Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-10-26
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

81. Lupton, of Clarke county, Va,
sold his apple crop for $1,000. The
orchard contains one hundred acres
and is just coming into bearing.
A valuable race horse owned by
Tarbell & Small. of Boston. dropped
dead on the track at the Frederick
fair last week. The horse was valued
at more than $1,000.
George V. McAneny, SOL of the
late Capt. Frank McAneny, and
Baltimore and Ohio operator, took an
overdose of laudanum, from which he
died Friday morning, at his home in
Martinsburg. He was 20 years old.
&C. Cooper, of White Post, brake
man on the Norfolk and Western rail-
road, was badly hurt at Berryville
Saturday evening. Cooper attempted
to board train while it was in mo-
ton, and, missing his footing, was
violently hurled some distance to the
ground.
A Baltimore firm is negotiating with
NJ. E. Snavely, of Sharpsburg, for
the purchase of his large derrick,
which be has used in erecting monu-
ments on Antietam battlefield. The
firm wishes to use 1T to raise the monu-
ment to Ex-Governor Lloyd Lowndes
at Cumberland.
A Cumberland Italian interpreter
states that two of the men killed at
Paw Paw last week in pistol duel
with John Price were members of the
BLACK Hand, and that the society
will first employ counsel to assist in
the prosecution of Price, and make
every effort to secure a frst-degree
murder verdict, and if Price should
be acquitted or let off with a slight
sentence, other aud more drastic
measures will be taken by the society.
Contractor Geo. B. Wolf, Hagers-
town, ran his automobile into store
in Hagerstown, Saturday afternoon,
to avoid running down a woman who
became confused on street crossing
and stopped in front Of the machine.
There was nothing for Mr.. Wolf to do
except strike the woman or run his
automobile into the store, and he
chose the latter. The door was
knocked off its hinges and the lamps
on the machine were broken and the
front part of it was damaged.
The directors of the Winchester and
Washington Electrical Railway Com
pany have awarded the contract for
furnishing the electrical machinery to
the Westinghouse Electrical Supply
Co., of Pittsburg, Pa. The exact
amount is not stated, but the sum is
understood to be in the neighborhood
of 100000. The contract includes
all the electrical machinery for the
plant of the company at Millville, JEFF
ferson county, and also for all of
the SUBJ stations, several Of which will
be built. The wire to carry the pow
er from the plant is not included in
the contract. On October 81, the
contract for the turbine engines that
will be installed at the plant will be
given out.
Miss Eva Kline, the daughter of
Civil War veteran of Leitersburg, who
recently returned home from Balti-
more, where she lived with family,
is suffering with strange malady,
which has caused CONSERVATION to her
parents and puzzles physicians. Miss
Kline was found in Watnesboro, but
could not tell how she got there, She
remembers being put on train in
Baltim IRE, but recalls nothing after
that. She will not retire at night,
but gets what rest she can while sit
ting in chair, and then sleeps only
under the influence of opiates. Most
Of her waking hours she spends in
tears and lamentations, but can give
no explanation of her apparent grief.
Her mind seems to have suffered a
terrible shock.