Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WilliamiC lendenning, awealthy FARMER
of Loudoun County, Va, Gied recently,
$4,000 to the Baptist Church
at Round Hill.
VIC. Blackburn, a married man, vas
shot twice in a house of ill-fame in Rich
mond by Cornelius Holloway. Black
burns injuries will probably prove fatal.
Col. O. II. Irish, chief of the Bureap of
Engraving and Printing, died at Wash
in gton, last Saturday after weeks hi-
ness, resulting from severe cold.
Maggie Donahue, aged five years, while
coasung at Lost Greek, Pa, on Monday
plunged into an opening in mine nifty
feet deep, and was fatally injured.
John Madden, the engineer Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, who was
killed near Stretcher's Run, few weeks
ago. had his life insured for $780,
Giles Mcfarland, prominent citizen OF
Nanticoke, Pa, was murdered last FRIDAY
night. His body was found on the street,
with the forehead crushed In by blow
from SOME blunt instrument.
Charles Kutz, of Reading, was fatally
injured BY an explosion Of dynamite IN
al open keg on which he was sitting. The
explosion was caused by small stone
falling from his band into the keg.
On Saturday night a negro named Lewis
Carter, living on DIR. Pretlow's farm, in
Southampton County, Va, attacked his
wife with an axe, crushing her skull.
She died Sunday. The murderer escaped.
David Taylor, a lad whose home was in
Issequena County, Miss, while examip-
ing his gun one day last week rested his
foot on the hammer and looked in at the
muzzie. His head was blown OF. lie
didn't know it was loaded.
Last Friday morning the Milwaukee
College was partially destroyed by fire.
1t was one of the finest school buildings
in the Northwest. All the young lady
inmates, sixty in number, were saved by
the efforts of the riremen and police.
There were found by the United States
Court which recently met at Parkersburg,
this State, &c indictments, % OF which
were against counterfeiters. . against
steamboats,, 2 against mail robbers, and
the other A for violating revenue laws.
A young lady had narrow escape at
fire in New York few nights fsince.
About half Of her back bair WAS burned.
Fortunately she was not in the building
at the time, having put on her other hair
and left the house only half an hour be-
fore the fire broke out.
The Misses Cobb, of Liberty, Va, have
recovered 81, 900 by lawsuit in Kanawha,
West Virginia, and an annuity of $4,000
Der annum from the estate of their grand
father, VIM. Dickerson, until they become
of age, when they will come into posses
sion of large property.
In Accomac, Va, Andrew Powell, n
colored man, was taken sick with what
was supposed to be measles, and his dis
ease was not discovered TO be smallpox
till after he died. During his illness bis
neigh bors visited him frequently, and 1t
is feared the disease will spread.
The body of John A. Wcllman, law
yer of Denver, Colo, was found few
days ago near Pueblo. 1t is supposed he
committed suicide on account Of little
trouble he had with his wife, During the
last two days his wife has also made sew
eral attempts to kill herself.
Two men while out hunting in Gilmer
County, this State, oil splitting open an
old hollow stump, were startled by the
discovery of the bleached bones Of hui
man skeleton, A powderhO and bullet
pouch were also found, but nothing to
identify the person or remove the mys-
terry.
The Hanover, Pa, Citizen says: The
very small baby, whose birth at Strasburg
we noted several weeks ago, continues
very small in size. About Christmas,
when two months old, it weighed only
~ pounds. Its mothers wedding ring
slipped over the baby's hand and up the
arm to the elbow.
Two tramps were making tour in dis
souri, together, and their agreement was
to share comforts and discomf rts equally.
One asked farmer for chew Of tobacco,
and got it. The other demanded half, and
was told that there was not enough to di-
vide. Enraged by this, he murdered the
offender.
Last week d. W. Rutherford, n travel
ing salesman from Columbus, lost satch-
ell ut Dawson, Pa, and the next day 1t was
found by drunken man, who carried 1t
away from the depot and dropped 1t on
the pavement. A pedestrian pitched it
into Mr.. Rosters yard. The satchel con,
tanned one thousand dollars.
Judge Jere BLACK fell short time ago
and fractured his right arm In several
places. Being an old man, the pin ysicians
say that he will probably never recover
the use Of it. A surprising fact is that he
has learned to write with great facility
and rapidity with his left hand, and still
conducts his own correspondence.
A train Of cars on the New Jersey Mid
land Railroad last Saturday bound to New
York with the Sunday supply Of milk,
met with an accident near Paterson, and
nearly the whole train went over an en-
bankmcnt. Sixteen hundred cans were
batteIe ed to pieces, and the contents spilled
into stream o: water, whitening it for