Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-01-21
Notes From Nearby

William Stouffer, native OF WASH
ington county, Md. was accidentally
suffocated in the Philippines recently.
Lewis Rye's house ner Darkes-
vile, Berkeley county, was destroyed
by fire early last Saturday morning.
1t has recently been discovered that
a young son Of Peter Mullen, Of Ma
pleville, Washington county, Nd. has
two tongues. 1t is lucky he is not a
girl.
Mrs. William T Hamilton has pur-
chased of DR.. O. h W. Ragan and
others their one-half interest in the
Hotel Baldwin and Academy of Mu-
sic in Hagerstown and is now the sole
owner Of the hotel and playhouse.
Deputy Sheriff Wlshard and Special
Deputy James U Miller, of Hagers-
town, went to Sbarpaburg Saturday
and arrested Archie Swain and Will
liam Huyett on a larceny charge found
against them by the November grand
jury.
Mrs. Mary Bates has sold her farm
of l20 acres about a mile south of
Halltown to Mr.. Thos. L. NARROW.
The land adjoins that of Judge D. B.
Lucas, Mr.. Geo. W. NARROW and Mrs.
James Melvin. The consideration
was S., 500-Aduocate.
William Rippeon, who died near
Frederick of smallpox, was buried
last Wednesday. The funeral was a
sad affair, as the widow had to bury
the dead husband. The grave was
dug by friends, who witnessed the
funeral from distance.
Two men were killed last Friday in
the B. & 0. Railroad yards at Brun.
swick-C. w. Ayers and Wade Man.
ford Both were brakemen, both
about q years old, and though killed
at different times, both were run down
by engines moving backward.
Miss Flossie Renner, after return.
ing from coasting in Hagerstown Sat-
urday evening, was taken suddenly
i'll and before physician arrived she
died. Death was due to heart failure.
She had natural heart weakness and
the s1ertion of coasting fastened her
end. She was IA years old.
T. A. Be.ll, of New York, formerly
of Charles Town, who recently re-
turned from Bermuda, has sent Capt.
j. G. Holmes, of Charles Town, a
check for 500 towards defray;ng the
expenses of the Independent Fire
Company's celebration of the birthday
anniversary of the late Charles Broad
way Rouss.
Hezekiah Snavely, of Keedysville,
is a thrifty soul Last Thursday
George w Holmes was to be tried be-
fore Justice Hines for having caused
the death Of Ssllle Dougherty. Snavely
knew the case would create a good
deal of interest, so he hired hall
and persuaded the justice to hold the
trial in it. Then he charged an ad-
mission fee of FIVE cents and cleared
Six dollars.
The Charles Town Advocate says
that ex-senator Henry G. Davis, of
Elkins. W, Va, has generously offered
to pay one-fourth of the $3.50 in
debtedness on the Stephenson Semi.
nary of that place, provided other
parties can be induced to pay the re-
mainder. The payments are not to
inure to the benefit of the stockholders
of the Seminary company by relieving
them of the debt gratuitously. 1t is
proposed that each contributor to this
fund shall become new ttockholder,
on an equal footing with those already
holding stock. Senator Davis offer,
together with the plan accompanying
it, is intended to save this popular in.
stitution from embarrassment, and to
enable those in charge of it to contin-
ue its great work a, an educational
factor in the community.
The trial of Mrs. Arabella Griffith
took place in the Circuit Court at
Martinsburg Monday, the charge
against her being the forgery of G
W Buttons name to a promissory
note and the attempt to discount it at
the Citizens National Bank. At the
time of her arrest Mrs. Griffith at.
tempted suicide. and it was with
some effort that she was resuscitated.
The jury found her guilty. Mrs.
Francis Dixon, her daughter, will be
tried for the same crime today If a
new trial is not granted, Mrs. Griffith
will be the first woman sent to the
penitentiary from Berkeley county
since the Civil War. The trial of
Johu Locke, who killed his brother,
Clarence Locke, in October in friend
ly quarrel at their home, was held
Tuesday and he was promptly &C
quilted.
Senator Elkins introduced a bill
in the Senate last week providing for
an appropriation of $500 to remun-
crate certain persons who were not
paid for labor and supplies furnished
the old arsenal at Harper's Ferry be-
tween January and April l9, 1861.
Many of the persons who failed to
receive compensation are now dead,
and the bill provides that in such in
stances the money be paid to their
legal heirs, executors or administra-
tors. The bill contemplates the pay