Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-05-10
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injured Saturday at Gouverneur, n. y,
by the explosion Of boiler.
Prof. r. ID. Gross, the distinguished
surgeon, died ut his home in Philadelphia
on Tuesday, at the age of 20 years.
At Roland, Iowa, the other day, Edward
Thompson fatally crushed his wife's skull
with an axe and then jumped into well
and was drowned.
Last Thursday night the poor-house OF
Van Buren, county, Mich, was destroyed
by fire, aud fourteen persons lost their
lives in the flames.
A temperance cyclone has struck the
people of Plaintield, n. j., during tie
past few weeks, and over 2, 900 have agreed
not to touch Intoxicating liquors.
Tom Gritty shot and fatally wounded
Frank Egbert Sunday morning at Frank
fort, Nv. This is the fourth man that
Gritty has shot in the last three years.
A live crawfish was found imbedded in
in the sand rock in coal mine Mt Fair
mont, w. Va, eighty feet below the sur
face. 1t came out as lively as humble
bee.
Three daughters of James Eoherman,
farmer living near Numidia, Pa, were
thrown from swing few days ago, and
two of them were fatally and one serious
ly injured.
The steamship State of Florida, which
left New York for Glasgow April 18th,
has been given up for lost. Two of her
empty life-boats were picked up by YES
Sci in mid-ocean.
i brutal prizc-fght was fought near
Pittsburg, Pa, Sunday morning between
two men named Dillon and Daily. Daily
was fatally injured. The fight was the
result of an old grudgc.
Gen. II. Norris Halstead was killed ut
Newark, n. j., Tuesday afternoon BY the
cars. lie alighted while the train was in
motion, and was drawn under the wheels
and shoCkingly mutilated.
VIM. Showalter, Robert Pricllard and
Alexander Smith, young white men, while
SEEMING in the Roanoke river near Roam
oke, Va, Monday morning, were drawn
into an eddy and drowned.
John Good, farmer, near Morgantown,
Ohio, was mortally wounded Sunday
night by a mounted assassin, who fired
through a bedroom window. Good WAS
asleep at the time beside his wife.
Mary Kcir, aged II years, died at Gil
rardville, Pa, Saturday, from congestion
of the brain, caused by excessive rope
Jumping. This makes the third death
from this cause during the past tw o weeks.
Near Hatton L. o., Mo-, Saturday
night, Ham Patterson, negro, was taken
from his bed and killed by mob. Patter-
son and his brother Julius circulated
scandalous reports about nearly all the
ladies in that neighborhood.
One hundred slOats and wcaSels have
been shipped to New Zealand, to be used
there in destroying the rabbits, which
have overrun the colony. One thousand
five hundred live pigeons go along, to be
consumed by the animals during the long
voyage.
A Baltimore mother suppOsng she was
dying, gave her baby to her nurse and
told her to take it to an asylum till after
her death. Tie nurse pockctcd the board
money and left the child OH the asylum
door step. The mother has recovered, but
cannot identify her baby among ahundred
other waits.
\ colorcd girl named Josephine lIaden
murdered the two-ycar-old child Of col
orcd woman near Lynch's Station, Camp
bell county, Va, last week by tying
string around its neck and strangling it,
while the mother, who had left it in her
care, was absent from home. She has
been arrested and made confession.
At Chicago, Monday morning, during
dense fog, heavy locomotive plunged
into the rear of a passenger train splitting
the last car and telescoping the other two,
pinning the passengers in the broken TIM
bcrs and flooding the interior with steam
from the engine boiler. Two persons
were probably fatally and about twenty
others seriously injured.
The body of Capt. John T.. Wilson, of
Milton, Del, was found Monday morning
drifting astern of his vessel, Off Chinco-
league, Va, with line made fast to the
craft securely tied around his ankle. 1t
is supposed he committed suicide during
the previous night and had made his body
fast that it might be recovered and given
a burial.
One day last week Della Jones, daugh-
ter of George Jones, Of Harrison county,
received package which seemed to con-
tain common sugar. a note asking the
young lady to eat the sugar and burn the
note. She thought it joke and divided
the sugar with sister. Both were taken
violently i'll and at last accounts were in
dangerous condition. The note pur-
ported to come from Il cousin.
Near Montserrat, Mo-, party Of white
men went TO the house of Joseph Hughes,
colored man. on Saturday night, with
the AvOwed intention Of hOrsewhipping
him for an alleged insult offered by him
to white woman few days ago. Hughes
made Il desperate resistance, and with an
axe inflicted mortal wounds upon Charles
Miller and John Long. The remainder of