Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-12-08
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


Tuesday Judge Keedy fined eight clubs
$50 each for selling liquor without license.
The Episcopal High School near Alex
andria, Va, has been compelled to close
its doors because of an epidemic OF ty-
phoid fever.
Edward Henry, "a years old, OF Mar
tinSburg, fell asleep at one OF the lime
kiIns near that place, and while he slept
one of his legs was burned so badly II
had to be amputated.
The drug store of J. F. Manown IN
Martinsburg was wrecked by IRE last
Sunday night. causing loss OF Sl'ooC'
This is the third fire in this drug STORE
within the past six months.
Mr.. James L. Strine, OF Lincoln, Neo-
raska, and Mrs. Sarah c. Combs, OF Mar
tinsburg, were married in the latter place
on Monday. The bride was formerly
Miss Farnsworth, of Jefferson county.
A fire in Martinsburg last Thursday
night did about $4,000 damage to the brick
building OF w. H. Heiston & Son and the
stock of the Vehicle Company, which
used the structure as storage warehouse.
The property was insured.
The State Board of Public Works has
given TO PittSburg parties an option on
the States property at Berkeley Springs,
and there is talk of building hotel TO
cost $4,000. Col. F. w. Brown, OF
Charles Town, is interested in the project.
Engineman Charles B. Eichelberger,
of the w. M. Railroad, was found guilty
of manslaughter by jury in the court in
Hagerstown last week. He disobeyed
orders and was responsible for a wreck
at Edgemont last August in which five
persons were killed.
T. Eddy Brown, OF Berryville, who
has been doing a thriving business IN
ordering liquor from "wet' towns Tor
other persons, was convicted of violating
the liquor laws this week and fined $500
and costs. He also had TO give 81 600
bond not to again violate the law.
AT the election on Monday in Ransom,
the new addition north OF Charles Town,
Iohn Strother was elected as first mayor
and Gerard D. Moore, recorder. w. o.
Speer, w. A. Higgs, Frank B. Robinson,
Charles Smith and D. w. Hyatt were
elected councilmen. The new town has
about $50 inhabitants.
Daniel Norris dwelling house, 'Antie-
tam, south of Sharpsburg, caught on fire
from an overheated stovepipe and burned
to the ground. Mr.. Norris had made a
big fire and gone to bed, and having lost
much sleep on account of sickness in the
family, slept very soundly and did not
discover the fire until il had considerable
Roadway in the ceiling. Only few
household goods were saved.
The Charles Town Light and Power
Company, which does the street lighting
for Charles Town, was adjudged an in
voluntary bankrupt by Judge A. q. Day.
ton in the u. S. District Court last week.
The company will take its case to the U.
S. Circuit Court on appeal, its contention
being that by reason Of its being engaged
in public service business the District
Court erred in adjudging it bankrupt.
For some time the company has been in
serious financial stress, and about year
ago the Jefferson Circuit Court appointed
a receiver for it upon the petition OF some
OF IFS creditors.
A prominent business man of Berryville
states that the people OF that section who
travel great deal on the Norfolk & WeS-
tern Railway to Shenandoah Junction,
where they change cars for the Baltimore
& Ohio main line to Washington and Bal
timore, are hoping that the recent confer
ence of civil engineers of the two roads
will result in new passenger station be-
ing erected at the Junction. 1t is neceS-
sary for the people to wait more than an
hour sometimes to make the connections
atShenandoah Junction, andthey are herd
ed together like so many sheep in cold
weather. The present station is referred
to as disgrace TO both railroads. Win
chester Star.
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