Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-04-04
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Inc UnlttQ StdtcS SOuit 10 =" SSSSio"
at Martinsburg this week, Judge Dayton
presiding.
The Charles Town Creamery property
was sold at public sale. c. F. Wall
bought if at $2.275.
Mrs. Robert Morgan, Of Halltown, lost
So fine laying hens last week from their
eating feed sold to her that contained
salt.-Spirf.
Miss Lottie Belle Matthews, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Matthews, and Mr..
A. c. Irons, manager Of the opera house,
both of Martinsburg, eloped to Hagers-
town last Friday and were married.
y Mrs. K. c. Lucas has resigned as su-
perintendent OF nurses at the Kings
Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg, and
Miss Mamie Staab and Miss Nellie Ad-
dleman, trained nurses. have also quit.
Miss Virginia Savage, girl living near
Oakland, Md, was arrested a few days
ago on the charge of infanticide. She is
accused of having thrown her baby, two
months old, from car window while en-
route from Baltimore to Oakland. The
body of the infant, with its head crushed,
was found!lying along the B. & D. Rail
road tracks, and the arrest OF the unfor-
tunate girl followed.
John Renner, former resident OF
Sharpsburg. committed suicide Monday
at Bellevue Asylum, >Hagerstown, by
hanging himself. He had been an inmate
OF the asylum for six Or seven years.
The unfortunate man, who was 50 years
old, was unmarried, and is survived by
three brothers and one sister. He was
brother of A. R. Renner, of Sharpsburg,
who died year or two ago.
The United States Leather Company
has decided to close its tannery at Capon
Bridge, and the people OF the community
are aghast at the blow that its removal
will be to the village. The payroll is
some $500 a week, and when this IS
withdrawn about twenty-five families
will leave the place. The work done at
Capon Bridge will be transferred to Pc
tersburg, in Grant county, and Paw Paw,
Morgan county.
In an opinion handed down in the u.
S. Court at MartinSburg on Tuesday,
Judge Dayton decreed that the Washing
ton and Berkeley Bridge Company should
reimburse the Pennsylvania Steel COM
pany for damages the latter paid as re-
suit of the killing OF four men and the in
Jury of several more during the conStruc-
ton of the bridge over the Potomac at
Williamsport, Md, few years ago. The
Pennsylvania Steel Company paid out
some $l3, 500 for damages, and then sued
the bridge company.
The real estate OF the late Edward Wal
tiers, located at MechanicStown, was sold
on Saturday by Special Commissioned r.
L. Bushong to MeSSrs. M. b. Bane,
T. T. Perry, w. F. Alexander and E. E.
Cooke, for $4,SOl. The purchase in
Guided the blacksmith shop and small
store building at Mechanicstown, in ad-
uition to the farm OF 80 acres. The pur-
chasers held the property only short
time. On Thursday, within a week OF
their purchase, they sold it to John r.
Rissler, who had been farming the Viii
son farm at Kabletown, for $5,250.-Ad-
p0cdte
]. c. Lewis, OF Cumberland, came near
drowning last Friday afternoon in the
Potomac river, near the Harper's Ferry
bridge. He and companion, Charles
Houck, left Cumberland the previous
Saturday in small canoe for hunting
trip. They had their guns, fishing tackle,
clothing and money, amounting to some
$50, IN a box in the boat. They had got
ten along all right until they reached Har-
per's Ferry, when, owing to a sudden
rise in the river from terrific downpour
OF hail and rain the boat upset in the
rough water below the dam. Houck swan
to the Maryland shore, and Lewis. not
able to swim, chung to the side OF the
tilted boat, calling for help. Persons on
shore, seeingthe mans perilous situation,
went out in skiff and rescued him. The
canoe and its contents were lost.