Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-06-27
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week. one hundred anu eleNSH CniiuFch
died.
Over three hundred trains, carrying
more than thirty thousand passengers,
now enter and depart from the Broad
Street Station in Philadelphia every day.
On Tuesday passenger train and
freight train on the Northern Central
Railroad collided near Shsmokin, Pa.
Three men were instantly killed and sew
cral others fatally injured.
Alice Deellan died In Philadelphia Fri
day from injuries inflicted in quarrel by
her husband, James Deehan. She inflicted
a serious wound with 4 pitchfork OH her
husband during the encounter.
A disastrous fire occurred in Shenan-
doah, Pa, on Sunday. Seventeen tene-
ment houses were burned, and two hum
dred Hungarians were left homeless. The
buildings were cheap frame houses.
During saloon brawl In Connellsville,
Pa, Saturday night, Matt Guirenul,
German, was fatally stabbed by an UNI
known person. a German girl whe trans
ferred her affections from Guircnul to an
other was the cause of the trouble.
Joseph Calamore made q foolhardy at
tempt to dive from High bridge at New
York, on Tuesday, and was killed. Very
few persons witnessed the leap, and these
only happened to be on the bridge at the
time. Calamore was a Harlem fruit dealer.
a young girl in Contra Costa county,
California, only twelve years old, recently
gave birth to Pigmy which promises to
become second Tom Thumb. The baby
measured five and a-half inches in length,
and weighed only one and a-quarter
pounds.
Caesar a. Rodney, a prominent bust
ness man of Wilmington, Del, committed
suicide by shooting himself while tempo
rarily insane on Monday. He was afraid
that he might become financially embar-
raised, although there was no ground for
apprehension.
Sheriff Sweeney, Of Hancock county,
w. Va, was fatally injured Friday blythe
bursting OF piece of iron pipe. He Was
making a cannon out Of 1t to be used for
campaign purposes. The first charge
blow the pipe to flinders and piece struck
him in tho side.
Hugh Mills and his wife were arrested
ut Scranton, Pa, on Tuesday for counter
feiting. Mills WIS moulder by trade and
utilized his knowledge to coin silver dol
lars. The arrest created sensation, and
a number of persons who were implicated
with Mills have suddenly left the town.
At Silverton, COL, Pat Cain and Billy
Wilson, while out horseback riding OH
Sunday, undertook to settle an old fcud.
Both drew rovolvcrs ana commenced
shooting at each other while sitting on
their horses. Cain succeeded in killing
Wilson and his horse. Cain WAS unhurt.
Charles c. Hemmlck, young man and
clerk in the mailing department OF the
Baltimore city post-oflice, was arrested
Saturday night by Special Postal Inspector
Henderson, charged with purloining let
ters from the mails. When arrested two
deooy letters containing money were
found upon his person. lie confessed his
guilt.
A Now Jersey girl recently went to
Philadelphia, and while there had IL teeth
drawn. The gas commonly used by den-
lists was administered. On her return
home she seemed moody, refused to eat,
and In a few days became violently III.
Two weeks from the time the teeth wore
extracted she died. From strong healthy
girl Of one hundred ahd sixty pounds she
dwindled to 4 mere skeleton.
John Stump, fifteen-year-old son of
J. B. Stump, of Eamlin, Lincoln county,
w. Va, accidentally killed himself day
or two ago. Young Stump took down
shot gun from the kitchen wall, and rest
ing the butt on the ground held the ham,
mer up with his foot while he blew in the
muzzle to soc il It WAS loaded. His foot
slipping, the gun exploded, the heavy
charge entering his mouth and blowing
the top of his head of.
The ordinance giving the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad the right OF way through
Wheeling, w. Va, has passed both
branches of the City Council. All that is
now needed is for the officers Of the conf
pany to sign the necessary papers accept
ing the ordinance, which must be done
before August /. The new branch will
be finished within two years, and then
Wheeling will be on Il through line, and
the people will get coke one dollar cheaper
than at present.
In a drunken row among negroes at
Hinsdale, Mass, Sunday morning, Chas.
Anderson shot and dangerously wounded
L. II. Porsip, IS years old. Anderson,
with an accomplics named Jones, also
tried to break into James Darlng's house,
but were driven away by Darling. They
then set fire to his two barns, which, with
his dwelling and its contents, were burn
ed. Darling's family barely escaped with
their lives. Anderson and Jones were
captured.
At Cleveland, Tonn., a few days ago,
Miss Lucy Lea WAS accidentally shot and
killed by Ernest Briscoe, of Knoxville.
Briscoe WAS extracting cartridge from
breech-lOading shotgun when one Of the
barrels exploded. One of the largest
pieces struck Lucy, who was standing