Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-05-01
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VlckSOurS, MISS, iaet "ceh' - 4""''Si
of million collars worth of property
was destroyed, and 35 persons lost their
lives. --
A man named u. Ramsour was struck
by passing train last Saturday even
ing near Mount Airy, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and was instantly
killed.
At Staunton, Va, OH Monday, John
w. Gentry. son of Capt. A. S. Gentry,
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, fell
between two cars. and his body was
completely severed.
The bodies of eleven miners who were
killed in the snow slide at the Home
stake mine in Colorado have been re-
covered. 1t is thought the slide occur
red about the 10th of February.
One thousand persons were thrown
out of work in Philadelphia Monday
by the closing of Dobson's blanket mills.
| The firm had learned that the hands in
| tended TO strike for an increase in
wages.
Rev. August Krause, pastor OF Re-
formed Church in Baltimore, received
fatal stroke of apoplexy last Sunday
while praying in church. Mr.. Joseph
Shane, also of Baltimore, was paralyzed
last week while engaged in prayer.
NJ. G.. Harlow, Il merchant of Pleasant
View, in Amherst county, Va, was
drowned with his eighty ear-old son at
the mouth of the PedlarJames river
Tuesday morning. The father lost his
life while attempting the rescue of his
son.
On Saturday evening John Smith,
Philadelphia baker, found his wife in
company with George Doherty. The
latter fled TO the roof and endeavored 10
Chamber down the water-spout 10 the
GROUND. The spout gave way and DOH
erty was so badly hurt that he died on
MonGay.
During Saturday and Sunday fifty
boats of the Portland and Gloucester
mackerel fleet arrived at New York
having on board from 100000 to
10. 600, 900 fresh mackerel in fine condi-
ton. This large al rival Immediately
sent the price of mackerel down to
$2.5O thousand, barely enough to pay
for coming into port.
At Mount Vernon, Mo-, lust Sat urday
evening, John A. Tennis and George
Ii. Moore, old and well-known citizens,
between whom bitter feud OF several
years standing existed, met OH the
street and Immediately drew revolvers
and commenced firing. Tennis was
shot through the head and Moore
through the heart. and both died in five
minutes.
The Supreme Court of West Virginia
has rendered decision in favor Of NJ.
o. Chapman in his suit against the Pitts
burg and Steubenville Railroad Com
pany, now part OF the Panhandle
line, for $3.50, 900 due OH contract work
for the construction of the road. Mr..
Chapman bought up the claims Of the
contractors. The case will probably be
appealed to the United States Supreme
Court.
John Bergermeyer, of Holmesburg,
in the suburbs of Philadelphia, secret
ed 81 800 in city skies and government
bonds anG 5000 in gold in the cushion
of chair in his house. The heat OF
the stovepipe set the woodwork Of the
room on fire, and the chair, which stood
against the wall, was destroyed, to-
gether with the bonds. But little else
in the house was damaged. Berger
meyer was so overcome by his loss that
he tainted.
Chas. B. Shultz, ali electrician, stood
on the top round of ladder fourteen
feet from the sidewalk, in Chicago, ad-
justing dimly burning electric light.
Losing his balance, he grasped both
rods which support the lamp and
through which a current was passing.
He was unable to let 60 and hung
wrilhing to the swinging lamp until
some one had stopped the engine which
supplied the current, when he fell to
the sidewalk dead.
Isaac Martin, young farmer living
near Salem, Roanoke county, Va, left
his home Wednesday of last week,
and went into the field to work and
nothing has been heard of him since.
This is the second case of mysterious
disappearance in that neighborhoood in
the last two weeks. The list of such
disappearances in the western portion
of the State in the past few months is
remarkable, quite number having oc-
Cured during that time, and no clue
has ever bee discovered to any Of them.
A menagerie was recently burne at
Roubaix. in France, aud many of the
wild animals were roasted to death
There was great damage at one time of
the beasts escaping into the town, and
the citizens became furious over the
neglect Of the police to prevent or ex-
tinguish a fire. A mob seized the po-
licemen on duty, and compelled them
to eat portions of the burned animals.
The officers soon after became terribly
i'll with symptoms somewhat resembling
those of cholera. The mysterious dis
ease quickly spread to other victims, and
has now become epidemic.
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