Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

William III, the King of Holland,
is dead. He is the last of the House
of Orange.
The well-known bankers and bro
kers, Barker Bros, of Philadelphia,
have failed in business.
Mr.. August Belmont, the wealthy
New York banker. died of pneumo-
MIA on Monday. He was almost "a
years old.
When Secretary of Agriculture
Rusk heard the news of the election
he remarked THE dam has busted
and we are Johnstown."
J. r. Elliott, of Kansas, and
Charles McAlister, of Philadelphia,
will shortly engage in a shooting
match for 100000 side.
Mrs. Charles A. Coombs, an aristo-
cratic New York woman, committed
suicide last Saturday afternoon by
jumping from the sixth story of a
hotel.
Bella Tucker, residing in Sussex
county, Va, committed suicide Thurs
day by jumping into a well on her
premises, with her child, aged two
years, in her arms The bodies OF
both have been recovered. 1t is sup
posed that she was temporarily In
sane when she committed the rash
act.
One of the largest corporations In
this country was formed in Chicago
last week 1t will be known as the
American Harvester Company, for
the manufacture Of harvesting ma
! chinery, with a capital stock OF $780,
00O, 900 The directors of the new
com pany will be Rush Mccormick,
William Deering, Waller a. Woody
Lewis Miller A. l.. Conger and A. ;.
Bushnell.
Theo. J. Claggett, of Frederick
| county, Md, had two hogs, weighing
together about seven hundred pounds
Last August they disappeared, and
could not be found until one day last
week. when he moved a part OF his
straw stack, and the animals were
| found, having been imprisoned
twelve weeks. They were reduced to
mere frames, had eaten all the straw
within reach, and, on their release,
went TO hunt water.
At Harrisonburg, Va, Sunday
morning, while the Presbyterian Sun
| dav-school was in session, the church
caught fire. The scholars, however,
were gotten out without any panic,
and the fire companies appearing
promptly upon the scene the fire was
subdued before it spread to any adj
| Joining buildings and before the
church was entirely cosumed. The
organ, which was one OF the finest in
the Valley, was destroyed. The loss
is covered by insurance.
1t is announced that colony Of
about twenty-five Northern farmers
have purchased 5000 acres Of land in
Cullanan county, Ala, and will be-
gin cooperative farming. There is
to be joint stock company with
capital of 100000, limited to 200
shares, and no person can have more
than one share. The farm work is to
be performed by the shareholders
themselves and their families, and
the profits to be distributed as div
idends. They expect to introduce
manufacturing as soon as practicable,
as they have forest of valuable tim
Der and an inexhaustible amount of
coal.
The National Grange closed its ten
DAYS session at Atlanta, Ga, last
Wednesday. Resolutions passed ia
oring the Conger lard bill, the Pad
dock pure food bill and the meat in
spection bill; favoring the opening
of the markets of the world to Ameri-
can agriculture; deprecating social
ism and agrarianism; favoring the
Australian ballot system; urging the
necessity of closely watching the in
terstate commerce bill to prevent its
being annulled; urging the govern
ment to foreclose its mortgage Oh the
Pacific railroads; urging the relief OF
cotton producers from the per cent
tax; favoring the government loaning
money to people upon lands or other
good security. The grange will meet
in Springfield, Ohio, next year
In the Criminal Court of Chicago,
Saturday last, Judge Tuley sentenced
Henry Smith, the colored janitor
who assaulted Henrietta Elsenger, to
twenty years in the penitentiary, &C
cording to the verdict, after overrul-
ing the motion for new trial. One
| feature Ol Jue StlleHCt was HONtl, III
not unprecedented. You have com
mitted most heinous crime" said
the venerable jurist, and if your SEN
tence was far heavier | would not in
terfere with it. You committed the
crime the 18th day OF August, this
year. and that you may have oppor-
tunitv to reflect on its enormity it is
the sentence of the court that every
year until your term shall have ex-
pired you shall spend the 18th Of Au-
gust-the anniversary Of your crime
and the ten succeeding days in soil
tary confinement in your cell"