Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

!. Charles Kimball, butcher, of Clcve-
! land, Ohio, while driving to market Fri
day morning fell asleep, and his team took
! fright and dashed into q coal train. Slan
and horses were killed, and four cars
were dcrailed. i ~
In Pittsburg, Tuesday, VIM. Ford was
killed by train Us he was crossing rail-
road track in his wagon. Both Horses
were killed and one was thrown distance
! of forty feet, striking Peter Farley and
killing him instantly. =
Mary Murclian, living with man
named John Seneban in Providence, X.
l., was assaulted by him and beaten into
insensibility. Senetan then poured kero-
sene oil-ove her limbs and body and ig-
I nitetl it. She was badly burned.
Mallory Davenport, of Colerain, Miss,
Friday filed a sack with stones, tied it
around him, shot himself through the
neck and jumped into the Deerfield river.
( lie left note, saying he committed sui
eide to escape the insane asylum. He was
% years old.
Jacob Plyman, an employee at Tonkn
Mill, Calhoun county, W. Va, returned
home unexpectedly last Friday and, it is
said, found Ellis Wine with his wife.
Both men drew revolvers and began firing
simultaneously. Wine was killed, and
| Plyman was eXhonerated.
On Saturday evening ut Auburn, Eau
qnicr county, Va, Andrew Baker, color
cd, shot and killed Charles White, coored.
Bakery armed with shotgun, was seek
ing a difficulty with another mali, and
was advised by White to let the man alone.
lie turned upon White and fired the fatal
shot.
In Baltimore last Sunday aftern Don,
Michael, aged seven years, son of police
man Crogllan, was instantly killed by
street car. He was crossing the street,
when lie was knocked down by the horses
and the wheels of the ear passed over his
neck, completely scvering the head from
the body.
In Calhoun county, w. Va, Saturday,
MIS-. johnson, while temporarily insane,
mixed some arsenic with sugar and gave
il to her three stcp-childrem. One refused
to eat, but the other two partook of the
fatal compound anil died ina few minutes.
Mrs. johnson then swallowed the poison
herself and soon died.
In Brooklyn, y. Y, Monday night,
! Michael Byrnes, IS years of age, was stab
bed and killed by Chauncey st. Martin,
l3 years old. Byrncs tried TO force st.
Martin to give him cent, and knocked
him down when he refused. st. Martin
tried to escape, and Byrnes pursuing him,
ST. Martin stabbed him.
Ellen Ashmore, Of Bridgewatcr, Pa,
lost her voice through scarlet fever, and
spoke in whisper for twelve years. She
became q prosperous milliner in Ohio,
and lately, when some of her employees
grew rcbclious, Miss Ashmorc suddenly
exclaimed in a loud voice, "Oh, darn these
girlsn' Since then her voice has been
perfectly natural.
At Richmond, VA, Saturday night,
Susan Allen. cOlorcd, made an attack
upon her husband, Edward Allen, ut their
home and inflicted. wounds which are
likely to prove fatal. The man and wO-
man got into Il dispute about some domes-
tic affair, when the latter picked up
halchct and struck her husband on The
head several times, splitting it open in
two places. Allen also had two ribs bro
ken in the fight.
4 German farm laborer, named John
Medlar was shot dead recently near Fleet
wood, Pa. by Charles Epplcr, his former
employer, of whom he was demanding
payment. Eppler dug Il hole in the farm
and buried his victim. The crime would
have probably remained concealed for
ever had it not, through Epplcr's chill
dren, been revealed, who said their mother
had been crying for 4 long time because
their papa might be hung for shooting a
man. This led to an investigation which
disclosed the murder.
Edward o. Fitzgerald, Jr., of Rich
mond, Va, accidentally shot himself in
the head a few days ago, and may die from
the effects of the wound. He was to have
been married the same evening to Miss
Lille Darlington, daughter Of Mayor w.
G.. Darlington. Fitzgerald had been en-
gagged in packing his trunk preparatory
to his wedding trip, when, it is supposed,
in leaning over the trunk to put his pistol
in it, the weapon was discharged. His
mother and brother had just left him, and
he WAS in Il joyous mood over his ap-
preaching marriage.
John Van Vert and one or two others
were hunting squirrels near White Lake,
Sullivan county, y. y. Van Vert was
aiming ut a squirrel when lie was seen to
fall to the ground as though he had been
shot. When he was picked up he was
blind and helpless. There was 4 lump at
the base of his skull rs big as an egg. \
hornets nest hung in tree near by. The
hornets were flying angrily about. One
had stung Van Vert. The sting had
struck II nerve at the base of the brain.
At last accounts Van Vert was still lying
paralyzed and sightless.
In Philadelphia last Friday evening
james l.. Clayton, aged IS, paid visit to
his bosom friend, John ). Baker, aged IL.
Bakers parents left them alone in the
dinng-room. Presently three pistol shots