Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-08-29
ITEMS OF INTER EST.


$4OO, 900 has been sunk in the establishment
of these works in the last eleven years.
In New York Saturday Joseph Rice,
young man, fatally shot Lena Stein be-
cause she refused his attentions. They
had been engaged, but his bad habits hal
estran ged her.
Near Newberry, s. c., OIL Tuesday last,
John P. Sloan, a wife-murderer, was pur-
sued by party Of men and surrounded In
negro cabin. TO avoid arrest he shot
and killed himself.
At Lesagc post-oifice, this State, near
Wheeling, George Minors and his friend,
Tom Jeffrey, quarreled over politics.
Jeffrey settled the dispute by killing
Minors with pistol bail.
Seven men were smothered by gas in
the Buck Ridge coal mine ut Shamokin,
Pa, a few days ago. The mine was on
fire, and the men were trying to extin-
guish the flames when they met their
death.
Geo. Kramer, saloon keeper OF Reao-
ing, Pa, gave Christian Bowman half
pint of whisky on condition that he would
make one drink of it. Bowman drank it,
and died soon after. Kramer has been ar
rested.
Thomas Murphy, a mechanic, Of Jack
son, Mich, who has been in i'll health,
became excited at the belief that burglars
were In the house and attacked his wife,
stabbing her will, slender bladed scissors
five times, killing her.
Two freiSh. trains collided Friday in
the yard Of the Pennsylvania road at CO.
lumbia, Pa. Four cars Of the rear train
were filled with sheep and hogs. The
wreck caught fire and was consumed. Up
wards of 500 animals were killed, only 30
escaping unhurt.
The United States steamship Tallapoosa,
bound from Boston for Newport, was
sunk late Thursday night in Vineyard
Sound, off Cottage City, Mass, by COLI
sion with the schooner James 5. Lowell,
from Baltimore for Portland. Three lives
are supposed to have been lost.
In Amherst county, Va, last Saturday
a colored servant named Lou Green be-
came very impudent and insulting to Mrs.
Morris, her mistress. Finally Eldridgc
Morris, son Of the lady, became enraged
and struck the colored woman OH the head
with bootjack, instantly killing her.
At Cynthicena, KY, Sunday morning
the Abdallah stables were burned, and
score of fine horses persisted. Different
owners had their horses quartered in the
stables Of w. III. Arlson, also burned. lie
places his loss at $4,000. The total loss
is estimated at $500, 900, mostly on horses.
A destructive railroad wreck occurred
on the Pennsylvania Schuykill Valley
Road near Coatesville. Pa, Monday. BY
a misplaced switch twenty-one freight
cars were pitched down on the tracks of
the Wilmington and Northern Railroad,
over which the other road crosses. No
one was injured.
Mrs. Linsley has been arrested in South
Haven, Mich, charged with causing the
death of her little girl, two years old, by
brutal treatment. The child did not read
lily respond to something the woman
wished it to say, whercupon she threw it
into tub of water and otherwise ill-treat-
ed it, causing its death.
Wheat is being fed to swine instead of
corn to considerable extent by the far
mers of the Ohio Valley, who have no old
corn to spare and have an abundance of
new wheat. This is because wheat rules
so low that it is more profitable to con-
vert it into meat, which now meets with
ready sale at remunsrative prices.
Mrs. Chesney left her house in Phila-
delphia on Friday in charge OF her servant
girl, Della Smith, in order to visit n sick
friend. During her absence the girl hired
wagon and carried off 81 900 worth of
furniture. When the lady returned she
found her baby lying on the bare floor in
its night-Sown, the girl having stolen her
outer clothing.
FeEnimore Clayton, of Cooperstown,
n. Y, while suffering from delirium ire
Eiens Sunday, took his sou, aged 2 years,
into the yard aud shot him through the
head, killing him instantly. He then
went into the house and tried to shoot his
wife and mother, but they struck him
upon the head with club and disarmed
him of the pistol. lie is in Jail.
A Mexican named Luciano Padillo, who
was liberated from prison a month ago,
assaulted a thirteen-year-old girl fifteen
miles from Lincoln, Neb., Saturday last.
lie WAS arrested Monday, and the sheriff
was taking him to the girls house when
mob captured the party ana took the
Mexican before the girl, who identified
him. The Mexican WAS taken to the iden-
tcal spot where he made the assault, given
five minutes to pray, confessed, and was
hanged.
a charter was issued at Wheeling on
Tuesday to the Grafton, Buckhannon and
Charleston Railroad Company, which
proposes to build line connecting the
Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and
Ohio Roads. The company has n capital
of 81 200, 900, and the incorpora.ors are
all Baltimore and Ohio officials. W. NJ.
Clements, master of transportation John