Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-10-08
Notes From Nearby.

near Roanoke, Va, has sold his crop
Of pippin apples on the trees for Sl6'-
900.
Geo. D. Lambert, who has been
meat dealer in MartiEsburg for SO
years, has retired from business and
will take life easy.
Miss Virginia May Dixon and Mr..
Carl Lynn Thompson, a runaway cou-
pie from Martinsburg, were married
in Hagerstown Monday by Rev. E. T.
Mowbray.
Charles W. HiDze, Cumberland, has
acquired an interest in the Leder-
Wiedeman Brewing Company, Har-
per's Ferry, and has been elected pres
ident and general manager of the
company.
The wife of DR.. Constantine Good
ell, one of the most prominent physi-
clans in Philadelphia, has sued her
husband for divorce Mrs. Goodell
was formerly Miss Gay Keedy, of Ha-
ger8town. She is now on the stage,
against the will of her husband.
J. A. ShilIler, brakeman on the
Norfolk & Western R. R., has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Charles Town Electric Light and pow
er Company. He claims that he was
thrown from a car by one Of the wires
of the company last winter and very
badly injured.
Miss Lille Irene jackson, of Park
ersburg, daughter OF Judge John j.
Jackson, visited Harper's Ferry last
week on bass fishing expedition.
Miss jackson is devoted to the rod and
reel, and Tuesday succeeded in haul
ing from the Potomac thirteen good
sized black bass, followed by haul of
fourteen on Wednesday.
Work is now being actively pushed
or the construction of the Wabash
road connecting the Western Mary
land Railroad at Cherry Run with the
West Virginia Central at Cumberland.
Five big tunnels will have to be
dug and eight bridges will have to be
built. Hundreds Of Italians are work
ing on the new line.
Hon. VIM. B. Cornwell, one of the
most prominent residents Of Hamp-
shire county, has resigned his Office as
prosecuting attorney, and will shortly
remove to Fairmont, this State, to en-
gage in the practice of law. Mr..
Cornwell is a brother of State Senator
John J. Cornwell, and his removal is
a distinct loss to our district. He
has been one Of the most active Dem
ocrats in this section.
The coal bins connected with the
elevator property Of F. j, Manning at
Charles Town were destroyed by fire
last Wednesday night. The elevator
was also damaged some, as was Wash
ington & Alexander's fertilizer ware
house. Several B. & O. cars were
partly burned, but an engine came
along in the nick Of time and hauled
them away. The big mill of the JEFF
ferson Milling Company was in immi-
nent danger for time.
Several men who have been in Mar
tinsburg for the past week, renovat-
ing and buying feather beds, sudden
ly departed for other fields of opera
ton early Sunday morning, and since
their departure there has been much
complaint on the part of the people
for whom they did work. One lady
has examined the work they did Tor
her and found that the men had taken
her duck and guinea feathers from
the ticks and substituted chicken
feathers World.
Charles Barger a young man aged
26 years, married and the father Of
two small children, is in Jail in Mar
tinsburg, where he was broughta cou-
RE of days ago from Keyser, by Sher-
if Dixon, Of Mineral county, who
feared that an attempt would be
made to lynch Barger for shooting and
killing a man named John Adams
several days ago. The shooting occur
red at Barnum, a. small mining town
in Mineral county, and was said to be
the outcome of labor troubles among
the mine workers.