Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-03-01
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Isaac Fisher, aged 70 years, of
Marietta. Ohio, and Mrs Rhoda E.
Porter, aged 65, of Huntington. this
State, eloped to Parkersburg last
week and were married. Giddy
young things.
Married on Thursday, February s.
1906, at the residence of the oficat-
ing minister, Rev. j. Fl. Wolff. in
Charles Town, Mr.. Nathaniel Me-
Donough and Miss Rosa Ring, both
of Middleway, this county.
Col. J. B. Peyton, well-known
resident of Charleston, this State,
died last Sunday, aged II years.
For over thirty years he has been a
clerk at the sessions of the Legisla-
ture, and he had parliamentary meth
DDS at bis fingers end.
The Office of John A. Miller, mer-
chant of Keedysville, Nd, was set on
fire in a peculiar manner. On large
centre table stood a glass globe filled
with water for goldfish. The rays of
the Gun streamed through the window
and the aquarium, focusing the rays
Ikea sunglass, setting fire to the liable,
but the blaze was promptly extin-
guished.
Mrs. Mary Copenhaver, widow of
Harry Copenhaver. Martinsburg, filed
a suit in the Berkeley Circuit Court
against the United Telephone and Tel
egraph Company, for damages in the
sum of $4,000 for the death Of her
husband, who was killed, it is alleged,
in the exchange Of the company at
Martinsburg several months ago, by
live wire, the shock killing him in
stantly.
Keeping his promise to forward a
photograph and description of his fam
lily to President Roosevelt, James A.
Boyce, well-known farmer of Fred
erick county, Va, last week mailed
the picture and a letter to the Presi-
dent, in which he states that he has
been married 80 years, has Is sons
and daughters, no children dead and
but one married. He is so years old,
and his wife is As.
Last Wednesday Mr.. John T. Chan
cey, of Washington, celebrated the
fftieth anniversary of his service as a
special employee of the House Of Rep
resentatives, and Members of Congress
presented him with purse of $4,000
as an evidence of their appreciation
of his long and faithful labors. Mr..
Chancey is popular and efficient en-
ployee and has been in service at the
capitol longer than any other man
now living.
The plant of the Charles Town Wa
ter and Man ufacturing Company has
been sold to syndicate from Harris.
burg, Pa, for $63, 300. The plant
was constructed in 1888, and at the
time the company was organized $685.
100 was issued in common stock, $13,s
900 in preferred stock and bonds for
$4,000. The common stock, which
has never paid dividend, has now
been sold at par, and the preferred
stock, which has always paid 6 per
cent, sold at 140. Col. R. P. Chew
has been president of the company.
Elijah Marlowe, a well-known far
mer of Castleman's Ferry, Clarke
county, attempted to end his life last
week by shooting himself. He is in
a critical condition, and the result of
the injury is yet in doubt. Mr.. Mar
lowe has for years suffered agonies
from neuralgia affection, the severi-
ty of which may be imagined when it
Is stated that one of his eyeballs
burst from the excruciating pain. 1t
was this incurable and unbearable
malady that caused him to get in such
a state that he preferred to die rather
than endure it longer.
The Hagerstown Mail says: "a
well.known character residing near
Washington county, has
Just rounded out remarkable spree.
After INDUCING in prolonged rounds
with lightning hot drops, which got
him into a scrappy mood aud caused
him to pick disturbance with every
one he met, he wound up by taking
to bed with him one of his fathers
shoats. The little porker evidently
didn't relish his new quarters, and in
order to stay his squealing the hog on
a drunk pulled the bed clothing over
It. When the man awoke he found
his bedfellow dead and stiff, having
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