Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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on strike.
The large tannery of L. NJ. Koog-
Ter, in Augusta county, Va, was de-
stroyed by fire last week.
1t is announced that General Bea-
yer is to succeed General Raum as
Commissioner Of Pensions.
Daniel Appleton, of the great pub
fishing firm of d. Appleton & Co,
died from apoplexy last week in New
York.
Cashier David Cowenlock, of Mount
Carmel, H., has disappeared. So
has $780, of the money belonging
to the bank he worked for.
Henry Smith, colored, was lynched
near Bessemer, Ala, Sunday night,
for an assault upon Mrs. Calhoun, an
old lady living near that city.
Frederick Bruce, youth 10 years
old, was killed in Rappahannock
county, Va. few days ago, by the
accidental discharge of his gnn.
Olga Klentz is a circus rider in Chi
cago. She had a lover named Max
Sueskind. Max proved faithless to
Olga, and she shot him and killed him
the other day.
A large barn on the farm of George
and Stephen Fout, in Frederick coun-
ty. Md, was burned early Saturday
morning Much hay and wheat and
many implements were lost.
Col. w. +. Hutchins, an Alliance
man in the southwest part of Kansas,
has announced himself as a candidate
to succeed United Safes Senator In
gals. He has quite following.
Charles Jones, brother of Rev.
Sam p. Jones, shot James Young, col
ored. three times at Cartersville, Ga,
Saturday evening Young died in
twenty-five minutes. Jones is in Jail
Edwin Booth, the eminent actor,
celebrated his 57th birthday last
Thursday in Baltimore, where he was
playing an engagement with Law
renee Barrett. Mr.. Booth is in good
health.
A tailor shop and a grocery store
were burned at the University Of Nir-
ginia last Friday morning. Edward
O'Hara, a tailor and an agent of Wan
amaker, of Philadelphia, was burned
to death.
The Serpent, British torpedo
cruiser, foundered in gale of the coast
OF Spain last week. OF the two hun
dred and fifty men aboard only three
were saved. The others went down
with the ship, which had struck on a
submerged rock.
On Tuesday man named Morland
placed can Of dynamite near the
stove in a dwelling, near Duluth,
Mimi, to thaw out. 1t soon exploded
killing him instantly. His wife and
four children were seriously injured,
several of them having legs and arms
broken.
Ten years ago Adam Kern, a sue
cessfu farmer of Boone county, Ind,
made this entry in his diary "At
the end of ten years from this writing,
if am alive and out of debt, | intend
to take my own life" Last Saturday
he shot himself through the head
with a revolver.
The great banking firm of Barring
Bros, of London, has been found to
be in very bad condition. IL was
only by the timely help of the lead
ing European fnanciers that it was
saved from failure last week and
great panic averted.
Last Sunday morning Robert and
Tapley Shaw. who lived near Dan
vile, Va, went hunting, though their
mother begged them not to. While
they were separated in the brush
Robert thought he saw wild turkey.
He fired, and Tapley fell dead with
the bullet in his brain.
Thirty-seven years ago John Gift
ford, who now lives near West Ches-
ter, Pa, got an old-fashioned hand
moulded bullet in his shoulder dur
ing an Indian battle. The other day
it dropped out on the floor, and Gift
ford says he feels better than he has
for third of a century.
In Chicago last Saturday a bank
messenger lost a satchel containing
SS7, 900 in money and checks. A tail
or's errand hoy found it, and when
he took it to the shop and opened it
they nearly tainted at the sight OF so
much money. The tailor and the boy
then carried it to the bank and We're
Handsomely rewarded for their hon
esty.
At dance in Avondale, Ala, Tues
day night, Nathan Terry and Wash
ington Brown quarreled about girl.
Brown told Terry not to dance with
the girl again, but the latter did not
heed the warning. While he was
Waiting with the girl Brown walked
up and shot him through the body,
inflcting wounds from which he died
shortly after.
Near Cumberland, Md, the other
day, while the thirteen-year-old
daughter of Charles Murphy was pre-
pairing dinner her clothes took fire
from the stove, and her body was ter
ribly burned She will die. Her
mother went to her rescue with a
three-months baby in her arms. The
mother and baby were also badly
burned, and the baby will die.
r. II. Meadows, of Bledsoe, Tenn,
having sold his farm and stock, was
seated by the fire talking to his wife
of their contemplated trip to Texas,
whittier they were going to make
their future home. Mr. Meadows
pulled out his money, which was in
large bills and proceeded to count it.
When he had laid down his last bill
on the hearth some one opened the
door, and gust Of wind carried his
all in the fire Before Mr.. Meadows
could rescue any Of his currency it
was in ashes He had converted all
his possessions into cash, and in a
twinkle all was lost.
A religious revival has been in
progress several days at a colored
Methodist Church in Birmingham,
Ala. Monday night Mary Davis and
Rhoda Wright became wildly excited
by a kind of religious frenzy They
began shouting at a terrible rate and
hugging each other with all their
strength. This was kept up some