Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-05-21
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
1t is said that there are twenty cases
smallpox in Cumberland.


of smallpox in Cumberland.
Parson Peter Jackson, colored ex-
horter of Martinsburg, has just mar
ried his fifth wife.
Work was started Monday in the
B. & o. shops at Martinsburg, which
have been idle so long.
Henry D. Wolfes, a Martins6urg
plumber. has made an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors.
The new Berkeley Springs Bank
has been organized. John J. Hetzel
is president and R. E Allen cashier.
J. Frank Kellin, of the United
States fish hatchery st Bryan's Point,
put 100000 small shad in the Poto-
mac river and C. & o. canal at Han
cock.
J. H. Waters has been appointed
local superintendent of the United
Telephone Company in Hagerstown.
He succeeds P. D. Teboult, who has
left the town.
A Hungarian laborer on the B. &
0. cutoff was drowned Monday in
the Potomac river, near Martinsburg.
He was swimming shortly after a meal
and was seized with cramps.
Rev. Job. Turner, the distinguished
Virginia deaf-mute missionary, who
was well known throughout the South,
died Tuesday night, IN his eighty
third year, at the home of his son, Mr..
C. W. S. Turner, near Mountville,
Loudoun county, Va. He had been
i'll only brief time, and until three
months ago was remarkably active for
man of his advanced age and busy
career. His remains viii be taken to
Staunton for interment.
The family of Max Theodore, con-
sisting Of himself, wife and two chill
dren, together with his two brothers,
William and Louis Theodore, were all
poisoned last Sunday from some cheese
which they ate. DR.. VIM. Neil was
summoned to attend them. In the
case of Mrs. Theodore the action Of
the poison was particularly violent,
and for several houra her life was al
most despaired OF. Weare pleased to
note, however, that all of them have
pulled through and are about recov-
cred, although narrowly escaping avi-
client and sudden death.-CharleS
To,cn Spirit
Charles D. Cummings, farm labor
er living on the farm of Mr.. Jacob
linn, near Kabletown, was brought to
town by officers on Monday and lodged
in Jail. For several weeks past he had
been exhibiting signs Of mental de-
rangement which grew worse, and
upon the complaint Of his wife he was
locked up. Since his Incarceration he
has developed a mild form Of religious
mania, his Authorization being that he
is a noted preacher. Wednesday be
handed scrap Of paper to Deputy
Sheriff Burns, saying 1t contained an
invitation to President Roosevelt to
come to hear him preach. Next Sun
day, he says, excursions will be run
from all the nearby cities for the ac-
commodation of those who may desire
to attend the services. Cummings is
As years OF age, has wife AMI family
of three children. He moved to this
county from Loudoun last tall.-Adro-
cate.
Mrs. Lizzie Frtts, who has returned
to the home Of Mrs. Kate Marstellar
III Charles Town after a visit with rel
atives in the county, has encountered
an experience that comes to few people.
Until very recently she believed she
was the only survivor Of once numer-
Gus family OF brothers and sisters who
were born in Loudoun county, Va.
A letter addressed to the postmaster
at Charles Town arrived sometime ago
from Bughtwood, Arkansas. Its IN
strucuons obeyed, the letter was
turned over to Mrs Frtts and proved
to be from a brother Of hers, James n.
Cockrell, who years ago was thought to
be dead. The letter told an interest
ing story. Mr.. Cockrell had lived
with his brother, the late George Cock
rell, on what is now the Henderson
farm near Leetown until he was /
years OF age, in 1850, when he went
to Illinois. Correspondence with his
Virginia relatives was kept up until
the outbreak of the Civil War, when
Mr. Cockrell stopped writing. Moth
ing more was heard from him until
the letter OF few weeks ago came.
In the stirring years that have in
tervened Mr.. Cockrell married, reared
a family and now has grandchildren
to cheer his declining years.-Aduo-
cate.
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