Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-04-06
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
Holmes Boyd, Jr., aged Sc years,
died in Winchester last Saturday.

years.
Matthias Ambrose, an aged resi-
dent of Berkeley Springs, died last
week in his 81 tn year.
The Virginia hotel building, an old
landmark at Berryville, is being torn
down to make room for modern three
story hotel to be.known as the Battle
town Inn.
Superintendent Hepperle, Of the
Hagerstown Electric Railway Com
pany, says that owing to the high
price of materials the company will
probably abandon for the present the
extension Of the proposed line from
Boonsboro to Sharpsburg.
The shortest will ever offered for
probate in West Virginia was ad-
mitted to record in the Office of Coun-
ty Clerk Bender last week at Mar
tinsburg. 1t is by William Bear,
who disposes of an estate of several
thousand dollars, and is evidently d.
rected to his son. 1t reads: rs. l.
Bear, when l am dead see what is
left, divide it. William Bear" This
will is written on soiled piece of
paper, evidently torn from a note
book and is written with a lead pencil.
Davis Gardner, the fve.year.old
son of Johu Tucker, farmer living
near the Antietam Iron Works, below
Sharpsburg, died early Tuesday morn
ing from injuries received by being
kicked or tramped by a horse Monday
afternoon. The child's skull was
crushed in two places and he fingered
in an unconscious condition from the
time he was found until death ensued.
He went into the stable alone aud
later was found lying unconscious.
1t is supposed that he was kicked
on the head by horse.
Practically all the bass in the North
branch of the Potomac river placed
there over year ago by the United
States Fish Commission have been
killed by some poisonous substance,
believed to be sulphite, which was
emptied into the river Sunday. Hun
dreds of desd bass were seen floating
on the surface Of the water between
three.mile water station and Evitt's
creek. Many suckers were also kill
ed. The bass were thriving and the
move to restock the North branch,
which was depleted by the pollution
six or seven years ago, had every as
surance of success.
A free-for-all fight, in which one
was hit in the head with stone and
several others were badly beaten, oc-
Cured at the baptismal exercises at
below Sharpsburg, last Sun
day. A large crowd was present and
one convert to the Winebrennerian
faith was baptized in a stream near
While the exercises were
in progress half dozen men who
were intoxicated became involved in
a quarrel that ended in free fight.
Cleveland Delaney, Sharpsburg, was
hit in the head with a stone, alleged
to have been thrown by a man named
Jamison. from Antietam. friends of
both parties joined in the fight, which
was kept up for ten minutes. Delaun-
ey was so badly injured that he had to
be hauled home.
A disastrous fire visited the farm
of Charles W. Butts, north of Hedges
Vile, Berkeley county, destroying the
DIV cling house and practically every
building on the place. The fire was
first seen in the roof of the house, aud
was supposed to have originated from
the sparks from the chimney. Efforts
were made by the members of the fam
lily to check the fire, but without avail,
and Mr.. Butts was compelled to- stand
by helpless and witness the destruc-
ton of his property. Before the house
was completely destroyed the fire COM
municated to the barn, then to the
corncrib, and all three buildings went
up in smoke. Nearly all the furni-
ture was destroyed, as well as a guam
tity of hay and corn, wagons, farming
harness, etc.
A package containing $4,000 in
bank notes was supposed to have
been burned in a mail car which
caught fire on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad near Cumberland about a
month ago. Secret service men were
ordered to search the cinders and to
make sure the notes were destroyed.
The notes were valueless, as they
lacked the signature Of the officials of
the national bank to which the pack
age was consigned. Recently, board
ing house owners at Connellsville,
Hyndman, Myersdale, and Cumber-
land have been paid by bOarder in
new bank notes, which have showed
evidences of having been slightly
burned. The notes, when presented
at the banks, have been turned back,
as they lack signatures. Secret Ser
vice men have been on the trail Of
the man who i. supposed to have se-
cured the entire packages from the
fire. So far they have failed to catch
up with him.