Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-05-23
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

tain JohnE Boyd a jury commissioner
for Berkeley county.
All of the buildings and other prop
erty belonging to the Inwood Park
Fair Association are to BE sold at
public sale on June Sd.
John A.. Sibert, Winchester man
80 years old, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head Monday
morning. A long illness had made
him respondent.
Charles Barton, an old man of Hag.
erstown who was in the Maryland
Penitentiary for numbering Simon
Talhelm, died suddenly in prison
Tuesday morning. He was 81 years
of age.
Prof. ]. Fl. Stewart. Of the expert
ment station at Mcrgantown, has been
in Berkeley county this week to in
augurate campaign to eradicate that
deadly disease of peach trees, the
yellowa.
William Newcomb, married man
40 years old who has wife and SIX
children, was soundly thrashed by
whitecaps near Winchester the other
night for paying too much attention
to young girl in-the neighborhood.
Chas. H. White, former assistant
postmaster at Martinsburg, under in:
dictment for embezzling 81 200 Of
government funds, will be tried in
the u S. Court at Parkersburg on
June 10th. He is now in Jail, hli
bouasmen having declined to go bis
bail again:
II. @. Berry. a former well.knowr
resident Of Martinsburg, has resigned
from the management of the store Of
the Buxton & Landstreet Co. al
Thomas, w. Va, to accept position
as sales agent for the State of West
Virginia for the George L Storm Co.,
of New York. His-business associates
presented him with beautiful Mason.
ic emblem when he left.
A colored man went out in boat
to fsh at Harper's Ferry on Friday
He anchored the boat in the middle
of the stream. People on shore
thought little OF it until it was no.
~ticed that be seemed to be hanging
over the edge of the boat. After he
had retained that position for an
hour a spy glass was obtained and il
was seen that he apparently was dead
Some one secured boat and went
out to see if anything was wrong 1t
was found that the colored man was
leaning over the boat with his head
in the water. He had been dead fol-
some time. 1t is supposed that he
was taken with fit while drawing in
his lie and dropped forward into the
water.
Within a few days, the streets Of
both Charles Town and Berryville will
be Lighted by electricity from the
plant of the Winchester and Washing.
ton Electric Railway company at
Millville, says the Charles Town Ad.
vocate. The Ch,ries Town Electric
Light and Power Company has been
rebuilding most of its lines, and re.
setting its old poles with new ones.
1t will get its supply of electricity
from the Millville concern as matter
of economy, the cost of coal to run
its own plant having advanced to the
extent Of eliminating profits. The
Westinghouse Company, which in.
stalled the plant at Melville, has
turned it over to the owners, their
contract having been completed.
John Carney. we'll known farmer
of Falling Waters district, came to
Martinsburg Saturday morning with
a wallet fairly bulged with bank notes.
which he proposed to deposit in To-
cal bank. he had the money on an
inside pocket and supposed 1t was
safe. The fates decreed otherwise
however, and when he reached the
bank and put his hand into his pocket
for his fat roll. he discovered that il
was missing. Just how the wallet
was lost is not known, but it is sup
posed that he dropped it from his
pocket. Throughout the morning Nh
Carney searched the streets in vain
endeavor to find the missing wallei
apd its contents, but his seandn wa
without result. 1tN~ttns6,ny Jour
nal.
Mr.. Kearney got his money bacl
yesterday. 1t had been found by
W. Broy while on his way to Berry
vile, and when he learned who wa
the owner of the money be prompt,
restored it.