Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-04-11
Items Left over from Last Week.

The people of Mechanicstown, Md,
were badly frightened last Monday
by the appearance of a large black
bear in the mountains near the vii
lage. The bear was first seen by u
party of schoolchildren, who gave the
alarm. Mr.. Bear was climbing up a
pine tree ON the mountain side near
Chimney Rock w. j. Creager pro-
cured gun and started in pursuit,
but without success, as the bear had
descended from the tree and made off
among the rocks In early days
bears were plentiful in that neighbor-
hood
The C. V. r. R. Company has con-
tracted for 400 tons of ice from Lake
Champlain. Eight car loads have
already arrived and the rest is on the
way. There will be twenty carloads
in all The company has three ice
houses. two at Chambersburg and
one at Hagerstown, and all will be
filled Chief Engineer Ives thinks
that this will last the company all sea-
son. The ice is about seventeen inches
thick and of splendid quality. Some
Of the cakes are six feet long and are
so heavy that the workmen have diff
ficulty in handling them.
A serious accident occurred at Hoff-
man mines, near Frostburg, Md, last
! Thursday afternoon, resulting in the
death of Hans Porter and James Car
ter. William hurry was fatally in
| jured The men were walking down
the slope at the mines and before
they could get out Of the way train
of nine mine cars struck them. The
men had gone down the slope instead
of going by the way of the foot-path
which is intended TO avoid accidents.
A remarkable incident in connec-
| ton with a fire in Washington City u
! few DAYS ago was an accident to one
Of No. 3. engine horses. As the engine
was passing over one of the railroad
crossings one Of the horses hoofs was
torn off. The noble animal gave no
evidence of pain, but continued all
the way to the fire, a dista nee of
nearly half mile, on the cobblestone
pavement on the bare bone that was
exposed by the loss Of the hoof. The
| animal hid 70 he killed
Ex-Prest j. J. Boyle, Of Raleigh,
n. c., few months ago was tried
and found guilty of an outrageous
assault on Miss Geneva Whitaker,
young member of his congregation.
The evidence showed the deed to
have been a most dastardly one, and
he was promptly convicted and SEN
fenced to be hung. a new trial was
applied for and granted, and it has
resulted in an acquittal of the scoun-
drel, who gets off scot free.
Barney Mcclure, aged So, who has
been in prison thirty-five years Of his
life, pleaded guilty in Rochester, n.
Y, of larceny, saying he had no
home or friends and wanted to go to
prison for life The Judge gave the
old man fourteen months sentence
to Auburn.
A special from Stanton, Ala, tells
how Frank Griffin, colored, assaulted
two little white school girls, one nine
and the other fouryea old. He was
caught and hung to dogwood tree.
The smallest girl will die of her in
juries.
The lease of the Camden system of
railroads in West Virginia TO the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad Company was
ratified at a general meeting OF the
stockholders of the latter company
last week.
At municipal elections held in
number of town in Kansas on Tues
day the women were allowed to vote.
1t is said that the fair sex proved to
be pretty good at electioneering.
Ice twenty inches thick is being cut
at Bennington, Vermont, and the
prospect is the harvest will continue
a month yet.
The Kanawha & Ohio Railroad has
been leased for long term of years
to the chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Company.
1t is said that high waters last week
did great damage to the Fairmont
and Clarkshurg and Ohio River rail
roads.
A Chinese laundryman in Philadel-
phia has the leprosy. He is in hos
pital.