Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-11-19
Notes From Nearby.

There is talk of Jim Crow car law
for Maryland.
The store of Joseph Oliver, in Mar
tinsburg, was entered and robbed
Monday night.
Mrs. David S. Hartle became sud-
denly i'll while attending service in the
Presbyterian church at Hagerstown
last Sunday, and ten minutes later was
dead.
Charles Shores, a B 80. brakeman,
fell under the cars at Martinsburg one
night last week and was killed. Eight
trains passed over his body before it
was discovered.
The Carter House at Charles Town
has been closed for the purpose of
making extensive improvements to
this famous old hotel by its new owner,
Arthur Davenport.
Miss Edna Bell Gus wa, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Cushwa, and
Mr.. w. H. Bowers were married at
the home Of the bride in Martinsburg
last Wednesday night.
Counterfeit silver dollars are max
ing their appearance in circulation In
Hagerstown, but the officers are at sea
as to where they come from. Several
merchants recently have taken in these
spurious coins and the imitation is so
close that 1t is difficult to detect the
counterfeit from the good dollar. The
greatest difference is in the weight Of
the coins, the counterfeit being light
er.
A fatal stabbing took place at
Hillsboro. Loudoun county, Saturday
night about 8 o'clock. Humphrey
Potts plunged knife into John Virts
in his left side above the heart, infict-
ing a deep wound, from which death
resulted in ten minutes. Potts is the
eighteeu-yesr-old son of Harry c Potte,
a prominent farmer living about two
miles from Hillsboro. Virts is the
same age, and is the son Of James
w. A. Virts.
A new system of handling engines
on through train service is being used
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Formerly all passenger engines on
through fast trains leaving Washing
ton for the west ran through Cumber-
land. They are now being cut off at
their division point at Brunswick, and
the new Atlantic type of engines just
received are being run west from
Brunswick. The engines cut off at
Brunswick return east on first train to
Washington and Baltimore.
Ashby Roberts, resident of Balti-
more, and at one time an engineman
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
was badly injured by dynamite Tues
day near Brunswick. Both eyes were
blown out, one hand blown off, and he
was otherwise injured. Roberts, with
a party of friends, had gone fishing in
the Potomac river. They decided to
dynamite the fish, and the accident
happened after he had lighted the
fuse of the bomb, which exploded be-
fore he threw it in the water. He
was taken to the Emergency Hospital
at Frederick.
The Martinsburg World says that
Mr.. D. G. West enhaver, one of the
prominent members of the Berkeley
county bar, and lawyer Of reputation
and ability, will in a few weeks remove
from Martinsburg to Cleveland, Ohio,
where he will practice his profession
as a member of the firm of Garfield,
Westenhaver & Howe. Mr.. Westenha-
yer will leave early in December to get
in touch with the business in Cleveland,
but will return to Martinsburg from
time to time in order to dispose Of and
arrange his extensive legal business in
the courts of West Virginia.
Senator McComas introduced bill
in the Senate on Monday providing
for an appropriation Of $4,000 for the
construction of macadamized road
from Sharpsburg, Md, over the battle
field of Antletam, and over Burnside
bridge to the Connecticut monument,
on that battlefield, upon and along the
present county roadway between those
points. The bill provides that the
commissioners of Washington county
shall first convey the roadway to the
United States by good and sufficient
title. and then the amount of the APP
preparation is to be expended under
the supervision of the Quarterma.ter-
General, in conformity with the gen.
eral plan of improvement for the Ma
tional Cemetery and battlefield Of
A ntietam