Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-08-27
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

berland, were married in the former
city last week.
The town council of Harper's Fer
ry has passed a curfev law, and when
the Catholic church bell rings at $50
D. m. all children under IA years of
age are required to get off the streets.
Clinton R. Grove, who has conduct
ed merchant tailoring business in
Hagsrstown for number Of years,
has retired from the firm, having sold
out to Roy A. Letter. Mr.. Grove is
well known here.
A man who gave the name of Sam
uel Braksbills, from near Hagsrstown,
stole horse from William Rice, of
Berkeley county, early Tuesday morn
ing. He was caught later in the day
and put in jail in Martinsburg.
A large number of Odd Fellows at.
tended the laying of the cornerstone
| of the Odd Fellows. home ct ElkinI
last Saturday. Addresses were de-
liversd by Hon. John B. Goodwin, of
Baltimore, Judge A. G. Dayton and
Rev. 81. D. Reed, of this State.
Mrs. @. B. Coleman, near Middle
way, saw g large hawk attack one of
her chickens, and while the hawk was
30 intent upon the chicken that he did
not notice her, she ran out and caught
him and wrung his neck of. His head
less body now sdorns a tree in her
yard as a warning to other venture.
some hawks.
Miss Anna Maria cambridge Mitch
ell, of Charles Town, was married last
week at South Harpswell, Maine, to
Mr.. Luther Pfahler Eisenhsrt, of
the faculty of Princeton University.
The bride is a daughter of the late
Charles T. and Frances Garter BaIsett
Mitchell, of Mordington, and great
great.grand niece of Bette Lewis,
George Washington's sister.
J. E. Morgan, of Halltown, who
died in Elkins of typhoid fever on
Friday and was buried in Charles
Town on Sunday, was insured less
than one year age by Senator Camp.
bell in the Mutual Benefit Life Insur-
ancs Company, of Newark, N. j., for
$4,000. As he had only paid one
premium, the return to his estate will
be forty times the amount paid in.
The Democrats of Charles Town or
ganizsd Bryan, Kern and Bennett
club last week, with the following of
fcers President, John T. Porterfsld;
vice presidents, D. B. Lucas, B. D.
Gibson and F. L. Bushong secretary
Robert O. Rissler. A resolution was
adopted condemning the Baltimore
Sun for it's deGertion of Democratic
principles and recommending that
Democrats should no longer support
that paper.
Miss Mary Brinham, Is years old,
dauhhtsr of Robert Brinhsm, Maple.
vile, Washington county, Md, near
Boonsboro, was shot and almost in
stantly killed by the accidental dis.
charge of shotgun at her home last
Friday. The load entered her breast,
tearing a great hole in her body. Mr..
Brinham had used the gun Thursday
night to shoot some person he disoov-
ed prowling around his premises. He
reloaded the weapon, and when he
retired, placed it under the bed, cock
cd. Next morning his two daughters
were cleaning the room, when the
younger one attempted to pull the
gun from under the bed. The dis.
charge killed her sister.
A dispatch from Luray. Va, to the
morning papers of today says: Jack
son Nichols, son Of the late V. O. Mich
OILS, of Rappahannock county, who has
been at work in Charles Town, for
some time, arrived in LuraY a few
days ago in badly beaten condition,
which he alleged was done by negro
of that place. Nichols having few
relatives in this section and no one to
care for HIM, the authorities Of the
county took him in charge, sending
him to the almshouse, where he died
from his injuries last night. On sew
eral occasions Nichols has been injured
by coming in contact with Norfolk
and Western trains, and many here
believe hia late experience was from
the same cause.
A pathetic incident occurred in Ha.
gerstown last Friday evening, when
Earl, the seven-months-o old son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. ssum, died in his
mothers arms as she was standing in
the Norfolk and Western passenger
station waiting to take train to Shen-
andoah, Va, where her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. L. Judd, reside. The
baby had been complaining. but he
was not regarded as seriously i'll. The
family are in poor circumstances, their
furniture having been seized for debt
The father, being unable to earn a
livelihood, determined TO send his wife
and child to Shenandoah. Having no
place to take the corpse, Mr.. Saum
decided TO send his wife and the in
fant's body on to Shenandoah, but the
railroad officials refused to let the
body be taken on the train until q
certificate of death from . physician
was presented. This could not at once
be obtained and the train pulled out
without the mother and her dead babe.
Na;0hhor. 6nallv took in the family