Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-07-23
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Mrs. Mary Eversole died at her
home three miles from Martinsburg
on Tuesday, aged IS years.
Gilbert Cox, Martinsburg boy
about Is years old, fell under c. V.
freight train last Sunday night and
had one of his feet cut off.
The body of W. J. Butler, an en-
ployee in the B. & o. shops at Bruins
wick, was found in the canal on Mon
day. How he was drowned is not
known.
Marquis de Lafayette SeckmaD, a
popular young man of Martinsburg,
died in that city Sunday night, aged
% years.
F. J. Manning has leased his grain
elevator and coal yards in Charles
Town to Messrs, Reed & Long, who
have been in the same business at
Ripon and Summit Point.
A. NJ. Burks, of Roanoke, Va,
died at the Hotel Hamilton in Ha-
gerstown on Sunday last from heart
failure. He was on his way to hos
pital in Baltimore. but was too weak
to stand the trip. His wife was with
him.
Representatives of the Bell Tele-
phone system are in Charles Town
trying to work up enough subscribers
to have the lines of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Company extended to that
place.
John William Keefe, for twenty
years yard master for the B. & o.
Railroad, died at his home in Mar
tinsburg on Tuesday, aged rs years
He was a Confederate veteran. His
wife, three sons and two daughters
survive him.
Albert Rhodes was sentenced in
Winchester to four years in the peni-
tiary for arson, having confessed that
he set fire to a number Of business
houses in Middletown. He charged
others with completely in the crimes,
all Of whom have been acquitted.
Berry pickers at work on the Blue
Ridge mountain report rettlesnakes
very numerous in that region this year.
1t is a common occurrence for picker
to find collection Of half dozen to
10 rattlesnakes under one bush. W N.
Hill succeeded in killing four, Bush
Dlllow, one Charlie and Ep. Penwell,
four, one day this week.-AduOcate.
Deputy Constable Charles Mathena,
of this place, went TO arrest man
named John Cogle, at Silver Grove, a
few days ago, when Cogle turned out
a hive of his fighting bees. Whilst
Mr.. Mathena was engaged with the
bees Cogle made his escape, Mr.. Ma
thena meanwhile receiving number
of vigorous stings.-Charles To1on
Spirit.
Some the farmers of Washington
county took advantage Of the fine
weather last Sunday and made hay.
Many farmers who were never known
to do stroke Of work on Sunday
were, with their hands, busy in the
fields hauling the hay into barns.
Some of the hay had been cut as long
as ten days, and hundreds of tons
nodded on the ground for want Of
sunshine.
An excursionist to Luray met with
a serious accident returning from the
caverns last Thursday evening. A
young man named Wilbur Morrison,
from Warren county, got off the train
at Bentonville to give goodbye to
come young ladies, and in attempting
to lump on the moving train he fell.
One Of his feet got under the wheels
and was cut off. He was taken to
Front Royal, where he received sur
gical attention.
In the circuit court at Martinsburg
on Monday Judge E. Boyd Faulkner
decided the contested election case of
Frank w. Doll against l. L. Bender,
declaring that Mr.. Bender was legal
ly elected clerk of the county court of
Berkeley county. On the face Of the
returns Mr.. Bender had plurality Of
t. By recount Of the county court
this was increased to II. Judge
Faulkner's decision reduced the count
to 5-a small but safe plurality. Mr..
Bender is Republican and Mr.. Doll
a Democrat.