Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-12-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Martin Farquhar Upper. the we'll
known English poet and author, is
dead at the age OF 70 years
Jennie Allen, a pretty girl of Utica,
was killed few days ago while coast
ing on the street of that city.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. the
well-known authoress, has lost he
mind, and is now like little child.
The President has appointed Da-
vid J. Brewer of Kansas, to be a JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court.
An English company has purchased.
for something over $4,000. the Laird
| farm of $50 acres, near Buena Vista,
Rockbridge county, Va.
Frank Macarthur. son of Judge Nc
Arthur, of Washington, jumped from
a train last Sunday and killed him
self He had lost his mind.
At ST. Louis Charles Barlow, four
teen years old, committed suicide
Saturday because his mother refused
him spending money. He blew his
head off with rife.
Joe Vermilion. an unsavory char
acter living in Prince George county,
Nd, was taken from Jail and hanged
by a mob Monday night. He was ac-
cused of burning barns.
John Bright, Of Gallatin Mo-, went
crazy last Saturday, and with sharp
| butcher knife he cut his sons head
| off and stabbed several other persons
before he was captured.
Ammonia caused an explosion in a
big brewery ar Newark, y. j., last
Monday, wrecking the whole estab-
| lishpent. About $4,000 barrels of
beer ran down the cutters fthe town.
Lizzie Stafford. near Cumberland,
girl aged eleven years. met horri-
bic death, by falling on a RED hot
stove, setting fire to her clothing.
She burned her head and body almost
TO a crisp
While toying with revolver Joseph
inc Welsh, highly respected young
lady of West Elizabeth, Pa, shot and
instantly killed her lover, Charles
White. The young couple were en-
gagged to be married soon, and Miss
Welsh is crazed with grief.
Last Thursday fire broke out in
Boston, and ragged uncontrolled for
six hours. burning over two acres OF
splendid business buildings. and caus-
ing a loss of about $1,000, 900. Two
hundred firms were burned out. \
couple of firemen lost their lives.
Harry Harris, a clerk in a New
York dry goods store, went out Satur-
day night TO bring a show case, which
stood on the sidewalk, into the store.
As he caught hold of the show case
he came in contact with an electric
light wire and was instantly killed.
At Atglen, Pa, the other morning,
the three-months-old daughter OF w.
a. Reyburn was found dead in bed,
with the family cat on the child's
mouth and nose. The coroners jury
rendered a verdict that death was
caued by suffocation, produced by a
cat.
Mrs. John Lichlider, of Luray, Va,
was found dead in her bed one morn
ing last week. The evening before
she was seemingly in perfect health.
wears ago on the streets of Luray, very
near the spot where his father had
suddenly died few years before.
The bakery and dwelling of Gus
tav Grossin Philadelphia was destroy
ed by fire last Sunday night while all
the inmates were asleep. Mrs. Gross
and her three little children were
burned to death, as were also Mrs.
Annie Britner and her two children.
Several other persons were injured.
The occurrence was heart-rendlng-
one.
A dreadful cyclone passed over Blu
ford county, y. c.. last week. Nine
persons are reported killed and some
twenty or thirty badly injured. The
cyclone began in the northern por-
ton of the county and carried every
thing before it, Houses were blown
TO atoms and trees that have with
stood the storms for half a century
were torn up and carried several hun
dred yards.
Edward Hoffman and James and
Charles Fisher, brothers, were killed
at Oil City, Pa, Saturday, by the ex-
plosion of five tons of nitro glycerine.
Farm houses and barns in the vicinity
were blown TO pieces. An ice house
300 feet square was reduced TO kind
ling wood. Windows in the postoffice
and railroad depot two miles from the
scene of the explosion were shattered
by the shock.
There was a terrible fire in Mime
apolis, Mimi, last Saturday night.
when the Tribune building was destroy
ed with all its contents When the
| fire was first discovered there were
fully hundred persons in the build
| lug. who were quickly imprisoned by
| the flames. Many escaped by var
| ious means and some were rescued by
the firemen, but twenty or more met
horrible deaths by being burned or
crushed from falling. The building
was veritable death-trap.
At Pottstown, Pa, last Thursday,
| John Chana, a hopeless paralytic.
aged 80. was found dead on the floor
Of his hovel with leather strap loose
" fastened around his neck. Some
| maintain that il was suicide, while
others say that it is a case of foul
play, though suicide is the generally
accepted theory. Untilrecently Chana
was fine specimen of physical man
hood 1t is related that one day he
cursed his Creator in most terrible
manner, when he fell over, struck
dumb and paralyzed from head to
foot. He remained in this condition
until his death.
A few months ago Chief of Police
Watkins, of Parsons, Pa, while under
the influence of liquor, was killed by
being struck by an engine while sit
ing on the platform of the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad. About a
month ago his widow filed claim in
court for $4,000 damages against
John Schumacher, a very wealthy
saloon-keeper who had sold her hus-
band liquor while he was visibly af-
fected by it, The case was up before
three arbitrators who, after hearing
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