Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-09-10


ACCIDENTAL DROWNING OF DIR. How
AKp.-Dr Z. Lloyd Howard, president
of the Maryland State board Of health,
and resident physician at the Marine
Hospital, and one Of the widest-known
and most popular members of the med.
ical PROFESSIONAL Baltimore, was drowned
at twenty minutes after twelve o'clock
on Monday morning, by accidentally
falling from the tugboat Kate Jones, at
Commercial wharf, Fell's Point. DR..
Howard had just returned to the city
from Pikesvile, Baltimore county,
where his family are spending the sum
mer, and was on bis way alone TO the
hospital when the accident happened.
Before going to the wharf where the
hospital boat, The Helen Treusch, was
to meet him by appointment, he stopped
at Mr.. George r. S,iltz's apothecary,
corner of Broadway aud Thames street,
where he met Mr.. Joseph Krimm, OF
Anne Arundel county, who, being an
acquaintance, asked him TO prescribe
tor some complaint with which he was
suffering. After writing the prescrip.
ton and talking pleasantly with those
about him, as was his wont, DR.. How
ard LETT the drug store and went to
Commercial wharf to meet the hospital
boat. As the Helen Treusch was not
in sight from the wharf when he arrived
he stepped on board the tugboat Kate
Jones and walked to the stern for the
purpose of seeing if the Treusch was APP
preaching. 1t was while standing in
the stern of the tug that the accident
occurred.-Baho. Sun.
KILLED BY THKEsHlNG MACHINE
On Wednesday, a week ago, Mr.. Jacob
L. Snyder, Of Franklin county, Pa, was
the victim of frightiul and fatal acct
dent, in attempting to oil threshing
machine. The Chambersburg Spirit
says:
"Whilst the machine was in motion
young Snyder, in accordance with a
practice too common among men at
work about machinery of this kind, at
tempted to oil some of the parts of tho
separator, climbing up the side Of the
machine to do so. When at the side OF
the receptacle for unthresbed grain one
the feet of Mr.. Snyder caught in the
betting and in a moment he was thrown
forward into the mouth of the sepa-
rator, in front of the man who was feed
ing the machine. The cylinder was
making its wonderfully rapid revolu-
tons and in a moment 1t had seized
Suydcrs left arm and drawn him into
the machine up to the shoulder His
arm was torn from its socket and every
part of it mangled into a pulp. Mr..
Snyder lived until o'clock the follow
ing Thursday, when death epsued.
Mr.. J. Frank SUPPLE, Chairman Of
the Oriole Musical Committee, has re-
ceived a letter from p s. Gilmore, the
great band master, who got up the
mammoth musical jubilee in Boston
several years since. Mr.. Gilmore says,
for the sum of $3.50 and expenses, he
will take bis full baud Of six,y-6ye mu-
sicians to Baltimore to participate in
the Oriole pageant procession on the
evening of October IL.
Mrs. Daisy Oaks Dudley, wife Of Mr..
Francis H. Dudley, and daughter of ex-
Judge, w. A. Fuller, of the law firm Of
Fuller & Albeit, New York, committed
suicide on Saturday evening at her house
on the summit of Orange Mountain, n. Y.
She shot herself about five O'Clock thro'
the brain, and died the same night. The
circumstances attending the shocking af-
fair are Of very distressing character,
the immediate cause Of the dreadful act
being young married couples quarrel
over a most trifling matter, question
whether husband and wife should drive
in a basket phaeton or covered buggy.
An eight horse power engine on the
fam Of Mr.. George Taylor, two miles
from Raleigh, N. c., exploded on We'd
nesday morning With such violence that
the report was heard and the shock felt
by the residents of the city. No one Vas
injured by the accident, bat the engine
house was blown to fragments, trees near
by were torn from the earth, and damage
to the extent OF 81 600 done altogether
The Torchlight, of Oxford, n. c., says,
in regard 10 rape II the South, that ''it
now seems to be n law as fixed and unal-
terable as any other, that any man who
commits this heiRous offence against viz
tue and society shall be hanged without
judge OF jury"