Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-02-20
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


bids for 60 new freight ,nd passenger To-
comotives, TO cost something like s., OOO,-
600.
The Western Maryland Railroad has
decided to install the telephone system
for use in the operation OF trains over its
lines. II will be made ready as soon as
possible.
II is said that the Winchester and wash
ington City Railway Company, which
owns the big electrical plant at Millville,
this county, has purchased the plant OF
the Cacapcn Power Company, in Nor
gan county.
The dead body of Harry Ross. a rail-
road workman at Cumbo. was found ly-
ing along the public road short distance
west OF Martinsburg few days ago.
Twas the same old story-the unfortu-
nate man was intoxicated, and in drunk
en- brawl was beaten to death by unknown
companions.
The smallpox trouble in Berkeley coun-
ty is about over. All the patients have
been discharged as cured and the county
pest-house has been abandoned. There
was not death from the disease, There
are still two light cases in Martinsburg,
but the quarantine will be lifted there in
a day or two.
The postotfice building al Hagerstown,
which was only completed a couple OF
years ago, is TO be improved with a
$4,000 appropriation that it is hoped to
get from Congress. This structure is an
awful botch-in an out of-the-way loca-
ton, and reminds us Of an old-fashioned
brick smoke-house.
Senator c. w. Watson has appointed
William p Craighill Perry, son of Mrs.
Tayloe Perry, of Charles Town, to Ca
detship at the United States Military Acad-
envy at West Point. The appointee is
grandson of the late Gen. William P.
Craighill and nephew OF Mrs. Bette
Butler, of Shepherdstown.
Special Commissioners F. L. Bushong
and James M. Mason, Jr.. sold The Nc
Garry land, located at Shenandoah juno
ton. at public sale. The property sold
was in five tracts, varying in size from a
town lot to Is acres. 1t was sold as a
whole to Gerard D. Moore, for s., 900.
This is the end OF the Junction boom.
Marshall Wood, the orphan boy who
was sent to the West Virginia Reform
School for burning the barn OF Charles o..
Payne on the Opequon creek, near Mount
Zion Church, two years ago, was sent
back to the Jail at Martinsburg. because
the Reform School authorities could not
manage him. Wood was then sentenced
to the peniientiary for term OF two years
and eleven months for the offence.
Complaints of wholesale produce mer-
chants of Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Ohio and Michigan. resulted in the arrest
Of Michael Hofrichter, Pittsburgh pro-
duce dealer, by the United States postal
authorities. Hofrichter was held for the
federal grand jury, under $500 bond,
charged with using the mails fraudulently.
Merchants OF four States alege that they
had been defrauded out of large sums OF
money.
Burke Hill, 10 years old, of Martins
burg, died last Saturday night at the Uni
versity Hospital in Baltimore from a
broken skull sustained at work in the re-
pair shops of the Baltimore and Ohio at
MartinSburg A windlaSs broke loose
and struck him on the head. He was
taken to Baltimore in special Car and
taken to the hospital. An operation was
performed to relieve the pressure on the
brain, but his life could not be saved.
The electric power plant OF the Char
lottesville and Albemarle Railway Com
pany at Charlottesville, Va, was partly
wrecked last Friday. causing loss OF
several thousand dollars. The governor
of new 500 h. p. engine broke and the
engine raced so wildly that the two ten
ton fly-wheels flew to pieces. Consid-
cradle damage was done to the property,
but no one was seriously hurt. Although
the damage was extensive, the power
plant was put in operation again within
few hours. John l.. Livers is president
'of the company and c L. Carter, former
ly Of ShepherdStown, is superintendent.
THE West Virginia Legislature has not
been able up TO this time to elect Sena-
tor to succeed Senator c. w. Watson, the
Republican majority being apparently
hopelessly divided. The Republicans
managed TO convene in caucus, after many
efforts, but even then they could not
agree. The highest vote received was
by Davis Elkins, who got 81 votes, Col
Isaac Mann being close second with 20
James S. Lakin was sprung as dark
horse, but he only got seven votes. The
exposure of the six crooked legislators
by Col Edwards lost him votes. for the
most he could muster was seven sup
porterS.
II seems likely that no one will be elect
ed at this session, but that the selection
of Senator will be left 10 primary, to be
ratified at a special session of the Legis-
lature. Several leading candidates have
announced their preference for this meth
cd OF choosing Senator.
A NOTABLE vi-tory was achieved in
New Jersey by Governor Wilson yester-
day, when he signed the seven antitrust
bills just passed by the Legislature aud
which he had fought so hard TO have en-
acted into law. Ii was contest against
the great corporations that called for he
roic action hat the Governor WAC equal