Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-07-24
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

| u. " ". ctd1iOh oSohe az 49, 10y
Va, died last week, aged 60 years.
Charles Rutherford, of Kearneys-
vile, is sinking an artesian well on the
farm of N. R. Roberts, near Middle
way.
There was an extensive mountain
fire on Maryland Heights near the old
stone fort last week. 1t was extin-
guished by the rain Friday night.
James A. Seaman, of Sharpsburg,
has been appointed by the county
commissioners as inspector of weights
and measures for two years at salary
of $125 year.
Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, of Ber-
ryville, was robbed of a valuable gold
watch while in Boston few days ago.
The pickpocket was arrested, but the
watch was not recovered.
During a storm which passed over
the neighborhood of Winchester, Va,
Sunday, lightning struck flock Of
sheep belonging to William Mowrey
and nineteen were killed.
Miss Nellie Johnson and Mr.. Joseph
W. Beard, of Front Royal, eloped to
Hagerstown Monday night and were
married. After the preacher had tied
the knot the bride exclaimed ooh,
what will mama say?"
Daniel Clsig says that while he was
moving be accidentally killed a hen
partridge on her nest. He took the
eggs and placed them under Buff
Cochin hen. She Matched seven-6ve
are now alive, four weeks old, and
growing fnely.-Free Press.
The annual exhibition of the Clarke
County Horse and Colt Show Assoca-
ton will be held on Wednesday and
Thursday, August IS and Il, at the
! associations magnifcently-appointed
grounds, just on the elevated western
suburbs OF Berryvllle.
Harvey Knodle and John Obits, Of
Williamsport, were arrested Tuesday,
charged with stealing chickens and a
lot of other property from Harvey
Reed, on the West Virginia side of
the river. The stolen property was
found in their possession.
Thomas c. Boiling, who has charge
of Jefferson Milling Company at Charles
Town, was painfully hurt last Satur-
day by stack falling which was be-
ing erected at the mill. His collar
bone was broken by piece Of heavy
timber and he received other minor
injuries.
A Mrs. Oscar Athey on Saturday
died in Winchester, and her sudden
death was attributed to blood poison.
On Monday Susan Barber, a notorious
midwife, was taken into custody on a
warrant sworn out by a prominent
physician charging her with having
performed criminal operation.
Well-drillers engaged in sinking
well on the farm of County Commits
sioner Daniel Hefebower, near Ripon,
at a depth of IS or 20 feet came in
contact with a peculiar black substance
resembling coal, which was found to
be less brittle and less combustible
than coal. A specimen will be an
alyzed to test its nature and value.
Barrett Bockey, a young son Of
Robert Bockey, was perhaps fatally
injured Wednesday afternoon of last
week by being run down by mower
on the farm of Mr.. James Clevinger,
near Clearbrook, Frederick county,
Va. The lad was following the now
er, when he accidentally stepped in
front of the cutter bar. His leg was
cut off above the ankle.
Two cars ofan east bound livestock
train were wrecked at Vanclevesville
last evening, while being pushed up
the nine-mile grade by helper en-
CINE, and 50 sheep We're killed. Num-
erous others were almost suffocated
in the overturned cars and were re-
vived only after hard work. The
sheep were bound for Baltimore. The
wreck was caused by the air coupling
separating, when several cars buckled.
Relatives in Hagerstown have re-
Gently received information that Miss
Ethel Beaumont, of that place, had
been married in July, 1901, to Mr.
Edmund Monroe, of Edinburgh, in the
chapel of the Church of the Immacu-
late Conception, in London. Miss
Beaumont sailed from America for
Europe in the spring of 1901. She
is a daughter of the late Admiral
Beaumont, of the United States Navy.
As the result of his devotion to duty
in crossing swollen stream, Louis H,
Langhammer died at his home in Mar
tinsburg Tuesday night, aged As years,
The deceased was a rural mail carrier
in Berkeley county. While on his
route last May he came to swollen
stream, the Opequon, across which he
led his horse. Notwithstanding that
his clothes were wet, he continued de-
livering mail, and as a result contract
ed rheumatism, from which he died.
A widow and one son survive him.