Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-03

sane asylum at Middletown, y. Y, on
Tuesday.
A destructive fire visited Suffolk,
Va, on Wednesday. Seventy-siX
houses were burned and damage Of
! $500, 600 sustained.
Edwin Barbour, who murdered Ell
lis Williams at Culpeper. Va, some
months ago, has been acquitted by a
jury, and gets off scot free.
Congressman Samuel J. Randall has
been removed from Washington 70 his
country home near Philadelphia. He
seems TO be improving in health.
At Piedmont. w. Va. on Wednes-
day David Jackson jumped from n
train while il was running forty miles
an hour. Both of his legs were cut of
Near Lexington, KY, on Tuesday.
the horse Bell Boy was sold at public
sale for 5000 which is said 70 be
the highest price ever paid for a horse
For the fiscal year just closed there
was decline of over twenty million
dollars in merchandise exports, and
an increase of over thirty millions in
imports.
Miss Sarah f. Greenwich. an aged
maiden lady of Clarkson, Ny, COM
mitted suicide the other day because
a man who had been counting her
married another woman.
The Democratic convention at
Staunton, Va. on Wednesday nomi-
mated Henry ST George Tucker. son
of Hon Randolph Tucker, for Con-
gress from the tenth district
Senators Ingalls, and Sherman visit
/ tied Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren at her
summer home on South Mountain
last Saturday. The Republicans of
that neighborhood gave them an en-
thusiaStic reception.
Hon. James q. Blaine is expected to
arrive in New York from his European
tour next Wednesday. He j. to be
greeted with reception that is in
tended TO eclipse anything of the
kind ever seen i'll this country.
\ box car loaded with corn on an
eastbound Union Pacific freight, near
/ Valley, Neb., Wednesday night, was
/ thrown down an embankment and
stood on end. Six tramps were in the
car and were smothered TO death.
The Democratic Convention for the
seventh Virginia district, at Wood
stock last week, renominaJed Hon. &.
| 7. OFerrall without opposition, Mr..
/ VIM Il. Alexander, his only opponent,
/ having withdrawn before vote was
taken.
Max Englar, youth Of seventeen,
| has disappeared from LockpOrt, y. Y,
with eighteen hundred dollars stolen
| from his father. The money had been
saved up by the old man for the pur-
pose of starting his scapeSrace son in
! business.
May Brothers, Nurserymen, Roches-
ter. \. Y. are in want of good sales
men 10 sell their choice varieties of
Nursery Stock, either on salary or
commission. TO the right men, steady
employment the year round. Write
/ them for terms.
\ volcanic eruption at Bandaisan,
/ fiftv leagues from Yokohama, has de
stroyed several villages and killed one
| thousand persons including one hun
] '
| A fresh crater has formed and the
eruption is still active.
Mrs Patrick COnnOrton. of Hart
ford Conn. gave birth toa child Oc-
tober last 1t lived but one week
| Tuesday she gave birth to triplets.
all girls, making four babies in less
| than ten months. Mrs. Connorton
] a nj
! had seven children. all living but one
Charles Miranda was killed on the
railroad, near Lancaster, O., on Mon
dav night. He was one Of the seven
| brothers, all of whom, with II single
exception. have met with fatal acct
dents. The surviving brother is yard
master at Springfield o. They were
all railroad employees.
At Eden. Miss. Frank Guise. IA negro
who had insulted a member of Mr.
| Ogert's family was pursued and shot
dead by Ogert Monday. The dis
charge of the gun frightened the
horse, which threw Ogert off, and
while he was down two negro friends
| of Guise attacked him with axes and
] cut Ills Iltdu Oi
4, Mrs. John Clipps, residing at Shocks
town. Frederick county, Md, was bit
ten some time ago by copper snake.
She was nursing an infant, and con
tinued TO feed il milk from the bosom
The wound healed. and she felt no
effects of the poison. The infant
/ however. sucked the poison with its
l milk. and died from the effects last
Tuesday night
While James Martin, a wealthy
farmer Of Mckinney, Perry county.
Ohio. and his son John were harvest
ing on Saturday. their machine got
out Of order. and both men crawled
under il to fix it. While in this posi-
ton their horses became frightened
and ran away. drawing their machine
over them and almost decapitating
them Both are fatally injured.
An extraordinary case OF death from
dentistry occurred at the Presbyter
ian Hospital. in New York. where
/ Thomas Dunnigan died from the re-
suits of the apparently insignificant
operation Of having 9 tooth extracted
Last Friday the tooth was drawn
and every effort Of the physician fail
ed 10 stop the flow Of blood. which
steadily went OH until the man died Of
exhaustion.
Intelligence FROM Fergus Falls.
Mimi. says: The grasshopper war at
Pcrham continues undated Al
though over 10000 bushels have been
caught. they are still catching them
1t a lively rate. None TO speak Of
have flown off. a lU rose up and flew
( five or six miles. and when they alight-
ed A. bushels Of them were caught.
Last Monday night 100 bushels were
caught in one field.
Will Pruden. son of Mr. O. >. Pru-
den. Assistant Secretary TO the Presi-
dent. was killed last Saturday near
Arlington. Va, where he was spend
ing short vacation. 1t appears that
/ rho men cuuloVrd on the farm had