Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are now over 400 monuments
on Gettysburg battlefield.

There are now over 400 monuments
on Gettysburg battlefield.
President Harrison will go to Deer
Park the latter part Of this month.
John Gilbert. an old and very pop
ular actor, died in New York on
Monday.
John L. Sullivan has been on a big
drunk, and his friends and hackers
are deserving him.
Hon. William Mines is seriously i'll
at his home i'm Mines, Va. He is not
expected to recover.
John Bankhead, II years old, died
in Philadelphia last Sunday from ex-
cessive cigarette smoking.
John A. Smith, of West Union, has
been arrested on charge of perjury
and forgery in a pension claim.
An unknown woman committed sui
eide few days ago by jumping into
the river just above Niagara Falls.
Two fine mastiff dogs belonging to
Just died They were worth $40, 900.
The coffee market in New York is
getting weak. There has been a drop
of two cents pound since last week.
Zachariah Mcdaniel, the oldest
resident of Rockingham county, Va,
died last Monday at the age OF 1902
years.
Two men were lynched at Corydon,
Indiana, last week, for an attempted
robbery. Mark it down that this oc
Cured in the West and not in the
South.
The Navy Department has adver-
tised for bids for the construction of
two new steel cruisers of 5000 tons
displacement, which will cost about
81, 100,0 each.
The bursting of dam in Kansas
Sunday night, caused by the heavy
rains, flooded Uniontown and Belle
town. Two women and four children
were drowned.
John l.. Lawes, the phenomenal fat
man of this country, died on Monday
at his home in Elmira, New York.
When he kicked the bucket he kicked
the beam at GAO pounds.
Henry f. Abbey is said to have
guaranteed Tamagno, the tenor,
100000 for forty-eight performances
in the United States and Mexico. He
is to sing on alternate nights with
Patti.
Mrs. Todd LATHE. of Bronson, Mich,
was totally blind for Is years. The
other day her sight suddenly came
back. The first person she saw was
her daughter, and her first rem ark
was; My! how you've grown"
John Hughson, Pullman car por-
ter who helped to save the lives of
the wife and daughter of Col. Halford.
the Presidents private secretary, has
been appointed to "a place in the Treas
ury Department at Washington.
A gypsy woman laid her curse on
an Indiana farmer who refused her a
nights lodging, and within two weeks
an uncle of his died and left him 49,
900 in hard cash. He says he'd like
some more of the hoodoo business.
Rev. DR.. w. F. Kramer, who had
been pastor of the Reformed Church
at Lancaster, Pa, for 80 years, was
killed by the cars a few days ago
while crossing the railroad in
carriage at the head of a funeral pro-
cession.
A Methodist Sunday-school excur-
sion train was wrecked near Dublin,
Ireland, last week, and nearly a
hundred persons were killed, besides
a number injured. The accident was
the result of poor set of railroad
employees.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, living near
Baltimore, attempted to hurry the
kitchen fire last Sunday by pouring
coal oil on it. The oil exploded in
the can, and Mrs. Tyler and her
eight-months-o old baby were burned
to death most horribly.
Friday morning Peter Sawyer, of
Carthage, N. Y, had a quarrel with
his wife and struck her heavy blow
on the head with hammer. She ran
screaming from the house, and Saw
yer was afterwards found in the barn
dead, having hung himself to one of
the timbers with rope.
Mr.. C. E. Stonesifer, of Boonsboro,
has in his possession two old pistols,
one of which was found at Harper's
Ferry after John Browns raid. The
other was picked up on the Antietam
battlefield shortly after the battle,
and has engraved under the guard
plate the name of Gen. Robert E.
Lee.
A bloody ARRAY occurred at Given's
Store, near Austin, Texas, few days
ago. A colored constable named
Wilson undertook to arrest a white
man, whom he charged with horse
theft. He resisted and a general
fight ensued between him and his
friends and the constable and his
friends SiX-shooters We're used
freely, and four white men and two
negroes were killed outright, while
at least dozen others were wounded,
some probably fatally.
In order to make an extension to
the Reformed church at Middletown,
Nd, the remains of fifteen persons
buried many years ago just back of
the church have been taken up and
placed in other portions of the Gene
terry. When the grave of Miss Cath
airline Biser, who was buried seventy
four years ago, at the age of twenty
years, was opened, the hair of the
deceased was found to be in a good
state of preservation, while nothing
else remained but the skeleton. The
hair was about one and a-half feet
in length.
The B. & o. Railroad is carrying
largely increased freights since the
flood. The coal which the Western
Maryland Railroad used to get by the
canal by Williamsport now comes
down the b. & 0. to Weverton, and is
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