Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The tin trust engineered by capital
lists in Europe has busted.
Forest fires have been doing consid-
cradle damage along the Blue Ridge
mountains in Pennsylvania and Mary
land
The public debt of the United States
was reduced 50, 235, 300 during April.
The amount of cash now in the Treas
ury is $500, 1853, $40.
AT Roanoke, Va, a few days ago a
bank of earth suddenly caved in on
w. T. Lynch and Dudley Brown,
crushing them TO death.
Michael Sullivan, sixteen-yearo ld
boy living in Philadelphia, hung him
self few days ago. He had had a
quarrel with his father and was afraid
to return home.
While drunk, the other night,
Charles George, carpenter Of Potts
vile. Pa, fell against a fence, and his
head catching between the palings he
hung there until he was dead.
BY the explosion of gas main in
Chicago the other day seventy per-
sons were thrown into the air. sixteen
big plate-glass windows were broken,
and S35, 900 worth of property destroy
ed. No one was killed.
Roy Fake, aged seventeen years,
while playing with pistOlin the pres
ence of Mamie Roof, his sweetheart,
at Massillon, Ohio, last Saturday, &C
cidentally shot himself through the
head, falling dead at the girls feet.
An aged maiden of Carlo, Mich, I'M
dertook to change the color of her hair
from gray to black. Her eyesight be-
ing poor, she mistook the color of the
dye, used blue coloring stuff, and her
locks are now of that patriotic shade
Near Richmond, Ky, on Sunday last
Arch Stoltz, a farmer, committed sui
eide by taking trough on rats" His
brother William, seeing the corpse,
took the remainder of the poison,
leaving a note saying he wished both
TO be buried in the same coffin.
Dr. l.. Webster Fox, in Philadelphia
last Saturday performed successfully
the operation of transplanting part
OF the eye of a rabbit TO the eye of
girl who had become nearly blind.
This is the third time that this opera
ton has ever been performed, and the
first time in America.
In Chicago, Sunday night, Matthew
Muehlberg returned home intoxicated
and attempted to assault his thirteen
year-old daughter Eleanor. Her cries
brought her stepmother, who endeav-
to prevent the crime. Muehlberg
turned upon her and after beating
her struck her with a crowbar, inflict-
ing fatal injuries. He then fled He
attempted an assault upon the same
daughter two years before.
A special from Mcdonald Pa, to the
Philadelphia Press says: One of the
most remarkable curiosities that was
ever witnessed in this part of the coun-
try is the pair of twin babies that Mrs
Emile Charlier has just become moth
er to. The boy and girl just measure
8 inches in length, and are inches
around the waist, and their feet are
2 inches long. Their heads are about
the size of a common tea-cup. They
are in a healthy condition and are
both getting along well. The babies
are kept rolled up in cotton. They
are undoubtedly the smallest babies
ever born in this part of the State.
Nearly five pages of last weeks
Manufacturers Record was filled with
special letters from Governors and
agricultural commissioners of the
Southern States, upon the financial
condition Of the farming interests of
the South and the general progress of
that section. In every case the farm
ers are said to be more prosperous
than for many years, and proof of
this is given in the great decrease i'll
the lumber and amount of mortgages
and crop liens. Farmers are less in
debt chan at any time since the war,
and are buying more literally of i'm
proved labor saving agricultural i'm
plements.