Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-07-31
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
The Berryville horse and colt show
will be held August Is and IA.

The Berryville horse and colt show
will be held August Is and IA.
VIM. Gore, son of Mr.. w. I. Gore,
of Charles Town, died last Friday
night in that place, aged IA years.
Joseph Hobbs has purchased of @.
P. Herring two lots in Martinsburg,
corner of Queen and Martin streets,
for $500.
Mrs. William Mckee, of Martins
burg, came near choking to death a
few days ago by swallowing half of a
peach stone.
William Wilson, respected citizen
of Loudoun county, was shot and
killed in a public road on Monday.
A negro named Charles Craven is
suspicioned as the murderer.
Major Josiah Pierce, Jr., who mar
ried a daughter of Admiral Dahlgren,
and whose summer home was on South
Mountain, near Boonsboro. died in
Washington yesterday, aged As years,
The Fidelity and Deposit Company
of Baltimore, bondsman for William
T. McNew, of Hagerstown, saloon
keeper, has just paid his fine Of $500
for liquor law violations. He pleaded
guilty to fourteen violations Of the
law and was fined $500, with costs.
A pitchfork swindle has been worked
on the farmers in the neigbborhood
of Hanover, Pa. An agent calls and
gets the farmer to sign an agreement
to act as agent for selling the forks
and the same agreement later turns
up as promissory note which the far
mer has to pay.
On Tuesday last horse attached
to buggy and driven by Mrs. 0. T.
Kemp, of Bolivar, accompanied by
another lady with little girl, took
fright at a traction engine coming
down the hill from Bolivar Heights,
and ran away. When the horse got
beyond control the frightened ladies
tossed the little girl out OF the buggy
and then themselves jumped out. All
were more or less bruised, but none
seriously hurt.-Spirtt.
Miss Lille G. Register and Mr.. Ar
thur H. Lee, both of Clarke county,
Virginia, went to Hagerstown last
Sunday night and were married by
Rev. G. A. Snyder. The groom was
supposed to be on his way to Phila-
delphia, but instead stopped at camp
meeting at White Post, where he met
the bride-elect. After a ten-mile
drive across country they boarded
Norfolk and Western train for Ha-
gerstown. The brides parents were
opposed to the match.
The feat of walking from Morgan
town to Charles Town, distance of
l64 miles, completed on Saturday even
ing, says the Morgantown New Domin-
ion, by Rev. j. T. Marley and Tucker
Brooke, is an unusual one. The gen.
tlemen left here on Monday and
reached their destination on good time,
tired and weather beaten but still in
possession of their nerve. At several
points on the journey they were enter
tanned by friends who were glad to
see them and who did all they could
to make the tramp pleasant.
Ed Lee Tabb, proprietor of the
stave mill at Inwood, had a narrow
escape from death by falling off the
Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge
over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at Martinsburg about l o'clock Tues
day morning. He was walking across
the bridge with several friends, when
he made misstep and fell over the
edge to the tracks below, a distance of
about 40 feet. His friends found him
unconscious, but still living, with his
right arm broken, two teeth knocked
loose, his face and body badly cut and
bruised. He will recover, but he
will be sore for some time.
Chief Judge Boyd of Maryland on
Monday filed an important opinion in
the case of the Undine Milling Com
pany, of Williamsport, deciding that
the proceeds from the sale of some
5000 bushels of wheat, in possession
of the Undine Milling Company when
receivers were appointed, should be
divided among the general creditors
OF the concern. Because they held
alleged warehouse certificates the
Williamsport Bank and others claimed
priority in the distribution of these
proceeds. The receivers, John L. Mot
ter and B. A. Belts. through Attor-
neys Neil and Mason, contested this
claim set up by the bank and others,
and Judge Boyd upheld the receivers
in the position they took in the matter.
L. W. Poffenberger, of Shephcrdstown,
is largely interested in this case, and
is affected adversely by the decision.