Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-01-06

,.., Vanished to the Isle of Ceylon, and
,bev were sent there last week.
The United States Senate has passed
bill appropriating slO,O 600 for monument
IN Baron DE Kalb, at Annapolis, Md.
MIR. Abner Webb, Baltimorc's oldest
citizen. died last week, in the lO0th year
of his age. His mind was clear to the last.
John Thompson Robertson, the Oldest
editor i'm Virginia, died at his home III
Petersburg, Va, recently, in the sd year
of his age.
At wilkesbarre, Pa, WILLIAM Johns,
miner. dropped spark from his lamp IN
a key of powder, which exploded, killing
him Instantly.
Harry Brown, sporting man Of means,
OF San Francisco, offers to put up So.eoo
that John l.. sullivan cannot knock out
or stop Jem Mace in four rounds.
At Belleville, ILL.,, last week, "iIl'am
Walton killed his sweetheart, Jane NIL
burne. and then blew out his own Drains
She had Tilted him for 4 richer .ipan'
John Billings, is years eff age oil '"-
g;ui, becarne entIngled in the oel'iI'S VI
s,,,u s,w-mill few days ago, and was
r:u,J. his neck being broken and his oouy
badly lacerated.
Forty thieves attacked the town.of AL
,,,,c,,tan. Pueblo, Mexico, captured the
MAYOR, Justice and aldermen, ana carr'eu
Them oil 10 their rendezvous, where they
hold them for ransom.
IT. Chicago Jennie Griffin was ceieOrat-
inc Christmas at home with much CHATTER
and gin. Being interrupted by some
boodlums. she stabbed one of them, Johh
Msagin, and killed him.
4 twelve-ycar-old boy o. Hi@hiana
County, Va, while out hunting last week
shot and killed Il bear which welShci over
200 pounds. The hear was within leeI
az the boy when he fred.
Three men were lynched 1t PinevIllc,
Oregon. last Monday night. All that Is
known of the affair is that the victims are
COWBOYS OF pCI'tlC '''N'
hung on general principles.
Thirtv-six persons were killed and fifty
injured at Bradford, England, recently, by
the fall of Il tall chimney upon building
full Of operatives. The killed anG injured
we're mostly women and children.
4 diving thief was compaSsionately re-
leased from the Rhode Island State Prison
and sent to pass his remaining days III
bom. i'm Providence; hgt before his death
he crawled out and robbed seven houses
\ negro mined Ivesam Slade WAS hanged
at Yamcyviilc, y. c., last Friday, 10: the
murder OF Dora White. Two strands OF
the rope broke, but the sheriff caught
them and kept the rope from untwiatihS.
Mis-, Josephine c. Mecker, who was
res, ued from the Ute Indians several years
aro, after her father had been maSSacred
and herself held ;Is II captive for some
time, died in Washington on Sunday of
pneumonia.
The hog known as the big Hog" be-
longing 10 the MeSSrs. Fisher Brokers,
near StraS5urg, Va, was slaughtered on
December 20. Its are was 5 years and
months, and weighed gross 9S7 pounds,
ret So pounds.
jim Turner, Of MorgantowE. this State,
has issued challenge to Tom Allen, the
noted pugilist Of Chicago, to fight hin
according to the Marquis Of Queen>bury
rules for 81 900 Il side and the champion
ship of the world.
The Presidents reception ut Washing
ton on New Year Day WAS brought 10
sudden close 10y the deathol Elisha Allen,
the minister from the Hawaiian Islands,
who fell dead in the White House while
participating in the reception.
Elijah W. BigIey and son, farmers, from
johnson County, Kentucky, went to New
York to purchase $4,000 of counterfeit
money for $500. As usual in such cases,
they were victmized by confidence opera
tors, and we're left without means 10 re-
turn home.
James anl William Rusk, twin BROTH
ers, of Philadelphia, fatally stabbed a po-
ficeman in that city on Christmas night,
and were pursued by officers TO Trenton,
Nj. Finding themselves in danger of
capture, they deliberately tied themselves
together and jumped into the canal and
were drowned.
NJ. Gambetta, the celebrated French
statesman, died at his hoine near Paris on
Monday. Some weeks ago he WAS wouIded
In the hand by the accidental discharge OF
pistol, and erysipelas sci liz, resulting
in his death N. Gambetta was consid-
cred the greatest man in France at the
present day.
Christmas morning. when Mr.. and Mrs.
Hancock, of Cincinnati, peered into their
parlor at the Christmas tree which they
had left loaded with beautiful presents
the night before, they found tina. it had
been robbed of all its handsome gifts by
burglars, WHO also carried of the mince
pies and the Christmas cakes.
Information has reached this place that
o rooster belonging to a farmer near
rhoroughfare Gap has gone on TO live
with flock of wild turkeys. Every
morning at daybreak he crows, and the
farmer, who knows where his rooster is,
is thus enabled 10 60 out and kill Il wild
turkey every day.-W0renton Tirgin,an.
Colonel Mosby, the famous trooper. who
now serves as consul ut Hong Kong,
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