Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-07-15
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

butchers, in Martinsburg, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire Friday night.
James Kensel, who lives near Beding-
ton, fell from wheat rick just as he had
finished topping it off last Friday, and
broke several ribs and his collarbone.
Lord Brothers, butchers, of Martins
burg, were each fined 1915 ard costs a
few days ago for cruelty TO animals. They
kept lot of bawling calves in their
slaughter-house for thirty hours.
A HagerstoWn man tried the expert
ment of placing band OF sticky fly paper
around his trees, thus preventing insects
from going up and down the trees and in
juring the foliage. tits said TO work well.
B. F. Thompson, a native OF Clarke
county, but who resided in Jefferson
county number of years ago, was struck
and killed by a train at Sideburn, Va,
last week. He was a Confederate vet
eran.
Mrs. Ida E. Schamel, nee Wilson, has
sued for absolute divorce from her huS-
band, J. Tiden Schamel, on the ground
of desertion. The couple were married
ten years ago, both being residents OF
Sharpsburg.
Figures from the office OF the State
Superintendent of Free Schools show
that in Jefferson county there are 1886
persons of school age, and in Berkeley
4,149. Jefferson gets back from the gen.
eral school fund SS,3O2.47, and Berkeley
$6,950.56. MartinSburg is not counted in
Berkeley's statistics.
Albert Green, colored man from Har-
per's Ferry, met horrible death on the
Western Maryland Railroad track near
HagerStown last Saturday night. 1t is the
same old story. He got drunk, laid down
on the railroad track, and train came
along, ran over him and crushed his body
into shapelesS mass.
Miss Sue d. Johnson has filed a petit
ton in equity in Hagerstown, asking the
court to direct the sheriff to summon a
jury to determine whether her father, ex-
Justice T. Belt Johnson, Of Clear Spring,
is habitual drunkard He has about
$1,000 of real estate His daughter al
leges he is incapable of taking care OF
himself or his property.
The large bank barn on the farm OF J.
s. Bitner, near Shady Grove, Washington
county, was destroyed by fire that started
from spontaneous combustion, and about
$50 tons of wheat, 80 tons of hay, farm
ing machinery and other articles were de-
stroyed and half dozen fine mich COWS
persisted. The loss, amounting to sever
al thousand dollars, is partly covered by
insurance.
Charles Morris, OF Elizabeth, N. J., a
steel worker employed on the new bridge
in course of erection across the Potomac
river at WiliamSport, missed his foot
hold Monday and plunged 50 feet down
into the river. Fellow workmen eX-
pected him to be killed or frightfuly in
jured, but to their surprise he came to the
surface and was able to make his way to
the shore unaded In the course OF an
hour he had recovered sufficiently 10 re-
sumo work. AT the point where the &C
cident occurred the water is only a few
feet deep.
The colored folks had camp-meeting
at Inwood, near MartinSburg, last Sunday,
and the occasion was enlivened by Mir
derous rumpus that came near resulting
in the death Of a woman Emanuel Iur-
ner and Mrs. Pheny Walker, both OF
Steelton, Pa, attended the camp-meeting
and he became jealous of her. He ran
her into Stewart Strong's residence and
beat her so badly that she had to be taken
to hospital, and when an officer tried
to arrest him the negro knocked him down
and made good his escape. AT one time
a lot of the colored people were in the
riot, and the affair looked very serious.
AT a meeting of the school commits
Sioners OF Charles Town district, held on
last Friday, Grove Henkle was reelected
secretary, and the tentative appointment
of teachers for the Charles Town High
School, heretofore made, was affirmed,
and the old teachers were reappointed i'll
the colored school. Trustees were ap-
pointed as follows: Manning's, Samuel
Penwell; Riverside, James Snyder; Mt
Hope, Joseph Tharpe; Ramey's, John B.
Goode. The salary OF Prof. Denny was
fixed at 81 500 year, and that OF Prof.
Baton at $75 month. Teachers sala-
ries-$45 for No. certificate, $3.50 for
No. 2, and $50 for No. 3.-SpHH.
The first two OF series of new Mallet
articulated 200-ton locomotives pur chased
by the Western Maryland Railroad from
the Baldwin Locomotive Works have been
received in HagerStown. They will be
used in helping heavy freight trains over
the Blue Ridge mountains. They are the
biggest and most powerful engines ever
seen in the East, and are attracting much
attention in the Western Maryland yards. ,
They are guaranteed TO pull or push B.
500 tons weight over the heavy grades,
which is twice the weight OF any other
engine on the road. The engines are real
ly double, with four cylinders p and 80
inches in diameter, with stroke OF 32incheS
and steam pressure of 200 pounds to the
square inch. The driving wheels are g
feet in diameter, and the boiler feet in
diameter. The fire box is 10 feet long
and the boiler contains 437 tubes. The
total length Of the engine and tenderis 10
feet. The tender carries 5000 gallons OF
water and II tons of coal. The engines