Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Owen Leonard, citlzen VINO oore
pretty bad reputation, was shot ana
killed In a saloon last Friday evening,
by Jno. hurry, In Baltimore.
Miss Eva Mackay, step-daughter OF
the American bonanza king, was married
in Paris last week to Don Ferdinand
Julien Colonna, Prince of Galatro.
A snow slide nearly destroyed the
mining town of Alta, near Little Cot
ton Wood, Utah. Sixteen persons were
killed and number Of houses demol-
ished.
Gen. II. w. Slocum will be chief mar
shall of the Inauguration procession
with Gen. Ordway chief of staff and
Gen. Earle as marshal Of the military
division of the parade.
Mr.. Francis A Dre1el, the. senior OF
the two brothers at the head OF the Ia
nous Drexel banking house in Philadel-
phia. New York and Paris, died sudden
ly last Sunday afternoon.
An east-bound freight train on the
PENNSYLVANIA Road was wrecked be-
tween Spruce creek and Birmingham,
Pa, Friday night, and two hundred
sheep, eighty hogs and several horses
were killed.
II. Clay Hyde, former newspaper
man of this State, has received YER
dict against the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Company of $500 damages. The
suit originated from the Thornton acci-
dent some years ago.
The strike Of coal miners in the Hook
ing Valley, Ohio, which began last
April, and has been the occasion OF so
much trouble, has at last been ended.
The miners were unable to hold out any
onger, and have gone to work.
At battle-ground attached to Pisgah
Church, near Point Pleasant, w. Va,
the sexton Tuesday found a half dozen
bodies taken from the graves and strewn
about the ground. There is no clue to
the perpetrators, nor to the motive.
Mr.. Daniel Cain, employed for the
last twenty-five years near Scotia, N. H.
went to bed on Sunday night with his
sight unimpaired, but woke up next
morning stone blind. He is fifty years
of age, and enjoyed excellent health in
the past.
A fire at Lancaster, Pa, Saturday
night destroyed George E. Fahne-
stocks dry goods store. Loss $4,000;
insurance $4,000. Myers & Rath-
for's clothing store was damaged $4,000
Chas. Schroedel, fireman, was SER
iously injured.
The rope attached to timber truck
in a coal mine at Ashley, Pa, broke last
Friday, and the truck ran to the bottom,
a distance of 500 feet, with fearful We
locity, throwing off five men upon 1t,
killing one of them, fatally inju:ing two
and seriously the others.
AT Middletown, Del, TWO eolored
men visited Jacob Kazier's farm last
Friday night to steal chickens. Mr. ka-
zier fired upon them, and wounded one
so badly that he died the next day. Tho
other, in his hurry to escape, fell over
o fence and broke his neck.
In Cincinnati, last Sunday, Miss Ada
Armstrong, aged forty-four years, the
daughter Of ex-State Senator James M.
Armstrong, committed suicide by
shooting herself with pistol. She
was led to the deed by the fear that she
was going to lose her eyesight.
Anincendiary fire destroyed the Ka-
nawha Hotel and two or three adjoining
houses at Charleston, w. Va, last week.
Richard Mclaughlin, timer, who
was sick in bed in the store-room Of
Walter Hanna, In the lower story of the
hotel, was burned to death. The fami-
lies in the hotel escaped with only their
night clothing. The total loss Is $l2 900,
insurance $4,000.
A New York dispatch states that
O'Donovan Rossa's wound is his for
tune. Before he received 1t his income
from the contributions of the dynami-
tiers had fallen very low, but his daily
mail has since brought in money to the
aggregate up to Tuesday of not less
than $40o, with the indications that the
collections are being so stimulated that
he will get twice as much more next
week.
A school teacher named Allen Will
Hanson was discharged last week by
the Board Of Education Of school In
Taylor county, w. Va, for cruelty. i'm
morality and incompetency. Detecting
two boys in the act Of pummeling each
other one day, he procured a couple Of
switches, and handing one to each boy
commanded them to punish enc another.
The boys relished the joke and engaged
eagerly in the ARRAY, although they
each were well thrashed.
A curious event and one Of serious
nature to the Kanawha river, transpired
a few days since. Between the towns
Of Red House and Riverside large red
rock stood in picturesque beauty, over
hanging the river where the channel
properly was called "the narrows" by
pilots. Through causes unknown, the
rock became displaced and toppled over
into the river, almost blocking up the
stream. The wat0r is seeking n course
along the opposite bank and threatens
to crawl through the earth to Hurricane