Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-11-15
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MT. JOscpu hhOCioOi, VIC
of Mary Anderson, says that he does
not think his sister will ever go on
the stage again.
Miss Mary Butterworth, daughter
of Representative Butterworth, OF
Ohio, was married in Washington
last week to Mr. Haughwaut Howe
while the latter was on his deathbed.
He died the following day.
At Kinnston, Tenn, on Monday,
John NJ. Wester, Jr., the town mar
shall, was shot by James Edwards,
whom the marshal was trying to ar
rest, and Wester in turn shot Ee-
wards. Both men died in an hour
from their wounds.
Daniel McDermott, OF Pawtucket,
R. l., while playing cards in passen-
ger coach on the New York, Provi-
dence and Boston Railroad, was
struck by an iron girder on a pass
ing freight train and killed. n. G.
Peabody was also killed.
Bud Warner, a negro burglar, who
shortly leaves for a sojourn Of nine
years in the Albany penitentiary,
was married in the Washington City
jail the other day to Mamie Eliza
beth Norbeck, young white girl. a
colored preacher performed the cere'
mony.
Baltimore ladies have raised
800. 900 and rendered it to the Johns
Hopkins University trustees on the
condition that when the university
medical school is opened women shall
be admitted. The university trustees
accepted the fund on certain condl-
tions.
Arrangements are making for the
laying OF a double pnuematic tube
line between New York and Philadel-
phia Between these two and all In
termediate points it is expected that
letters, newspapers and small pack
ages will be whirled along at the rate
of four miles minute.
A Young woman who had check
for Sl4 on certain Detroit bank pre-
sented it at the cashiers desk, says
the Free Press, and he politely said
You will please indorse it, miss. "
She took it over to the desk and wrote
on the back: Il want this money
awful bad yours truly please pay the
bearer"
What this country seems TO need is
a national law on the subject OF KISS
ing. An Ohio court has just fined a
man $4,000 for kissing woman
against her will, while an Illinois man
has been mulcted only SIS for taking
a similar liberty. Either the ONO
man got too much justice or the I'LL
nois man too little.
A matchmaker in Newcastle, En-
gland, recently completed a set OF
three gold shirt studs, in one OF which
is a watch that keeps excellent time,
the diameter being only three-si1-
teenths of an inch The three studs
are connected by a'strip OF silver In
side the shirt bosom, and the watch,
contained in the middle one, is wound
up by turning the stud above. The
hands are set by turning one below,
Thursday night at Gallitzin, Pa,
two Hungarian men became involved
in fight. They were struggling on
the ground when a woman, who was
boiling clothes near by, took up a
bucket Of scalding water and dashed
it over them. One of them escaped,
but the other was almost boiled, the
flesh coming off his body in strips.
He is now in the hospital in critical
condition.
Albert Ludermeyer, young far
mer living near Casco, Kewaunee
county, Wis, quarreled with his wife
a bride OF few weeks, in regard to
the quantity Of potatoes they should
should put in for the winter. Luder-
meyer grew insanely angry at his
young helpmeet, and, Selling his Win
chester rifle, he shot her dead as she
ran from the house. Ludermeyer
then put the muzzle OF the weapon to
his own head and blew his brains out.
The Rev. j. F., Conyock, a colored
minister in Chattanooga, and who
also runs a saloon, has had a lively
week of it so far. Sunday morning
he preached Sunday afternoon he
had his whisky mill in full blast; Sun
day night his barkeeper knocked a
man in the head in his presence; Mon
day afternoon he broke a heavy tea
cup over his wife's head; Monday
night there was a lively row in his
house; Tuesday he fired at a man,
and Wednesday he was before the
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