Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


with bleeding at the nose and before the
flow of blood could be checked, died from
exhaustion.
At Harrisville, Ind, Friday night
masked robbers entered the house of Carl
Schultz, killed his son, beat him and his
wife terribly, and stole $4,000 in gold.
Mr.. Alex. F. Lusby, secretary of the
Maryland Institute, Baltimore, committed
suicide in Philadelphia on Monday. He
left note asking that the news be broken
to his wife gently.
Three boys named Moore, Happle and
Macklefresh, were killed near Cincinnati
Saturday, while crossing the railroad
track. The same engine killed six persons
at the same place last July.
Matilda Paulitsch, who had her foot
crushed between station and train OF
the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company in New York, has re-
covered a Judgment of $l3,lol.
Samuel B. Robbins, government pen
sioner, died recently at Augusta, Me-, and
woman named Lena Trundy, in order
to obtain the pension, was married to the
man after lie was dead. The matter will
be Investigated.
Charles Pearsall, a young man in New
York, finished on Saturday the task of
eating three hundred eggs in five days.
lie won q wager of twenty-five dollars,
and now claims to be the champion egg
eater of New York.
On the Texas Pacific Railroad last Sat-
urday terrible smash-up occurred. A
passenger train was derailed and ran down
an embankment fourteen feet high, max
ing a fearful wreck. Twenty-Five persons
were injured, seven Of whom have died.
The amount necessary for repairing The
damage done by the late flood to the prop
erty of the West Virginia Fair Association
at Wheeling-abopt $l2,O0O-has been
subscribed, and the grounds and buildings
will be thoroughly refitted for the annual
exhibition next fall.
Levi Yokley, n man aged %, living in
Sullivan county, Tenn, committed suicide
in q very peculiar manner the other day.
He looped grapevine around his throat
and jumped from a high limb. lie fell
within six inches Of the ground and slow
ly strangled to death.
The greatest fire ever known has been
sweeping through the pine forests OF
North Carolina. There has been enor-
nous destruction Of timber, as well rs
houses and other property. Many farmers
lost everything, and only saved their lives
by taking refuge in ponds and wells.
At Altoona, Pa, last Monday morning,
DR.. Louis W: Beach, a prominent physi-
clan, killed his wife. lie used two sharp
surgical knives and Il cleavcr, cutting her
head Off. He confessed the crime, and
said he wanted to be shot or hung at once.
They had not lived happily together.
The losses by fire throughout the cOun-
try Monday footed up over half million
dollars. In Maryland, Church Hill lost
property to the amount Of $4,000, Port
Deposit $4,000, Salisbury $4,000, and a
number of other smaller losses. At Chat
ham, Va, $50, 900 worth of property was
destroyed, and in New York $4,000
worth.
Two hundred kegs Of powder at VIM.
Berry e Co.'S. powder mill, near Shame
kin, Pa, exploded Saturday. The report
was heard % miles off anG houses were
shaken a mile away. VIM. YOcum, the
superintendent, was knocking off the crust
that had formed OH the chaser when the
explosion occurred. He was fatally
burned.
At Petersburg, w. Va, Monday,
Judge Jackson sentenced David G. Hitler,
who was pilot Of the steamer Sciota when
the collision between that vessel and the
John Lomas took place, at Mingo, Ohio,
on July 4, 1882, to pay fine of $500 and
serve two years in the penitentiary for
manslaughtcr, of which he WAS convicted
q few weeks ago.
Judge Jackson, of the United States
Court at Clarksburg, w. Va, last week
sentenced Noah Kittle, the leader of the
notorious Doddridge County Red Men and
the last of the gang, indicted few months
ago for mail robbery, to the penitentiary
for. four years. This puts an end to al
organization Of desperate and lawless viii
lains, and the citizens of Doddridge cOun-
ty rejoice at the knowledge that midnight
whippings, murders and arsons are no
longer to be feared.
The work of drilling an opening into
the mine at Poeahontas, Va, in which the
recent disastrous explosion occurred, was
completed Tuesday morning, when the
drill passed through the entry to the mine.
There was forcible escape Of foul air,
accompanied by most sickening stencil.
The two fire bosses, who were Oh the
ground at tho time, say there were no in
dications of gas or fire. They made test
with their lamps, and found nothing but
foul air. 1t is thought that the mines will
be opened in 81 few days.
The Boston Post, the most prominent
democratic paper in New England, re-
Gently hoisted the names of Hon. Thomas
F. Bayard for President and Hon. Joseph
Z. Mcdonald for Vice-President, subject
to the action of the democratic national
convention. In a leading editorial the Post
defies ticket-makers to produce better
one than it has indicated, and pronounces