Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-07-30
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

COOb VI 6ohiHONt WIN q Na RANnA
of $3.50, 900. 1t purposes to develop
the cement rock on the land purchased
from the Bowles heirs, near Hancock.
The Second Uniform Examination
of applicants for teachers certificates
was held at the Graded School building
in Charles Town on Thursday and
Friday. There were only six appli-
cants to take the examination.
Two men were found locked in a
car of the Norfolk and Western freight
train which arrived in Hagerstown
early Monday morning from Tonnes
see The men had been in the car
for over "a hours without food or wa
ter and were nearly famished.
Attorneys for f. w. Doll, Demo-
cratic claimant for the Office of clerk
of the county court of Berkeley coun-
ty, have appealed from the decision
of Judge Faulkner, awarding the Of
fee to L. Bender, Republican. The
cases will be carried to the Supreme
Court.
Charles f. Shadrach, manager of
Gambrill's dIstillery at Roxbury, near
Hagerstown, committed suicide on
Monday by taking poison. He had
recently been charged with two Sc
rious crimes against woman and a
girl, and he was afraid to face the &C.
cusations. He was Al years old.
David Edwards, highly esteemed
colored resident Of the county, died on
Saturday at Flowing Springs, aged
about so years. For more than twen-
ty years he was in the employ of Mr..
]. Garland Hurst on the latters farm
near Dufields, and for the past nine
years he worked for Mr.. John c.
Burns at Flowing Springs. His en-
tire life after reaching manhood was
spent in the employ of these two men.
Robert Lewis, Norfolk & Western
brakeman, plunged from his car a
short distance below Charles Town,
Friday night. He thought he was
leaping from one box car to another,
but he jumped into fiat car loaded
with steel and punctured his left leg,
besides straining the leaders. He was
taken to Berryville, where DR.. Me-
Cormick rendered medical attention,
and then he was taken to his home in
Hagerstown.
Martinsburg has a set of persistent
frebugs, and the people are becoming
much alarmed at the incendiary fires
that they are causing. Early last Fri
day morning the B. & 0. warehouse
was set afre, and it was destroyed
with its contents, causing a loss Of
several thousand dollars. Monday
morning a stable belonging to Jacob
Wild was set afre and burned. The
incendiary fires have been going on
for about two months.
George Conley, living in the neigh
borhood of Kearneysville, was ar.
rested Monday on a warrant sworn
out by William Morrison, charging
him with using threatening language.
Subsequently Mrs. Bayliss Trussell,
sister of Conley, swore out warrant
against Morrison charging him with
threatening Conley. There will be
hearing Of the case before Justice Gal
laher next Tuesday. Conley was re-
leased on his own recognizance.-
Free Press.
Joseph Krouse, a freight fireman on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sus-
tanned what may prove to be fatal in
juries by leaping from his cab about
Monday midnight near North Noun
tain, in al effort to avoid what he be-
heved would be collision between
his engine and a freight helper.
Krouse saw the helper on the track
ahead Of his train aud, without know
ing that it was moving in the same
direction at a rapid speed, jumped to
the ground. He landed in pile of
stones, and when picked up he was
found to be seriously injured. He may
lose leg.
Mrs. Thos. N. Hill, residing on the
east side of the Shenandoah, who
few days ago was bitten by a copper
head snake, one evening last week had
another fearful snake experience. She
and her daughter were passing through
the hallway of their house, when they
spied rattlesnake on the floor. The
daughter, who carried the lamp, in her
fright ran out and left Mrs. Hill in
the dark with the snake. Fortunate
ly Mr.. ELL was at hand on the front
porch, and came in and despatched
the snake before it had bitten Mrs
Hill. The latter. however, doubtless
lived years of fearful experience dur
ing the few moments that she re-
msined in the dark hall with a live
rattler as her sole companion.-SPirit |