Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

VIM. NJ. Gait, a leading business
man of Washington, ID. c., died last
week.
DIR. G. p. Burwell has sold his farm
of 300 acres in Clarke county to q. w.
Rice, of Winchester, for $4,000.
Another large blast furnace is to be
built i'm Roanoke, Va, by James p.
Witherow, for Pennsylvania capital
ISIS.
A large switzer barn belonging to
Mr.. jeremiah Albaugh. was burned
in Frederick county, Md, last week.
Loss over $4,000.
Mr.. Jacob Eyler, aged SO years, a
resident of Frederick county, Md,
got lost while going from church last
week, fell into a creek, and was
drowned.
Sullivan and Kilrain have finally
agreed to fight. The match is TO take
place near New Orleans on July Sth,
the stakes to be $4,000 and the dia-
mond belt.
The handsome country house of Mr..
Frank Thomson, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Philadelphia, was
burned on Tuesday. The loss will
reach $4,000.
1t is said that there will be more
winter visitors from the North TO
Florida than ever before, notwith
standing the yellow fever troubles of
the past summer.
d. C. Snyder has sold his property
in Luray, Va, to the Rev. F. II. Ker-
foot, of Louisville, KY, for $4,000, and
purchased the latter's fine farm in
Clarke county for 5000.
A grizzly bear that weighed 100
pounds was killed at Big Horn Basin,
w. r., short lineage. One hun
dred and nine shots were fired from
nine rifles before the brute was killed.
The man who took out the insur-
ance policy Of $4,000 on General Har-
rison the other day pronounced the
President-elect an excellent risk and
would have liked TO double the
amount.
The way of the transgressor is
hard. Benjamin Hopkins, the cash
Ter of the Fidelity Bank of Cinein
natl, died on Monday, only few days
after he was pardoned from the pen
itentiary.
Murchison, the notorious CORE
spondent of Lord Sackville in the re-
cent campaign, has at last had his
identity revealed. His real name is
George Osgoodby, and he lives at Pc
mona, Cal.
The charitable manager a of Massa
chusetts cotton mill discharged sew
eral employees the other day because
they attended the funeral of fellow
employee. Thereupon all the work
men in the mill went on a strike.
JOS. p. Richards, near Faucets
Gap, Frederick county, Va, lost last
week, by accidental fire, his barn and
contents, wheat and farming imple-
ments. His son shot tow wad into
the barn Loss $4,000. No insurance.
DIR. J. n. Nyer, an aged and re-
spected dentist of Hazleton, Pa, shot
his wife dead last Monday and then
She was in hopeless ill-health, and
50 lutl MUTUALLY dSletu w IN lhCIh
selves of their earthly troubles by
death.
The theory that sleep-walkers never
hurt themselves is once more exploded.
Early Tuesday morning Ann Baker,
aged so, boarder at Langan's Hotel,
New Brunswick, n. j., while walking
in her sleep removed window-sash
and fell twenty feet to the pavement.
She expired shortly after.
The man who claims to be the most
celebrated horse thief in the world is
now under arrest at Lorensberg, Kan.
His name is Washington Waterman
and he is seventy-eight years OF age.
He acknowledges the theft of 100
horses in Kansas alone, and the au-
thorities of the State are willing TO
admit that he has made off with FIVE
times that many