Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-06-02
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Miss Carrie E. Spielman has sued E.
Roy Line, of Keedysville, for $4,000, al
leging breach of promise.
Samuel Carson, the well-known retired
lime manufacturer, OF Riverton, Va, died
last week from paralysis, aged IS years.
David Bowers, who pleaded guilty TO
shooting Mrs. Ada Virginia Wolfe in
Hagerstown, was sentenced by Judge
Keedy to nine and half years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Mrs. Harriet Simmons has bought
from the executors of Mrs. Martha Burns
her old home in Charles Town, paying
$500 for it. She will again make her
home in that place.
A party OF fifteen gentlemen from New
York have started on horseback ride
from that city through the Shenandoah
Valley to Stanton. They are expected
to pass through this section tomorrow or
next day.
Mr.. Herman L. Powell and Miss Pearl
Ella Bowers, both Of Berkeley county,
were married yesterday at the home OF
the brides parents in Martinsburg by
Rev. w. F. Gruver. The groom former
ly resided near Shepherdstown.
AT the municipal election in Charles
Town last Thursday T. c. Green was
elected mayor over the present incumbent,
Geo. T. Light, by vote of l39 to ll9.
The councilmen elected were Clayton L.
HaineS, J. Frank Weller and H. c. Page.
/. B. and Herman Huyette, OF the
Wheatland neighborhood, have purchased
the farm of Mrs. E. w. Howard, couple
of miles southwest of Charles Town, pay
ing 500 an acre for the 265 acres which
il contains. This farm is in a fine state
OF cultivation.
A syndicate of Martinsburg capitalists
has purchased "Windewald," the home
of John ]. Hetzel at that place, including
about eleven acres Of ground, for $l5, 600,
and the Abel estate on the opposite side
of the pike, ten acres, for $4,000. The
land will be divided into building lots.
The libel case of Rev. H. B. Harmon,
coiored preacher, against George L. D.
Harris, editor of colored newspaper al
BerryviIle, in the circuit court at Berry,
vile, was decided Thursday, when the
Jury rendered a verdict in favor OF the
plaintiff for ST instead OF giving him 81 ,OOC
damages, for which he had asked.
Among the deeds recorded recently in
the office of the county clerk were the
following: ThoS. R. Moore and c. L,
Robinson, the brick yard and IA acres Of
ground in Charles Town TO the Valley
Brick Company for 81, 500; heirs of Thorn
as Miller to A. l.. Quaintance, l76 acres
of land OH the Loudoun- Jefferson line
5000.
According to the estimates OF the West
Virginia Horticultural Society, the peach
crop of the Eastern Panhandle will reach
the enormous aggregate of 100000 baS-
kets, most OF which will come from Hamp-
shire county. The apple crop this year
is estimated at 100000 barrels for Berke-
ley county, 10000 barrels for Jefferson
county, 5000 for Hampshire and $500 fol
Mineral.
A shocking murder was committed late
Monday night mile or two west of Han
cock, when Claude McCuSker shot anc
killed JuStuS Roman. 1t is said that liquor
was at the bottom of the trouble. The
two men had been carouSing and quarrel
ed. McCuSker lay in wait for Roman,
and when the latter started for home
about nine O'Clock the former opened fire
upon him. Roman tried to shield himself
behind a telephone pole, but his white
shirt showed and McCuSker sent two
bullets into the mark it made, inflicting
fatal wounds. When Roman fell, Nc
CuSker ran and made good his escape
Mr.. Cohill found Roman in the road, and
the dying man begged him to pray fol
him. The victim was hurried to Martins
burg on fast train and taken to hoSpit-
al, but he died before he could be operat-
ed upon. He was % years old and was
married. Neither of the men had good
reputation, and the whiSkey they drank
made them murderously vicious.