Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Policeman John Il. Lloyd was shot
and killed in Baltimore last week by
young tough named Samuel Cooper.
During celebration at Salem,
Mass, on July 4th, bomb exploded,
killing two persons and inJuring
number of others.
The Louisiana Lottery Company
offers to assume. the State debt OF
S12. 900, 900 for the extension of their
charter fifty years.
Rev. J. c.. Myers, an Illinois divine,
| was struck senseless by lightning
while preaching Sunday last. 1t is
feared he is blinded for life.
The President disappointed Horace
A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, to be Com
missioner of Railroads, vice General
Joseph f. Johnston, resigned.
Mr.. c.. p. Huntington is building a
ship-yard at Newport News, Va,
which he claims will be the largest
establishment in the United States.
A coroner's jury has found that the
owners of the South Fork dam are
responsible for the Johnstown disas-
secured.
Mrs. Samuel S. Ward, Joseph Keat
ing and his child and nurse girl were
ali killed on Friday near Red Bank,
n. j., by locomotive striking their
| carriage.
An offer has been made to the
British government of $4,000 per
annum for the privilege of advertis-
ing on the backs of postal cards and
postage stamps.
The Masons of Washington expect
to spend hundred thousand dollars
i'm entertaining the Grand Encamp-
ment of Knights Templar that meets
there in October.
Charles Railing, of Shippensburg,
Pa. was run over by u freight train
on the Cumberland Valley Railroad a
few days ago, and his head was cut
off from the body.
According to memorable statistics,
the number of people annually
choked to death i'll England while
eating il greater than the number OF
people killed on the railways.
At Williamsport, Pa, the three-year-
old daughter of Samuel Bower was
instantly killed by a little brother who
was swinging a moving scythe, which
struck the girl in the neck, nearly
severing her head.
Artie Shirley, young man "a years
of age, committed suicide at Wash
ington on Sunday by throwing him
self in front of locomotive. His
sweetheart had recently died, and life
had no further charms for him.
Professor r. w. Pool has closed
the sale of the Ferrel iron property
at Staunton, Va, containing 5000
acres, to a foreign syndicate for
$4,000 cash. The parties purchasing
will take possession at once and mine
and ship ores.
In Philadelphia Dennis Donovan,
20 years old, accidentally shot his
brother Thomas in the neck with
pistol which he was going TO shoot of
in honor of the Fourth, and then,
overcome with remorse, cut his own
throat with razor.
If there are any other places in
this country named YOUNGSTOWN tney
will do we'll to change their names.
On Tuesday there was a cloud burst
in Johnstown, New York, and ter
rible flood was the result. Many lives
were lost and much property destroy
ed
S. L. Horseman was killed on the
farm of Col. G. h. Brinton, near Lees
burg, Va, Tuesday, by the fall of a
prop to the roof of sheep pen. The
prop in its fall struck Mr.. Horseman
severe blow on the left side of the
head, breaking his neck and causing
almost instant death.
The bones representing all that re-
manned of what is supposed were four
teen or fifteen persons who were Killed
and burned to death in the late wreck
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
near Thaxton's, were buried in two
collins in the City Cemetery of Roam
oke last Sunday. The bodies of Mr..
G.. w. Steed, of Cleveland, Tenn, and
little Pattie Darlington, of Richmond,
Va, were positively identified, and
were sent to their friends for inter
ment Mr. Steed's body was the only
one not mutilated or burned. Memo
rial services for the dead were held at
the First Presbyterian Church in
Roanoke.