Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-01-20


have entered the medical class OF the UNI
versity of Virginia is Lnf6unded.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, died in Wash
ington last week. He was the sculptor OF
several notable statues iG that city.
Near Ulysses, Nebr., Mrs. Thompson.
while insane, put poison in the tea. In
short time herself, husband and adopted
son were dead.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has suffi-
cieptIy recovered strength to write for the
Indiana Democratic Editorial Association
his views of the political Situation.
Oliver Beirne, of Monroe County, is the
richest man in West Virginia. He has
come into possession of about S6,OO0,Ooo
left to hi n by frend-in Louisiana.
Last Saturday George Ruhl, of Cumber-
and Md. attempted to kindfe fire by
pouring coal oil on II, when The can OK
ploded burning him badly about the flee
Miss Livingston, of New York, who re-
Gently sued Henry Fleming, wealthy
merchant of that city, for breach of PROM
Use. was awarded last week $4,000 dam
ages.
The Pennsylvania Railroads. new loco
motive Jumbo" has seven-foot driving
wheels. and has drawn Il train from PhlI-
adelphia to Jersey City. distance OF
I'll.
John Lee Martin, Is years of aye, fell
from the top TO the bottom of Il shaft in
Brighrhope coal pit, Chesterfield Comfy,
Va. a distance of 500 feet, Friday last.
His body was terribly mangled.
An unknown man ut Trenton, \. j.,
deliberately placed his neck across rail
before the wheels of passing coal train,
and his head was almost severed from his
body. Poverty was the cause.
The largest and most perfect ice bridge
that ever bridged the chaSm below Mag
ara Falls formed last Sunday night Ii is
over mile in length, and will probably
remain during the rest of the winter.
A Nevada penitentiary convict SAYS that
he was sent to prison for being dishonest,
and is there kept Il: work cutting out
pieces of pasieboard to put between the
soles of shoes in place of honest leather.
Gus Budd, young man living at Cen
trail City, Ill.,, went to the house Of his
brother-in-law, Henry Durly, and without
warming fired three shots ut him, killing
him instantly. Budd escaped. Family
} troubles.
When Oscar Wilde first saw Niagara
Falls he exclaimed Bulk. but 10 beau
/ tv." When little Detroit boy firsr saw
/ the sublime cataract he sOlcmnly wills
pered MAMA, feel like taking of my
! hat to Cod"
Judge Briggs, in comprehensive opin-
/ ion delivered in Philadelphia recently,
( ruled that atheists and all others who do
not believe in Il Divine being and Divine
rewards and punishmcnts are incompe-
| tent rs witnesses.
The remains of John Howard Payne,
! author of CLONE, Sweet Home" who
died at TuniS, which are being brought to
this country at the expense of Mr.. w. w.
| Corcorar, are now OH their way TO the
| United States.
During the performance last Saturday
/ at circus in BcrlilschcT Russian Po-
! land, fire broke ont in the building, and
/ before the spectators could escape the
whole structure was ablaze. Three hun
dred persons persisted in the flames.
Mr.. Thatcher Perkins, IN inventor and
builder of locomotive machinery, died in
Baltimore last week, aged 20. lie WAS
long in the employ of the Brltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, and designed and
built the first eight-wheel connected en-
CINE (the Hero) on the road.
While William Clegg, IN employee Of
the Susqrchanna Rolling Mills at Column
bia, Pa, was working ut the rolls last
Thursday evening, a bar Of red-hot iron
became entwined about him. His asso-
ciares quickly released him, but he sus-
tanned probably fatal injuries.
Boys will be boys. One day last week
some of the students of ST. Johns Acad-
envy at Alexandria, Va, threw the city
into state of excitement by displaying II
smallpox flag from the Academy build
ing. At last accounts the principal was
hunting for the "little jokers" with Il bar
rel stave.
The House Of Representatives last Sat
urday passed the pension bill, which APP
propriates $50, 575 900 at one sweep. This,
! in addition TO Il balance Of over SIS, 600, 900
which will stand to the credit Of the bu-
reau at the end of the fiscal year. Thus
over 500, 1000, 900 go for pensions for the
! next fiscal year.