Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

famous trotter, Maud s., to Mr. Robert
Bonner for 1000. The price is consid-
cred a very low one.
The bridge over the AQueduct piers on
the Potomac river ut Georgetown has
been transferred to the United States, ana
the toll charges will be abolished.
The Aiken organ factory, noal Win
chester, Va, was destroyed by fire early
Monday morning. The loss is $1,000,
insurance $lO, 800. The fire was Of incen-
diary origin.
At Tobias, Neb., Monday, Wiley Farris,
who had been separated from his wife,
went to her boarding place and deliberate
ly sho. her through the head, and then
shot himself, dying instantly.
Edward Brown, of Martins Ferry, O.,
OH Saturday put three pounds of giant
powder in coffee mill for the purpose of
pulyerizing it. After few turns of the
crank the powder exploded, demolishing
everything in the vicinity.
Ella Watson, the pretty tifteen-year-old
daughter of respectable farmer near
WoodstOwn, n. j., was brutally outraged
and then murdered almost within sight OF
her fathers house on Tuesday last. Sew
eral men have been arrested on suspicion.
Charles Wegmann, aged "a, called on
his sweetheart in Cincinnati Monday
| night and was refused admission. He
threatened to kill himself if the girl did
not open the door, and the girl still refus-
ing, Wegmann shot himself through the
heart.
One day last week, n passenger from
! Gun hcrand on the Metropolitan Branch,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, left his
pocket-book, containing 1882, on the
tieket-window in Washington. Fortu-
nately, it was picked up by the agent and
returned.
Isaac Thompson, a worthy colored man,
| while hauling wheat to 4 machine on Mrs.
! Wright's farm, five miles from Winches-
ter, Va, stumbled and fell in attempting
to stop the horses, which were frightened
and running away. The loaded wagon
passed over his breast, killing him in
stantly.
The survivors Of the Greedy expedition
really had to resort to cannibalism to
! keep from starving. Several of the bodies
! have been cxhumed, and they were found
| to have been almost entirely stripped Of
! flesh. Lieut. Greedy says he had no
! knowledge OF the fact that human flesh
! had been eaten.
John A. Logan, Jr., 4 cadet at West
Point and son of the Republican candi-
| date for Vice. President, has been placed
under arrest to await trial by court mar
tial on charge of using prolane language
! while OH duty and for conduct unbecom-
ing cadet and prciudicial TO military dis
| cipline.
An ex-convict named Charles Riley
! Wednesday morning fired shot ut Col.
West, superintendent of the West Virginia
| State Penitentiary at Moundsyile, rs he
was sitting at Il window of his office read
ing. The ball made III annoying but moi
serious wound in the check. The eX-coh-
! Wet fired second shot, but without re-
suit. He was arrested and held for shoot
| ing with intent to Kill.
Last Friday Mr.. Charles Summertield,
who lived near Charleston, w. Va, had
occasion to be absent from home all night.
When he returned the next morning lie
found his wife and child gone and his
house burned. Later in the day the body
of Mrs. Summcrfield was found in the
river near by. No trace OF the child has
been discovered, and it is feared it was
destroyed by the mother, who was insane.
A temperance sermon in few lines is
here given, AS found in the columns OF the
Frostburg Journal: Three boys at Eckhart
obtained one and a-half pints Of whisky
Thursday, which they drank during the
day. One of thcm n lad named Porter,
aged ID years, never recovered from the
stupor into which he was thrown and died
at o'clock p. m. He was of delicate
build, but otherwise healthy. The other
boys weathered through the spree.
Much excitement was caused near Cal
thersburg, Md, few days ago by the
mobbing Of negro named Nelson. Owing
to an unsavory reputation he had been or
dered to leave the county. He did so, but
party of men started after him, and catch
ing him beat him badly and put two pis-
tol balls into him. They left him for dead,
but he recovered, and is now trying TO
have his assailaats punished by law.
At Manhattan, Kansas, few days ago,
Herman Waters, son Of Captain NJ. d.
Waters, a well known citizen, shot and
killed his father. The young man was
armed with shot gun and was just start
ing on hunting excursion when his
| father ordered him to shoot Il neighbours
dog. The boy refused, when a quarrel
| ensued, whereupon the parent entered
! the house, returned with pistol and fired
at his son, who returned the fire with
| fatal effect.
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