Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-05-24
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Foster B. Burchell. a retired far.
mer, died suddenly Thursday night,
near Berryville, at the age of 70
years.
Miss Remain. Crowl and Mr.. Will
lis D. Butts. both of Berkeley county,
were married in Martinsburg last
Thursday.
A strenuous fight is being waged in
Luray, Va, as to whether or not Sun
day excursions to the caverns shall be
permitted.
Ten thousand young bass, three or
four weeks old, were placed in the
Conococheagde creek on Monday.
They were from the U S Fish Hatch
cry at White Sulphur Springs.
The B. g. O. Railroad has awarded
to F. H. Clement & Co., of Phila'
delphia, the contract for the extension
of it's yards and terminals at Bruins
wick. The cost of the improvements
will be about $4,000.
Charles W. Alexander. former lieu
tenant Of police of Hagerstown, later
a constable and for a number of
years an active political worker. has
been indicted for embezzling small
sums of money belonging to mer'
chants and others for whom he made
collections.
Among the recent transfers of real
estate we note the following Frank
Beck with, trustee, to D. B. Lucas; 81
acres, l rood and 38 perches of land
near Shepherdstown; consideration
$2,984.39. D. B. Lucas and wife to
ArmisteadS S. Lucas; same tract; con.
sideration $1,000.
Thomas A. Edison, the famous in.
ventor, is making tour of the Shen-
andoah Valley in his automobile, and
is eloquent in his praise Of our beauti-
full Sc ton. He is combining business
with pleasure and is seeking minerals
that will be of some service in his ip-
ventions, especially his electric storage
batteries.
J. G. Staub, Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, residing near Harper's Fer
ry, was taken to Cumberland suffering
with deep wound in the face. Mr..
Staub was on an east-bound freight
train and while riding IN the cab of
the engine near Green Spring, was
struck by missile, which was evident
ly thrown by someone standing along
the track.
Last Saturday afternoon a work
train on the Wabash Railroad crashed
into a rock that had fallen upon the
track at Indigo tunnel, west of Han
cock, sud two cars were tbro Sn into
the canal. One man was killed, four
were drowned and dozen were in.
jured. All of the men who lost their
lives and most of the injured lived at
Great Cacapon. W. Va.
The quickest round trip made by
boat on the G. & 0. canal on record
with two hands and four mules was
made by Capt. W. H Boyer and son,
Melvin, with boat 90. They left
Georgetown on Tuesday, April "a, at
$50 p m. for Cumberland and return
ed from the latter place to Georgeto wD
with III tons of coal on board on
Wednesday, May 2, at 8 a. m. The
time of the round trip was 1873 hours
and the distance 369 miles.
Engineer Edward Langley, Of Win.
chester, and other members Of a Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad freight crew
found the mangled body of middle.
aged man one mile this side of Summit
Point, Jefferson county, last Sunday
morning. He was Robert Blake, a
mulatto, of Winchester. There is
doubt whether he was killed by train
or murdered during a Saturday night
brawl and his body thrown on the
track by his slayers. An investiga-
ton is being made.
Richard McHenry and Dorsey Tall
local horsemen, were each fined $25
and costs by Justice Hoffman for as.
saulting William Boswell, a Hagers'
town automobilist. McHenry's horse
was frightened by Boswell's car and
broke the buggy. This trouble &C.
Cured on the Cavetown pike, a mile
from the city. Later McHenry and
Tall attacked Boswell in Hagerstown
and gave him a thrashing. They
claimed that he had frightened their
teams on several occasions and had
laughed at them when they protested
Edward Collins, white, and his ne.
gro wife, who live near Indian Springs,
Washington county, Md, were in Ha.
gerstown the other day to see State
Attorney Long about the conduct OF
some Of the nsighbors to the couple.
1t is claimed that few nights ago g
number of persons from the mountains
above Indian Springs planned to tai
and feather Collins and his wife
When the leader Of the crowd ap
preached the house and knocked at
the door be was confronted by the ne.
gro woman, who opened FIRE upon hin
with revolver. He fed, as did alec
his waiting companions, the. woman
firing a number of shots after the fee
ing party. The men left a pot of tar
and bag of feathers on the premises
Much feeling has developed against
Collins and the woman, who was for
merly Priscilla Pye, since they went
to Chambersburg, Pa, several week.