Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-09-19
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mitted suicide few days ago Dy cutlihS
| his throat with penknitc.
The steam-tug Frank Somers exploded
| her boiler ut Bermuda Hundred, on the
James river, last Sunday, and Capt. Ed
ward Cavanaugh and Edward Danny were
drowned.
Frank Jones, Desperate, rode through
the streets of Wellington, Kansas, last
Saturday, firing into the houses and seri-
ously wounding several persons. Sunday
night he was caught by mob and
lynched.
Near somerset, Pa, Thursday, Prus-
sian laborer was pouring powder from
keg which he held between his legs. when
it was fred by'a smouldsring spark.
Scarcely enough remains could be found
! to have funeral with.
The Baltimore and Ohio, the Bankers
and Merchants and the Postal Telegraph
! Companies, which recently pooled their
issues and formed combination, have
dissolved partnership, and will conduct
! their business separately, as before.
Joseph f. Glenn, Of Newberry county,
! S. c., has been blind in one eye for sew
cral years. Last week, rs he was walking
in the street, an umbrella was blown from
| the hand of another man and struck him
in the other eye and destroyed its sight
| forever.
! The longest train ever known to have
been drawn by one engine was by loco
motive on the Northern Central in Penn
! sylyania--lS3 empty freight cars, one
/ loaded, two cabooses and a dead engine,
up grade. The train was mile and
! quarter long.
Henry Sprayer, of York county, Pa.
was thrown before clover mower on
! Friday last and had his legs and head al
most completely severed from his body
! by the keen blades of the mower. Mr..
Sprayer was tanner and farmer and
quite wealthy.
One Of the giraffIes Of Robinson's show
was pitched TO one side of the wagon, at 4
/ place in Virginia, a few days ago, and
| had three legs broken. 1t WAS found nee
essary to kill it. The skin was left with Il
; tanner at the place who says it will take
! him three years to tan it.
In New York Saturday morning, while
sitting mt the breakfast table, the wife Of
/ Deputy United States Marshal Bernhard
! suddenly seized a knife and stabbed her
husband in the back. She had been for
some time threatened with insanity.
Bcrnhard's wound is not dangerous.
Last Saturday night Jefferson Jolly, Of
Warrenton, Va, while returning from
Culprper county, was stopped by Il man
who demanded his money. Jolly told
him to advance and get it, and As he did
so fellcd him with Il heavy stone-hammer
1t is reported that the mans dead body
has been found in the woods.
Mrs. Ann Rutter, of Paradise, Pa, re-
licious maniac, who was confined in the
county hospital, deliberately set fire to
her clothing and burned he rsclf to death.
She beat off those who attempted to save
her. Portions of her body were burned
to Il crisp. She imagined that she WAS
Offering herself as sacrifice on an altar
to the Lord.
Mr.. Robt. Hoe, of the firm of r. Hoe 81
Co. printing press manufacturers, New
York City, died ut his summer residence
in Tarrytown, Saturday morning, in his
10Th year. He had been in failing health
for some time and about ten days ago was
attacked with malaral fever, which con-
| fined him to his bed until his death.
The province of kiangsei, China, has
been devastated by frightful inundation,
causing an awful loss of life. The food
lasted four days, and the entire country
was submerged to tile depth Of sixty feet.
Whole towns were swept away. 1t is
believed that fully seventy thousand per-
sons pcrished 1t is feared that peSti-
lence will follow. Cholera has broken
| out ut Annoy.
At Winchester, Va, Wednesday, the
insane wife Of Mr.. Oscar Barr eluded her
attendant and poured coal oil over her
clothes from lamp. Procuring matches
she ignited them and ran down stairs with
! her clothing in blaze. Mrs. Barr was
literally roasted, and died in four hours.
, The unfortunate lady had been placed in
! Williamsburg Asylum. and remained six
months, but improving, returned 4 year
ago.
! Last Friday Tom Marston, while insane,
went into the cemetery at Conycrs, Ca,
, and desecrated the graves. On Saturday
night lie burned the Methodist Church,
several places. On Sunday night lie was
/ discovered in the act Of setting fire to 4
| fence, and was pursued and shot three
times by mob of citizens. He confessed,
| do it ALL He is seriously, but not mortally
wounded.
A singular and fatal accident occurred
last Saturday at Fairfax, on the new West
Virginia Central Railroad. Miss Laur,
daughter of 4 contractor on the road, step
! ped to the door rs a tree fell, a large limb
of which struck her right cheek, passing
entirely through the face, the end pro-
truding from the opposite side. Another
piece penetrated over her left eye, piercing
the brain. Her death was instantaneous,
! but her lifelcsS body WAS held erect by the