Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-11-24
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Hall dozen or more mad dogs run
ming amuck in Shenandoah county, va,
have the people of Lebanon Church and
Fishers Hill section badly scared.
Andrew Hunter, manager OF the Dunn
Hotel at Berkeley Springs, dropped dead
on Monday from heart disease. He had
been in the hotel business for 3 years.
The automobile factory that had been
planned for Martinsburg. TO build cars in
vented by S. J. Rowe, OF Waynesboro,
Pa, has faded away The inventor and
the stockholders couldn't agree.
Capt. Geo. L. Fisher, captain of Com
pany B, of Hagerstown, for the past sew
enteen years, has retired, having reached
the age limit of GA years. He has been
in the military service nearly fifty years.
Hunter B. Cunningham, OF Berkeley
county, has bought from H. H. Finfrock
a farm Of 1875 acres three miles from Ha-
gerstown at 500 per acre. He will take
possession next spring and will plant
large apple orchard on if.
Hugh Frazer, former resident OF Mar.
tinsburg, was killed at Williams, Arizona,
last Friday, by falling derrick. He was
division engineer and superintendent OF
construction on the Santa Fe Railroad
and lost his life while on duty. He was
81 years old.
H. H. Hoffman, of Hancock, was sur
prised to find when he opened the door
the other morning the familiar face OF a
hound which he had sold Stillwell Barn
hart few days before and which Barn.
hart had taken by train to his home al
Germantown, Montgomery county, Md,
90mileS from Hancock. The hound mined
for his old home and found his way back
on foot.
The Virginia Military Institute at Lex
ington closed and the students were sent
to their homes until January 9th, owing
to an extraordinary epidemic OF the pink
eye. Only about 20 of the 335 students
are free from the trouble. Five cases OF
typhoid fever have also developed among
the boys during the past week. There is
no sickness at Washington and Lee Uni
verSity.
The State Roads Commission of Mary
land has recently purchased number OF
turnpikes in that State, including the
Baltimore and Boonsboro turnpike, some
65 miles, for 500 600; the BoonSboro and
HagerStown pike, at 81, 200 per mile; the
HagerStown and Conococheague pike.
paying $40 per share for the stock. This
gives the commission through road from
Baltimore TO the western part the State,
passing thTough Washington county. This
road will be greatly improved and the
toll-gateS will be at once taken off.
A distressing fatality occurred in Mar
tinsburg last week, by which Mrs. Nam
ME Richards, wife of J. Taylor Richards,
lost her life. While helping to unload
car OF coal on Friday, Mr.. Richards found
bag containing about ten pounds of
miners powder. He carried it home, and
afterward his little daughter, six years
old, thinking that it was some mice, fine
COAL" poured it into the coal scuttle.
While the family was sitting at dinner
Mrs. Richards attempted to put some
coal in the stove AS she empted
Shovelful there was flash of flame, and
spark fell into the powder in the coal
sCuttle, causing terrible explosion. In
an instant she was enveloped i'll flames,
and though her husband burned himself
severely in trying to Saveher, she was so
badly injured that she died few hours
later Mrs Richards, who was q years
old, is survived by her husband and three
children. She was native of Jefferson
county, her father having been George
Rush, who formerly lived northwest Of
ShepherdStown.