Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-12-17
Notes From Nearby.

The Round Top cement mill, near
Hancock, destroyed by fire several
years as o, is to be rebuilt.
Jonah L Simpson, prominent res
ident of Frederick county, Va, hung
h;mselfa at his home near Winchester
last Saturday.
John Hout Fries, aged so years.
died at bis home near Winchester the
other day. He had never ridden on
a railroad train.
The Farmers and Merchants De-
post Company of Charles Town has
declared its first dividends per cent
for the past six months.
Rev George A. Snyder, pastor of a
Reformed church in Hagerstown, has
been offered the presidency Of Catawba
College, North Carolina,
Denton NJ. Shupp, of WilliamEport,
sold his farm of $50 acres, in the
Clearspring district, to William Her
bert, of Bunker Hill, for $4,000.
The Charles Town Spirit Gays that
Harry Hopkins had the third finger
of his right hand mashed off whilst
operating a corn shredder at VIM.
Wilt last Wednesday.
The dwelling on the farm of Thomas
E. Sublett, near Millville, this county,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday,
together with all the household effects
belonging to John Hardy.
An effort ia being made to break up
the floating saloons along the Chesa-
peaks & Ohio canal, which furnish liq-
uor to the railroad laborers and others.
A numbtr of arrests have been made
recently.
Mr.. Archibold Robinson Hoxton
and Miss Sarah Purvis Taylor, both
of Alexandria, Va, were married last
night in St. PAul's church in that city
Mr.. Hoxton is relative of Mrs. NJ.
P. Andrews, OF this vicinity, and has
frequently visited here.
The presidents of the several boards
of education met last Saturday and
elected Edward Tabler county super
intendent of free schools for Berkeley
to FIJI the vacancy caused by the death
death of J. W Shirley. He is Demo-
crat, as was his predecessor.
Alfred Dick, living across the.river
from Falling Waters, caught lynx,
an animal very rare in this section, in
steel trap. He killed the animal
with a gun. The body was about
three feet long. 1t weighed about 40
pounds, and was vicious customer.
When the water was drawn from
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal level,
near Oldtown, preparatory to closing
the waterway for the winter, the body
of Charles Gross, a young man who
has been missing since he drew his
pay in October, was found in the canal
bottom.
John Conner, committed at Harper's
Ferry, November 18th, being adj
Judged insane, was taken before Judge
Faulkner at Martinsburg and On the
recommendation of physicians was re-
leased from custody as being Of sound
mind. He sad his insanity WAS due
to drinking but that he would not do
so any more. He returned to Cherry
Run.
The central span of the new steel
bridge which was being erected over
the Shenandoah river between Fred
erick and Warren counties at Carson 8
Ford, was lifted from its piers by the
high winds Sunday and sent crashing
into the river, where it lies com.
plete wreck The section which fell
into the river was l6S feet in height.
Joseph Stevenson, of Cumberland,
Md, crawled two miles with the top
of his head shot off and then fell in a
swoon at his mothers side. He was
hunting and while trying to dig
rabbit out of hole in the ground, his
gun was discharged, the contents
passing through a cheek tearing off
his scalp, exposing the brain. Steven
son is still living and may get well.
The somewhat novel circumstance
of volunteer FIRE company coming to
a town corporations aid by lending it
money was witnessed last night at
Berryville. when on account of the
city treasury being empty, the Berry
vile fire department agreed to loan
the town the sum Of $500 to tide over
present financial difficulties. The per-
sonal note Of the town officers was
given to secure the loan.
Charles Bragg was down in a well
at Jas. Z Watson's a few days ago,
when the rope holding the ladder upon
which he was standing broke and drop
ped him and the ladder into nine feet
of water. Fortunately Mr. Bragg
kept tight hold on the ladder and
was only submerged up to his neck.
otherwise he might have been drowned
As it was he simply took sudden and
very uncomfortable December bath
Spirit.
Friends of the prospective groom
here have received invitations to the
approaching marriage of Prof Herbert
DeGrange Wolffto Miss Harriet Louise
Lowry, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Jas.
E Lowry, of Yorkville, South Caro-
lima. The ceremony will take in the
Church of the Good Shepherd at