Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-07-23
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

A Grebug is making matters very
uncomfortable for folks in Frederick,
Nd.
A Bryan and Kern club was or
panized in Hagerstown Tuesday with
2l5 members. J. E.S. Pryor is pres
ident.
s. J. Martin, a B. & o. brakeman,
fell under locomotive in the Bruins
wick yards a few days ago and was
killed.
The barn on the property Of Ohas.
w. Hill, short distance northeast OF
Martinsburg, was destroyed by hre
last Thursday night.
Postmaster d. N. Bradley is seek
ing to secure city mail delivery for
Charles Town. Just think of Charles
Town having its houses numbered ]
The town authorities of Brunswick,
| Md, have contracted with Norfolk
company for the construction OF a
waterworks system to cost Sll, 44o.
The work is to be completed in sixty
days.
The Pope automobile and bicycle
factory at Hagerstown will be closed,
as the company's business will be con-
solidated at Hartford, Conn.,, and
Westfeld, Mass. The property in
Hagerstown will be sold.
While a gang of workmen were EN-.
ployed on the Cumberland Valley
Railroad tracks near Shippensburg,
Pa, on Tuesday they exploded 25-
pound box of dynamite. Three of
the men we're killed and seven iniur-
ed.
William and Abraham Barnes were
caught dynamiting the waters of An
tietam creek near Waynesboro, Pa,
in order that they might get fish east
ly, and Justice Potter sentenced each
of them to pay 800 fine and serve
six months in Jail.
Western Maryland passenger train
No. 2, from Elkins to Baltimore, was
derailed last Saturday near Keyser,
and eleven passengers were injured,
several of them seriously. The train
was thrown down an embankment, and
it was miraculous that no one was
killed.
Claude Forrest, of Brunswick, who
was shot near Knoxville last week by
Hilda Grobe, of Washington, died
Tuesday night in a hospital in Fred
erick. The Grobe woman, who is in
Jail, declares that the shooting was I'M
Intentional and was the result of fun.
Joseph II. Savage, proprietor of the
Kernstown distillery, had his family
out riding in his automobile last Sun
day night, and when near Winchester
the gasoline exploded, throwing the
burning fluid over the occupants of
the machine. Mr.. Savage was so
badly burned that he had to be taken
to the hospital, and his mother was
also painfully injured.
Business is very dull at Cumber-
land, so far as the B. & o. Railroad
is concerned. Last week hundred
additional men in the shops and yards
at that place were laid off. Business
along the Western Mary land Railroad
is also very slack, and it is said that
the mines of the Davis Coal and Coke
Company and those at BerYl and
Bloomington are doing practically
nothing.
The project to erect bridge across
the Potomac river at Williamsport has
taken a fresh start. The county COM
mlssioners of Washington county, Md,
have agreed to take $4,000 worth of
stock in the enterprise, and the hust-
ling Williamsport business men who
are pushing the matter decl ire that
the stock will soon be raised. The ex-
pensive concrete plan has been aban-
doned and an iron bridge to cost
about $4,000 will be erected. A
meeting of the directors of the bridge
company was held at Williamsport
Yesterday and it was agreed to let the
contract for the concrete work, in
Guiding the piers, to Gilmore & Ham
ilton, at $35, 900, and for the steel
superstructure to the Pennsylvania
Steel Company at $4,000. The
balance of the work, including APP.
proaches, etc., it is estimated will
cost about $4,000.
Mrs. May Lesher, widow about
60 years old, of Emporium, Pa, who,
it is reported, went to Hagerstown
Monday to be married to L. NJ. Samp-
son, of Sampson Va, aged 81, was
disappointed, for Mr.. Sampson after
meeting her disappeared. Some time
ago he put an advertisement in a mat
rimonial journal for wife. The wild.
ow, it is said, answered the advertise
ment and correspondence was begun
that lasted several months. Finally
it was agreed that the couple should
meet in Hagerstown. The prospect
i've groom arrived there last Monday
and went to the Blue Ridge Hotel.
His correspondent arrived the same
evening. Mr.. Sampson went to the
train to meet her aud escorted her TO
the hotel at which he was staying.
The couple held conference, but
what transpired is secret. Next
morning, however, when the hotel
clerk went to call Mr.. Sampson he
found that the gentleman had gone.
| Jatar n uas laarned that he had taxi