Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-12-14
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Jacob F Lemen last week cold his
200-acre farm. located near Williams
port. for $l7,5O0.
s. s Stouffer, near Sharpsburg,
has contracted to care for sixty mules
belonging to the Canal Towage Com
pany until next spring.
Miss Leila V. Sherrard, of Berke-
ley county, and Mr.. Bernard Field
man, of Chambersburg, Pa, were
married in Hagerstown last Saturday.
Congressman Pearre has offered a
bill providing for the purchase by the
government of old Fort Frederick in
the western part of Washington coun-
ty, Md.
Miss Helen Abel Baughman, the
daughter of Col. L. Victor Baughman,
of Frederick, was married Tuesday to
DR.. Charles Henry Conley, of Adams
town, Nd.
The large barn on the farm of Mrs.
E. NJ. Stribling, three miles from
Berryville, was burned to the ground.
early last Friday morning. Loss
$1,000, partly insured.
Mics Nora G. Mott, a ool-teacher
who died recently in Winchester, left
half Of her estate to Grace Lutheran
Church of that city. 1t amounts to
several thousand dollars.
The Western Maryland Railroad
has announced that it will establish
division headquarters at Hagerstown.
This will take in the division between
Baltimore and Cumberland.
Harry Redmond, colored, and ]. B.
Black escaped from the county Jail in
Martinsburg last Friday night. Black
was a dangerous criminal from the
West who was recently arrested. The
men escaped by saving out the iron
bars of their prison.
z T. Brautner, for a number Of
years superintendent of the B. & 0.
shops at Brunswick, has been trans
ferred to Martinsburg, where he will
superintend the railroad shops located
at that place He has been in the
B & o. service 43 years.
Passenger trains No. 10 and AZ of
the B. & 0. Railroad had slight
collision last Thursday at Boy Is, near
Washington. No one was hurt, but
the excitement affected Conductor s.
T Gill so greatly that he dropped
dead from heart failure while viewing
the wreck.
In the Circuit Court 1t Martins
burg last week the case of Young and
Nadenbousch, trustees, vs.. the I'm
provement Building and Loan Asso.
citation was finally settled, and about
$4,000 was distributed among 200
persons. The case has been pending
IN court for eight years.
Joseph Mundey, who conducted the
Model bakery in Martinsburg, and
who sold extensively in Shepherds
town, is in financial difficulty. His
establishment was closed by his cred
itors last week, and Mundey was ar
rested for resisting officers, but he
was cleared of the latter charge.
The farmers of Washington county,
Md, are greatly worked up over the
increasing number of incendiary
fires Many valuable barns have
been burned recently, causing great
loss, and various farmers are living
in constant dread of FIRE, having been
mysterously warned that they are to
be victims.
The big bank barn on the farm of
Robert Bridges, tenanted by Charles
Barnhart, five miles south of Hagers-
town, wae destroyed by fire early last
Saturday morning. Eleven steers
were burned to death and quantity
of farming implements, ETC., were
destroyed. Loss about $4,000, insur-
ance $1,000.
At the Hagerstown fair last Octo-
Der DR.. G. R. Hollingsworth was on
the race track exhibiting a riding
horse, when Col. Robert Hough, in
charge Of the races, ordered him off.
A few hours afterward DR.. Hollings-
worth met Col. Hough in hotel and
assaulted him. For this action the
National Trotting Association has
just issued an order barring DR.. Hol-
lngsworth forever from all tracks
under its control.