Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

John V. McOlung, mayor OF Grafton,
this State, was indicted on Tuesday
for.falsifying the city records.
The school board of Winchester has
announced that any pupil who chews
gum during school hours will be ex-
PEELED.
John 81. Stockslager. SO years old,
drowned himself in Antietam creek,
near Leitersburg, Washington county,
last Saturday.
It is said that the Western Mary
land Railroad is to be extended from
Huttonsville to Webster Springs, q
distance Of some forty miles.
The Postofice Department intends
toaget after the people who write notes
on the margin of newspapers and
mail them at newspaper rates.
Rcv. John WsPontius, for the past
ten years pastor of the Reformed
Church in Middletown, Md, has ac-
cepted call from a church in Butler,
Pa.
Henry Waters was arrested in
Waynesboro. Pa the other day for
stealing brass. The following night
be committed suicide by hanging him
self in his cell.
At Altoona, Pa, the other night,
Thomas Wilson went to bed with a
quid of tobacco in his mouth. While
he slept it slipped into his throat and
he strangled to death.
John F. Kidwell, farmer 90 years
old, living near Leesburg, Va, was
attacked by herd of angry steers
Monday night and wos knocked down
and gored and trampled to death.
Mr.. Adam Bachman, one of Mar.
tinsburg's Oldest residents, died at his
home in that place last Sunday, in
his 82d year. He was a native Of
Germany. but had lived in Martins.
burg for sixty years.
Mrs. James Croft was accidentally
killed by her son, twelve years old, in
Franklin county, Pa, last Sunday
The boy was showing his mother g
new target rife, when it was dis
charged, the bullet passing through
her heart.
Because of the high prices of meal
charged by local butchers, a number
of farmers residing in York county
Pa, have formed a club to buy cattle
for their own use. They kill TIT
steers and divide the meat among
themselves in shares. In this way
they obtain fresh meat at cost o
about eight cents pound.
The ministers of Msrtinsburg have
agreed that they will not hereafter
conduct funerals on Sunday unless il
shall be case of necessity. Their
objection to Sunday funerals is thst
it entails extra labor for them on thai
day and often inconvenience an en-
tire congregation. They ask that il
all cases the minister be consulted be.
fore arrangements for a funeral are
made.
The board of directors of the James.
town Exposition Tuesday adopted q
resolution directing a committee Of
three to report on the advisability Of
again opening the exposition next sea-
son, and another inviting President
Roosevelt to again visit the fair.
There has been much unofficial talk
about keeping the fair open another
season, but this is the first official rec
ognition taken Of the matter.
For selling whiskey to her hus-
band, Samuel Gross, while he was in.
toxicated, Il. d. Westfall and NJ. ].
Hughes, saloon keepers of Belington,
this State, have each been sued fol-
5000 by Mrs. Augusta Cross, Gross
widow. The same Hughes has alfc
been sued by Mrs. Nancy Sinsel and
her infant children for $1,000 each
on the allegation that Porter Sinsel,
the husband and father, came to his
death from the excessive use Of In
toxicants and that these intoxicant'
were procured from the defendant
while sinsel was in an intoxicated
condition.
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