Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-08-27
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The Shenandoah baptist Assocla-
ton convened at Berryville yesterday.
Mrs. Kinsey Creque was badly
burned at Martinsburg last Saturday
by the explosion Of gasoline stove.
The Hagerstown Globe is authority
for the statement that young ALI
gator was caught i'll the Potomac river
at Williamsport the other day.
]. T. Bridges & Co., Hancock, have
contracted to furnish 100000 crossties
for the Wabash line now building be-
tween Cherry Run and Cumberland.
Winchester Lutherans on Tuesday
celebrated the l50th anniversary of
the founding of their church. All the
living ex-pastors were present save
one.
William NOVEL;, Union veteran,
died in Williamsport last week, aged
62 years. He claimed to have fired
the first shot across the Potomac river
during the Civil War.
Harry Waller, of Berryville, known
as the modern Sampson, tried to COM
NIT suicide last Thursday by cutting
his throat. Domestic trouble are said
to have been the cause.
Do,,c,,l,,oD;o nam ,o;es;o,aro ~ aract
Is statuary monuments visited Ante
tam battlefield Saturday and located
the sites. The sum of $4,000 was
appropriated by Pennsylvania for
these monuments.
Tuesday morning very unusual
accident occurred at Cherry Run, in
which three B. g. 0. cars loaded with
coal were pushed off the end Of coal
tipple, falling 80 feet and crushing to
death Fireman c. w. Silver, who was
on the rear car acting as brakeman.
A Berkeley county farmer insisted
on his wife learning to shoot re-
volver go she could protect herself
when he was away. After he had ex-
tracted a bullet from his left calf,
buried the COW, and paid for his neigh
boris buggy smashed in runaway, he
decided that his wife had better shoot
with an axe.
At a meeting of the Berkeley Coun-
ty Horticultural Society, in Martins
burg, a discussion as to the probable
yield of apples brought forth an esti-
mate of about $4,000 barrels. This
is regarded as too low, however, and
some growers think that the entire
yield OF the county will not fall far
short of 10000 barrels.
The dwelling.house of Kennie Sui
Ivan, at Shenandoah, Va, was de-
stroyed by fire last Saturday morning.
Sullivan's two children, one 81 years
old and the other years old, were
burned to death. The four.year-old
child of James Foltz was also burned
in the ruins. The children were in
the upper story, where the fire origi-
mated. The mother saw her children
through the flames, but could not get
to them to save the little ones from
horrible death.
Old School Colored Baptists, to the
number of six thousand, gathered at
Wildwood on Sunday to attend the
last session of the big three-day meet
ing. They came from every nook
and corner in the Valley of Virginia,
as we'll as from the hills and valleys
Of Pennsylvania, Maryland and West
Virginia. The day was hot, the COL
ored folks were warm, shouting and
happy, and genuine contentment
reigned supreme.
Roger Hemphill, freight fireman on
the N. & W Railway, met with Pc
culiar accident Monday night near
Old Chapel, Va. He was looking out
of the cab window while the train was
moving and something struck him in
the face, tore his right eyelid, broke
his nose and rendered him unconscious.
The train ran on for two miles and
a-half and stopped at siding at Boyce,
before Hemphill recovered conscious
ness, when he called Engineman D.
A. Wallace, who was not aware that
his fireman had been hurt. He was
taken to his home in Hagerstown on
passenger train No. 4. DR.. O. H. W.
Ragan gave him surgical aid. The
right eyelid was torn badly from the
nose outward, requiring SIX stitches.
The cheek was bruised and swollen
and the left eye more or less swollen.
The nose was badly broken, but was
put in very good shape. It's thought
he was struck by mail crane.
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