Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-12-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tnVtteU MT. Slcfcidlu W Dc iis Sucel iH
that city ut the time of the Inauguration.
The town of Salisbury. Nd, was visited
by destructive fire oil Tuesday. The NJ.
E. Church South was totally destroy ed,
together with three dwelling houses aud
4 livery stable.
A dispatch from Wheeling says that the
hog cholera is killing thousands OF dol
lars worth of hogs in that neighborhood.
Vigorous steps are being taken to stamp
out the disease.
DR.. John Maxwell, living near Spring
field, Ohio, chIorofOrmcd his five chill
dren and himself anu laid down to die.
Three of the children died. lie WAS re-
viyed and placed in Jail.
At Woods Run, Pa, last Sunday, Geo.
Rankin, while carelessly handling shot
gun, accidentally shot and killed his aged
mother. The young man, who did not
know the gun was loaded, is frantic with
grief.
A house near Hillsboro', LoudOun coun-
t., Va, occupied by Henry Jackson and
Robert Furr, colored, was burned last
Friday, and four children, ranging in age
from one to six years, persisted in the
flames.
John Fitzsimmons, ar engineer Of the
Pcnnsy lvania Railroad Company, and
who Was crippled for life in All accident
on the road, has just recovered $27 900
damages in suit against the railroad
company.
Burglars visited the residence of Chas.
Rutherford, hear PetrOlia, Pa, Monday
morning, poisoned the watch dog, chic
reformed Mr.. and Mrs. Rutherford, stole
$3.50 and cut off Mrs. RutherfOrd's lux
uriant hair.
Mrs. John WattacOunit, Of Oconto, Wis,
and her twelve-year- daughter, at
tempted to walk twelve miles i'll return
ing from the funeral Of the mothers Sis
ter on Saturday. They lost their way and
were frozen to death.
Science Hall University at Madison,
Wis, was burned Monday night. The
building cost about 100000. There is
$40, 600 insurance. The loss Of the con-
tents cannot be estimated. The whole loss
is not less than $250,000.
The home Of the late Capt. A. &. Mutt,
in UniOntown, Pa, was sold ut auction
for $500 on Saturday. and his family has
removed to Allegheny City. His son
james has secured employment in mani
ufactory there, another son is in a dry
goods store, and Miss Lizzie intends to
teach music.
Near Danyille, Pa, two men who were
digging roots few days since on an island
in the Susquehanna river, to sell TO drug
gists, dug up metal box which contained
coins amounting to nearly 81 900, includ-
ing SIG, 1000 Mexican silver dollars, $780,
in gold doubloons and nearly 81 600 in
small silver coins.
Charles B. West, who said he WAS an
a rtist, from Charleston, S. c., was arrest
CT in New York Wednesday for stealing
a pair Of shoes from Il store in Warren
street. He was shabbily dressed, and on
the way to court he fell Oh the street from
exhaustion and hunger. He said he had
eaten nothing for three days.
Last Monday sixty tons of rock fell from
the arch of the Natural bridge, in Virginia.
The report was deafening and the shock
considerable. There is nothing to indi-
cate the place from whence it fell but
square niche. The curved lines Of the
bridge were not disturbed. TIL! is the
first fall Of. rock from the bridge since it
was struck b. lightning in 1880.
A mad dog made people scatter ut the
corner of Houston and Mulberry streets,
New York, Saturday afternoon. In the
midst of the excitement well-dresscd
gentleman made Il run tor the rabid ami
NAL, picked him up by the nape Of the
neck and cut his throat with a penknife,
saying quietly at the same time: "rhat's
the way we do it in Massachusetts"
Three weeks ago Jerome Mcintosh, 4
wealthy and prominent farmer, residing
n few miles from Glenyille, Gilmer cOun-
ty, w. Va, disappeared, long search
failing to develop any trace of him. On
Friday the scattered bones and torn clothes
Of the missing man were found in the
mountains mile from his house, and
near by heavy club with clotted brains,
blood and hair upon it. 1t is supposed he
was murdered and his body afterwards
dcyou-ed by panthcrs,
Georgiana and Josephine Conway. Sis
tiers, aged 20 and % years, respectively,
nieces of eX-MayOr Conway, Of New Or
leans, shot two young men on Canal
street, in that city, Saturday night. GeOr-
giana shot John d. Logan, son of eS-Al-
derman NJ. d. Logan, and Josephine shot
Joseph A. Devonshire, n United States
deputy marshal. The young ladies claim
that they were ruined by the men. Logan
was dangerously wounded. Devonshirc
was but slightly hurt. The ladies aud
their brother were arrested.
One of the men employed on the WASH
ington monument, Jos. w. Williams by
name, had narrow escape from death on
Friday last. lie was standing OF one of
the inside scaffolds near the top of the
shaft when he lost his balance and fell off.
Luckily, however, the sleeve of his coat
caught on large nail which projected