Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-03-15
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Gently procured divorce from his wife,
now employs her rs 4 servant, and she has
more money and better clothing than
when she was his wife.
During quarrel at San Leondro, CAL,
William Scotland drew revolver and shot
Aleck Dietrichsen, u saloon-keeper, dead.
When Scollard's father was told of his
sons act, he exclaimed "My God, can this
be! :" and fell dead.
Rev. Hobart II. Smith. Of Mount Say
age, Nd, withdrew from the Methodist
Conference last week, and will accept
call from an Episcopal church III Cum
berland. Mr.. Smith had contemplated
the change for some time.
Mrs. Margaret Brady, of Mount Vernon,
N. Y, has recovered 81 800 from the pro-
prietor of drinking saloon for the loss
Of her husband, who fell down stairs
while drunk with liquor sold to him, in
defiance of her warning not to do so.
Peter Schmitz, contractor, who chopped
his wife to death in Chicago, ten days ago,
committed suicide in his cell in the county
Jail Monday afternoon by tying cord
about his neck and drawing with his hands
until he was strangled. He leaves about
$4,000.
At midnight, Monday, Mrs. Woodward
Kirklatf, of Montgomery county, Pa, who
was crazed with palarial fever, left her
bed aud deliberately set her clothing OIL
fire. She fought those who tried TO extin-
guish the flames, and was slowly barned
to death.
Paper soap is new article Oh sale in
New York. 1t GENES i'm the form of 4
small book, and on being rubbed oyer the
hands with water produces fine lather,
and is thorough in its cleansing proper
ties. 1t is mainly intended for the use of
travellers.
The premature explosion of a blast
charge at the Cornwall Furnaces, near
Lebanon, Pa, killed John Eek outright,
and mortally wounded Milton Eek. The
men were brothers, and both had families.
The force Of the explosion WAS felt at a
great distance.
A boy, whose name was afterwards dis
covered to be- James Riley, telegraph
messenger, was found by the police Oh the
streets Of New York Tuesday morning y
raying maniac. He cried constantly, III
am Butts, the boy detective" His brain
was turned by reading dime novels.
Last Friday night, the barn of James S.
Whiting, of Hardy county, this State, was
totally destroyed by fire, with nearly the
entire contents, including eleven valuable
horses, 500 bushels of wheat, 1000 BUSH
els of corn, farming utensils, sc. The
loss is estimated at $4,000; no insurance.
The Montreal police found three women
dying of starvation in that city Sunday
night. They were two sisters over fifty
years of age, and daughter of one Of
them. Failing to get work. their means
being exhausted and too proud to beg,
they resigned themselves to die by hun
ger. They wero taken to = hospital.
In Schuykill county, Pa, the other day,
a young fellow concluded to elope with
his sweetheart, but was pursued by the
girls father and two other men. When
the pursuers overlook the clippers, the
would-5e husband quietly turned around
and shot all three of them, and then drove
of and left the girl to take care OF them.
Nine of The plate glass windows In the
dry goods store Of MessrS. Ridley Il Son.
in Grand street, New York, and which
were valued at $4,000, were smashed Sat
urday morning in very mysterious man.
ner. cobbe stones and bricks, wrapped
in paper and handkerchief, were the
weapons with which the smashing was
done.
At Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio,
Saturday night, City Marshal John 4.
Vandoren was shot in the head and In
stantly killed by Alfred Ballard, drunk
en- man whom he had arrested. ItreQuired
great discretion to prevent crowd from
lynching Ballard while on the way to the
Jail after the murder. AS it was, some
unknown person cut Ballard in the side.
A very large and beautifully executed
picture of Bartholdi's great statue Of
Liberty Enlightening the World" has
been presented to us by the Travellers In-
su-ance Co., of Hartford, Conn.,, who have
been among the most liberal contributors
to the fund. The picture, which is 26x36
inches in size, gives an excellent idea of
the superb work of art which is to adorn
the harbor of New York.
On Saturday Julia Heating, an aban-
doned woman, was found ia New York
street completely encascd in ice from the
storm of sleet that prevailed. The officers
supposing her to be dead carried the in
animate body to the station. Her friends
collected money for her burial, but she re-
vived from the heat of the stove and be-
came violently abusive. She was sent to
prison as drunken vagrant.
In Coffee. county, Ala, a difficulty oc-
CURED between a Mrs. Hughes and her
sister, Miss Harwell, in which the latter
killed the former. Mrs. Hughes and her
husband separated some years ago,
Hughes unlawfully living with the sister.
He died few months ago, and the widow
took possession of what little property he
left. The sister went after some cattle,
and tho trouhle arose in wbiah Mrs