Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-24
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

Last week there were PIP deaths in
Baltimore, of which 100 were infants
under one year old.
A destructive fire occurred at Liberty,
Va. Wednesday morning, causing a
loss of $l5, 900. This is the third large
fire in that place within year.
A few days ago Christopher Mann,
aged one hundred and eleven years, died
at Independence, New. He was horned
i'm Virginia in IVA, aud went West in
1888.
Perry Oakley, town marshal Of Step
tone, KY, killed quite large number
of the Smith family on Saturday, and
was subsequently well filled with buck
shot himself.
, Louis Foster, cOlored, aged lG, Of
Spartansburg, S. c., was bitten By
mad dog two years ago. On Sunday he
was attacked with hydropho5ia and
Monday he died.
The lot upon which new and costly
building has been erected in Wall street,
New York, is 80 by 100 feet and cost
500, 200. At this rate the value is
81, 0OO, 600 an acre.
A mailman has been arrested at San
Dona, near Venice, on the charge of
Kidnapping. He cOnfesses that ne has
stolen and eaten number of children
because he was starving.
The town of Skidmore, Mo-, was en-
tirely consumed by fire on Sunday af-
ternoon. The loss is $4,000 and the
insurance $50, 900. The fire was caused
by boys building bonfire.
Daniel Keenly, night Waterman on
the West Shore Railroad at Rock Cut,
in Little Falls, n. Y, was trying to get
a stranger off the track, Saturday night,
when both men were struck by the train
and killed.
j. NJ. Joby, of Laurens, S. c., on Sat-
urday compelled a white man named
Palmer, who he thought had insulted
him, to submit to a whipping at the
hands of q colored man employed by
him dolby.
The amount of grain in sight in the
United States and Canada Saturday
last was, according to Chicago Board
of Trade figures: Wheat 1859, l9l
bushels; corn, {, 427, 1886; oats 2 ,4s3, 1856:
arley, lob, 5l2.
About sixty men were overcome by
foul air and smoke from the blasting in
the South Pennsylvania Railroad tun-
mel at Roxbury, Pa, Friday evening.
Two were dead when rescued, and sew
eral others are not expected to live.
Last Friday night the residence Of
Joseph NJ. Evans, a two-story log hut,
three miles from Graybampton, Clear
field county, Pa, was destroyed by fire,
and six of his children, ranging in ages
from six to fifteen years, were burned to
death.
An old man named John Tolly was
asleep on the steps of his house, 457 West
Reimbursement street, New York, last
Sunday when some parties saturated
his clothing with kerosene oil and set it
on fire. He was badly burned about the
lower limbs.
A. NJ. Hummul, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
has discovered new and sure cure for
consumption. 1t is to eat three New
foundland puppies. He tried it himself
with eminent success. The difficulty is
to find the puppies, as the Newfound-
land is very scarce.
There is great social stir at Ocalo,
Fla, over the marriage Of the widow of
the late DR.. ZeButt to W. d. Prentiss,
the son of an Episcopal clergyman.
The bride is in her s0th year, and has
an income of SIS, 900 per annum, whilst
the groom is only "a years old.
Johnny Skae, who was known to
mining men in San Francisco and on
the Comstock six years ago as the faith
er of the Sierra Nevada bonanza" and
who at one period Of his checkered Ca
reer could sign his check for $40, 0O0,-
600, died in that city last Thursday in
poverty.
A fire in the main operating room of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, in Philadelphia, Saturday morn
ing, Quilted the room and wrecked the
switchboard containing over 400 wires.
The plant Of the main operating room
was destroyed. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by an electric spark
carried into the office on a wire which
had come in contact with an electric
light wire. The damage was about
$4,000.