Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-10-10

Oi oau Il TdICiscu, HIS fcSCiVcu aue"eHp-
catetl advices of his succession to property
i'm England to the value of three and a-half
million dollars. 3 / T.
Miss Mary Monahan, young girl OF
sixteen, daughter of a Hartford county
farmer, was instantly killed on Tuesday
ny being struck by q locomotive on the
Northern Central Railroad, near Balti-
more.
C.. f. Standiford, n prominent young
lawyer of Belen, Ark, was assassinated
by some unknown person. He was in the
act of going to bed, when some one fired
through the open window Of his room,
killing him Instantly. '''
At Uniontow,, Pa, Saturday night
VIM. Vandeveer stabbed and killed Chas.
Ially. vandeveer boasted that he could
whip ten men in ten minutes, and when
Lally laughingly said he thought not,
Vandeyeer stabbed him to the heart.
Near Binghamton, n. Y, Saturday, a
party of boys were out camping, when
Geo. Turner, lG years Of age, discharged
musket into the crowd, killing Ernest
Gibson, 10 years of age, and wounding
another boy named Jamie Livingston
fatally. ..- r';
William Rowland, youth Of l6, living
in Wrightsv vile, Ga, concluded last week
that he couldn't live without Miss Ella
rvi, Of
so secured the services of colored
preacher TO marry him. The knot was
tied, but the girls parents have taken her
from him.
Carl Seifert, who settled in Meriden,
Conn, several months ago, is said to be
the subject Of police inquiry. He kept
tavern ut Tuszig, Germany, and since lie
came to this country six human skeletons,
1t is said, have been found in the cellar of
his tavern, one supposed to be that OF
merchant who has been missing since
! 1881. ....... ...
Richard Clark, Of Caledonia, Canada,
an employee of Forepaugh's circus, while
hand seized by a tiger, and while trying
to release himself was seized by two tigers
and dragged inside of the cage. The ami
mails were finally beaten OF with iron
bars after Clark's arms and legs had been
horribly crunched and mutilated.
Roscoe Conkling, an orphan boy, aged
sixteen, a distant relative Of the ex-Sen-
ator, was Instantly killed last week while
locker on at q base ball game, at the
Suffolk County Fair, Oh Long Island, by
being struck in the face with bat which
flew from The hands of player. The ac-
cident occurred in consequence Of young
Conkling and the crowd pressing within
ten feet of the hone plate.
At the funeral of wealthy Chinaman
in Carson, New, the other day, the chief
mourncrs threw small parcels, done mp in
rice paper, from the wagons as they passed
along the streets. No one paid any attcn-
ton to this proceeding until Il street arab
picked up one of the parcels and found
that it contained dime. In n moment
the street was thick with boys picking up
known to have been obtained in the small
coins.
In Cumberland, Nd, few days ago,
two rival dry goods houses on opposite
sides Of Baltimore street, made things
lively for short time. Each house had
out in front large lot of blankets. One
house displayed card marked "Fifty
cents pair" The blankets of the other
house were promptly marked Forty
cents" This brought the rival 10 30 cents.
Two more cuts brought the price down to
marked, "Free; take one" And Oh these
terms in very short time both lots were
disposed Of.
There never was more powerful tenn
perance sermon prc"cl,ed than the one
which was flashed over the wires few
days ago. 1t reads: "a hideOus crime
was committed at Chicago Tuesday night,
which is almost unparalleled in its atroc-
ity. Michael Shay, living in miserable
howell ut 400 Clark street, went home dur
ing the night in. drunken state, and
with the body of dead infant, which his
wife had given birth during the night,
beat her to death. When arrested Shay
was i'm such condition that nothing in
tclliScnt could be obtained from him"
Mrs. Clarke, wife Of Justice William T..
Clarke, was burned to death near Vienna,
Fairfax codnty, Va, Monday, while try
ing to burn out wasp nests in the house
with torch. The flames touched an oil
can hanging up in the room, and the cX-
plosion which followed set fire to her
clothing rs well as to the house. She
sprang into bed to extinguish her burning
clothes, and her danghter-in-law ran out
to give the alarm. Before assistan ce
could be rendered, however, Mrs. Clarke
was dead, and the fire had gained such
Roadway that the house could not be
saved. Tho body Of Mrs. Clarke was re-
covered.
Never Give Up.
If you are suffering with low n nj de-
pressed spirits, loss Of appetite, general
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