Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-08-23
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Mules FkOm NEANbIs
s. s. OFT, of Halltown, had one OF
his legs broken by kick from horse
last Monday.
The corporation levy for Charles
Town has been fixed at 50 cents on
the hundred dollars.
The regular August term of the
Berkeley Circuit Court began in Mar
tinaburg Oh Tuesday.
The new Centenary Reformed
Church in Winchester, just completed
at cost of $l2,0 900, was dedicated
last Sunday.
Paul Bell, a young man. of Hedges
Vile, Berkeley county, employed on a
civil engineering corps, fell from a
train near Myersdale, Pa, last week
and was killed.
Announcement has been made of
the engagement Of Miss Nellie Brandt
Myers, daughter Of Doctor and Mrs.
S. N. Myers, to Mr.. Robert Hanson
Boyd, both of Martinsburg.
A strange thing occurred at Berke-
ley Springs the other day. The
Martinsburg World says that man
there placed an empty powder. can
full of water over fire to heat, when
the can exploded" No wonder.
Mr.. Hugh H. Harris, aged 81
years, and Miss Lottie E. Sanders,
giving her age as l9 years, Of Mar.
tinsburg, eloped to Hagerstown last
Thursday and were married. The
brides parents opposed her marriage
because Of her youth.
Official announcement has been
made Of the resignation of Rev. Fred
erick D. Kershner, pastor of the
Christian Church in Martinsburg, who
will take charge of the newly created
theological department in the Amerl-
can University at Hartman, Tenn,
September L.
The Democratic senatorial conven.
ton for this district will be held in
Martinsburg September 18th. The
candidates are G. W. Boyer, H. S.
Cushwa, Gray Silver and John T.
Janney, all of Berkeley county. 1t
is conceded that the man who carries
Berkeley will get the nomination.
The body Of Vernon Pence, the
young man from Shenandoah, Va,
who was drowned a week previous
by falling from a B. & o. passenger
train into the Potomac river at Har-
per's Ferry, was found last Monday.
1t was discovered by young man
named Taylor, about three miles be-
low Harper's Ferry. His parents
had been at Harper's Ferry for a week
searching for the body, and had abou:
givin up hope OF finding it when it
it was discovered. He was their only
son.
Wesley Johnson, colored, aged 33
years, OF Engle's Station, this county,
was taken to the Freedman's Hospit-
al in Washington Tuesday night on a
B. g. O. train, suffering with gun
shot wound from which he died at s
o'clock the next morning. A letter
was sent with the wounded man ex.
planning to the hospital auth ;rities
the nature of the injuries and how
they were inflicted. 1t was sstated
that Johnson was in a room where
his partner was cleaning gun, and
the gun was accidentally discharged.
The entire load entered Johnson's
body just below the liver.-AdUocate.
The third death in the family of
VIM. A. Fidler, of North Brucetown,
Frederick county, Va, within two
weeks, from diphtheria, took place
few days since when his daughter,
Annie Fidler. aged II years, expired.
Mrs. Fidler died from diphtheria on
August 6 and their eldest daughter,
Lilly Fidler, Is years old, died the
following day. Four children were
left with the disease and were recov-
ering when Mr.. Fidler himself was
taken ill with it, and since then the
children have had no nursing except
three visits daily by a physician.
The people of the vicinity have been
afraid to 60 to the house. Mr.. Fid.
Ter is a mental and physical wreck,
and it is feared he may not recover.
No religious services have been held
over anv of The bodies