Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-01-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ID. d. is dead
By railroad collision at Cincinnati
last Friday half a dozen persons were
killed and many injured.
julius Beurrier, jr., a little five-year-
old boy, was run over by a street car
in Baltimore Monday, and killed.
Ex-senator Riddleberger of Virgin
ia is so i'll at his home II Woodstock
that his death is hourly expected.
Peter Henderson, the florist and
scotsman. died at his home in Jersey
City a few days ago. He was Sc years
old.
The Western Maryland Railroad
wants to build an elevated railroad
through Baltimore over Jones's
Falls.
A little girl in Carroll county, Md,
attempted TO swallow Il small collar
button the other day, and was choked
to death.
Ottawa, Ill, town little bigger
than Shepherdstown, was almost
wiped out of existence by a fire on
Tuesday.
Governor Albeit, of New Jersey,
and Governor Laid, Of Rhode Island,
have come out strongly in favor of
ballot reform.
The King of Spain, who is only
four years old, gets salary OF 80, 0OO,-
600 a year. The King business is a
mighty good one.
James McGill, of Columbus, Ohio,
has created sensation by clipping
with an insane girl, whom he took
from an asylum to marry.
The solicitor-general of the United
States, Orlow w. Chapman, died Sun
day morning at his residencein Wash
ington, d. c., of the grip.
Miss Caroline Cammerer, of Phila-
delphia, has just won breach of
promise suit against Clemens Muller,
rich New Yorker, for $4,000.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall and his
wife have joined Presbyterian
Church in Washington. MIR. Randall
is still sick and confined to his room.
Arthur DeAtley, well-known Bal
timore saloon keeper, was shot and
very badly hurt by John X. Eagan
Monday morning in bar room quar-
rel
Johnson Duncan, of Gettysburg,
Pa, and q. w. Sartorius, of POGO
moke, Md, blew out the gas in Bal
timore Monday night, and both lost
their lives.
Chief Phillips, of the Pension Office,
who had his own pension rerated,
has been dismissed, and Commission
err Raum says the other offenders will
have to go too.
John Weyer, who died last Sunday
while praying in Union Lutheran
Church at York, Pa, left his estate,
valued at from $4,000 to 500, 900, to
the Orphans Home of York.
Chicago physicians recently laid
bare the spinal column of u boy and
removed "a clot of blood, and now be
lieve that he will recover from the
effects of stroke of paralysis which
he suffered Christmas day.
A prisoner being taken from Mime
sofa to Germany TO answer the charge
of murder, jumped from a railroad
train near Corfu, n Y, while the
train was running at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, and escaped to the
woods.
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima has granted new trial to ex-
Priest James Joseph Boyle, who was
found guilty last October Of felo-
NOUS assault on the organist of his
church, and who had been sentenced
to death.
In New York city Monday night
Bridget Gannan, "a years old, applied
to her son Joseph for lodgings, and
when he refused TO shelter her she sat
on the stairs outside his door died.
Her dead body was found next morn
ing on the stairs.
Nellie and Hattie Cook, aged IA and
10 years, respectively, daughters OF
Lyman Cook, of Smith county, Kan,
husked 1000 bushels of corn for their
father last fall, for which he paid S25,
having agreed TO pay them q cents a
bushel for all they would husk.
Talk about weather In California
there is an average depth of snow of
twenty feet in the mountain regions.
At Colfax there is three feet of snow
on the ground, while at Truckee the
country is covered to depth of fifteen
feet, with the drifts fifty feet thick.
All the railroads have been blockad-
ed, of course, and dozens of people
have been frozen to death.
Wild hogs entered the cabin of
farmer in the Chickasaw Nation, Ar
buckle, Indian Territory, Friday, and
devoured tive-year-old child which
was alone in the house. When the
mother returned to the house a wild
boar ran out at the door and into the
bushy swamps near by, carrying one
of the legs OF the child in its mouth.
The remainder of the body had been
eaten up in the house.
An Associated Press reporter, just
arrived at Chicago from the North
west, reports that in nineteen coun-
ties of South Dakota the successive
failure of four years crops has reduc-
ed many thousands of families to ac-
tual want the stores refuse TO sell on
credit, farms are mortgaged for more
than they would bring. live stock is
starving and almost valueless, and the
people are barely living on coarse
cornmeal.
At st. Paul, Mimi, Miss Jennie
Thompson, beautiful young woman,
the leader of society circle, has died
of blood poisoning. She had been i'll
a week, suffering the most intense
agony. The poisoning showed first
in her chin and throat, which were
swollen to twice their natural size.
Her death was directly due to the
poisonous dye of her dglove. While
visiting dentists office she had no
ticed pimple on her chin and raised
her gloved hand TO feel Of it. In this
way the poison was transmitted.
Lottery" circles in Washington are
agitated over the identity of the
holder of the ticket which drew the
$500, 900 prize in the Louisiana lottery
drawing OH Tuesday last. 1t is known
that t;ol-a u-oc hal1 tbara hut fha