lightning struck
tree quite close to him, knocking
him down and causing him to be un-
conscious for some time.
Jacob NJ. Thompson was held up
and robbed by highwaymen near the
B. 60. station in Martinsburg last
Friday night. Two burly negroes
grabbed him and went through his
pockets, getting SLIGO, and then
made good their escape.
The Advocate was in error last week
in announcing the death of Willis Huff,
who was shot in a fight at picnic
three weeks ago at Mt. Airy, Clarke
county. Mr.. Huff is not only very
much alive, but is in fair way to re-
cover from the effects of the wound
which was reported to have cost him
his life.-CharIeS TOwn AdUocate.
Two negroes arrived at Harper's Fer
ry Friday night and went to sleep OF
the track above the station while wait
ing for train for the West. They
were struck by a westbound freight
and terribly mutilated. The men were
James Brown and Bob Lee. Brown 8
skull and face were considerably
crushed. He was sent to Washing
ton hospital Lee was badly cut about
the head and face.
George Ashby, who was released
from the Virginia penitentiary last
spring after serving four-year term
for murderous assault committed in
Clarke county, was arrested here on
Tuesday by Sheriff j. D. Billmyer.
Ashby has a number of indictments
against him in the circuit court for
various offenses, the most serious
being for cutting William Dunn in
fight near Ripon about four years ago.
He told the sheriff that he had re-
turned to the county after his release,
believing that his penitentiary service
had cancelled the indictments pending
gainst him. He will be held for the &C.
ton of the November term of court.
-Advocate.
The Bowles heirs have started a
movement to form family corporation
and erect large summer hotel on their
vacant block, on the northeast corner
of Main and Watson streets in Han
cock, and to convert their vacant
block on the southeast corner of the
same streets into park with large
natatorium next the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal. The water for the nata-
forum is to be piped from the Sand
mountains, in West Virginia, across
the river. The water is of the same
analysis as that of Berkeley Springs,
The improvements contemplated
would cost about $4,000. Mr.. Frank
Bowles, the New York millionaire, and
his sister, Mrs. Anna Kendall, and
her son, Lyman B. Kendall, the New
York banker and broker, are at the
head of the project, and the hotel and
park seem assured.-HagerSto,Oa Her.
aid.
Capt. W. W.Miller, of Cumberland,
Maj. J. T. Moore, ofBarnesville, and
Maj. D. Cunningham, of Cadiz, were
on the Antietam battlefield on the
part of the State Of Ohio last week,
looking to selection Of sites for monu-
ments to the different Ohio organiza-
tions engaged in that battle. Sites
were selected as follows: Four on
Branch avenue; one on Bloody Lane;
three on the farm of R. D. Fisher near
the Dunkard church; one on the
farm of Mrs. Joshua Wyand; one on
the farm of John Benner; two on
the farm Of Jacob B. Slime. The site
on the Benner farm has been selected
for a monument to the gallantry Of
President Mckinley, who during the
battle of Antietam delivered to his
regiment, the 23rd Ohio, of which he
was the commissary sergeant, coffee
and provisions while on the firing line.
This action on the part of Mr.. Nc
Kinley was entirely voluntary and
for it he received his first commission.
The Ohio Legislature recently made an
annrnnriatinn Of 500 600 for the cree.