Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-07-03
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

DR.. Tobias Schlosser, Hagerstown' 9
oldest dentist, died last Monday, aged
81 years.
Fairfax College, at Winchester, is
to occupy "Wincheater Inn," the great
"boom" hotel building. In summer
it will be utilized as hotel.
Twenty boys from Washington and
Baltimore are in camp at Burnside
Bridge, on the Antietam creek, near
Sharpsburg, in charge of the Y. M. G.
A.
Mr.. Joseph Grant Clark, of Fred
erick county, Va, and Miss Pleasant
Agnus Anderson, of Martinsburg,
were married in the latter city last
Thursday night.
c. s. Cost. living on the S. D. Piper
farm, Sharpsburg, was kicked by a
horse on Saturday and his arm broken
between the elbow and shoulder, and
he is badly hurt.
Mrs. Sarah c. Page, a relative Of
the late Charles Broadway Rouss, died
in Winchester last week, after linger-
Ing illness. aged IA years. She was a
daughter ofthe late DR.. Martin Sher-
man Timberlake, of Clarke county.
During fight at Stephens City,
Va, last Saturday night between
Owen Brown, and Park 81. Strobe, Jr.,
two youths, Brown was seriously
stabbed in the neck and on the arm
by Strobe. Strobe claims Brown at
tackled him, and that he used the knife
in self defense. A wound two inches
in length and an inch deep was in
flicted, and the blade penetrated the
carotid artery.
The youngest globe trotter in this
section is R. E. Byrd, Jr., son of Pros
ecuting Attorney R. E. Byrd, of Win
chester, who will leave shortly on a
tour of the world. He will completely
encircle the earth. travelling alone most
Of the distance. He is IS years of
age. His objective point will be the
Philippines via San Francisco, where
he will spend several months. He
will return via the Suez canal to New
York, stopping at various places en-
rout.
After partaking heartily of cream
cheese Sunday morning the three
children Of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Drenner and Mrs. Drenner's father,
Henry Hetzel, who lives with the
Drenners, in sharpsburg, were taken
suddenly i'll Sunday forenoon. The
cheese was served at breakfast. Mr..
Drenner thinks that the cheese was
poisoned, though they do not know
how. 1t took several hours work on
the part of physicians to get them out
of danger.
Last Saturday night three masked
men broke into the dollhouse on the
Leitersburg pike, two miles east of
Hagerstown, bound the keeper, Jacob
Creager, cripple over IA years old,
and his aged wife, and robbed them
of $l79 in money and other valuables.
On Tuesday George Albert Decker,
aged 25, Harry Minnich, aged Is or
l6, and George Branch, colored, aged
about IT, were arrested charged with
the crime, and are now in Jail in Hag-
erstown.
Cornelia Rutherford, the 6-year-old
daughter of A. G. Rutherford, living
near WINCHESTER, had narrow escape
from horrible death the other day.
She was riding with her father on a
binder. He got off the machine to
adjust the knotter, and in his absence
the little one crawled between the
revolving canvas which carries the
wheat to the binding attachments,
Mr.. Rutherford started the horses and
a scream from his child told him some
thing was wrong. When he investi-
gated he found the little one being
packed into a sheaf by the revolving
steel arms of the machine. One of
the arms had started to penetrate her
back.