Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-07-04
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

plication for the position OF superinten-
dent of Antietam Battlefield, made vacant
by the death of the late c. w. Adams.
The Geiser Company, manufacturers
of agricultural implements and machinery
at Waynesboro, Pa, has been incorpor-
ated into great company of similar man
ufactories with a capital stock OF $35, OOO,-
600.
Thomas Ryan, flagman on the Nor
folk & Western Railway, had his right
arm cut off at the shoulder in HagerStown
last Thursday. He was intoxicated and
was lying along the railroad track when
an engine ran over him.
During the storm last Saturday lightning
struck the barn on the farm OF Elias Young,
near townsville, Md. and the structure
was burned to the ground. The loss is
over $1,000, while the tenant, Chas. D..
Hetzer, lost about $500 worth of proper
ty.
Daniel McCaren, a freight brakeman
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was
struck on the head by bridge at Fred
erick Junction last Friday morning, sus-
tanning bad fracture of the skull. He
was taken to the City Hospital in Freder-
lex, where he died on Saturday. At
Brunswick the same afternoon atelegram
was received from Philadelphia stating
that McCaren's wife was dying and re-
guessing him to hurry to her bedside.
Neither knew OF the others condition.
James E. Keesecker, about IS years
old, was kicked by mule and almost
instantly killed on the towpath of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Cabin
John Bridge last Saturday afternoon.
Keesecker was a passenger on canal
boat on its way from Georgetown TO
Dickerson. Shortly before the boat
reached Cabin John Bridge he volunteered
to look after the mules while the driver
ate his supper. AS Keesecker applied a
whip to the leg OF one of the mules the
animal kicked him in the head, crushing
Keesecker's skull.
Judge Ross, in the United States Dis
trict Court, in Hagerstown, fixed Monday,
Oct. 7, for the trial of Michael P. Kehoe,
Harry c. Hess, Louis F. Black, Charles
B. Sanger, Edward R. Cooper, Robert
w. Mowbray and A. B. Young, charged
with using the mails to defraud by pro-
noting the sale of stock OF the Potomac
Refining Company, of Washington coun-
ty of which they were officers. The date
of the trial was fixed after the court over
ruled the demurrer to theindictment filed
on behalf OF Sanger and Cooper, who then
pleaded not guilty to the charge. The
other five accused entered pleas ofnotguil-
ty some time ago.
The Norfolk & Western Railway an
nounces that the road will, commencing
July /, pay off semi-monthly instead oil
once month as at present. The pay
days will be on the first and fifteenth Of
each month. The change, which will be
effective over the entire system, is made
in accordance with the law passed by the
last Virginia Legislature, requiring rail-
roads to pay semi-monthly. The law
will not 90 into effect until September
but as the fiscal year of the Norfolk q
Western commences on the first OF July
the change is made at that time. The an
nual pay roll of the Norfolk & Western
is in the neighborhood of $l3,0O0,OOO.
A sensation has been created by the
charges of E. A. Cooper, OF Grafton, that
terrible state of affairs exists at the
Children's Home of the West Virginia
Humane Society at ElkinS. He says he
placed his seven-year- old daughter, Ruth,
there a month ago and found her so ema-
ciated he became alarmed and decided tC
take her away. He says he found the 6C
children there were all compelled to SLEEP
in one room, and in many cases there had
not been enough clothing for ordinary
| decency. There was but one COW tc
supply the 60 inmates and attendants
The little girl says breakfast consisted Of
oatmeal without milk or sugar. There
was single dish for dinner and generally
dish of some kind OF beans for supper
Mr.. Cooper says he found the girls hail
infested with vermine, and when doc
tor was called he found her suffering from
chicken-pox.
A remarkable escape from instant death
or frightfuI injuries occurred last Thursday
morning at Hallway, near Hagerstown,
when Cumberland Valley passenger train
No. 3 struck party of five automobiles,
who attempted to cross the track while
on their way to Hagerstown. Those in
the auto were Mr.. and Mrs. George Rey-
nolds and the formers mother, Mrs. John
T. Reynolds, and Miss Cora Lemaster, Of
Berkeley county, and James Williams, o.
Hagerstown. Mr.. Reynolds was driving
AS they got near the c. V. crossing al
Hallway, Williams, who had sold the ma
chine to young Reynolds and was along
teaching him to run it, warned Reynolds,
it is said, not to attempt to cross the track
before the oncoming train. but the latter
thought they could make it. Then Will
liams jumped. The moment the auto
reached the track the engine struck il
amidships, hurting the occupants into the
air, smashing the machine and disabling
the engine. The injured persons were
carried into a nearby house and phone
message sent to Hagerstown for another
engine to take them to the hospital there.
The four injured were then hurried to the
Hagerstown hospital, where it was dis
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