Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Montana Legislature adjourned
last Friday without having passed
single bill.
A fire at Richmond, Va, burned
out several tobacco manufactures
and a fertilizer mill, causing loss of
1920, 900.
At Beloit, Ohio, tramp jumped
from a slowly moving freight train,
seized a gold-headed cane that was
standing at the door of residence,
got back Oh the train and went his way.
Mollie Van Buskirk Corwin, of Shell
byville, Ind, has had eight husbands,
seven Of whom are now living. She
has Just married her ninth, and it is
thought that within the next few
wears she will round out the dozen.
A three, year-old child, daughter of
Milton A. Working, was burned to
death at her home, near Woodsboro',
Frederick county, Md. The mother
left her three small children alone in
the house while she attended to some
duties outside, and it is supposed
that they found and ignited matches
with the above result.
George Dowell, of Spring Hill, Mo,
set shotgun trap for thief in his
barn so that the gun would be dis
charged when the barn door was
opened Mrs. Dowell, not knowing
OF the trap, opened the door and re-
ceived the whole charge full in the
breast. She died instantly. Mr.. and
Mrs Dowell had been married only
two months.
Bertha Myers, an eight-year-old
orphan girl living in the family OF
William Reed, in Green Top, Sussex
county, n. j., is underarrest, charged
with manslaughter in causing the
death of the four-months-o child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed by persistently
pressing upon the soft spot on the
child's head, thus causing infiamma-
ton of the brain. from which death
resulted in few hours.
Charles Robhing spent an hour on
Wednesday teaching his little nephew
how to handle revolver near Wins
low, Pike county, Ind. The weapon
used was empty. After the lesson
the boy was put to bed and the uncle
loaded the weapon and Went to sleep
himself The boy awoke early next
morning, procured the pistol, cooked
it, aimed at his sleeping tutor and
pulled the trigger. The bullet pierced
the heart of the sleeping man, killing
him instantly. Mr.. Robbing was a
we'll known farmer.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
heat its passenger cars next season
with steam. An official says the work
of equipping the cars will be pushed
from now until all are completed.
The number Of cars now in service is
over twelve hundred, and it will cost
$3.50, 900 to do the work. The change
would benefit the railroad In q finan-
cial way, as the engines will burn lit
tie more coal in order to heat the
cars, while by the present system
they are the losers to the price of sew
erai thousand tons of anthracite an
nually.
Minnie Worley, aged %, telephone
exchange operator at South Bend,
Ind, and Frank Middleton, aged 25,
in a like position at Michigan City,
became acquainted over the wires
during their night watches. Finally
Middleton proposed in fun that they
get married by telephone, and Min
ME consented A Michigan City JUS
tice was called in ard performed the
legal ceremony, but without the nee
essary State license. This occurred
last week and passed off as a joke.
Now eminent legal counsel pronounce
the marriage legal and binding, and
say Justice Dibble is liable to impris-
onment for performing the ceremony
without the necessary license. The
groom will go to South BEND to see
his bride, and divorce proceedings
will probably be instituted unless
they agree to live together.