Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The wheat in Michigan is said to be
in a very bad condition.
1t requires annually $4,000 tons of
binder Irvine to bind the grain crop
| of the country.
Little Sammie Kimball, a New York
boy. has gone to join the angels-he
died from smoking cigarettes.
The fire in the Singer sewing ma
chine works at Elizabethport, n. j.,
last week, did 81, 200, 900 Of damage.
Laurence Graham, young son OF
Commodore Graham, of the Navy,
was arrested in Washington the other
dav for stealing watch.
A tornado that passed along at the
rate OF four miles minute swept
over Akron. Ohio, last Saturday, and
did vast amount of damage.
The French Commission appointed
to investigate the condition OF the
Panama Canalreported thatit would
cost 225, 900, 900 francs to complete the
work.
A child OF six in Manchester, Me-,
drank half pint Of whiskey that had
been obtained for medicinal purposes,
and two days after died of alcoholic
poisoning.
President Cleveland has written
a letter to the corresponding secreta-
nv OF the Oak Lodge No. %, Farmers
Alliance, approving the purposes OF
the alliance.
The Chenango County On. "
| u-aS nv fire on
Wednesday night Of last week and
about thirty of the inmates persisted
in the flames.
Five bodies were found last week
by workmen in the fifteenth and six
teenth wards of Johnstown, Pa. Two
of them were mother and child clasp
ed In each others arms.
Reports from the farming districts
Of New Jersey speak OF the presence
Of an unusually large number OF de-
structive insects this year. The wheat
louise is expected to be particularly
dangerous.
Geo. Augusta Sala, the British jour
nalist, is described as a man with
| small eyes, red cheeks and sharp
nose. But he gets $4,000 a year for
| contributing four editorials week to
the London Telegraph.
Henry Willis, of New York State,
was fighting fire in his woods the
other day, when his leg caught fire
and was burned off before he noticed
it. But it was wooden leg, and can
be easily replaced.
Rev. George NJ. Green, one OF the
best known ministers in Arkansas,
was accidentally shot and killed the
| other day by his brother, Martin
Green, while they were inspecting
a new revolver which the latter had
purchased.
One engineer, two firemen and two
brakemen were killed by the collision
| of two freight trains on the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
at tunnel four miles from Chatta
nooga Monday. The accident was
caused by Misunderstanding of run
ming orders.
The National Geological Park, in
! Washington, which is now to be a
certainty, the president having signed
| the bill. will be the largest in the
WOIl(l, vi VI hlht
of mile and width Of half a mile.
Rock Creek flows for a mile and a
half within its limits.
1t is announced that the marriage
of Miss Winnie Davis. daughter of
ex-President jefferson Davis of the
confederacy, and Mr.. Alfred Wilkin
| son, of Syracuse, n. Y, will take place
early in June at the home of the
Davis family in Mississippi. Miss
Davis is expected to arrive at New
York from Europe in a few days, and
she will be escorted TO Mississippi by
Mr.. Wilkinson.
David Stokes, a worthy colored
man who lived near Danville, Va,
lost his life few days ago in a re-
markable way. He attempted to
drive an ordinary house cat out Of
the room, but the cat showed no dis
position to go. He then struck at it
with a stick. Instantly the animal
sprang upon him and buried its teeth
into his wrist. The cat held on with
such tenacity it was necessary for
| those who came to Stokess relief to
not only kill the animal, but TO actu-
ally sever the head from the body be
fore the teeth could be forced TO loos-
Ell their grip. Immediately Stokes
was taken deathly sick, and though
he showed no symptoms Of hydropho-
bia, he died in "a hours.