Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-10-19
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Judge Edwin T. Booton, promi-
merit citizen of Luray, Va, died last
Sunday, aged IS years.
The town of Hancock, Md, is still
on the boom. A new hotel to cost
$4,000 is to be erected.
Isaac Sollenberger purchased farm
Oils acres near Hode's Church, Wash
ington county, for $94,75 per acre.
BENJAMIN F. Beck, retired lum-
Der dealer of Hagerstown, died sud-
denly last Friday while sitting in a
chair at his home. He was IA years
of age.
Very handsome gold, silver and
bronze medals are 10 be awarded for
the finest fruits exhibited at the meet
ing of the West Virginia Horticultur-
al Society in Martinsburg November
Is, Is and II.
Mr.. Walter T. Deilleg, of Plttsburg,
and Miss Edith Dyott Anderson, for
merly of Harper's Ferry, daughter Of
Mr.. James Anderson, were married
at the home of the bride. in Sheraden,
Pa, last week.
Little John Busey, the four-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ.
Busey, of Martinsburg, got hold Of a
box of pills containing strychnine and
belladonna one day last week, and,
thinking they were candy, ate them.
He died in less than two hours
James Dowler, CT years old, poor
man employed as driver for grocery
firm in Hagerstown, last week received
$4,000 left to him by the late John
G.. Robinson, his first cousin, who
died in Philadelphia, leaving an estate
valued at about $4,000. He was a
bachelor and had not seen his cousin
for over 80 years. He and Dowler
were born at Park Head, Washington
county, and played together when
they were boys. The bequest was in
the form of $4,000 per cent Unit
ed States Government bond, due in
1907.
c.. J. Faulkner Pierce, an official
in the water department at Washing
ton, D. c., formerly of Martinsburg,
is in the Emergency Hospital in Wash
ington with seven bullet wounds in
his head. He boarded at the Everett
Hotel, and last Saturday morning
about 5 o'clock the shooting occurred.
He says that he didit accidentally, but
the police say he tried to commit sui
eide, as he had been drinking heavily.
The weapon used was small revolver
shooting 22.caliber ball, and the
wounds are not serious. Mr.. Pierce,
who is IS years of age, had recently
been in sanitarium, and since his
return had been very respondent.
Mrs. Isabella Reamer, well.known
aged lady, and her sister, Mrs. Mary
Souders, wife of Peter Sewers, from
near Fairview, Washington county,
were found dead Monday night in an
upstairs bedroom at the residence of
Mrs. Reamer in Hagerstown, both
having been accidentally asphyxiated
by gas escaping from tube leading
to gas.heating stove. Mrs. Sewers
was visiting her sister, staying with
her during the absence of Lyman H.
Reamer, who made his home with his
mother. The discovery was made by
Mr.. Reamer, who returned Monday
night from a business trip Of several
days in Baltimore. He went to the
house, but was unable to enter, all
the doors being locked. He finally
broke the glass and effected an en-
trance through a window. Going up
stairs, he found the bodies Of his
mother and aunt lying on the floor
only few feet from each other. They
had been sufocated by gas that had
escaped from gas stove used for
heating purposes.