Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-04-06
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! the actors, will clear $500, 600 this sea-
son.
Raging floods in Germany have rem
| dered 100. 900 people homeless and ru-
ined property to an incalculable de-
gree.
Two countrymen blew out the gas
| in hotel at Reading. Pa, the other
night, and were found dead the next
morning.
Isaac Hollad has just obtained $50
| 600 from the Chicago and Eastern Hi
nois Railroad for injuries received on
that road.
A locomotive on the New York and
| New Haven Railroad exploded its boil
er last week and killed the fireman
and engineer.
While he was drunk the other day
! Pat Packenham cut his wife's throat
from ear TO ear with razor at their
home in New York.
The prisoners in the Washington jail
! formed conspiracy last week TO Kill
! the'keepers and escape. but fortunate
ly their plot was discovered.
BENJAMIN Harris Brewster, Attorney
General Of the United States during
President Arthur's administration,
died on Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Elizabeth George. who recent
ly died in Baltimore, has left 500 TO
each of her six grandsons to be paid
/ them with interest when they are of
age-provided they do not use tobac-
co by that time.
j. w. Hill shot and killed Miss Sarah
Brown at Trenton, Mo, last week by
acting ike an idiot. He pointed a
shotgun at her when by some means
it was discharged killing the young
lady instantly. Miss Brown was an
only daughter, and her parents are
crazed with grief.
The trustees of the CatOctin Iron
Works, located near Mechanicstown,
Md, have decided TO sell all the valua-
BILE property connected with that we'll
known industry. This includes the
large coke and charcoal furnaces,
nearly 100 tenement houses, a number
of fine dwelling houses, ore banks,
and between 10000 and II, 900 acres OF
land.
Herbert Johnson, aged thirteen
years, son of wealthy farmer at
Iimeport. Pa, was reported Monday
morning by his school teacher for
defacing school furniture. He went
home and made his will, in which he
disposed of some property he owned
to near friends, and then with re-
volver sent bullet into his brain. No
4, Il i l.,
The wealthiest Knights OF Pythias
Lodge in the world is said to be Live
Oak Lodge, of Oakland. Cal. Its mem
bership is over 300 and the aggregate
wealth runs high in the millions. Its
treasury represents between -, 800,
600 and $1,000, 600 All furniture used
in the lodge is covered with morocco.
One of the aged members recently
died. beuueathiug the lodge So, 600, COO
and his widow. who did not long sur
vive him, willed TO the lodge 100000.
4 great sensation has been created
at Laharpe, ILL.,, by the discovery that
wholesale robberies of dry goods and
millinery stores j. the work of four
Young girls, aged from 10 to l3 years,
daughters of respectable citizens of
that place. For over two weeks goods
amounting to large sum i'll value
have been stolen in broad daylight,
but no clew TO the thieves could be
found. \ sweeping search was made
and large quantities were found Sc
GREETED in barns, outhouses and under
sidewalks. The childrens' parents are
Frustrated with grief and offer to
make amends.
Five years ago Thomas Davis was
sent to the penitentiary from Litch-
field, ILL.,, on a seven years sentence
for highway robbery. The evidence
was circumstantial and Davis declared
he was innocent. When sentence was
pronounced on him he swore that
when he got out he would kill Consta-
BILE Samuel Waldrop, who, it is said,
worked hard for his conviction. Davis
was recently released from the penl-
Tertiary under the good-time rule,
and Monday morning called on Wal
drop, told him who he was, reminded
him of his oath and shot him dead.
The murderer fled and a posse is i'll
pursuit.
The arrangements for the reunion
of the survivors of the Army of the
Potomac with the survivors Of the
Army of Northern Virginia are pro
crossing satisfactorily. George Will
liam Curtis will deliver the Grafton,
George Parsons Lathrop the poem
and Bishop Horatio Potter of New
York, the address of welcome. Some
distinguished Confederate will be Sc
lected to make the replyt TO the address
of welcome. The reunion will be on
the LIST and I'd and Sd of July next at
Gettysburg and will conclude with a
grand banquet. President Cleveland,
General Sherman, General Sheridan
and many other distinguished officers
on both sides of the contest will be
present.
Near Covington, Ill a few days ago,
fire was discovered issuing from hole
in the top of a boX-car standing on
railroad siding. The flames were eX-
tinguished by some train men. When
the door was opened and the smoke
cleared away, the body of Il woman
was exposed lying upon the floor.
Her clothing was scattered about the
car, and her flesh blackened and
burned. Later developments show it
to have been the body of depraved
woman named Angelina Boles, well
known in Covington. The car doors
were fastened. 1t is still a mystery
whether it was suicide. murder or
accident, as it is thought the woman
may have been driven to build fire
in the car to keep from freezing, the
night being extremely cold.
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