Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-08-13
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Prof. John Zeigler, for many years
the leader of the Pen-Mar orchestra,
died last Sunday in Baltimore, aged
70 years.
Robert Daniel Bush, colored, of
Charles Town, is in Jail in Hagerstown
on a charge Of carrying concealed
weapons.
Mr.. Hugh Edmond Williamson and
Miss Lula Belle Davis, both of Bed.
ington, Berkeley county, were married
in Martinsburg last Thursday night.
Rev. Thomas A. Johnson, of Ha-
gerstown, has accepted a call from the
First Baptist Church, at Madison,
Ind, and will leave September l8t
Married, August 6, 1903, at Ste
phenson Seminary, in Charles Town,
by Rev. DR.. G. N. Campbell, Mr..
Samuel D. Rutherford and Miss Susan
Law, both of this county.
The Democratic judiciary conven-
ton for the fourth Maryland district,
composed of the counties of Garrett,
Allegheny and Washington, have NOM
mated Ferdinand Williams, Of Cum
berland, and Vim. ]. Witzenbacher,
of Hagerstown, as circuit judges.
Charles Stewart, a workman of the
Standard Lime and Stone Company,
near Martinsburg, was horribly
crushed last Friday afternoon at the
quarries. His right leg was ampu-
tated at the thigh. A great stone
rolled upon him while he was at work,
Charles Wintermoyer and his thir-
teen-year-old daughter were stunned
by lightning near Hedgesville. The
bolt came down the chimney into an
open Fireplace and struck Winter
meyer at the hips, paralyzing him
from the middle down. Others in the
room were stunned.
Bender Conner, II years old, died
of lockjaw Monday at Funkstown,
Washington county. He ran nail
in his foot through the sole Of his shoe
a week previous. His jaws became
locked on Friday and since then he
had been unable to take any nourish-
ment except a little milk.
While threshing wheat for W. G. R.
Tapscott, near Berryville last Friday
the engine used by c. X. Sewers to
operate the threshing machine set fire
to the straw, and engine, threshlng
machine, wheat and straw were con-
summed. This is the second machine
Mr.. Sewers has lost in similar man
ner within year.
Robbers entered the dental Offices
Of DR.. E. L. Smith in Martinsburg
Monday night and secured about 5000
worth of gold filling, besides other ar
ticles. 1t was evidently the work Of
the same gang that has robbed the
dentists of Clarksburg, Fairmont and
Grafton within the last few days.
There is no clue to the robbers.
The grocery store of Samuel Lyons
in Hagerstown was robbed and set on
fire early last Sunday morning. The
stolen goods were found on the prop
erty Of young man named Flynn
and he was arrested. He confessed
and implicated Frank Kretzer, and
he was also jailed The fire in the
store was put out before much damage
was done.
Last week while NJ. E. Jones and
Charles Russell were removing the
roof from a house Of Thomas Camp
bell, near Kearneysville, they found,
under the roof in the cornice, a large
black snake curled up, taking nap.
A kettle of boiling water was thrown
on the reptile and it was promptly
dispatched. II measured over three
feet in length.-Free Press.
At meeting of the supervisors Of
Clarke county the contract for the
erection of two steel bridges to span
the Shenandoah river at Castleman s
and Berry's ferries was awarded to
Nelson & Buchanan, of Chambersburg,
Pa. These bridges will be construct
ed almost entirely of steel, after the
most approved plan of modern bridge
building, and will be of great value to
the county. The contract price was
$4,000.
The Hagerstown Fair Association
decided Tuesday to admit Frederick
county, Virginia, as a member of the
association, and appointed the follow
ing advisory board of directors NJ. j.
Hardesty, W. T. Hiett, G. H. Purcell,
S. NJ. Chiles, ]. W. Baker, E. G. Hol-
lis, T. H. Chamblin, R. c. Shull, J. B.
Beverly, all of Frederick county. The
association is now composed of eleven
counties in Maryland, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Virginia, A COM
plimentary banquet will be rendered
the eleven advisory boards on the Ha-
gerstown fair grounds on Saturday,
September 10.
AS the result Of dynamite explo-
sion Saturday morning on the farm OF
Charles Sterling, near Sharpsburg, one
man was painfully hurt and five other
men narrowly escaped injury. The
party consisted of John Hammond,
William Houser, Daniel Houser, John
Green, Melvin Reed and William
Houser, Jr. They were quarrying
rock for use on the government roads
over Antietam battlefield. They
placed two sticks Of dynamite in a
seam between two large rocks and
then applied match to the fuse. The