Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-06-22

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to-date style.
Miss Estella V. Albright and Mr..
James A. Wintermoysr, both Of Berke-
ley county, were married in Mar
tinsburg last week.
The strike at the Kilbourn knitting
mills is still on, and there seems to
be no indication Of settlement. Both
sides are determined to maintain their
position.
Herbert Hannis, an accountant at
the Hsnnis Distillery in Martinsburg,
TO commit suicide last
week, lie cut a fearful cash IN his
throat with razor.
The County Court Of Berkeley ccun-
" has fixed the levy at 80 cents on
the hundred dollars for county pur-
roses and 20 cents for road tax.
This is the same rate as last year,
W. D. Thomas, Norfolk and Vest
err conductor on the Shenandoah
Valley division, had his arm cut off
last Friday night by falling under
his train in an attempt to reach for
orders At Shenandoah.
Mrs.. Mary A. Harwood. Of Engles,
this county, at Frederick, Nd, was
granted an absolute divorce from her
husband, William Thomas HarwOod,
Baltimore, by Judge John c. Motter.
She was allowed $50 a month Tor her
Mr.. Harwood is also or
dered to pay oil the costs in the case.
He is nearly 60 years old, and had
fled bill for divorce from the wife,
abandonment and deseTtiop
without just cause. After hearing
the testimony the court awarded the
Mrs. HARDWOOD. They have
grown children.
The electric enterprise that has been
so long talked Of and which started
sons three or four years ago on the
Shenandoah River, Is at last q "go. -
The Winchester and Washington City
Railway Company has bought the
property known as the Millvl.le Mills,
and have engineers at work prepare
.ory to putting in large electric plant
al that place. It IS the purpose of
shis company to furnish electric pow
or to Charles Town, BsrrYvile, Win.
chester and neighboung towns, and
they also contemplate running On
electric road from Winchester to
Washington City, either via Bluemont
c. Upperville, and also contemplate
Berryville and Charles
Town With this road. There IS no
that has besn started for a
long time n this section that promises
such beneicent results. The new
expects TO have the plant IN
running order b. the first Of January,
O6,-Sry5t.
George u. Eossett, who less than
Two months ago resigned as night
vaTdmasser Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Cumberland to become
genera, yardmaster @. the Panama
Railroad at a large salary, with head
quarters at Colon, has returned to his
oil position there, The yellow fever
him away. Upon biz az
ri7al al Colon he was placed II charge
Of The funeral train running tri-ca.ly
between Culebra Cut and Monkey
Hill. After three DAYS in this grue-
some position he quit. The yellow
ever is killing many, be says. while
he mosquitoes are unbearab.e. At
he graveyard where he conveyed the
lead he found an old oolorsl nan
graves II advance, explaining
that there were bound to be victims,
l[r. Fosset, says that COCO men are
now digging % the canal, The
rainy season has iust started and Will
asst til. December.
A very distressing tragedy occurred
Monday evening about : O'Clock at
, ooust Grove, Washington county,
Nd, when Tohn Slifer, 70 years CID,
shot and fatally wounded Jacob of
'enbergar, aged - years. The Two
men lived on adjoining farms. and
for a long tine had disputed about
the ownership Of a strip OF land ad-
.oining. Monday evening Poaen.
berger started to plow this ground.
and Slilsr became greatly enraged.
lie got al Oh army musket, walked
% where Pohenberger was working
and deliberately shot him down. The
entire charge entered the victim s
body, tearing a fearful hole IN his sb-
3omen. He was 80 terribly hurt
that he could not be moved. A ply
=ioian was summoned and rendered
what aid he could. The wounded
mans wife and six children were sent
for, and they soon gathered around
him, almost frantic with grief. 4
large crowd quickly assembled, aA@
the neighbors gave such comfort as
they could 20 the weeping wife and
me children, some of them quite
young, who were wailinS for The
father whose life was fast ebb.ug
away. Poffenbergsr fingered until
noon next day, when he died from ans
wound. Slifer was arrested ard
lodged in jail in HagerstOwn.
After two years of treatment had
failed to restore his sight miracle
vas performed, Rev. Frank a. S5o-
field, pastor Of the Peoples Methodist
EPISCOPAL Church in New York, ce-