Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Larry Jerome, a wealthy New York
er and a well-known wit, is dead.
Gen. Jno. b. Gordon has been unan-
imously renominated for Governor
of Georgia.
Howard o. Spencer, a Mormon resi-,
dent of Utah, has just been arrested
for murder committed 20 years ago.
Hugh Maxwell, the murderer OF
Preller, both OF whom were English,
men, was hanged in the st. Louis jail
last Friday.
John ID. Grier, auditor of the Cum
berland Valley Railroad Company,
died in Chambersburg, Pa, on Satur-
day, aged 20 years.
Yellow fever has broken out in Jack
sonville, Florida, and the people are
all leaving the city. Business is COM
pletely demoralized.
Mr.. A. Harmon Reed and Miss
Fanny Milliken, two prominent young
society people, were drowned at Bar
Harbor, Maine, last Saturday.
William B. Baker, the owner of
the extensive Touring mills and
president of the Shenandoah Nation
al Bank. died at his residence in Win
chester, last week.
Judge John X. Cowen, who made
such stir in Baltimore politics as an
Independent year or two ago, has
returned to the Democratic fold, and
will do effective work this campaign.
A fire in Chattanooga, Tenn, on
Thursday night destroyed one of the
chief business blocks of the city, caus-
ing loss of nearly S350,00O. The
falling walls crushed the life out of
several persons.
A great lumber trust has been or
gained by the big lumber dealers OF
Wisconsin, Minnesota and the north
west. The syndicate controls about
S60,0000 900 worth of property, and is
besides backed by German capital
lists.
Two little girls, one five and the other
eight, were caught stealing handker-
chiefs in a store in Brooklin, Thurs
day. A number of stolen articles were
found on them. They said their moth
er forced them to steal. The mother
was arrested, and $3.50 worth of stolen
goods were found in her apartments.
A dreadful accident occurred on the
Erie Railroad near Port Jervis, n. Y,
on Monday. a fast passenger train
ran into a freight, making a great
wreck. Two persons were killed and
twenty others badly injured. Twelve
fine race horses belonging to Fred
Gebhard and Mrs. Langtry, worth
$500, 600, were killed or burned to death.
Amandus and William Holler, broth
ers, leading young men of Mullins
vile, Pa, were drowned in the Sus-
quehanna river in sight of their
friends Sunday. Amandus, the eldest,
made dive from high rock. He
arose once, raised a cry of distress,
and his younger brother at once went
to his rescue His brother pulled him
down. and both were drowned.
The wife of Captain Bates died at
their home, near Wadsworth, Ohio,
last Sunday. They were the largest
married couple in the world. The
captain is eight feet tall and his wife
seven feet nine inches. They have eX-
hibited in most every museum in this
country and the old world. Mrs. Bates
gave birth to child weighing TWEEN
ty-eight pounds several years ago, and
has been in poor health ever since.
Near Chambersburg, Pa, few
days ago, an eight-year-old son of
William Washington was killed under
peculiar circumstances. The lad had
been sent to drive the COWS away from
a hay-rick. He caught hold of the
tail of one of the animals, but the hair
became twisted around his arm, and
the boy was dragged all over the
field. He was found lying dead, with
his skull fractured and his body badly
mangled.
Jacob Miller, who lives in Cobb
county. Ga, had not walked in seven
years on account of the contraction
of the muscles of the leg. During re-
cent storm, while sitting under tree,
a stroke of lightning shattered the
top of the trunk of the tree, knock
ing it into splinters Miller says he
felt the current of electricity pass
through his body, and he thought
death was upon him. In attempting
to get his crutch he found that his
leg was almost straight, and he has
walked without assistance ever since.
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