Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Col E. B. G. Cash, the noted South
Carolina duelist, died last Saturday,
of paralysis, at the age of GO years.
Trenton, n. j., has a beautiful
Young girl, somnambulist, who per
ambulates the public streets in her
night dress.
The Union Square Theatre, one OF
the oldest and most valuable play
houses in New York, was destroyed by
fire last Tuesday
Hutchinson & Co, the most promi-
nent merchants of Point Pleasant,
made an assignment last week. Liza
bilities 100000; assets $4,000.
Commodore Barron. distinguished
officer of the United States and Con
federate navies, died in Essex county,
Va, last Sunday, aged so years.
George Robinson, a colored man,
was arrested in Frederick, Md, last
Thursday night for an attempted as
sault on white woman. Threats OF
lynching were made.
In Walker county, Ga, Friday, jeff
McGoodan and Taylor Kemp got into
quarrel over woman, when the
former shot the latter through the
heart, killing him instantly.
Harry Harwood died in Baltimore
last Friday from injuries received by
being thrown by his horse i'll the Ivy
City steeplechase last October. He
was a noted horseman.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, through President Spencer,
asks Baltimore for an extension of the
five million loan. 1t is also proposed
to wipe out the sinking fund.
Fitz, owned by G. W. Littlejohn, of
Leesburg, Va, was awarded the
special prize as the best pointer dog
on exhibition at the Westminster
Kennel Club show in New York.
\ few days ago farmer in Accomac
county, Va, found considerable
sum of money in gold and silver coins,
supposed to have been buried during
the Revolutionary war by wealthy
Englishman.
The National Opera Company
busted in Washington last week.
The expenses were so much greater
than the receipts that the company
disbanded for good, some Of the mem-
bers being left without a cent.
Joseph II. Beeler, a prominent citi
zen of Greencastle, Pa, aged tifty-siX
wears, committed suicide Monday by
hanging himself to rafter in the gar
ret of his house. His wife died some
time ago, leaving him with four small
children, and grief over his loss drove
him insane.
All of the engineers and firemen on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad went on strike at o'clock
Monday morning. They want equality
in wages, which the company refuses
to grant. Very few trains are being
run on the road and its business is al
most entirely stopped.
Tolbert Rollins, a crazy man, resid-
ing in Perre county, Ark, recently
took novel method of committing
suicide He emptied a powder flask
in his mouth and then ignited the
powder with match. The explosion
tore away portion of his face, caus-
ing injuries from which he cannot re-
cover.
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Jacob Laing, of Newark, y. J., were
made dangerously ill from the effects
of drinking tea made of Unison weed,
taken by mistake for boneset tea.
Mrs. Laing, an aged lady, when first
under the influence of the poison,
laughed continually; Mrs. Edwards, a
married daughter, cried bitterly, and
Miss Laing, age %, became very volu-
BILE.
Monmouth, ILL.,, was startled by n
terrific roar or explosion Wednesday
night which shook the walls and win
dows of many buildings in the city.
The sky was lit up with what APP
peared to have been monster meteor.
The direction was from southeast to
northwest. Reports from neighbor-
ing towns show that all experienced
the same sensations to the shock and
flight of the visitor.
Boils, pimples, hives. ringwOrm, letter,
and all other manifestations OF impure blood
are cured by Hoods SarSaparilla.
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