Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-09-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ity of New York were ruined by the
great storm last week.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of the United States is In ses-
sion at Columbus, Ohio.
Over a hundred persons who ate ice
cream at a festival at Admission, Ala,
last Saturday night were poisoned.
C. E. Morris, of LaPorte, Ind. Sc
cured his sixth divorce a few days
ago, and at once married a seventh
wife.
Ex-senator Riddleberger has taken
the stump against Malone in Virginia,
and advocates the support OF the entire
Democratic ticket.
The huge main building of the ex
position at st. Joseph, Mo, was
burned Sunday night with all its con-
tents. Loss 100000.
A mob recently lynched Frank
Stack at Morgantown, n. c., for muir
der. 1t now transpires that the
wrong man was hung.
DIR. J. w. Owens, one of the oldest
and most successful physicians in the
Valley of Virginia, died at Stephens
City, Va, last Sunday.
Two trains collided at Tioga juno
ton, Pa, Monday, and % injured per-
sons were with difficulty rescued from
the burning wreck that resulted.
Thomas Jackson and Edward
Ahearn had a prize-fgh in st. Louis
Monday night, and Jackson was so
badly hurt that he died in few
hours.
Mr.. Emmons Blaine, son of James
g.. will marry Miss Anita Mccormick
of New York, on the Goth Of this
month. The young lady is worth a
million dollars in her own name.
General E. Burd Grubb has been
nominated as Republican candidate
for Governor of New Jersey. He will
have an uphill fight against popular
Leon Albeit, the Democratic nominee.
A fire in Louisville, KY, Sunday
night burned out the great dry goods
and notions house of Bamberger,
Bloom & Co., causing loss Of nearly
a million dollars. Four firemen were
killed by falling walls.
Col. William Allan, principal of the
McDonogh School, near Baltimore,
died last Tuesday He was a native
Virginian, and was a gallant officer
on Stonewall Jackson's staff during
the late war.
Last week young girl named
Annie LeConey was most brutally
murdered near Camden, n. j. Her
uncle, Chalkley LeConey, has been
arrested for the awful crime, which
he committed in order to get Armies
money.
Bob Younger, the notorious bandit,
died in the Minnesota penitentlary at
Saltwater Monday night OF consump-
ton. He was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for life in 1875 for murder
committed while attempting to rob
Mortified Bank.
A. c. Staley, president of the Staley
Wooden Mills Company, at South
Bend, Ind, was poisoned Tuesday
night by morphine given him by q
druggist for quinine and will probably
die. Mr. Staley is 70 years of age, and
lOOh luc Oii
Score one for the tramp. One of
these despised persons saved many
lives Monday night by tagging a
limited express train on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad. He had
discovered broken rail that would
surely have wrecked the train.
Frank Amos, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Morgan county, Ohio,
was murdered at his home in the west
ern part of that county by Mrs.
Hamton, his niece, who hacked his
face and head to pieces with butch
er-knife, which she had carried for
weeks avowedly for that purpose.
The new cruiser Baltimore, built
at Cramps Philadelphia ship-yards,
has Just returned from highly sue
cessful trip. 1t is believed she is the
fastest war vessel afloat, and the
naval officers are enthusiastic over
her The Baltimore will be COM
manded by Commodore Winfield Scott
Schley.
Jos. Metz, an Italian, while cleaning
an awning in New York touched an
electric wire and was instantly killed.
Besides being shocked to death, the
unfortunate victims head was burned
almost from his shoulders by the
sputtering wire, while an immense
crowd of spectators stood by looking
at the awful sight.
Mrs. Geo. H. Dunsford, the wife of q
leading citizen, died at Reading, Pa,
s.. Of hainc, fkrAxun
into spasms while laughing heartily at
theatrical performance which she
attended. Her artificial teeth were
missing, and a post-mortem examina-
ton developed the fact that she had
swallowed them while laughing.
They were found lodged in her stom-
ache.
John Gordon, in the employ of the
Lake George Paper and Pulp Co., at
Ticonderoga, n. Y, fell asleep near the
machinery. Two other men, to scare
him, tied a rope about his feet and
threw it over a shaft making 122 rev.
olutions minute. They could not
cut the rope in time and Gordon was
killed, the body being horribly mu-
tilated One of the perpetrators of the
joke lost his reason from the shock.
Lightning struck church near Co.
lumbia City, Ind, last Sunday after
noon and two young girls were instant
ly killed. The church was crowded
with Sunday school children. and as
the bolt entered it swept a path of de-
struction 'mong scholars and teachers.
Over score Of people were knocked
down and stunned by the lightning,
and two of its victims, Ella Freyer
and Aggie Hockemier, never recover
ed consciousness.
Eight of the eleven new locomotives
ordered by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company from the Baldwin
works in Philadelphia have been re-
ceived at Camden Station. They are
numbered from S3S to S43 which gives
an idea of the enormous engine equip
ment of the road. The new locomotives
are built to burn coke, and will be used
for passenger trains on the Philadel-
phia Branch and first division. They