Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-08-28
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Charles Henry, OF Winchester, was
struck and instantly killed Monday night
by aB. & o. train at the Queen street
crossing in Martinsburg.
The large frame barn on the farm OF
William o. Funk, tenanted by A. ,.
Kaylor, near Benevola, Washington
county, Md, was burned last Saturday
night, together with forty tons OF hay and
900 bushels of wheat, farming imple-
ments, harness and feed. The loss is
placed al $1,000, partly covered by in
Surarce.
George Snowberger, OF Roadside,
Washington county, Md, who was kick
ed in the head by horse in his stable
last Saturday night and sustained frac-
tured skull, died in the Hagerstown hos
pital Friday without regaining conscious
ness. He was the son OF Daniel Snow
berger and was a farmer.
Clarence B. Deneen, of Hagerstown,
through Wagaman & Wagaman, attorneys,
docketed suit against Jessie b. and A.
S. Reynolds for $1,000 on a contract
whereby the plaintiff was to cut timber
from tract, near Hancock, and claims
TO have been ordered 10 stop work by
the defendant, causing him considerable
loss.
Mrs. Aaron K. McGraw, while Sitting
with child in her lap on the front porch
of her residence on the Williamsport
pike. near Hallway, was Friday shot in
the leg above the knee by stray rifle
bullet, which penetrated about three
inches, and which physicians have not
been able to remove. The bullet nearly
struck her child. The officers are max
ing an investigation.
Edgar Webb, aged Is years, son OF
Joseph Webb, and William Hallam, aged
IA, son of w. F. Hallam, OF Bolivar
Heights, near Harper's Ferry, ran away
from home Ten days ago. They went to
Connellsville, Pa, and then back to
Wilmington, Del, where they were taken
in charge by the police. Mr.. and Mrs.
Webb, parents Of the Webb boy, went to
Wilmington and brought both boys home.
Despondent because Of continued ILL
health and brooding over quarrel with
her aunt, with whom she had made her
home, Mrs. Lillian KEGS, widow OF Will
lam KEGS, drank half-ou OF carbolic
acid at midnight last Thursday night in
Martinsburg, and died three hours later
after intense suffering. The unfortunate
woman deliberately planned the rash act
and carried her intentions into effect at
the home OF Mr.. Frank Grimes, on South
College street, where she had gone to
spend the night with her friend, Miss
Rose Grimes; and so carefully did she
conceal her purpose from fhe members
of Mr.. Grimes family that she was in a
diving condition and beyond help when
they discovered that she had SWal-
lowed the poiS on. DR.. Osburn was has
lilly summoned, but Mrs. KEGS died few
minutes after medical assistance reached
her. That her suicide had been deliber-
ately planned by Mrs. KEGS was amply
evidenced by two letters she lett and
which she wrote after the members OF
the family had retired for the night. One
of these letters was to Miss Rose Grimes,
and the other was to cousin, Harry Alb
rell, of Bunker Hill. Mrs. KEGS was
native OF Berkeley county, being daugh-
ter of the late William Deter, OF GerardS-
town. She was aged 80 years, and had
been widow nearly five years. Her
husband was a member Of the we'll
known KEGS family of Back Creek valley.
She had no children, and is survived by
| two sisters and two brothers.