Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

county, ky., rs TO who should ride reap
CT, when the father killed his son by crush
ing in his skull with club.
Mira. Pope, a resident of Milan, Tenn,
was stung on the nose by bee and died
from the effects of the wound in a few
minutes. She was apparently in good
health at the time.
In burning cabin In Franklin county,
Ca, two colored children persisted, and
dog which had been left with them re-
fused to leave them, and was burned to
death by their side.
An oil we'll was struck near Parkers-
burg, w. Va, last week, which is pump
ing at the rate of 400 barrels Of 90 degrees
oil per day. There Is considerable excite
ment over the strike.
Mrs. Grover, Of Newark, N. j., was
shot last Monday by some boys who were
playing with toy cannon. A mimic ball
passed entirely through her body, and her
recovery is doubtful.
At the Children's Homo In Cincinnati q
boy years Of age fell into a woll forty
five feet deep, at the bottom Of which a
man was digging. The boy alighted on
the back of the well-digger, but neither
was hurt.
An engineer on northwestern passen-
ger train in approaching cut saw that
it was filled with cattle. He could not
slow up in time, so he went through the
herd like thunderbolt, killing ten ami
mails without dsrailing the train.
A year-old child of John Darby was be-
headed by the cars a. Hoosick Falls, N.
Y, Monday. The frantic mother saw
fifty cars pass over the infants body, and
she carried away the head in one hand and
tho body in another to her house.
A number of kegs of powder exploded
during q fire in tho warehouse Of j. IL.
Ashdown at Winnipeg, Manitoba. on Sat
urday, tearing tho building to pieces and
injuring some twenty persons, the chief
of the fire brigade and his son, the assist
ant chief, and several flremen.
An attempt was made by Edward Wit
tick, In Covington, KY, the other day, to
kill Prof. Geo. A. Yates, an old public
school teacher. Wittick alleged that Yates
whipped him when boy, and he meant
to get even. He then knocked Yates down.
Wittick's friends say that he is Insane.
Samuel n. Magruder, prominent farm
err near Jamestown, Montgomery county,
Nd, attempted suicide last Friday by cut
ting each side Of his throat with razor.
Failing to touch the vital artery he then
made moose and jumped from window.
He was discovered and had his wounds
dressed, and is still living.
Abram Coppcrnoll, farmer of Vic
tory. n. y, was shot three times with
large navy revolver, on Sunday by Lew
French, a young farm laborer. Suspected
intimacy with Coppernoll's wife WAS tho
cause of the trouble. Tho wife was pres
cnt at the shooting, and ordered French
to fire. The victim will die.
w. III. Vanderbilt has added 800, 900 to
the endowment fund of the Vanderbilt
University at Nashville, Tenn, making
the total endowment $700,0O0 Tho an
nual income of this last donation will DO
applied to the support of technical
school in connection with the school of
mining and civil engineering.
A pair of disconsolate California sweet
hearts agreed to commit suicide simulta-
neously, so as to get in the other world
that com partnership which was denied Thorn
here. The girl resolutely drowned her
self, but the man lacked pluck. However,
he was killed next day in railroad acct
don't, and the sentimental comment is that
his death is deserved.
Milwaukee, Wis.,, on Saturday, team
attached to a farmers wagon became
frightened by band of music in process
sion of school children, and dashed
through the ranks Of little girls. One
school girl was killed and three received
fatal injuries, and Mrs. Engle, who saved
many of the little ones by pushing them
aside, was severely injured.
Mrs. Agnes l.. Wynne, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, was fatally shot Sunday by her hus-
band, James II. Wynne. Mrs. Wynne is
10 years old and her Husband year young
err. They have one child three months
old. They have lived unhappily together
and had been drinking heavily of late.
They quarrelod Sunday, and Wynne shot
his wife as she lay OH the bed with her
baby.
The certificate Of incorporation Of tho
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany was filed Saturday in New York.
The company is to construct and main
tain telephone lines between Now York,
Baltimore and Washington, and to coll
meet with other lines throughout the
United States. The capital stock Is fixed
at $4,000, with power to increase to
$4,000, 900.
A few days ago quarrel arose between
the Grant and Manning families, residents
Of the northern part Of Pittsylvania coun-
ty, Va, about some fowls which s. W.
Manning was accused Of killing. 1t is
stated that Geo. Il. Grant was thereupon
urged by his mother to kill Manning, and
that he crept up on him while he was at
work in field, shot him five times, and
afterwards beat him with his fist and
stamped upon him saying. "Now, d-n
you, die" Manning died the following