Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-03-06


Mr.. w. w. Corcoran has given 81 600
to aid the Jackson Memorial association
In erecting a monument over the grave
of Stonewall Jackson at Lexington.
While Nathaniel wilkins and Miss
Cheever, of Yonkers, n Y, were driv-
ing home from church Sunday their
horse ran away and both were thrown
out. Williams was killed and Miss
Cheever seriously hurt.
The postmaster of Philadelphia has
just discharged three le.ter-carriers for
borrowing money from persons on their
routes. He has issued strict orders for
bidding carriers to borrow money upon
pain of dismissal, and intends to inforce
the order.
VIM. FOX, photographer, of Brook
lyn, n. Y, went home intoxicated Fri
day night and kicked over pot OF
mush, badly scalding his little son.
Mrs. Fox struck her husband with an
axe, fracturing his skull and producing
possibly fatal injuries.
Thomas Scout, aged 10 years, was suffo-
Gated in Philadelphia last Friday by the
fall Of a snow-house which he and sew
eral companions were erecting. While
he was inside OF the house some Of his
companions climbed on top, when it fell
i'm and Scott was smothered.
Three men entered the grocery store
of August Gering in Wheeling, w. Va,
Saturday night, and after struggle
with the proprietor and his wife, robbed
the money drawer of $50 and made
their escape, knocking down Eugene
Cady, who came TO the assistance of the
proprietor.
Ben Coombs, farmer, Of Hodgen-
vile, KY, finding his wife with Jake
Mason, a neighbor, emptied the contents
of double-barreled shotgun into the
pair, killing Mason and fatally wound
ing Mrs. Coombs. He then informed
Mrs. Mason OF what had happened, and
they went off together to Tennes see.
At Lynchburg, Va, on Saturday
evening, Royal Matthews, colored, head
waiter at the Arlington Hotel, repri-
manded John Miller, an assistant, for
being late, when the latter becoming
snraged jerked carving knife from a
table and buried it to the hilt in Mat
thews' breast. The wounded man died
Sunday.
George Tyree and John Morris have
been lodged in Jail at Staunton, Va,
charged with attempting to blow up the
house of Henry Rivers, in Waynesboro
Rivers elected two girls of alleged bad
character to whom he bad rented room
and Tyree and morris, who were inter
ested In the girls, it 10 charged, shattered
his house Wih dynamite, one SIDE Of it
de ing partly blown out.
Bertha Strong, pretty child of
years of age, who resided with her aunt
Mrs. Harper, at s. South Morgan street
Chicago, H., disappeared last Thursday
while on her way to school, four blocks
away, and is supposed to have been kid.
mapped. 1t Is believed she was seized
on the street and carried away in a
sleigh or buggy. The police and detec.
tives have been hard st work on the case
since Thursday, and are said to have
clue, which they do not care to make
public at present.
j. K. Emmett was billed to play at the
Opera House in Wheeling last Thursday
night. His party arrived early in the
day and Emmett at once began to fill up
with West Virginia whisky and Ohio
river water. The combination proved
too much for the comedian and by 4
o'clock he was in such state of intox-
ication that posters were put mp an.
nouncing that no performance would
be given. Soon after Emmett's mana.
ger sought a policeman and Police
Judge Jeffries and had Emmert locked
up In the county Jail to sober up.