Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-10-20
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

10 the ground last Wednesday.
Another strike is on at the Crawford
wooden mills in Marinsburg, ga weayers
having quit work because OF disagree
ment with the management.
The Bell farm OF 100 acres, between
Hagerstown and WiIliamspon, was sold
at public sale on Tuesday at SOL an acre.
II was brought by A. M. Lawrence.
The published report thatsA. Spencer's
saloon along the canal opposite Harper's
Ferry had been burnedis incorrect. There
was no folmcation whatever for the state
ment.
Howard Robinson is in Jail in Martins
burg on the charge OF forging the name
of William Walker, OF Dam No. 4, TO a
check last Saturday.
Louis Triggs, aged 10 years, a deaf and
dumb man, was struck and killed by a
Cumberland Valley locomotive while
walking on-fhe railroad track near Mar
tinsburg last Friday.
Two horses belonging TO Frank Grove,
tenant on Judge Faulkner's farm near
Martinsburg, got into the barn the other
day and ate two-bushel bag OF wheat.
II caused their death the next day.
William Clevengef, a brick-layer living
at Hancock, committed suicide last FIJI
day by shooting himself in the head as
he stood the river near that town. Do
mestic troubles were too much for him.
Oliver Allen, of North Mountain, Berke-
ley county, died suddenly on Tuesday
while visiting his daughter, Mrs. Rock
well, in Hagerstown. He was stricken
while sitting on the porch. He was
Is years old.
Miss Mary Sherman Cook, daughter OF
Superintendent ]. w. Cook of the N. q
w. Railway, was married in Roanoke last
night to Mr.. Charles Edgar Kendig, OF
Baltimore. The wedding took place in
the Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Ferdinand r. Callahan, son OF
George Callahan, and Miss Maize E.
Couchman, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Couchman, were married at the
Lutheran parsonage in Martinsburg Tues
day evening by Rev. c. S. Trump.
An election was held last Saturday to
ascertain the sense of the qualified voters
within the limits OF the proposed new
town OF "Ranson," adjoining Charles
Town, as to the question OF Incorporating
the same. AT said election 60 votes were
cast for and 2against incorporation. APP
plicatiSn has been made to the Jefferson
Circuit Court for a certificate OF incorpora-
ton.
Scores of couples were married at the
Hagerstown fair last week. Among them
were Charles Wise and Mamie B. Jack
son, of Kearneysville, and Robert McAtee
and Margaret Jacobs, of Kabetown, this
county; also the following from Berke-
ley county: VIM. g. Conley and Lucy
Myers, Fred Mason and Melezoni Phoe-
nix, John w. Parker and Mamie B. Will
liams, James A. Athey and Elizabeth Nc
lntire.
]. R. Malone, of Baltimore, State road
inspector, was stabbed TO death Saturday
night by Martin Bridendolph at Indian
Springs, Washington county, Md. The
parties attended a dance, at which there
was considerable drinking, and in dis
pute between the two men the Stabbing
occurred. 1t is said that Bridendolph
was angry because Malone danced with
his wife. The murderer is now in the
Hagerstown jail.
A good deal OF interest was manifested
in Charles Town this week over the in
vestigation by the grand jury into alleged
violations of the liquor and gambling laws.
Some well-known citizens who have been
playing poker on Sunday and getting
their liquor from certain bars were very
uneasy for time. The grand jury found
no indictments, because OF evasive an
swers OF witnesses, but it made report
intended as warning.
Joshua F. Beale, 10 years old, died last
Monday at his home in Hagerstown, Of
paralysis. In the last eleven years he
sustained eleven paralytic strokes. He
was born at Harper's Ferry and for years
was an engineman on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. For the last fifteen years
he had charge of the Baltimore and Ohio
water stations between Hagerstown and
Weverton. He received an old-age pen
sion from the company.
Ii is said that the Potomac Refining
Company has bought the Chambers farm
onthe Maryland side OF the river, opposite
the Virginia Ore Bank, and will develop
the manganese that is to be found upon
it. William Griffith, who is at the head Of
the company, recently visited the place
with a number OF the stockholders, and
they say that the tract contains millions
of dollars worth of minerals-manganese,
ochre, iron ore, marble, dolomite, lime
stone, and so on.
Wilbur Wood, of Luray, son of c. B.
Wood, an engineer on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, was ground to pieces
on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks west OF
Keyser, w. Va, few nights ago, fras-
ments of his body being scattered for
miles along the tracks. Young Wood
was a fireman, and his train had gone
some distance before his absence was
discovered. Searchers were sent-back
and found that seven other trains had
passed over the body He was about
Is years of age and unmarried.
The Hagerstown fair last week was the