Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-05-19
Notes From Nearby.
Martinsburg's corporation election
takes place next Monday.


takes place next Monday.
Triluminar Lodge of Odd Fellows
has been moved from Leetown to Mid
dleway.
There was snow in che Allegheny
mountains in the Deer Park region
last Sunday night.
Titus Turner, employed in Byron's
Tannery at Williamsport, Md, got his
arm caught in the machinery last Sat-
urday, and it was ground off almost to
the shoulder.
A new national bank has been or
ganized at Berryville, with $25, 900
capital. 1t is said that Mr.. Charles
NJ. Broun, lawyer, will be president,
and that James W. Foley will be cash
Ter.
The annual municipal election will
be held in Charles Town next Thurs
day. Mayor George Washington is
candidate for reelection. and oppo.-
ing him are Geo. T. Light and ]. L.
Pentz.
Ex-Mayor Lewis Delamater, Of Ha-
gerstown, is to be chief marshal in
charge of affairs at Antietam on
decoration day, May 30th. Hon.
George R. Gather will deliver the
principal address.
The Hagerstown Herald says that
Jesse Bloom and Edward Grimm
caught in the Conococheague creek a
turtle that weighed 483 pounds. They
experienced much difficulty in getting
the monster out Of the water.
Robert Vanvactor, the lad who cap
tured large bald eagle in a steel trap
on an island in the Shenandoah river,
near Dailey's, a few weeks ago, has
sold the bird 10 fancier in Illinois.
The purchaser will exhibit it at the
st. Louis Exposition.
William Pofenberger, retired
farmer of Washington county, COM
mitted suicide last Friday morning by
hanging himself in the barn on his
farm near Rohrersville. He had been
in poor health for some time, and his
mind had also become affected He
was about 65 years old and was a man
of considerable means.
James NJ. Anderson, As years of age,
died near Winchester Tuesday night
of hydrophobia, after suffering terrible
agony. A year ago he was bitten by
dog said to have been mad, and later
he showed symptoms of hydrophobia.
Again he was attacked by another
mad dog and terribly bitten. About
May lst hydrophobia developed, and
it was necessary to tie and handcuff
him in bed.
Last Friday a report was circulated
in Middletown, Md, that John Cas-
tie, school teacher living near town,
had died suddenly. When one Of his
aged sisters heard of it she fainted
In the meantime Castle walked to
town, not knowing that he was sup
posed to be dead. He met another
sister, and she was so surprised to see
him alive that she also fell in faint.
A breach-of- promise suit of Miss
Esta NJ. Eyler against ex-Mayor Della
marter was settled in the circuit court
in Hagerstown on Thursday 1t is
reported that Miss Eyler received 81
500. She sued for $4,000 Miss
Eyler was formerly housekeeper for
Mr.. Delamarter, who is a widower.
She alleged in her declaration that he
promised to marry her, but he denied
the charge. Miss Eyler is now living
at York, Pa.
Mrs. Frank Bonham, residing near
Myerstown, had an unpleasant ex-
perience while out driving one day
last week. The horse she was driving
caught shoe on its hind foot in a
shoe on one of its front feet and threw
itself. In struggling to get up again,
the animal overturned the buggy.
which threw Mrs. Bonham violently
to the ground. The fall rendered
her unconscious for time and inhict-
ed number of painful bruises about
her head and shoulders.-AdvOcate.
Here's pretty tough yarn sent to
the Charles Town Advocate by its
Leetown correspondent Mrs John @.
Fleming missed one of her turkey hens
about a month ago and could learn
nothing of its whereabout until last
Sunday a week, when her eldest son,
Clayton, accidentally looked in the
cistern and spied the bird paddlingin
the water. She was taken out and is
doing we'll today. That turkey GER
tainly has a good constitution, as she
lived in the water three weeks with
out having anything to eat. The wa
leI was OuIy dOoul OLA IuOLSo u0eI'
A woman disappeared in the Vent
case, Strengthening the theory Of sui
eide. 1t is alleged that Miss Cornelia
Brookmyre, of st. Louis, had been en-
gagged to the young man, but the en-
gagement had been broken at the in
stance of the parents of Vent. That
Vent still cherished deep affection
for his former sweetheart is shown by
the fact that be made will and named
her as one of the benefciaries. The
estate left by the young general mana
ger of the Virginia Coal and Iron Com
pany is estimated to be worth $780,
900.
Last Monday a baby about two
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