Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-07-19
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The board of education Ct Mar
tipsburg has decided to erect a new
high school building at a cost of $780,.
600 if the people will vote for the
bonds.
Hezekiah Snavely, wanted in Ha.
gerstown for perjury, and who fled
from Washington county to avoid
punishment, has been located and ar
rested at Polo, Illinois. Sheriff Del
bert has gone after him.
Capt. ]. G. Holmes, of Charles Town,
who has been in the government SER
vice for about twenty years, has been
promoted by being appointed one OF
the four inspectors of federal build
ings in the United States.
A big stone bank barn on the farm
of G. Keller Saxton, two miles east
of Funkstown, in Washington coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning. About 700 bushels Of
wheat, 400 bushels of corn, so tons
of hay and lot of farming imple-
ments were burned. 1t is not known
how the fire started.
Writing in pain, Benjamin Law,
imprisoned under tree that had fall
en- on him on Pen-Mar mountain,
near Sabillasville, begged Frank Wise
to take an axe and chop his legs off.
Instead, Wise hurried for a doctor,
and when the man had been liberated
it was found that while both legs were
broken and badly crushed they may
be saved. Law and Wise were after
honey and they had cut into the tree
on one side and secured what product
of the Lees they could. Then they
went to the other side and began to
cut. Law saw the tree falling and
tried to get out of the way, but could
not. "Cut my legs off," he said to
Wise, who escaped. His screams
could be heard for quite distance.
Percy A. Seibert, formerly of Ha.
gerston and now a member of a trans
portation company, in Bolivia, South
America, writes to Leslie @. Beard, of
Hagerstown, that the Bolivian gov
eminent has awarded to Speyer and
Go. and the National City Bank Of
New York the contract to build sys.
tenn of railways in Bolivia. Jack B.
Trenholm, formerly of the B. & O. Rail-
road at Shepherdstown, and afterward
with the Western Maryland railroad
above Hancock, has been engineer of
construction with headquarters at
Ururo. He will construct more than
1900 miles of railroad. Robert W.
Lemen, of Martinsburg, has been pro-
noted to assistant engineer, and d.
H. Hess, also of Martinsburg, is an
assistant craftsman in the railroad
employ.
The Berkeley Circuit Court will be
called upon at the August session to
settle nice point of law, invol wing
the right of the West Virginia courts
to jurisdiction over the Potomac river
in cases where the offended parties
were on West Virginia soil and the
offending parties on the river. I'm
der a recent decision of the Maryland
courts, the Potomac river lies wholly
within the State of Maryland, the
Maryland line reaching to the low
water line on the opposite side, but
recently three young men of Mar.
tinsburg were arrested and given a
hearing for an ofense against decency,
which ofense was committed while
they were in boat on the river and
the offended parties were on the West
Virginia bank. Justice Felker, be-
fore whom the case was tried, held
that the West Virginia courts had
jurisdiction in such cases, and imposed
heavy fines. The case was appealed
to the Circuit Court, and will be de-
cided by Judge Faulkner.
Mr.. Edward Glover, an aged and
we'll known resident of Elyria, in the
southern part of Berkeley county,
committed suicide about 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon at the home of his
son, Ernest Glover, with whom he had
been living for several years. The
rash deed was accomplished when the
members of the sons family were
temporarily absent. ard followed a fit
of desponendcy. For the past two
years Mr.. Glover had been in i'll
health, and was often heard to express
the wish that he would die. He was
subject to periods of great desponden-
cy, and it is believed that these fits
led to mental alteration. He secured
revolver during one of these periods
of dependency, and placing the
weapon to his right temple he fired
the fatal shot. The bullet passed en-
tirely through the head, coming out
behind the left ear. The unfortunate
man lived about an hour after COM
hitting the deed, but died without
regaining consciousness. Mr.. Glover
was aged IA years and was native Of
Berkeley county. He is survived by