Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-03-30
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The board of supervisors OF Augusta
county. Va, have raised the levy, and
will have $4,000 additional to spend for
good roads.
A dwelling owned by Mrs. William
Oygerly, on the eastside of Shenandoah
river, in this county, was destroyed by
fire one night last week.
There's joyful news for the Hag Mail
right in Hagerstown. The brewery there
has Just put in eight new steel beer tanks,
each of which holds $50 gallons.
While Mrs. Jacob Hickman, aged IS
years, was driving near Mercersburg, Pa,
the other day, the horse kicked over the
dashboard, and, striking her in the breast
over the heart, killed her instantly.
Samuel Price, OF the vicinity OF Lee
town, who was struck by B. & o. train
near Martinsburg about two weeks ago,
died from his injuries in the Kings Daugh-
tiers Hospital. He was AZ years OF age.
AT the city election in Hagerstown on
Monday the Democrats elected two coun-
ciImen and the Republicans one. Aprop-
osition to issue $4,000 of bonds toieStab-
lish public park carried by a majority OF
CSC.
David Myers, of Berkeley Springs, who
left home Al years ago and who had not
been heard from since, turned up at his
old home few days ago. He had been
declared legally dead in court proceed
iugs instituted last September.
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
was paid by C. E. Gudebrod, OF Freder-
lex county, Va, for 400 acres Of the late
Franklin H. WiSsler's estate known as
Strathmore farm, near Mount Jackson,
Shenandoah county, it being a record
price. The land is in apples and peaches.
Henry of Navarro and Octagon, the
two thoroughbred stations presented to
the Government by August Belmont, ar
rived at Front Royal, Va, on Tuesday,
in charge OF Capt. c. H. Conrad, U. s. A.
These two horses are intended for the
remount station at this point and will be
bred to full blooded mares owned by
farmers in that section for the purpose OF
producing suitable cavalry mounts. The
horses have just arrived from France,
where they have been for several sea-
sons. They both won fame on the
American race track few years back.
Capt. Bud Edwards, for many years
captain on the Chesapeake and Ohio ca
nal, fell from his boat at Great Falls, near
Washington, Tuesday evening and was
drowned. AS the boat appeared at the
lock at Great Falls on its way out from
Washington, Captain Edwards was
aroused from nap. AS he attempted to
arise it is thought he lost his balance and
fellinto the canal. He sank before assistance
could reach him. Captain Edwards had
been plying the canal for about twenty
years. His home was at Dickerson. He
was about 40 years old and unmarried.
An act of cruelty rarely equaled was
perpetrated on a horse that was hired
last week by Leslie McCleary, OF Way
nesboro, and driven to Quincy, near
Mont Alto. Mr.. Cleary hitched the horse
along the road and later drove home.
For two days the horse did not eat, ex-
hibited signs of sickness and bled at the
mouth. Then an examination showed
that a cord had been tied around the
horses tongue and passed under its jaw
and had cut deep into the tongue, which
was enormously swollen. The deed had
been done by an unknown miscreant
while the horse stood hitched by the
roadside.