Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

six white, were publicly whipped at New
Castle, Del, Saturday. The cat was well
laid on, but blood was drawn only in one
case.
At Glasgow, Mo-, few days ago, Agnes
Ralt, aged % year of age, a German girl,
committed suicide by lying down in shall
low water until she was drowned. A love
affair was the cause.
Last Friday night at Lockwood, Ohio,
Philip Kuhn, a canal boatman, quarreled
with Ezekiel Lee, colored man, in Gains
saloon, over game of cards. Kuhn struck
Lee with his fist, knocking him against
the wall, aud killing him almost Instantly.
Kuhn was arrested.
Mr.. S. F. Smithson felleG a walnut tree
OIL Laurel Greek, Summers county, this
State, few days ago which measured six
feet and two inches across the stump and
flfty-two feet in length, without knot or
limb. When delivered Oh the railroad the
tree was worth $liO.
At Greencastlc, Pa, the other day,
railroad train dashed through the town at
a terrific rate of speed, the brakes having
become unmanageable. The good citizens
were terribly frightened, but no damage
was done except to dog that the engine
tossed about fifty yards.
DR.. Robert B. Wilson, Of Portland, Or
egon, who was stopping at the Windsor
Hotel, n. Y, fell into the hands of bunkO
men OH Friday, and when they let him go
he left with them 81, $50, of which $50 was
cash. Saturday he caused the arrest of
two of them and got back 81 900.
The daughter of DR.. w. f. Bradford, of
Rome, H., only fifteen years old, commit
ted suicide on Tuesday by taking NOR
phine. Her father had forbade her keep
ing company with Wallace Campbell,
young man of the village, and she sue
ceeded In her attempt to kill horself.
A young boy at Schellsburg, Bedford
county, Pa, attached two ropes to rafters,
each with moose, for gymnastic exer-
cises. He put his feet in one moose his
head in the other to suspend himself hori-
zontally. The rope holding his feet broke,
and he was hanged by the neck until he
was dead.
The family of Stewart Beacham, far
mer living near Princess Anne Court
House, Va, was poisoned BY morphla
bought in drug store ut Norfolk, where
! il was sold to Bcacham in mistake for
| ouinine, which he ordered for chills. One
boy, aged Is, has died, and others of the
family arc very low.
Miners prospecting near Concord, n.
| c., discovered ut the mouth Of long de-
serted shaft of gold mine the skeleton Of
! a woman. The clothing and shoes were
| still on the bones, and, from the fine quail
ity Of the cloth and the presence of dia-
mond ring of some value, it Is thought
that the bones were those of some lady of
| position and means.
John Smith, the negro arrested ut Win
chester, Va, several months ago, was tried
at Oakland, Md, last week, for the muir
der of Josish Harden, and found guilty
of murder in the first degree" and SELL
! fenced to be hung. During the trial
Smith appeared Indifferent, and when the
verdict was rendered he laughed and said,
"The circus is over; now we will have
concert"
Alta rancho near SocorrO, y. NJ, Mon
dav, Joel Fowler was attacked by Pouly
Forrest and Bill Childcs, with whom he
had previous trouble. Fowler returned
the fire, killing Chldes. Forrest ran into
the house of Mr.. McGee, who asked For
rest TO 90 out. Forrest fired and killed
McGee, whereupon Fowler set fire to the
house and Forrest put ball through his
own heart. All three men were buried
in the same grave.
John Bull the engineer of the Thunder
bolt passenger train on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, died
Monday from the injuries received by
collision with freight train at Tallmadge,
Ohio, on Saturday night. He could have
saved himself by jumping, but he thought
/ of the passengers, reversed his engine and
set the air-brakcs. lie then put Oh full
steam and started the engine ahead. IL
broke loose from the cars. The passengers
were unhurt. He lived at Gallon and was
the oldest engineer on the road.
A citizen of Rome, Ga, while crossing
| the railroad tracks in that city got his foot
caught fast in frog. Willie trying to
get loose he saw the Chattanooga train on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Road come dashing over the bridge. Wild
with fright, the man jerkcd his leg almost
out of joint, anu came near breaking his
foot. But the train was almost upon him,
and lie decided to unlacc his shoe, pull his
! foot out, and leave the shoe to be smashed.
| He acted upon this thought, and when he
got his foot out the train glided by on an
other track.
| A man named John Oglctrcc has created
considerable excitement in Georgia and
Alabama by his bold acts of kidnapping,
having stolen three children in the last
three weeks. In two cases he was so
closely pressed that he abandoned the
children unframed. In the third case he
stole the child of 4 farmer named White,
in Jackson county, Ala, and being closely
pressed, he dashed through the town OF
Tallapoosa with blood stains on his clothes
but without the child, which, 1t is feared,
he has murdered. The Alabama authori-
ties have offered $500 for Ogletree's ar
rest.