Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-06-05
Notes From Nearby.

Notes From Nearby.
A charter was issued at Charleston
Monday to the Bank of Martinsburg.
The capital stock is $35. 900.
The tax rate of Washington coun-
ty, Nd, has been fixed at Is cents
on the hundred dollars, an increase
of 10 cents over 1901.
Charles Frederick Burger went to
sleep under some cars on railroad
siding at Hagerstown the other night.
An engine shifted some Of the cars
and he was crushed to death.
The annual reunion of the Presby-
terians Of the Cumberland Valley, Pa.
and the adjoining parts of Maryland,
West Virginia and Virginia, will be
held at Pen-Mar on Thursday, July
10.
Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Benjamin
Monloe, aged so, and Miss Elizabeth
Smith, aged 60, eloped from their
homes near Capon Bridge and went to
Romney and were married. W1ncheS-
ter NeWS- Items.
>. Ollie Smith, formerly baggage-mas-
ter at the Baltimore and Ohio depot
in Staunton, was arrested on Friday
night charged with stealing articles
from baggage. He was allowed to go
on a summons to appear IN court, but
fed.
The county court of Berkeley coun-
ty has fixed the county levy at 45
cents on the 500. The levy for road
purposes was fixed at Is cents valua-
ton in Opequon and Gerardstown
district, except Martinsburg, which is
not taxed at all for road purposes.
On decoration day at Orange, N.
j., the Grafton of the occasion was
delivered by Rev, Frank Mcdaniel,
pastor of the First Methodist church.
The audience numbered several thous-
aud people. The local papers printed
the Grafton in full and described it as
an eloquent effort.
Washington county, Md, is in luck.
The syndicate that recently purchased
the Western Maryland Railroad will
give the county $434,0OO for its in
terest in the road. The Indebtedness
of the county is $277,50O. This will
at once he paid off, and there will be
left about $l50,O0O in cold cash that
may be devoted to improvements.
At Martinsburg last Friday while
handling a gun in the armory before
going out on parade Daniel Miller,
young member of the local military
company, was severely injured. The
gun had been loaded with a blank
cartridge for use at the decoration
day exercises in the cemetery, and
Miller did not know it was cooked
when he dropped the butt of it OF the
floor. The weapon was discharged,
and the powder and wadding burned
his face terribly, and will probably
cause him the loss of his eyesight.
The right eye will have to be taken
out, but the left can probably be saved.
Emma Brown, daughter Of Fannie
Brown, colored, died Saturday after
noon in Martinsburg. She was in the
twenty-frst year Of her age. DR..
Sperow pronounced death due to pleu-
risy, with which she had been suffer-
ing for four months, but her mother,
who is inclined to be superstitious,
makes with great frmness the state
ment that her daughters death was
caused by poison inflicted by some
person with supernatural powers.
To prove her statement she produced
a small pill bottle containing frog
leg, a pin, piece of hair and num-
Der ofarticles of like nature, which
she says little boy found on the
fence outside the house and with
which the "charm" was worked" by
some enemy of her daughter. To
get rid ofthe bottle she threw it into
the creek and even there it cut some
strange capers which caused her to
entertain fears,-.Martinsbprg World.