Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-09-05
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Ex-Gov. Bowie, of Maryland, has
sold his race horses and will retire
from the turf altogether.
Manager Patrick Harris, who con-
Quoted theatres in Baltimore, Wash
ington, Cincinnati and other cities,
committed suicide last week by
shooting himself.
George Early and Bird Woods, two
colored men, were hanged at Rocky
Mount, Va, last Friday for the
burning of large portion Of that
town last October.
Last Friday car on the gravity
railroad at Reading, Pa, got loose at
the top of the mountain, and went
down the five-mile incline in three
minutes. 1t jumped the track at the
bottom, instantly killing four per-
sons and badly injuring a number of
others.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the other night,
w. J. Montgomery was brutally beat
ing his wife. Donald Henderson
happened to pass that way, and
when he saw what was the matter he
turned in and gave the wife-beater
the worst thrashing he ever had In
his life. Then he went on about his
business.
A rancher named Quinn, living
twelve miles west of Livingston, Non
tana, killed his wife and five children
with broadaxe on Saturday. When
discovered he was insa ne, sitting in
corner of the room eating from the
arm of one of the children. Several
men tried to capture Quinn, but he
would allow no one to approach him,
and was killed by one Of the men in
self-defense.
In Talmage township, six miles from
Akron, Ohio, Wednesday, farmers
children, playing in a barn, observed
a pile of hay moving. They called a
farm hand to kill supposed skunk
under the hay The hired man
thrust the pitchfork into the hay and
| impaled negro. One OF the tines
entered the negro's eye and reached
the brain, with fatal effect. The ne
gro was identified as John Williams,
well known to the police Of all large
cities as one of the most dangerous
crooks in the country. Williams had
killed two men and had served three
terms in the Ohio penitentiary, from
which he recently escaped after serv-
| ing over fifteen years. Upon him
was found loaded revolver, burg
lars tools, and valuables recently
stolen from the residences in the
neighborhood.
While William Harris and his son
James were at the McKim farm, on
the West Virginia side Of the river,
after calves for butchering, dispatch
from Steubenville, Ohio, says, two
horses. hitched to the side of the barn,
slipped their brides and started to
run away. Harris, seeing the runa-
way, tried to turn and go through
fence into yard where there were
thirty beehives. Three hives were
knocked over by the horses. At that
time thousands Of bees swarmed over
the horses, which lay down in the
harness moaning piteously. As young
Harris could not see the horses suffer,
he cut the traces with butcher-knife
while the bees attacked him. He
started the horses off. When loose
from the cattle-crate, the horses ran
in all directions in the field, uttering
unnatural squeals, at times rolling in
the grass, moaning terribly. One
horse lay down in a creek, where 1t
rolled and shrieked until death ended
it's sufferings. The other horse was
caught and hay burned under it, but
the horse died in short time. Both
were fine animals. Young Harris was
stung badly, but he was bathed in a
tub of soda water, counteracting the
poison. His stings are not serious.