Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-02-17


,sr-General under President Grant, died
or Sunday, of pneumonia, at his residence
In Hartford.
The body of Guiteau having been oolied
and his bones picked and scraped, the
.L.,e,ou of the assassin will soon be placed
on exhibition in Washington in the Army
Medical Museum.
Tom Virgins, colored, OF Chattanooga,
Tenn, anding his wife, from whom nc
had senarsted. in company with coiored
preacher, cut her throst with . razor Hal' anu
then cut his own throat. Ia l..s 5.g
CAPTAIN Frederick Beckley died at Fred
erick. Md, last Sunday in the oSth year
of his age. He was captain o. the n''eu
Guards, and was present ut the capture VI
John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
Peter Ryan, aged about sixty years.
murdered his wife Saturday night at 81.
Joseph, Mo-, by smothering her Wild oeu
clothing. lie acknowledged the crime
but gave lao reason for its commission.
Frederick Crooks, sewing machine
agent in Wheeling, this State, las just
fallen heir 10 fortune OF forty thou'ahu
pounds. Ii was left him by his father,
who recently died in Sheffield, England.
John Blrnes, of Moore County, n. u,
who recently foand gold og his little
,w.uty-acre farm. 10 said To have taken
out more thsn a hundred pounds vi IL,
and has sold part of his place for sli3 900.
Jacob Boaltmap, All old man who lived
a hermit life in the woods OF Newaygo
County, Mich, had the reputation OF hav-
ing considerable money. de WAS fouhd
dead In his hut few days ago, having
been murdered.
John Day fatally shot young MIN
named Freeman, who was clipping with his
daughter, at Roxana. Michigan, the OIL her
day. The girls father pursued the lovers
on horsesback, aimed with rifle, anc
fired rs soon AS he overlook them.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has at last gobbled up the Mutual Union
by securing lease Of its proparty aud
wires for ninety-nine years at rental OF
$500, 900 u year. The offices Of the Mutual
Union at competing points will be closed.
James Lucas, of Allegheny County, Va,
who caused the death Of small boy sew
eral weeks ago by bribing him 10 drink
three pints OF bad whisky, has been found
guilty OF murder IN the second degree and
sentenced " the penitentiary for nine
years.
A stage coach was upset Monday by the
strong current while crossing the SchuyI-
kill river, eight miles below Reading, Pa,
and was carried several miles down the
stream. The occupants, nine In number,
were rescued. some Of them In an exhaust
ed condition.
Last Thursday night two robbers broke
into the house of William McGreg"r, a
farmer of Rockford, H., shot him AMI his
ten-ysar-old daughter, gagged his wife,
and robbed them Of Il small sum Of money.
! McGregor and his daughter are not e1-
pected to live.
A Portland auctioneer, who has turned
revivalist, recently awoke the impenltent
sinners " it'll this startling exhortation:
"rwenty-nine I've got; thirty, shall
have 'en? Bless the Lord! Twenty-nine
are saved-Sho will come next' Shall |
have thirty"
Hon. Levi DUNCAN. Of Jackson, o., was
found dead Sunday merning nc the foot Of
cliff Of rocks thirty feet high. lie had
been visiting sick grsndchil'I until IL
o'clock Saturday night, and while return
ing Inc became confused In the snow and
walked over the elid. -...
Henry Smith, cOlored, In Paols, Kans.,
assaulted a colored girl agel 8 years, and
left her in the road insensi5le. When
found her arms aud legs were frozen.
Smith was arrested and lodged In Jail,
from which mob OF colored men made
all unsuccessful attempt TO take him.
A new disease has broken out among
horses at Rockville, Nd. One man lost
three horses In two days, and there are
several other similar cases Of the disease
in the neighbOrhood. The symptoms are
n giving away across the kidneys and
stiffness In the jaws, the horse being una
BILE to cal, and filling up in the throat.
Two young men from Mildletown, Sat
urlsy, went to Frederick, Nd. aud, be-
coming intoxicated, got into an alteration
with two colored men, one Of whom they
fired ut twice. The occurrence attracted
large crowd, but the two young men
jumped into their sleigh and made OF, In
timidating tho crowd with their revolt
vers, which they tired of rs they drove
out Of town.