Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-07-12
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Prof. W. D. Wachter has been ap-
pointed principal Of the Sharpsburg
public school.
Arch Oden. Jr.. who was in the
shoe business at Winchester, has made
an assignment.
Gay Armel, four years old, died
near Winchester the other day from
eating green fruit.
Another incendiary fire in Mar
tinsburg Tuesday night destroyed a
warehouse and cane near burning a
part of the Hannis distillery.
By the explosion Of a gasoline stove
on Monday, Mrs. Thomas Tipps was
fatally burned at her home in Fred
erick. Md, and her baby Was badly
injured.
Luther Irby, Roanoke boy Is
years old, was playing baseball, and
while running between bases was
struck by ball. He was hurt so
badly he died few days afterward.
The mystery concerning the deep
sleep of P. R. Bradshaw, of Bruins
wick, Md, who was in sort of trance
at Fabers, Va, has been cleared up.
He had been hypnotized by a young
lady at Colleen, Va.
Miss Georgia Williams, a young wo.
man of Martinsburg, tried to kill her.
self Tuesday by taking strychnine.
The prompt use Of stomach-pump
saved her life. She had quarreled
with her sweetheart.
William F. Mason, young man of
Alexandria, Va, was drowned last
Thursday night while swimming in
the Potomac river at that place. He
was grandson of the late DR.. G. f.
Mason, of Charles Town.
John Coulter, the siI-year. old son of
William Coulter, of Washington conn
ty, went to the field where his father
was making hay, and laid down in
the tall grass. The mower ran into
the child before his father saw him,
cutting him severely about the arms
and legs. A few steps more and he
would have been cut to pieces.
The Martinsburg World says that
Charles E. Jordan, the twelve-y ear.old
son of John w. Jordan, farmer liv-
ing near Berkeley Station, was killed
by horse in a field of his fathers
farm about 7 o'clock Monday evening.
The lad had gone to field some dis
lance from the house to pillow corn,
and failing to return at dark, search
was instituted by his father. After
searching over the field, the dead body
of the lad was found in remote spot.
1t is presumed that the boy had I'm.
hitched the horse at shutdown to return
home, and that while riding the ami
NAL the latter stumbled and fell. with
the boy beneath. Life was extinct
when the body was found.
A reunion of the Philadelphia Bril-
gade Association and Pickett's Divis-
ion Association will be held at Ante
tam on the 18th of September, being
reunion of the Blue and the Gray,
and is expected to be one of the events
of this years season. The two asso.
Citations will gather at Gettysburg on
Saturday, the 18th, Pickett's Division
being the guests Of the Philadelphia
Brigade Association. Mrs. Pickett is
also expected to be present. On Mon.
day, the 18th, the members of the
two associations will go to Antletam,
it being the anniversary OF that battle.
The two associations held a reunion at
Gettysburg in 1887, at which time
each union man took Johnny over
the field.
The Washington and Winchester
City Railway Go. on Saturday receiv-
ed proposition from the Virginia
Iron and Ore Co., recently chartered
by Baltimore capitalists, asking for
electricity for motive power for a
standard. gauge railway, to be built
from the latter rich iron mines in the
Blue Ridge mountains in Jefferson
county, W. Va, and Clarke county,
Va, which is to be extended to Berry,
vile, where connection will be made
with the Norfolk and Western Rail-
way. The electric power will be sup.
piled by the former company's plant
along the Shenandoah river at Mill.
vile. For some time past the Balti-
more company has been compelled to
use wagons for hauling its ore to
Berryville, but with the electric spur
it will greatly increase its operations.
The Washington and Winchester Co.
has been guaranteed maximum Of
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