Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-03-23
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Daniel S. Dellinger, retired farm.
er, died Tuesday at his home near
Hagerstown.
Mr.. Henry J. Smith. a young farm.
err of Marlowe, Berkeley county, died
last week, aged % years.
Two new canal-boats were launched
at Cumberland last week. They are
the first new boats built since 1900.
1t is said that the Charles Town Gas
and Water Company is to be reorgan-
lied and extensive improvements will
be made to the plant.
The new Carter Hotel in Charles
Town has been completed and is now
about ready for the furnishings. 1t
is expected that it will be opened and
ready for business in few weeks.
Andrew G. Jansson, an employee Of
the Moller Organ Works at Hagers-
town, committed suicide last Sunday
by shooting himself in the head. He
leaves a family in Tallapoosa. Ga.
He was 48 years old.
A mad dog ran amuck in Winches.
ter last Friday and bit five boys, all
of whom have been taken to the Pas
teur Institute in Baltimore for treat
ment. Several other dogs were bitten
and one of them went mad on Mon
day.
Tuesday afternoon Charles Cross,
of Hedgesville. fell from freight
train on the B. & 0. Railroad near
Martinsburg and was ground to pieces
under the wheels. He was an en-
ployee of the railroad and was on his
way home when the accident occurred.
He was IS years old.
James J. McManus, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of embezzlement
from the International Harvester Com
pany, with head Offices in Harrisburg,
and who was sentenced to several
months in the county Jail at Carlisle,
Pa, has been given his freedom. He
has gone to his home in western Penn
sylvania.
Graham F. Blandy, young million
aire of New York, is to have one of
the finest estates in Virginia. Recent
ly he bought the famous Boyce estate,
The Tuleyries, in Clarke county, con-
sisting of about 1856 acres, for which
he paid something like $50, 900, and
last week he bought 2l5 acres adjoin-
ing from Jacob S. Carver for $l8, 900,
making total of 1000 acres, which
he will convert into modern stock
farm.
Announcement has been made by
the Quakers of this section that no
more meetings will be held at the old
Hopewell Quaker Chapel, near the
boundary line between Berkeley coun-
ty and Frederick county, Virginia, at
which place annual meetings have
been held for the past 80 years. The
reason is that rough and disorderly
element has collected Or the grounds
Of late years.
John Martin, Sr., has sold the
Peacher Mill property, on the B. & o.
Railroad, near Harper's Ferry, to a
Mr.. Depew, of Washington, for So, 800
The new owner will improve the mill
by adding new machinery and will
run it to its full capacity. A new
switch will be run to the mill to ia
cilitate the handling Of its product.
The firm of John Martin g. Son, which
has conducted the mill for several
years past, has been dissolved, Mr..
Martin, ST., will retire from active
business, while his son expects to go
to merchandising.
A dispatch from Cumberland, Nd,
last Thursday says; Austin Eugene
Peyton, of Piedmont, yesterday OBJ
tanned license here to marry Virgie
Smith, of Keyser. Today a young
woman, who claims to be the wife of
Peyton, having been married to him,
she states, at Harper's Ferry, six years
ago, appeared at the clerks office here
and said she would lose no time in
bringing Peyton to justice, that he
was either guilty of bigamy or per-
jury, the latter crime at all events,
because he swore in obtaining the Ii
cense that he was not married. They
have son years old, she says. Mrs.
Peyton has put the matter in the
hands of the States Attorney. Her
husband has been employed as fire.
man on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road and left her on Saturday last,
she says.
A. R. Renner, the famous Sharps-
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