Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

James Kelly, brakeman running out
of East Portland, Oregon, Il few days ago,
was seized with Il fit of vomiting and
threw up live lizard, fully two inches in
length.
a woodpecSer, while flying over house
belonging to Mr.. Geneva, OF Bloomington,
H., dove downward, and while so doing
was impaled upon the sharp point of
lightning rod and died instantly.
A freight train on the Norfolk and West
ern railroad was deraileG last Friday and
several cars wrecked. Fireman Gilmore
and engineer Michael Spillan were killed.
The track was maliciously INSTRUCTED.
Two children, about eight years of aye,
were burned to death in dry goods box
at Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday. They
were sitting in tho box smoking cigarettes,
and accidentally SCI fire to some straw in
the box.
During aquarrel between Joseph Black
erby and James Wyrick, at Jacksboro',
Texas, on Saturday the latter was shot and
killed. At the same place John Green,
Jr., shot and killed his uncle, Joseph Win
chester.
Twelve armed tramps captured freight
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio road at
Olympia, O., and ordered the conductor to
take them to Lexington. The conductor
started the train, having first telegraphed
the situation to Mt. Sterling, where OH
GERS arrested the tramps.
A dispatch from San Francisco says; 1t
il the common report on the street ana
about the hotels that the son of Senator
Fair, of Nevada, aged about 20, attempted
to shoot his father last Monday, but was
prevented. Eumor attributes his act to
domestic difficulties between his father
and mother, coupled with too free use Of
liquor by young Fair.
Marshall o. Robinett, an employe of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
in Petersburg, Va, was arrested Monday
for murderous assault on James Evans,
on Sunday night. Evans had gone to
Robinett's house, and while there q night
occurred, in which he was struck on the
head with club. Hisskull was fractured,
and he is not expected to recover.
Judge Camden advocates proposition
for the State 10 vote twelve millions OF
dollars to develop the entire railroad sys-
tenn of West Virginia, believing that this
In the end would be cheaper to the people
than piecemeal plan of development. He
thinks that there has been no over-esti-
mate of the mineral wealth of the State,
aud that it only needs capital to make it
one of the richest in the Union for its area
and population.
Olney Burgess, of Foster, r. l., while
making a friendly call on Daniel and
Henry Burlinggame, at Killingly, Conn.,,
suddenly shot Daniel, slightly wounding
him. In the struggle for the pistol, Henry
was wounded. Burgess returned home,
where he was arrested. While being taken
to jail at Killingly, he asked to be allowed
to jump overheard, which, he said, would
save the State trouble and expense. Bur-
CESS afterwards killed himself in his cell.
VIM. Dorsey, a machinist, at Montgom-
ery, Alabama, shot his wife early Tuesday
morning. He had been on the lookou. for
burglars and had put pistol under his
head to be ready for them. During the
night his wife left the room in the dark
while Dorsey was asleep. As she was COM
ing back he awoke, and hearing noise
in the room, fired. The ball struck her in
the breast and she died in short time.
Dorsey is overwhelmed with grief.