Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-06-29
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

! borhood.
George c. Huber will start new
weekly paper in Hancock, to be called
the Advocate.
Company B, of Hagerstown, will
run an excursion to Luray CaverEs
on August 18th.
At local option election at Wood
stock, Va, on Tuesday the town went
"wet" by "a majority.
The County Court Of Berkeley coun-
ty has finally agreed to fix the coun-
ty levy at 46 cents and the road tax
at 20 cents.
The Norfolk & Western Railway
has made an increase Of ten cents
day in the wages of its section men,
carpenters, bumpers, etc.
Harvey Palmer, boy l6 years old,
ran away from his home in Frederick
county, Md, and got work on canal
boat. Saturday night he fell into the
canal near Georgetown and was
drowned.
Miss Mary o. Rodgers, Of Leesburg,
committed suicide by drowning her.
self at Saranac Lake, New York, the
first of the week. She was afflicted
with Tuberculosis and had become
melancholy.
William House, aged At years, was
riding on load of hay Monday near
Burklttsville, Md, when the load up
set. He fell upon fork, the prongs
of which pierced his heart, and in
twenty minutes he was dead.
Former Senator Louis E McComas,
of Maryland, has been appointed an
associate Judge of the Court OF Appeals
for the District of Columbia, and will
be sworn in on Saturday. He takes
the place of Judge Morris, resigned.
Leonard G. Watkins, a B. & O.
conductor who for a number of years
had run the morning accommodation
train between Baltimore and Martins
burg, died suddenly last Friday while
seated in barber shop in Baltimore.
He was in his ga year.
A great meteor passed over Green
brier, Monroe and adjacent counties
in this State one night last week, leav-
ing great trail of fire behind it and
lighting up the entire heavens. 1t
burst with an explosion that shattered
windows for many miles around.
VIM. E. McCardell, well-known
young man of Hagerstown, was ar
rested last Saturday by Secret Service
men on the charge of dealing in lot
terry tickets. Two men from Baltl-
more, one from Frostburg and one
from Cumberland were also arrested
on a similar charge.
At a special session of the Berke-
ley Circuit Court in Martinsburg
Tuesday Judge Faulkner sentenced
Paul Clifford to ten years in the peni-
tertiary. Clifford, who is we'll
known colored man, shot and killed
Jacob Turner, also colored, last WIN
ter, and jury found him guilty OF
murder in the second degree.
The Western Maryland Railroad
has awarded to Michael Elmore a con-
tract for the practical revision of the
thirteen miles of road between Will
Transport and Big Pool. Grades are
to be reduced and curves eliminated,
bringing the road up to the standard
of the Cumberland extension. Two
heavy steel bridges will be built and
nine long wooden trestles will be filled
in. The total cost of the work will
be about $4,000, and it is to be fin
ished by next May.
The Hungarians who were the cause
Of the Knbourn Knitting Companys
strike at the mills at Martinsburg,
throwing about 500 persons out of
employment, were gotten out of town
last Sunday night by the strikers
paying their way to New Brunswick,
N. j., whence they came. 1t Is said
that the business men Of the town,
and at least one bank, contributed to-
ward the fund used by the discharged
employees to remove the foreign ele-
ment from the scene of the strike.
Whether the strike will now be set
tied or not is the question.
In the Circuit Court at Winchester
on Monday Judge Harrison granted
an injunction against the United Tele-
graph and Telephone Company, opera
ting in Virginia, West Virginia, Mary
land and Pennsylvania, restraining
the company from erecting poles on
the pike between Winchester and Mar
tinsburg. The court, in granting the
injunction, declares that the company,
not having complied with the laws
of the State, has no legal standing
whatever, and has no right to con-
duct telephone business in the State
The court further declares that the
company has been VIGOROUSLY arrogant
and insolent to its patrons.
The will of tie late Mrs. Kate Ham
mond was admitted to record in the
office of TIE county clerk last week.
1t directs that securities and cash pos
sessed by the testatrix, with the ex-
ception Of $4,000, be given to Mary
Jane Mason. The SIS, 900 above ex-
cepted are ordered to be given to
VIM. Brook Tunstal as trust fund
for the benefit of Nellie TunstaI and
Ora J. Turner. To Miss Augusta