Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-05-18
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Julian Broaddua, died at her home in
Berryville last Sunday, aged so years.
R. Vincent Minghini a former,
resident of Berkeley county, died
last week in Missouri, aged IS years.
The contract for building the new
hotel at Berryville has been awarded
to S. A. Westeuhaver, of Martins
burg.
Smallpox is still spreading in Ha-
eerstown. The disease is in eleven
families and there are in all about
thirty cases.
Miss Lena NJ. Dorsey and Mr.. Ben
iamin J. Wilmington, both of Mar
tinsburg, were married in that city
last Saturday.
Mrs. Laura Chapman, wife of Da-
vid Chapman, died recently at her
home at Falling Water, Berkeley coun-
ty, aged 33 years.
The talk of building bridge across
the Potomac river at Williamsport is
revived once more, and this time it
has a new feature-a rumor that the
trolley line will be extended from
Willamsport to Martinsburg.
In the local option election held re-
Gently in Shenandoah, Va, the dry
ticket won by a majority Of four
votes, the "wets" polling forty-four
votes and the "drys" forty-eight.
The contest was bitter one, in which
every preacher and many women
were engaged. The town has had
a number of barrooms for several
years. The vote of Shenandoah re-
moves the last licensed barroom from
Page county.
When Judge Motter at Frederick on
Friday sentenced Annie Hood, who
was on parole, to three years in the
penitentiary for larceny committed
while on parole, he remarked that ne
hoped this would reform her. ooh, |
don know whether it will or not, re-
torted the woman. Call right" said
the Judge. "Mr. Clerk, please enter
that sentence as five years in the peni-
tertiary instead of three, as she ex-
presses doubt about being reformed
in three years.
Russell Ridenour, aged five years,
son of William Rldenour, of Hagers-
town, fell into a cistern containing
seven feet of water last Thursday
and was drowned. He was in the
water Is minutes before his body was
recovered. He was playing with
Robert Snyder, aged six years, and
lay down upon a board on top OF the
cistern. The board tilted and the
child was precipitated into the cistern.
The body was drawn out with a rope,
but could not be resuscitated.
John Carter and Joseph NJ. Gray,
of Sharpsburg, were indicted for rob-
berry in the circuit court at Hagers-
town on Monday. 1t is alleged the
two men held up aud robbed John
F. Wagner, of Hagerstown, vendor
of patent medicines, between Sharps-
burg and Antietam Station last Sat
urday night. The amount of money
taken is said to have been So. Wag-
oner went before Justice Brashears
and swore out warrants for John Car
ter and Joseph NJ Gray, charging them
with the robbery, but later said they
were not the parties, and asked to
withdraw the warrants. The two
young men were arrested by Consta-
bic Reynolds and committed 20 Jail.
A suit which was originally brought
by Daniel Miller & Co, of Baltimore,
against Thomas Turner, near Shep-
herdstown, came up in the Circuit
Court at Martinsburg last week. The
case has been pending for 81 years,
and has not yet been disposed of.
Noted lawyers from this part of the
State have been engaged in it since
its inception, and have died, leaving
the case to still drag along in the
court. One side has been given 80
days in which to file exceptions to a
commissioners report. 1t will likely
be disposed of soon. According to the
brief of Daniel Miller & Co., the suit
was brought for a debt created on
September 7, 1871, given to Hughes
and North, attorneys, and at the death
of Blackburn Hughes it was turned
over to Faulkner & Walker, the firm
name now being Faulkner, Walker d
Wood. All the members of the Daniel
Miller & Co. firm at the time the suit
was brought are dead and the firm has
changed several times 1t is now the
Daniel Miller Company.