Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-10
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

Philadelphia has barber shop
where Indian squaws do the shaving.
The amount returned by the ap-
praisers of the personal estate of the late
John w. Garrett is 1914, 509.50.
An officer has committed suicide at
Cattaro, Spain, by placing himself in
front of the mouth of a cannon and firing
1t with match-stick.
President Cleveland is reported as
having senta silk scarf to a young lady in
Virginia who wanted something he had
worn to put into a crazy q1ilt.
Mrs. Ann Beasley, aged rs years. Of
Montgomery, Ala, was burned to death
there Sunday while in bed. She struck
match to light candle near by, and
the mosquito net caught fire.
During Fourth of July picnic at
Fort Worth, Texas, eleven persons were
poisoned from eating canned meat that
had been packed in lead cases. All re-
covered after intense suffering.
While number of young men were
firing cannon at Starin Place, Fulton
vile, n. Y, Saturday night it went off
prematurely, and William Van Voast
was killed and Charles Max fatally
injured.
o,,l tsh
day were having friendly tussle in
East st. Clair township, Pa, when
Wolford accidentally fell upon an open
pocket knife in Miller's hand and was
stabbed through the heart.
Mrs. Abram Smith, of Port Jackson,
n. Y, while sewing recently, ran the
needle Of the machine through her fin
ger and was unable to eXtricate it. Her
cries brought help, but the machine
had to be taken apart to secure her re-
lease.
Miss Rose Cleveland's new book,
George Eliot's Essays and Other Sto-
ries," has been issued, and the demand
has been much greater than the supply.
Three editions have already been pub
lishcd and sold. and it is expected that
the demand will reach 100000 copies.
The l7-year-old son Of eX-Alderman
Pat Shannon, of Ithaca, y. y, while
going through the Ithaca gorge Satur-
day evening lost his balance, and fall
ing over = hundred feet struck the falls
in his descent, and was picked up from
the pool below dead, with his legs
driven up into his body.
Near East Springfield, Pa, on Satur-
day, two heavily loaded freight trains,
one running east and the other west,
met on the high trestle bridge on the
Nickle Plate Railroad, and were thrown
into the abyss, $50 feet below, both
trains being completely smashed.
Three trainmen, james Peters, Thomas
Long, and Raymond Knox, were killed.
The property destroyed is valued at
many thousands of dollars.
a remarkable case of increasing the
census occurred Sunday night in the fam
lily of Thomas Hotter, residing about
six miles from Lafayette, Ind. AT nine
O'Clock Mrs. IIoffer gave birth to twin
BOYS, and at ten o'clock Mrs. Russell,
gave birth to twin girls. The mothers
and four children are doing well. The
aggregate weight of the boys is 10
pounds and that of the girls 1873 pounds.
At Albany, n. e., Saturday night,
during a display of fireworks, a spark
fell among a box Of bombs which had not
been discharged. They were surrounded
by large crowd, composed mostly Of
children. All of the bombs exploded
instantly, discharging their contents in
every direction into the thrOng. The
box was hurled twenty feet into the
air. The front of Gray's bookstore was
blown in, and from ten to twenty per-
sons were injured, at least half of them
quite seriously.
At Pocahontas, Va, last Saturday, a
stranger, giving his name rs II. II. Rey-
nolds, and claiming to be a government
detective, became intoxicated and COM
mitted breach of the peace. Soon af-
terward he was approached by the town
sergeant, Y. B. Brewer, who attempted
to arrest him. Reynolds resisted vio-
lcntly and drew revolver, which SER
geant Brewer succeeded in taking from
him. Reynolds then made desperate
attempt to regain the weapon from the
officer. A struggle took place, during
which the pistol was discharged, the
contents lodging in Reynolds and kill
ing him almost instantly.
The Fittsburg p'spatch outlines new
railroad project in which it Is claimed
the Pennsylvania is interested. 1t is to
be called the West Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee Railway, and is to start at
Washington, Pa, with Nashville as the
objective point. Southwest Kentucky,
West Virginia ard Tennessee are to be
penetrated. This Is to be strategic
move to head off the Chesapeake and
Ohio Road, and will be rival of the
Louisville and Nashville and the Gin
cinnati Southern. 1t is a big scheme,
especially at this time, when the rail-
road companies are not supposed to be
specially ANXIOUS to engage in new and
costly enterprises.
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