Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

OI AulpepeT COuHty, va, WIS killed I rl-
day night on the track of the Virginia
Midland Railroad between the Culpeper
station and the fair grounds.
Barbara Miller, a colored woman aged
30 years, was hanged at Richmond, Va,
last Friday for completely in the murder
of her husband in February. OF course
she said she was "going straight to glory"
At Warrenton, Va, Monday afternoon,
while returning from shooting bull-5ats,
Joseph, the l0-year-old son of L. j. An
dcrSOn, was accidentally and fatally shot
i'm the back by young companion named
Foley.
Junius Brutus Booth, the actor, died at
Manchester, Mass, at ii o'clock Monday
night. He was born in Charleston, S. c.,
in 1921, being the oldest son Of his father,
the great tragcdian. He was married
three times.
j. C. Wood, who keeps a hotel at Bris-
tol, Tenn, is said to be the latest man in
the State, weighing five hundred pounds.
1t is impossible for him TO cross his legs,
and he broke horses back in attemp ting
to ride him. The horse died.
A firm of fruit and vegetable evapora-
tors of Rochester, N. Y, have established
branch of their business ut Luray, Va,
and will buy all the fruit that can be had
and run large evaporators night and day,
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In Baltimore, Tuesday evening, Philip
Sellers was stabbed and almost instantly
killed by his step-son, George Brown.
There had been bad blood between the
men for some time, and in scuflle which
they had Sellers got his death wound.
The oldest inhabitant of Pocahontas
County, this State, is said to be John
| Quinn. He is battle-scarred veteran of
the war of 1912, and is still able to carry a
gun and to shoot with accuracy. lie will
celebrate his centennial birthday OH the
18th of October.
Judge Robert Mayo, of WestmOreland
county, Va, committed suicide early Sat
through the head with pistol on board
the Bay Line steamer Virginia, Captain
Dawes, while on the trip from Baltimore
to Norfolk. He died instantly.
A lady in Toronto got to laughing over
some amusing incident and couldn't stop.
Finally doctor was called in, and he
couldn't quiet her. But at last friend
thought to remark that the lady's mouth
looked very large when she laughed, and
that put stop to the mirth in minute.
Three men, named respectively Timby,
MINES and Littlejohn, were coming out
of shaft of the Cagnor mine, at Butte,
Mont, q few days ago, and when the cage
was 800 feet from the bottom MINES fell
backwards, owing to nervousness, and
was crushed into an almost unrecogniz-
able mass.
King Humbert, of Italy, has presented
cent dromeGarics, two male and two fe-
male, and Mr.. Garrett has present the ami
mails to Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, which
place they reached on Thursday. They
are said to be the finest animals of the
| kind in this country.
A woman named GirouX, of East Tenn
pleton, Ont, locked her children, aged
four and two, in the house while she went
TO milk the COW. Returning she found
the house on fire and ingress impossible.
The building was destroyed. A search
among the ruins discovered not the slight
est trace of the children.
Melinda Pape, of Genesee, Wis, was
married last week to William Coming,
and is how seeking a divorce OH the ground
that she meant to have married his brother,
bat was deceived, as they look exactly
alike. The Coming whom she welded is
said to DO dissOlute, while the one she
wanted is steady and respectable.
Farmers in st. Mary's County, Nd,
whose hen roosts have been robbed by
foxes, have resOrted to strychnine. Mr..
f. III. Posey placed bits of chicken, pois-
oned by strychnine, in paths in his corn
field where the foxes by their tracks were
| known to frequent. The result was that
OH the following morning the carcascs of
four were found.
On Saturday night three men entered
the house of Washington Odell, near
Ridgeway, Henry County, Va, while the
family were in bed and shot at Odcll
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him for dead, beat his wife and threatened
to kill her if she did not tell where her
husbands money was. Failing to make
her tell, they searched the house and took
off about $4,000.
James Cherry, aged IA years, Of Min
eral County, this State, met with horri-
Bile death last Saturday evening. He was
driving two-horse farm wagon, in COM
pany with two other young men. One OF
the sngle-trees became detached from the
double-trce, and, falling against the
horses legs, caused him to jump forward
so violently as to jerk young Cherry from
his seat TO the ground. The two left
wheels passed over his temple, crushing
his skull and killing him instantly.
A "crank" appeared at the White
House Tuesday morning and asked for An
audience with the President. He showed
great disappointment when Informed that
the President was in New York. He ex-
planned that he had come all the way from
Colorado to crown the President King of
America, which duty, he said, had been