Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-04-03
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


and Warren B. Cross, formerly OF Har-
per's Ferry, who has been Chief OF the
detectives for ten years or more, has
been dropped from the company's ser
vice.
Although the distance between Cum
berland and Baltimore on the b. & o.
Railroad is 1913 miles, conductors now
take but l67 miles from the mileage books.
This is done to meet competition on the
Western Maryland Railroad.
Joseph Bageant, a familiar figure about
Weverton, was strickland killed at that
place Tuesday by B. & o. express train
No. 5. He was deaf and partially blind
and was crossing the track when the train
struck him. He was y years old.
A fast passenger train and freight
train were on collision on the Western
Maryland Railroad 81 miles west OF Cum
berland last Saturday night. An engineer
and fireman were killed and two pasSen-
gers and two trainmen were injured.
President Wilson and Secretary OF State
Bryan have been invited and will proba-
bly, join in the celebration OF the fiftieth
anniversary of tine admission OF West
Virginia as State of the Union. A big
Jubilee will be held in Wheeling June 10th.
Reuben Dugan, of Island Ford, Va,
who sued the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road Company for 5000 for injuries SuS-
tanned last year, received $1,000 Monday.
The railroad attorneys agreed 10 a COM
promise. Dugan, who has a wife and
five children, was operating hand car
when the lever broke, throwing him for
ward on the track under the wheels OF
the car. He was MANNED for lie.
The Steel Trust is putting in an i'm
mense quarry plant on the Potomac river
near Falling Waters, where last week D.
w. Snyder, OF MartlnSburg leased TO a
New Castle, Pa, party 322 acres OF lime
stone land. The lease provides that Mr..
Snyder shall get oyaltY OF three cents
per ton, the payment not to be less than
$1,000 per annum. After year the les
see can terminate the lease upon giving
90 days notice and at the expiration OF %
years can renew for another Is by giving
six months notice.
T. S. Lovett is pushing along the con-
struction of his new Hill Top Hotel at
Harper's Ferry, and hopes to have it
ready for the reception OF guests by about
the lSt OF July. He will have large and
handsome hotel building, we'll furnished,
and provided with modern comforts and
conveniences. The architects are Holm
Doe q Latferty, OF Clarksburg, and Frank
o. Trump, of KearneysVjlle, is the con-
tractor. The plans call for stone and
Stucco building on the site OF the old no
tel. oveIlookin' the Potomac river and
the magnificent mountain view OF Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia. The
structure will be four stories high. On
the first floor will &c the p=rlors. large
dining room, the kitchen and pantrieS,
and several living apartments. The sec
ond and third floors will contain the bed
rooms, and on the fourth floor there will
be large all-room. Roomy verandaS
will extend along the sides OF the build
ing. In the tower will be large water
tank, which will be supplied from the
pulp mill on the Potomac river. This
hotel will be the largest and beSt-equip-
ped in the county, and will doubtless
attract a great number ofSummer visitors.
Stephen B. Elkins, who was United
States Senator from West Virginia when
he died on January 4, 1911, at EIkinS, left
an estate appraised at $4,025, 209 by the
transfer tax appraiser whose report was
filed in the SurTogate'S Court in New
York last week. The assets of the estate
OF Senator Elkins in West Virginia were
summarized as follows: Money in banks,
Sll7, 1857; stocks, s., 932. 29S; bonds, $685.
900; investments, 81, 370; bills reCeiv-
able, $49,035; Halliehurst, decedentS
country home, $64, 100, and other lands,
Sl17,l47. The largest stock holdings
were: Sixty thousand shares of Elkins
Coal and Coke Company, valued at ST.
10000; 373 shares OF Empire Coal and
Coke Company, $4,000; 9,l45 shares
Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway
Company, 1866, 800; 10000 shares Nor
gantown and Kingwood Railway Com
pany, 100000; l,S49 shares Upper Elk
Coal Company, $lS5,OOO; 1,l65 shares
Wheeling Traction Company, $4,000.
Decedent owned bonds of the Morgan
town and Kingwood Railway Company,
par value $729, 900, appraised at 1888, 200 ;
bonds OF the Kauawha Gas Company,
amounting TO $6S,000
West Virginia towns and cities along
the Ohio river suffered enormous damage
by the floods OF the past. week. Wheel
ing, Parkersburg and Huntington were
inundated and thousands ofpersonS were
made homeless. The finest residential
portions OF these places were overlooked,
as well as the business sections, and the
property loss will be enormous. Sew
eral lives were also lost and number OF
houses were swept away. In Parkers-
burg the high-water mark of $50 feet
was reached, six feet higher than the
great flood of 1884, The city was cut OFF
from the outside world by rail for six
days. The waterworks system was out
of commission, and there were no cleo
trio lights, no mails and no newspapers.
Governor Hatfield has been helping with
relief work, and money and supplies have
been raised for the sufferers. In less