Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-01
Items of Interest.

The internal revenue office at Martins
burg. which has benin charge ofDeputy
Collector p. K. Harrison, has been abol-
ished. The business hereafter will be
conducted from Parkersburg.
Christian ]. Schelky. former resident
of Martinsburg, was killed in Houston,
Texas, last week, when he was struck
by an automobile as he was crossing
street. He was II years of age. The
body was taken TO Martinsburg for inter
ment.
AT Uniontown, Pa, Judge Van Swear
ingen has issued orders that all saloons,
breweries and distiIleries shall be kept
tightly closed on Monday, July 9Th, le-
gal holiday. The liquor people are kick
ing vigorously, as they were counting on
this being one OF their big days.
Charles Lewis and his sister, ofMartins-
burg, had a narrow escape from death
Monday evening, when motorcycle on
which they were riding was struck by a
B. & o. passenger train at Flagg'S cross
ing. Both were thrown from the machine,
but by great good luck escaped with minor
cuts and bruises. The motorcycle was
wrecked.
Judge Henderson, OF the circuit court
in Cumberland, set aside the verdict OF
the jury that recently returned verdict
for So, 600 damages awarded TO Walter II.
Crowl against the city Of Hagerstown.
Crowl is the little son OF Harry Crowl,
formerly of Shepherdstown, who lost the
sight OF an eye when plaster from build
ing fell upon him as he was walking along
the street.
Mrs. Laura Virginia Grove, wife OF H.
d. Grove, died Tuesday night in The City
Hospital in Martinsburg from the effects
OF dose of bichloride of mercury, which
she had taken with suicidal intent on June
10th, following disagreement with her
husband. The young woman, whose
maiden name was Barrett, was but 70
years of age, and had been married only
about six months.
w. H. Saville, OF Cumberland, and q.
R. Healer, OF Harper's Ferry, fell over a
lOO-foot cliff al Magnolia, w. Va, Tues
day morning while on their way to
Stewards tunnel to do stonemason work
for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. They
were walking along ledge and when
one slipped he grabbed the other and
both went down. The men were taken
TO the Western Maryland Hospital in
Cumberland in serious condition.
The Anti Saloon League of America
will have great convention at Atlantic
City next week, beginning on Tuesday
and continuing for four days. Ii is ex-
pected that no less than $4,000 delegates
from every section of the United States
will be present, and addresses will be
delivered by men Of national prominence.
II is planned to have at least 5000 OF the
delegates visit Washington on July 10th
and march up Pennsylvania Avenue to
the White House, where they will pre-
sent to President Wilson or his represen-
tatives the appeal of the temperance ad-
vocateS as embodied in the action taken
by the convention.
A dreadful wreck occurred on the
Western Maryland Railroad last Thurs
day evening, when two passenger trains
ran into each other head-on upon high
bridge a mile west of Thurmont. Six
persons were killed and number injured.
The baggage Car was thrown off the
bridge and fell distance OF 10 feet. In
this car was Mrs. Edwin ChipchaSe, an
invalid from Baltimore, on a cot, and her
son Walter, both OF whom were killed,
as was also baggage. master Luther Hull.
Engineer Coleman Cook and Firemen
Hays and Fritz, who were on the loco
motives, were instantly killed likewise.
The wreck was caused by the failure OF
train dispatcher Edgar H. Bloom 10 give
the proper orders.
A conference was conducted in st.
PauPs Methodist Episcopal Church, Ha-
gerstown, last Monday between the Rev.
DR.. T. M. Hare, superintendent OF the
Maryland Anti Saloon League, the head
quarters committee Of the Washington
County Temperance League and the white
and colored ministers OF Washington
county, and plans were perfected for CO.
operation OF the county and State anti
saloon workers in the coming campaign
to make Maryland "dry." Steps were
taken TO organize the dry forces in every
district OF Washington county. The ed
ucational work has already begun and the
Republican and Democratic party leaders
will be urged to nominate candidates for
the Legislature in sympathy with the
movement. Superintendent Hare ex-
planned the features of the prohibition bill
drafted by the Anti-Saloon League and
which will be introduced in the next Leg
islature. II provides that the question OF
State wide prohibition shall be submitted
to vote OF the people.