Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-07-09
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The Byron tannery at Williamsport
is to be rebuilt at once.
The tax rate for MaItinsburg has
been fixed at &C cents on the hundred
dollars.
John Wagaman, superintendent Of
the Orphans Home in Hagerstown,
died on Monday last.
Bernard Full, aged 20 years, tried
to Jump passenger train in Hagers-
town the other day. He fell under
passenger train and had both of his
feet cut off.
Charles Easton, aged l6 years, was
overcome by the heat while harvesting
near Beaver Greek, in Washington
county, last Thursday, and died few
hours afterward.
At Brunswick, Nd, last Saturday
an eight-year-old boy named Dunaway
had his eyes so badly injured by the
explosion Of a giant frecracker that
he will lose his eyesight entirely.
Mrs. Lillian P. Leonard, Of Mar
tinsburg, has sued her husband, Cbas.
P. Leonard, for divorce in the circuit
court of Berkeley county. She al
leges cruel and inhuman treatment.
Conductor J. B. Manyett, of the
Norfolk & Western Railway, was over
come by the heat at his home in Ha-
gerstown on Monday. lie was very
sick for time, but aiterward got
better.
James Moran, an old employee Of
the B. & O. Railroad at Martinsburg,
was run down by a train last Satur-
day. He was very badly hurt, one
arm being crushed off and his skull
fractured.
During the storm that swept over
Berk eley county last Saturday even
ing lightning struck the barn on DR..
J. P. Carriers farm near Gerardstown,
completely destroying it. Loss about
81 900, partly insured.
Mrs. Margaret Helm, an aged wo-
man of Shenandoah county, Va, wan
dered from her home last week and
got lost in the woods. She died from
the exposure, and her body was found
several days afterward.
Friend ]. Hayes, railroad con-
tractor working on the B. & 0. cutoff
in Berkeley county, is reported to be
in financial trouble, and the Martins
bmg World says that his property
and equipment have been seized by
his creditors.
James Simmons, who is about 80
years old, and Miss Verda Simmons,
aged l6, eloped from Brandywine, w.
Va, to Hagerstown last Friday and
were married. The groom had to
drive SO miles to get his bride, and
had good deal Of trouble even then
to elude her parents.
Audley, the historic estate of Mrs.
Dangerfeld Lewis, located near Ber-
ryville, was sold last week to Mr..
Cummins, of Pittsburg, for SCI 900.
Audley is handsome estate and was
once owned by the Curtis family, rel
atives of George Washington. Anoth-
er famous estate sold the past week in
the same section was the Tuileries, the
beautiful heme of Col. U. l.. Boyce.
This estate consisted of 685 acres, 200
acres Of which and the mansion We're
purchased by Graham F. Blandy, a
New York millionaire, for 500, 900,
and 1875 acres by Jacob S. Carver for
$4,000.
The committee of councilmen having
in charge the construction Of the new
water works in Martinsburg have
closed a deal with William T. Stewart
for a right of way for the pipe line Of
1000 feet through his land, together
with a site for a pumping station.
The price was 81, 800. Condemnation
proceedings were instituted by the
committee before Judge Faulkner, in
the cncuit court, to secure right Of
way through other lands adjacent to
town, and a board of review was ap-
pointed to adjust the damages. Work
on the new system will be started in
about a week.
The worst thunder storm in the
recollection of old residents visited
Washington county last Saturday af
ternoon. Two storms, one from the
north and the other from the south,
came together over Hagerstown. Much
damage was done. Lightning struck
the house Of Harry Taylor, near
Greencastle, and entered the sitting
room, where Taylor was sitting with
his two sons on his lap, instantly kill
ing Charles, seven years old, and SO
badly stunning Bruce, six years old,
that he cannot live. Taylor's clothes
were set on fire and he was badly
burned and shocked.
After she had been arrested charged
with forging a note for $75 by sign
ing the name of George W. Buxton to
it, Mrs. Arabella G. Griffith, Martins
burg, with a razor, three times at
tempted suicide at her home in Mud
dy Lane, Martinsburg, after the arrival
of the officers, the police say. When
disarmed, she asked permission to get
something about the house, and i'm
mediately got hold of a bottle of tur-
pentine and laudanum and drank the
contents of the bottle. a physician