Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST

The great quantities of ice in the riv-
ers and bays and the recent severe
weather have caused much damage to
shipping.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
Ill pensioners on its pay-rolls, and the
membership of its relief association is
over l6, 900.
Ten thousand hogs have died in the
neighboraood of Beloit, Wis, during
the winter from disease said by the
stockmen to be measles.
A fre-damp explosion occurred last
week at mine No. 4, al Almy, Wyoming
Territory, by which thirteen men were
killed and the mine buildings were de-
stroyed.
A. w. Bondurant, u prominent citizen
of Staunton, Va, was decapitated AT
Goshen, thirteen miles west Of Lexing-
ton, Va, by Chesapeake and Ohio train
last week.
A corner lot on Broadway, New York,
running through to New street, embrac-
ing ,537 square feet, was sold at public
auction Tuesday for 100000, or about
$l0l square foot.
Miss Emma Starr, daughter of Mr..
John Starr, editor of the Evening Star,
Charleston, w. Va, was married last
week to Mr.. Hugh B. Laughlin, a mer-
chant of Lexington, Va.
The dwelling of Emanuel johnson,
in Columbia county, Arkansas, was de-
stroyed by fire. Friday night, and six
children, who were sleeping in one
room, were burned to death.
A colored woman, living at Pond
Hill, Conn.,, put her baby in the oven
of a stove to keep it warm, the fire be-
ing nearly out. In her absence her hus-
band returned home, and built fire in
the stove, roasting the child alive.
Benjamin CoDkson, aged 20 years, liv-
ing near Bangor, Maine, was burned to
death Saturday night in r.scuing his
sons wife and two children from their
burning house. He was caught by the
falling roof just as he had passed the
second child out.
/ Blanche Marks, the fourteen-year-old
daughter of Peter Marks, of Bangor,
Pa, died a few days ago after intense
suffering. During recess at school last
Friday she jumped rope to such an ex-
tent that she sustained internal injuries,
which caused her death.
Tie bill of undertaken Merritt for the
Grant funeral expenses has at last been
paid, reQuisition for the amount-sl4, >
l63.75-having been sent him. The re-
QUESTION was upon the Secretary Of the
Treasury, and was paid out of the avail
able appropriations for this year.
There is great excitement in Hancock
county, W. Va, over natural gas devel'
opment. More than dozen wells are
being put down. People are hocking
there from all quarters and leasing land
at high prices. Wellsville, Ohio, just
opposite, is sharing the excitement. II
all turns out as well as expected, ga;
will be piped to Cincinnati and Cleve.
land. Ii is said the Standard Oil Com.
pany is securing all the territory il can
in the region.
Isaiah Roberts, Of Wellsburg, w. Va.
died Wednesday, aged 81 years. He
was soldier in tile wsr Of 1912, and
walked home TO Washington, Pa, fron
New Orleans. He was also teamsteI
in the late civil war. He possessed &
remarkable memory aud delighted tC
relate incidents of his life. He has &
large number OF descendants living il
Wellsburg, extending as far down tn,
tree Of genealogy as the fifth generation
having one great-grear-grandehild, aget
about five years.