Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The nail manufacturers have made
an increase in the price of nails.
Sixteen miners were killed at San
Andreas. Cal ION Sunday by the caving
in of a mine.
There was serious riot at Jesup,
/ Ga, on Christmas day. Two white
men and several negroes were killed
A reward of So, 900 has been offered
for the apprehension of Silcott, the
defaulting cashier Of the House OF
Representatives.
John s. Parker, former real estate
dealer i'm Kansas City, jumped into
the Potomac at Washington the other
day and drowned himself.
Grave robbers have been at work
again i'm Washington City, and the
other night the police captured a
vehicle with two dead bodies in it,.
DIR. A. c.. Adams has been arrested in
connection with the crime, but Dr. w.
w. Beale is thought to be the guilty
ghoul.
J. Thompson and J. Il. Carter,
both prominent citizens ofPensacola,
Fla, engaged i'm fight in the street
Saturday, in which Mr.. Carter was
stabbed and killed. Thompson mar
ried the divorced wife of Carter She
is the daughter of w. l.. Thrope, a
wealthy lumber merchant of Pensaeo-
la, and is ali accomplished woman,
Mr.. Carter insulted her on the street,
and this led to the fatal ARRAY.
An imported thoroughbred bull
dog, weighing forty pounds, and a
young African gorilla, savage
looking brute, weight eighty pounds,
were put into an Enclosure twelve
feet square and eight feet high at
Van Vert, Ohio, Monday, TO fight I'M
till one or the other shonld be killed.
The dog sprang for the gorilla and
tried to sink his teeth in the gorilla's
tough hide, but he could not pene-
trate the skin. The gorilla had
caught the dog in his long muscular
arms and sunk his long tusks repeat
eddy into his neck and spine, and the
dog was dead in ten minutes.
The Sydney Herald of November
4th says that, according to letter
received from Capt. Woodhouse, Of
the trading schooner Elma Fisher,
the boat steerer, Nelson, of the
schooner Enterprise, of Sydney, and
three of the native crew of the En-
terprise were killed and eaten by the
cannibals of the Solomon Islands.
The Enterprise was trading among
the islands and the natives from Ham
mond Island, of the Solomon group,
induced Nelson and the others to go
ashore to make some purchases.
Once on the shore they were knocked
in the head, and it is reported that
their bodies We're then roasted and
eaten. The letter states that III. M.
s. Royalist shelled the village on the
islands, on Captain Hand learning
the particulars.
As the Cincinnati, Wabash and
Michigan passenger train, north
bound, pulled out Of Anderson, In
DIANA, Monday morning, Mrs.
George Carter who resides at ones
Eoro, was taken ill. Conductor Ed.
Myers comprehended the situation,
and found a. physician aboard. Ten
minutes later the lady had been de-
livered of inc boy. The excitement
attendant upon such an occasion had
quoted down somewhat, when Mrs.
Carriers symptoms indicated that the
trouble was not over. The doctor
was again summoned, and this time
the lady contributed a girl Some
enthusiastic passenger proposed a
collection, and good sum was raised
for the twins. Mother and children
deharked at their home at Jones.
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