Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-04-21
Notes From Nearby.
The Methodists of Romney are 60
ing to build new church.

The Methodists of Romney are GO
ing to build new church.
DR.. A. NJ. Henkle, a prominent
physician of Staunton, Va, died on
Tuesday.
A fire in Waynesboro, Pa, on Tues
day burned four houses and their con.
tents, causing loss of about $4,000.
Major E. ]. Rider, aged IA years,
died at Berkeley Springs last week,
after short illness. He died on the
ffty-frst anniversary of his marriage.
He was one of the landmarks of the
town. He leaves a wife and seven
children.
Frank Lowell, aged so years, king
of the Rom any tribe of gypsies in Al
legany county, and known in this Sec
ton, died Sunday morning after a
brief illness, in his tent at the gypsy
camp across the Potomac, in West
Virginia, opposite Cumberland. He
is survived by widow, aged 76
years, and twelve children, eight of
whom are at the camp. Lowell was
well 10 do.
S. E. Brown died last Friday at
Winchester of an affection of the lungs
from singular cause. Many years
ago he swallowed large copper cent
which lodged in his throat. For
IA years the coin remained there un'
til one day, during a violent fit of
coughing, it became dislodged. The
coin was worn to half its former size,
and the copper is said to have SO pois-
oned Mr.. Browns system as to event
ually cause his death. He was 30
years CT age.
George A. House, colored, by At
torneys Scott NJ. Wolfnger and Elias
Hartle, has sued the Norfolk & West
ern Railroad for damages for being
elected from passenger train. 1t is
said that about year ago, while re-
turning from Morgan's Grove, and
while riding between Antietam and
St. James, in Maryland. House was
discovered by the conductor sitting in
the car for white people. The con-
ductor told him to go to the Jim Crow
apartment, which was separated from
the apartment for whites by only a
partition, but House refused to 60,
saying, it is alleged, that he would
rather be put off than to ride in the
Jim Crow car. The conductor stop
ped the train and elected House. At
the time there was no Jim Crow law
for Maryland, but the railroad COM
pany contends, and it is said the
question has been decided in the high
est courts, that they have the right
to designate what coaches their pas
sengers shall take. Houses attorneys
claim the railroad company unlawfully
elected House. The damages, it is
said, will be put at $4,000.
Miss Gertie Gregory and Mr.. Fred
erick M. Cline, both l9 years old, OF
Martinsburg, were married in Hagers-
town, Thursday evening last. The
groom being only 10, had some trouble
in getting a license. The Maryland
law requires the groom to be q and
the bride l6, otherwise they cannot
get license unless the parents Of the
party under age consent. Cline, when
refused license, turned Miss Gregory
over to two friends, who had accom-
panied them, and announced his in
tention of returning to Martlnsburg
and securing the consent Of his pa
rents. He is said to have returned
on the same day, ostensibly on the
first train, and presented a paper
signed by "E. F. Cline and Mrs. E.
F. Cline" the names of his parents,
and witnessed by John Darlington.
The officials not doubling the genuine
ness of the paper, and the matters set
out being sworn to, issued the license.
The couple were married and returned
home. Saturday afternoon Mrs.
Cline, the groom's mother. called up
the court clerk and inquired into the
facts. She pronounced the paper
purporting to give the consent of the
groom's parents a forgery and in
timated she intended prosecuting
someone.