Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ed Roe, young Englishman, while
swimming near Fernandina, Fla, had
his leg bitten off by a shark.
Mr.. Andrew f. Crutchfield, one of
the publishers of the BaltimOrean, died
at his home i'm Baltimore OH Wednes-
day.
Ada Mccormick. a notorious woman
dred attempts at suicide. She still
lives.
The South Carolina Medical Society
has expelled from its membership DIR.
Mellow, the murderer of Capt. Daw
son.
John ID. Rockefeller, of the Standard
Oil Company, has reached $4,000, 900
year.
A special dispatch from Toronto,
Ont. saws: 1.-The Manitoba and Cana
dian Northwest wheat crop is fail
ure beyond doubt"
A big three-story brick stable in
New York was burned last Sunday
morning. There were 1913 horses in
the building. and only three of these
were saved.
The Territorial Convention called
to frame a scheme for provisional
government met at Guthrie, Okla
homa, last week. The Convention
which was held on Monday at Frisco,
in opposition to the present Conven-
ton, has had the effect Of limiting
the represpntatiOn
The engagement of Mr.. Emmons
Blaine, a son of Secretary James G.
Blaine, and resident o. Baltimore,
to Miss Anita Mccormick, daughter of
the millionaire reaper manufac-
turer, of Chicago, is announced. Mr..
Blaine is the assistant President to
Hon. Henry q. Davis, of the West
Virginia Central Railroad.
Tommy and Agnes Williams, aged
five and three, were burned to death
by the explosion of coal-oil can at
Columbus, Ohio, Sunday night. The
mother had left the house few min
utes on an errand, during which the
boy secured the oil can, placed it in
the middle of the floor, and then Sc
cured some matches and set the oil on
fire.
The steamer st. Nicholas, with 500
colored eXcursionlsts on board, ran
into the closed drawbridge over ST.
Augustine creek, four miles south Of
Savannah, Ga, at nine O'Clock Satur-
day night, demolishing the forward
part of the steamer, killing two
women and injuring twenty-eight
men and women. some of whom will
die.
Information received in New Haven,
Conn, from Captain Buddington, Of
the whaling schooner Sarah w. Hunt,
dated Fayal, Greenland, June 26th,
SAYS boats crew in command of
Mate John Sharp, Of New London,
was lost off East Greenland, while
fast to whale, which suddenly went
down into deep water and carried the
boat and crew down.
Drexel, Morgan & Co., have secured
100000 shares of Chesapeake u Ohio
Railroad stock The price paid was
So, 100000. OF the 100000 shares yet
outstanding, this firm, rs representa-
tives of the Vanderbilts, is reputed to
hold the greater part, and trunk
line from Chicago to the sea-board
at Newport News, shorter than all
others, will be built.
1t has been ascertained that a re-
cent fire at Lu Chow, China, burned
90 hours, destroying $1,000 dwellings.
Over 200 persons persisted in the
flames and 400 were killed. Nearly
10000 people were obliged to camp
out without shelter and were dying
at the rate of 100 a day from want
and exposure. The authorities are
providing for their necessities.
Mrs. Julia Skobieske, wife of a Hun
garan employed on a farm near st.
Lawrence, a small village three miles
from Reading, Pa, was out on the
Alsaac Hills Friday picking blac k
berries, when shewas bitten on the
leg by a copperhead snake.
Thoroughly frightened she ran for
for home, where she gave birth to
three female children, all of whom
are living.
At Leclaire, small town north Of
Davenport, Ia, last Sunday, the pas
tor of the Presbyterian church, Rev.
Monroe Drew, young minister from
Chicago, made the sweeping charge
from his pulpit to the effect that "a
virtuous woman between 10 and 30
years of age could not be found i'll
the place. The women subsequently
held mass meeting and denounced
Drew, who left the State, fearing
personal injury.
Five head of fine cattle belonging
to Mr.. John Aholt, of Middletown
Valley, Frederick county, died a few
days ago from suffering inflicted by
the Canadian or Texan fly. The
horns of the animals, around the base
of which the flies congregated and
eat the flesh, dropped off before death
relieved them of their agony. Much
trouble among cattle in various sec
tions of the country from the same
cause is being reported.
George Whitmore, of Rochester, N.
Y, has complained to the police that
he was robbed of S1,075 by Ada
Knapp, also OF Rochester. The par
ties We're to have been married that
night. Whitmore had drawn S1,100
from the bank, and on their way to
Buffalo Ada persuaded him to let her
have all but S25 of the money, which
he did. They were accompanied by
two mutual friends named VIM. Wolf,
and Chas. Boyle. Whitmore went to
get minister to tie the knot, when
Ada skipped with Wolf and Boyle,
taking the cash with her.