Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rhode Island has repealed Its pro-
hibition amendment by a very de-
cisive vote.
A queer sort of green insect is
PLAYING havoc with the wheat in In
diana, Illinois and Ohio.
The steamship La Burgogne passed
an iceberg on her last voyage that was
100 feet high and 975 feet long.
Nettie Colburn, aged IS years, com
mitted suicide a Elkhart, Indiana, a
few days ago because she was so fat.
J. Adae Houck, teller in the Ira
ders' National Bank of Baltimore, SUI
icided on Saturday by hanging him
self
The farmers of Indiana are forming
combinations against the merchants,
who, they claim, have been treating
them unfairly.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker has
been elected Professor of Law in
Washington and Lee University and
has accepted.
Michael Rizzolo. or Red Nosed
Milk was hanged at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on Tuesday, for the murder of
Paymaster Mcclure last fall.
The big fireworks establishment of
Heyer Bros, at Boston, was burned
out last Friday, and three men met
an awful death in the flames.
Last Friday while Benjamin Nor
gan, near Chambersburg, Pa, was
moving hay stroke of lightning
killed him and his two horses.
DIR. Theo. p. Mayo, well known as a
surgeon in the Northern Virginia
Army during the war, died in Rich
mond last week, aged so years.
John yelling, boy fifteen years
old. tried to jump on freight train
at Oakland last Monday. He fell
under the cars and was ground all to
pieces.
The prisoners in the Washington
Jail believe that Guitean's ghost is
walking through the corridors
O. nights, and they are frightened
and excited.
General Simon Cameron, the Penn
sylvania statesman and business man
who is known throughout the whole
country, died on Wednesday. He
was ninety years old.
Two young men and two young la
dies went boating on the Schuylkill
river at Philadelphia last Sunday,
when the boat was carried over dam
and all were drowned.
NJ. w. Mcguire, trainmaster of the
eastern division of the b. y o. Rail
road, has resigned to accept similar
position on the New York, Lake
Erie and Western Railroad.
a number of the survivors of the
Johnstown flood have taken steps to-
ward the prosecution of the South
Fork Fishing Club for damages to
property caused by the bursting OF
the dam.
After all its losses from water,
Johnstown, Pa, became victim to
the flames on Monday. Twenty-Five
houses that had been spared by the
flood were destroyed by fire that was
caused by sparks from a pile of
burning debris.
The men in the various departments
of the b. & o. shops at Mt. Clare, Bal
timore, are gradually being discharg-
ed, and in short time it is thought
all new work will be stopped. The
railroad company will have its cars
built by outside parties.
On November -, 1888, Richard O..
Allen, an aged farmer living five miles
southwest of Washington, Ind, was
found tied TO tree near his house,
with his throat ut from ear to ear.
The death was thought to be case
of suicide, and no inquiry was made.
A few days ago, while laboring under
religious excitement, Mrs. Charlotte
Allen, the 70-year-old widow of the
dead man, confessed to two colored
servants that she committed the
crime. She said that she and her
husband had trouble as to who was
the rightful owner of the farm, and in
order to settle the dispute she gave
her husband morphine in his tea.
Allen fell asleep in the garden. She
then procured table-knife and
rope and tied the rope around his
body, and making several slashes at
his throat, half severed the head from
the neck. She then dragged the
body to tree and tied it there.