Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-02-02
ITEMS OF INTEfsE EST.

dinand Metzto1f, Il young German, con-
nected himself with an electric wire in
the rolling mill by means of Il steel rod,
and in All instant fell corpse.
The new bank at Ravenswool, this
State, which has only been 0rgauized
seven months, declared 4 dividend on the
lst ipst. Of clcyen per cent, making the
annual earnings about twenty per cent.
Captain Roswell NJ. Grant, an uncle of
Ulysses 5. Grant, is living at st. Albums,
w. Va, eighty-four years OF age. Els
son Tom, in the Twcntv-secomd Virginia
Infantry, was killed at Winchester in the
war.
\ man named Webb became involved
in a difficulty in Jackson county, Ala,
Monday, with three brothers named Mil
burn, and he killed two of them and
fatally wounded the third. The quarrel
began about trivial matter.
Cato j. jerks, aged %, A merchant Of
Apex, Wake county, y. c., has deserted
his sick wife and three little children and
clipped with Varlna Pearson, the l3-ycar-
old daughter of his clerk. The girl is very
delicate and is small for her age.
The painter employed by a druggist in
Washington to paint the picture of his St..
jacobs oil advertisement, selected Gen.
Malone for his subject, and the likeness
he has produced is m excellent one and is
easily recognized by all observers.
Thomas .. Richards, superintendent of
the Full Run collicry OF the Lehigh and
Wilkcsbarre Coal Company, while cross
ing bridge over the mouth of the slope
last Monday evening fell to the bottom, Il
distance of 200 yards, and was instantly
killed.
AT New Orleans, Saturday, John Muir
ray, aged u years, whose fathers resi-
demcc on Palmyra street took fire, carried
his little brother and sister out Of the
house. but returned to get some clothing
for his sister and was overcome by smoke
and burned to death.
John Timsley, L coiorcd blacksmith, ply
ing his trade in Washington city, WAS
married in that city last Thursday 10
Matte A. Baker, a good-lookinG. portly
white woman, about thirty-two years OF
aye. This is the second time Tinslcy has
been married to white woman.
Martin Sellers, of Kendallville, Ind,
was summoned to testify against {. {.
Cain, charged with murder, and now be-
ing tried ut Albion. He remarked that
lie would Kill himself rather than testify.
Shortly afterwards he went to his room
and shot himself, dying instantly.
Iilden g.. Abbott, for ten years cashier
of the Union Market National Bank Of
WATERFOWL, Mass, has absconded, taking
funds OF the bank aggregatinG rs far as
known $3l, 100. His theft will probably
ruin the bank, rs 1t had been left in Il
crippled condition by dishonest prcoi-
dent.
\ terrible mine accident occurred in u
coal mine at Crested Bate, Colorado, last
Thursday. An explosion was CAUSED by
firc-damp while 81 men were at work in
the mine, and every one Of them persisted.
Many of the men had families, and when
the news WAS spread the scene was heart
rending in the extreme. All of the bod
les have been recovered.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, Andrew
Mango, aged years, while pOking shay
ings into Il stove, set fire TO his clothing
and expired after horrible suffering of an
hour. lie was the last Of five children,
the others dying within Il short time of
diphtheria. The mother became raying
maniac when the little one died. His
father was absent from home.
Friday night, while John Massey and
VIM. Jones were walking on the railroad
track near Coal Valley, W. Va, Massey,
who was drunk, called TO colorcd woman
walking ahead of them to stop. She re-
fused, and Jones fired at her, the ball
striking the heel of her shoe. Four col
ored men emerged from cabin and fired
on Massey and Jones, fatally wounding
Massey.
Frank Williams and John Gray shot
and killed Orion kurtz in saloon row at
Rosita, Col, Sunday morning, and were
taken from Jail ut o'clock Monday morn
ing by Il masked mob and hanged to the
rafters of log Slanty nearby. Gray died
game, but Williams pleaded for mercy,
claiming that he shot in self-defence. \
coroner's jury returned verdict that the
hanging was done by parties unknown.
A fire broke out in the Minnesota State
prison at Saltwater Friday night, and in
spite of every effort all the buildings were
destroyed. Company X, of the State mi
litia, was called upon to assist in remov-
ing the convicts. About $50 in all were
shackled together by means of long, fine
chains and removed to different points in
the prison grounds. The prisoners were
removed to jails in different parts of the
State.
A special from Auburn, Ky, saws
George Hardison and Harry Bronson
were killed by each other in 4 street fight
Saturday. The killing was the result of
family feud dating back sixteen years,
when James lIardison, the father of
George, killed Bronson's father with Il
broadaxe. The intestines of both men
were cut out. Both men belonged to
wealthy families. More trouble is cx-
pected."
Fred DOuSinss' Second Wife.
Fred Douglass, the well-known colorcd