Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-12-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

John G. Whittier, the poet, was 81
years old last Monday.
The town of Manchester, Kansas,
was entirely destroyed by fire last
Sunday night.
Mr.. Charles L. Mayer, Jr., a noted
civil engineer, of Baltimore, died sud-
denly on Tuesday.
A new bridge is to be built across
the Mississippi river at st. Louis. 1t
will cost 81, 000,00
A woman Of Huntington, Conn,
who is only thirty-five years of age,
has had nine husbands.
The rolling mills of the B. & o. Rail
road at Cumberland have started up
again after long period of idleness.
Byron Holmes. a well-known man
about Baltimore. committed suicide
the other day without any apparent
parent cause.
Harper, the wrecker of the Fidelity
Bank, of Cincinnati, and who has
been confined in the penitentiary, has
become insane.
Harvey Luddington, a boy ID years
old, killed his father at Hinsdale, y.
Y, by throwing a chair at him, frac-
turing his skull.
A full inventory of the estate of the
late A. S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun,
has been returned. 1t foots up the
snug sum of 1907, 1913.
Ex-Mayor r. j. Hahn, of Hagers-
town, and Mrs. Fannie Beaumont,
widow of Commodore Beaumont,
were married in Washington last
week.
James Chamberlain Morford, the
last of the members of the Old Defen-
der's Association, died last Monday
morning, in Baltimore, aged ninety
three years.
\ passenger train rolled down the
side of mountain in New Mexico the
other day, and strange to say not one
person was killed. y good many
were injured, though.
The whole family of Thomas j. VIII
cox. Baltimore, We're made sick by
something they ate and it is believed
were poisoned by the lead from can
ned tomatoes and corn.
DR.. John J. Moran, of Falls Church,
Va, died in Washington city Thurs
dav morning He was widely known
throughout literary circles for his de-
fence of the poet Edgar Allen Poe.
They have discovered n new way Of
making d bonfire at Virginia City,
New. Bricks are soaked iii kerosene
for two DAYS, after which they will
burn brightly for more than an hour.
The latest meanest man halls from
Michigan. He closed his store until
after his wifes funeral, and then dock
ed all his employees for lost time. That
man is just about mean enough to get
rich.
Pretty Boy, Sioux Indian, must
indeed have been pretty boy. The
other day he got drunk and killed
his wife, slaughtered four policemen,
and wound up by bleeding himself to
death.
Mrs. Catharine Schmitt, a young
married woman Of New York, the
other day threw her two young chill
dren down an air-shaft and then
jumped down herself. All of them
were killed.
Oliver Butts, of HagerstOwn, was
shot and badly wounded last Tuesday
by Bert Gaver, Of Frederick county,
Md. 1t was butchering time, and the
shot was the result of whiskey aud a
political discussion.
Dave Fotheringham, the Adams
Express messenger who was falsely
accused of robbing the safe in his
charge, has been given IS, 300 by the
express company as a balm for his
wounded feelings. But he had TO go
to law to get it.
Last Saturday night two masked
men stopped passenger train Of the
Illinois Central Railroad near Duck
hill. Miss, and stole $4,000 of the ex
press money. One of the passengers,
a Mr.. Hughes, went out of the car
with his rifle, when the robbers shot
him dead.