Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Andrew c. Warren fell three feet from
hay stack foundation OIL his farm near
Stanford, n. Y, Monday and broke his
neck.
Near Brayton, Iowa, D cattle were
stampeded by the severe storm on We'd
nesday night and killed themselves by
running down a steep embankment.
Mayor White aud other members of the
Fire Board Of Baltimore have been i'll
dicted 10y grand jury of that city for
criminal violation OF city ordinances.
Two negroes engaged in i combat with
horsewhips Monday at the Norfolk and
Western depot at Petersburg, Va, to the
great enjoyment of about 900 excursion
ists. The duel lasted ii minutes.
The warrcnton Tirginidn says: "Thcre
is said 10 have been a baby born in this
county recently with its ears where its
eyes ought to be and an eye on each side
OF its head. The flaps of the cars have the
winking power OF the eyelidS.
Nearly every engineer on the New
York and New England railroad has
sweetheart or wife in New ritain, Conn.
Every train would whistle a salute to
some fair dame, and the din grew so fear
fully earsplittins that the authorities have
had it stopped.
Miss NJ. Williams, of Edinburgh, Miss,
after placing the throe-year-old child OF
George Blocher in the shade under tree,
started off to pick wild flowers. Turning
suddenly. she saw limb about to break.
She rushed back, but the limb fell, killing
both her and the child.
Mrs. Jackson has sent the war-horse
ridden by her husband, General Stone
wall Jackson, to the Virginia Military In
stitute, there to be cared for. The horse
is the came animal upon which Jackson
was riding when he received his death
wound at Charlottesville.
A rich mine has just been opened in
Manitoba after curious history. 1t had
long been known to the Indians, who be-
lieved that the Great Spirit would Kill
anyone who revealed its location to white
man. At last q Frenehman married a
squaw, who in time told him the golden
secret.
a mother i'm Baltimore last Friday was
freely using a cowhde OH the back Of an
incorrigible son, but in raising her arm
rather too high in order to administer
cone grand swipe" she dislocated that
limb, and WAS compelled to cease the cas-
tiyation, seek physician and have the
arm set.
Dave Robinson, 4 young man Of Lowd-
Vile, Ohio, has been crippled for life by
WIN. Grist, q companion, who revenged
himself for petty grievance by pouring
oil of vitriol over Robinson's wrists and
hands. The flesh was eaten entirely of,
leaving the bones exposed. Grist made
his escape.
Mrs. A. b. Allison, the wife Of Senator
Allison, Of Iowa, drowned herself in the
Mississippi river some time last Sunday
night. She had cut up her gossamer,
placcu SOulc StoueS III IL anu tiCu luCih eS-
cureiy about her neck, then walked delib-
erately about thirty-tive feet from the
bank, laid down and drowned herself,
where the water was only two feet and 4
half deep. Her mind was weak.
On Friday night three men, named
Owen Doris, John Kirwis and James
Cannon, were walking on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad track near Demmler
Station, not far from Pittsburg, and in
stepping aside to allow freight train to
pass they were ground under the wheels
of an express train coming in an opposite
direction. Doris and Kirwis were in
stantly killed and Cannon was fatally in
jured.