Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

81 ,422 certificates.
DR.. VIM II. Cole, Representative in
Congress from the third Maryland dis
trict, died last week.
Sunfowers are grown for fuel in Wy
oming Territory. 1t Is said an acre OF
sunfiower will run stove for year.
Near Pine Bluff, Ark, Saturday,
gang OF about eighty convicts made
sudden break for liberty. The guards
Immediately leveled their rifles and
fired, killing three Of the ringleaders,
and MORALLY wounding four.
Matilda Thomas went to pick cherries
at Westchester, Pa, the other day, and
few hours later was found hanging
dead in the tree. She had, apparently,
slipped, and her neck catching in
crotch, she was hanged in that curious
way.
Baltimore's citizens wonder why,
when one of them appears wearing
light felt hat the street boys yell Pc
nuc.kle. Pe-nuc-kle!" as long as he is
in sight. Such is the fact, but no one
seems to have the slightest idea why
the boy9 do so.
Henry Meyer, Sr., cobbler at No. Is
Wall street, in South Baltimore, stabbed
and killed his son, Henry Meyer, Jr.,
last Friday night. They had quarreled
about money matters, and the father,
who had been drinking, rushed upon
his son with knife and killed him.
Mrs. Leland, who keeps a boarding
house al Reese River, New, had occa-
sion to dig hole in her back yard the
other day, and just under the surface
found fine eight-inch ledge of good
chloride silver ore. She has had her
claim recorded under the name of l.e-
land Ledge.
Johnnie Moore, Baltimore small
boy, found that toy pistol, carrying
ball as big az buckshot, was very hard
to cock. So he reversed the weapon in
order to get better grip, the hammer
slipped, and the ball went through
Johnnie's hand and into his abdomen.
The boy will die.
Mrs. Mueller of Perham, n. Y, feeling
i'll the other morning told her children
to make the kitchen fire. After little
time, not hearing them, she went to the
kitchen. The children were not there,
and with an unreasoning fear that some
thing awful had happened to them she
ran out into the yard screaming and fell
dead. The children had gone to milk
the COW.
The wife Of Asa Turpen, well-to-do
farmer, residing near Princeton, Gibson
county, Ind, sent two children OF her
husband by II former wife to the woods
after berries. She then hung her babe
by the neck until she supposed it was
dead, laid it in bed beside her seven
year-old daughter, whose throat she cut
from ear to ear, after which she went
to the barn and hanged herself
The most remarkable raft Of logs ever
put together will leave ST. Johns, n,
B., for New Y rk in few days. 1t is
a cigar-shaped cylinder, 400 feet long,
with the beam and draught of Il sea go
ing vessel, and contains $500, 900 feet Of
logs. Its value at st. Johns is $50, 900.
1t will be towed by II regular ocean
steamer. which will follow the coast
pretty closely. The object is to save
$4,000 duty, sawed timber being taxed,
while logs enter free.
j. 5. Delay, II prominent Knight OF
Labor just arrived from Texas, says
the cost nf tnr Could system strike to
the general b 'ar'l was 100000 and in
loss al Mays :" strikers 81 500, 900. The
cost ol the strike hI.I been placed at
$1,000, 900 by Attorney Ports AID Sn-
pcrintendent Kcrrigan. &. a. Hall,
whose discharge was instrumental in
causing the trouble, is still residing in
Marshall, Texas. He is out of work
and being taken care of, together with
with the balance Of the boys in his stua-
ton.
Mary Maloney, young woman EN-
ployed in the West End Laundry, Chi
cago, was the victim OF a peculiarly hOr-
rible accident last week. In some un-
accountable manner her hair was caught
by revolving shaft and wound ABOUND
it until she was lifted from the floor.
She would undoubtedly have been
killed had not the strain been so great
as to break her scalp, which was torn
from her head. The unfortunate girl
suffered greatly and became crazy. The
scalp was sewed in its place again and
may grow fast, but the physicians fear
the girl may not recover her reason.
At Underwood Springs. Maine, last
week, Professor .. Brunter, Of Ger
many, in series Of scientific expert
ments. transformed German wat er gas
into snow and then into a mass of beau-
tiful white crystal, resembling ice, but,
In reality, a local anesthettc, so power
full that single touch completely be
numbs the member, arrests the flow Of
blood, and enables the subject to endure
any operation without suffering or any
considerable loss Of blood. One indi-
vidual was given too prolonged touch
on the back of the hand, when he found
that the hand was devoid of all feeling.
For four hours needles inserted caused
no pain, and yet the baud was not pow
erless. No blood followed the punctur-
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