Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-12-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Robert Browning, the English poet,
is dead, at the age Off years.
DIR. Seth Pancoast. noted Phila-
delphia physician and scientist, Is
dead.
Warren Leland. Jr., the we'll
known hotel proprietor, has made an
assignment.
A Philadelphia firm has closed
contract to build large steam tam
merry at Salem, Va, to cost $40, 600.
1t is against the law to send a dun
on a postal card. Judge Thayer, OF
Cincinnati, has just fined a man for
doing SO.
Jake Kilrain has been sentenced to
pay a fine of 5000 and to serve two
months in Jail for prize fighting in
Mississippi
Near Union Springs. Ala, Friday
night, Hardy Walters and his nine
teen-year-old son were boiling syrup
| to make molasses. The boy fell into
the kettle and was scalded TO death.
Five men in wagon attempted to
cross the Baltimore s. Potomac Rail
road track near Washington last Sat
urday night. An express train hit
the wagon and killed four of the men.
A middle-aged woman, stranger,
registered at hotel in Frederick,
Md, Monday evening, and next morn
| ing she was found dead in her room.
1t is not known whether she died of
apoplexy or committed suicide.
Near Birmingham, Ala, the other
day, a woman discovered loose rail
on the Georgia Pacific Railroad. She
heard train coming, so she tore oil
her red petticoat and ran up the
track waving it just in time to save
passenger train. She was handsomely
| rewarded.
Franklin b. Gowen, one of the
most prominent lawyers in Pennsyl-
vania, and at one time president of
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road. committed suicide at Wormley's
| Hotel in Washington last Saturday.
He was very brilliant man, fairly
prosperous, and no cause is known
| for the rash deed.
William H. Bailey and SalIie H.
Wallace, of Waterford, Miss, were
married Thursday at Bolivar, Tenn.
| Both parties are wealthy, and an odd
legal fight is promised. The girl is
less than 10 years DID, wears short
dresses, and seems childish in every
thing save an unyielding determine
ton to assert her marital rights.
On the Inflated 31st of May last, Mr..
Edward G. Creager, of Hancock, Md,
rescued from drowning in the mad
water at Johnstown, Pa, Miss Adele
Webster, of Philadelphia. Since then
Cupid has not been idle, and now the
announcement is made that Hymen
will fescue both these people from the
loneliness and uncertainty of single
blessedness.
Floyd Carwiles, farmer living in
Campbell county, Va, was attacked
while asleep in bed by mink a few
nights ago and badly bitten in the
neck. Carwiles says the mink evil
IDENTIFY tried to sever the jugular vein
i'm order to suck the blood, as he bit
directly over it, and if he had not
awakened on the instant would GER
tainly have been killed.
Four negro men, charged with set
ting fire to the town Of Rocky Mount
on the night Of the 18th of October,
were tried in the county court of
Franklin county, Va, last week and
convicted. They were all sentenced to
be hung. Their names are George
Early, VIM. Woods, Boyd Woods and
Mamie Woods. Two other persons
are held for trial as being accessories
to the crime In the conflagration "a
buildings were burned.
A sad case of premature burial has
just been discovered at Madison,
Wis. About a month ago diphtheria
appeared in the home of promin ent
family. a young domestic was ter
ribly frightened and desired to go
home to the country, but the attend
ing physician would not permit this.
A young child died of the dread disease
and this, with the horror of disease,
caused the girl to take to her bed,
and she apparently died in few
hours and was at once buried by the
authorities. A few days ago her
parents obtained permission to re
move the body to the country, and
upon opening the casket they were
Mortified to discover the body ly.
ing on its face, the hair wrenched
from the head and the flesh literally
torn from the face and hands.