Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-08-11
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Daniel Nose, Is years old, OF SharpS-
burg, has filed suit for divorce from his
wife. They have been married lSyears.
Rev. VIM. E. Brown, pastor of the Lu-
theran Church at Middletown, Md, has
received call from the Church OF the
Reformation, in Baltimore, and will prob
ably accept.
Vernon N. Simmons, editor OF the
Hagerstown Herald, while on visit to
his mother Mrs. Harriet Simmons, at
Charles Town, was bitten on the foot by
copperhead snake and is now confined
to his home in Hagerstown. The injury
is not serious.
On a persistent search for bottle OF
rye whiskey, Levi Suffacool, of Milestone,
Washington county, broke open a chest
and took big drink from flask that he
found therein. 1t was bluestone solu-
ton instead of whiSkey, and desperate
efforts were required TO save his life.
DR.. w. S. Stanley, the well known
veterinarian went to the PaSteur Institute
in Baltimore on Tuesday for treatment.
A few days ago, while treating a horse
believed to have had rabies, the Doctor
sustained slight injury to one OF his
hands. The horse which was owned by
Mr.. Benz. w. Moore, near Oakland
church, died on Sunday night last. Some
days before the horse was taken sick, a
dog on the place had shown symptoms
of rabies. and it was thought had bitten
the horse. AS a precautionary measure
DR.. Stanley decided to take the Pasteur
Observation-Disclosures.
]. r. Clifford, editor of The Press OF
Martinsburg, and the well known colored
lawyer, who has figured in quite num-
Der ofinteresting local incidents, will oc-
cupy the limelight for another period.
He was arrested Sunday night by b. d
O. Detective Prince and charged with
trespassing on the property OF that COM
pany by riding freight from Cherry Run
to this city. The editor is accused OF
going to Cherry Run on fiShirg expedi-
ito. The railroad people got wind OF his
movement and the officers were waiting
at Hannisville distillery Sunday night and
caught the alleged offender as he stepped
from the train. lack Wilson, also COL
ored, was with him and was similarly
arrested
The B. & O. Railroad Company has
about $50 men at work on the tracks near
DuSt's crossing. The east track is being
raised to level with the other two. A
long concrete retaining wall is being built
along the east side OF the tracks from the
crossing several hundred feet in the di-
rection of Harper'S Ferry. The work.
men are Greeks and Italians who are
herded in ShantieS at Engle'S station.
Some of them have beer giving the
neighborhood down there interesting ex-
ampleS of the simple life. One Greek
laborer is said to have made himself i'll
by attempting to confine his living ex-
penseS to five cents day. His illness
was not caused by starvation as one might
suppose, but was due to his having eaten
some meat that had been too long out OF
the ice hoy -AdvOr1fp
Deputy Marshal H. A. Brown came to
the county the first OF the week from
Wheeling and with Mr.. James A Smith
went to Ripon where he arrested Tom
Gamer, and then to the east side OF the
river near rairmont where he arrested
Thomas Mason. Both Gamer and Mason
had been indicted by the Grand Jury in
the U. s. District Court at Wheeling for
Illicit whiskey selling. The offenses
charged against Gamer are alleged to
have been committed at various times
within the past three years. Masod ad-
mitted to the Deputy that he had sold
only one pint of mixture composed OF
wine and water, but denied the accusation
that he had sold whiSkey 70 anybody. A
number OF witnesses from the southern
section ofthe county have been summon =
ed to appear in the District Court at
at Wheeling on September 20, when the
two accused men will be tried.