Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-01-10
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

North Dakota will have to get
along for a while without any agri-
cultural college. Governor Miller
says the bill making the approprl-
alton is unconstitutional, and more
than that the finances of the new
State are too low to admit of any
extraordinary expenditure at pres
ent.
Henry Payne, of Gainesville,
Va, vas found dead, from suffoca.
ton, at the American House in
Washington Saturday. He regis
tered at the hotel Friday and was
missed Saturday. On gong to his
room the gas was found escaping
and his room full of it. The coro-
ner gave a certificate of death by
accidental suffOeatiOn.
Judging by the manner in which
certain Ohio Democratic papers
are attacking Brice and certain
Ohio Republican papers are attack
ing Foster, crow will be a leading
article Of food in the Buckeye State
for some time to come. Senatorial
crow Is said to be especially bitter.
Plttsburg, Pa, has a musical
prodigy. Her name is Ethel Jones,
and she is only Is years of age
She did not touch a piano until
she was 10. She now plays the
most difficult classical music in a
way that has astOnished competent
critics. She is the daughter of the
Rev. Edward Jones, a Methodist
minister. She is to be sent to
Europe.
The little State of Della ware
comes to the front with a striking
Illustration of the danger of "gOing
to law" y woman won a suit for
S2,204, 100 against a railroad com
pany, and as the company's assets
are wholly inadequate to salty the
Judgment, she may be compelled
to take t1e load. Fighting these
grinding corporations is anything
but profitable.
A Judge up in Boston 10 render
ing and opinion IN a case where a
man who was hiding on a railroad
on free pass says: ave are of
opinion that where one accepts as
a gratulty free pass upon rail-
road tram upon the agreement that
he will assume all risk of accident
which may happen to him, no rule
of public policy requires us to de-.
clare such contract invalid and
without binding force"
The Baltimore San says that
"the epidemic of influenza, or
grippe grows in severity as it
spreads over the country. A mum.
Der of Washington letter. carriers
have it. DR.. Paul Huffman, assist
ant superintendent OF the public
schOOlsin New York city, was taken
to Bellevue Hospital, Saturday, a
raviDg maniac from the effects of
the disease. The death rate in
New York and Boston has been in-
creased to unprecedented figures.
An epidemic which is said to be
the black tongue fever is raging In
MOnOngalia county, w. Va. 1t
was first discovered ID the family
of Thomas Burns, a few miles from
MOrgantown. -Four of bis family
died with 1t in one week. The
people of the neighborhood are
very much alarmed, and the author.
tiles OF MOrgantOwn have sent pro.
visions for the balance of the Burns
family, with orders to remove them
and burn the residence, to prevent
the spread of the disease.
On last Friday morning Mr.. L.
L. Perry, OF Orange q. H., an old
and esteemed merchant of that
place, was killed just below Mont
pelier by train. The suppositiOn
is that his horse became unman.
ageable at the near approach of the
train and bOlted across the track.
The engine demolished the cart
and inflicted a severe wound Oh Mr..
Perry's head, breaking the skull.
The approach to the crossing is
through piece of woods and rather
dangerous. Mr.. Perry was a mem
Der Ofthe Baptist church at that
place, and highly esteemed through
out the county.