Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At Lima, Ohio, Miss Mary Christ
man sneezed herself to death during
an attack of the grip.
DIR. Gentry, Chicago physician,
claims to have discovered the microbes
of the grip. The air is full Of EN-
The Young Mems Christian ASCOT
alton of Chicago will erect a fourteen
story building in that city, at cost OF
$500, 900.
Miss Grace Weston Fuller, daugh-
ter of Chief Justice Fuller, was mar
ried in Washington on Monday 10 Mr..
A. w. Brown. OF Chicago.
Rev. Dir. Howard Crosby, the emf
nent Presbyteriaa minister, died Sun
day afternoon at his home in New
York. aged siIty-tive years.
Thomas Burke was fatally bitten
by az enraged stallion at Hamilton,
Ohio. the other day. The horse lit
orally chewed him to death.
Miss Annie L. Kelly, handsome
10 year-oid girl, Of commanding pres
ence and rich mellow voice, Is the
reading clerk in the Colorado Sen
| ate.
| Charles Arbuckle, the millionaire
coffee merchant, of Brooklyn, and the
man who lost $3.50 in the damage
suit brought by his Baby Bunting,
is dead.
Mrs. Erickson stepped on parlor
match in her home in New York the
other day. AS the match exploded 1t
set her skirts afire, and she was burned
to death.
A temperance crusade is being car
ried on in Bloomfield, Ohio, and the
other day mob completely wrecked
a saloon that had particularly hard
reputation.
Two boys named Nickerson and
Harget. OF Prairie Du CHEN, Wis,
died suddenly Friday last from nico-
tine poisoning after smoking cigar
cites in excess.
The Democrats OF Frederick coun-
ty, Va, have nominated the following
ticket: For treasurer, ). X. Piper;
sheriff, p. G.. Gore; commonwealth at
torney, r. E. Byrd.
At Bangor, Maine, last Saturday,
Leslie Ellis won bet by drinking a
quart of whiskey without taking the
bottle from his lips. He didn't die
until the next day.
Kagev and Miller, the defaulting
Luray bankers, have each had five IN
dictments found against them by the
grand jury of Page county-four Tor
felony and one for misdemeanor.
Within the past week Adam Barley,
aged sixty-four, his wife, aged forty
two, sister, sixty-eight, and a daugh,
ter, twenty years of age, have dled OF
la grippe after a few days illness, III
Frederick county, Va. Two children
are still dangerously Ill.
The Universal Order of Co-opera
ton. a company that promised to
give subscribers 500 for $50 at the
end of a three months investment
and which fleeced many people in
Baltimore and Philadelphia, has been
wound up by the courts.
Dominica Coco, a revengeful Italian,
stabbed and killed his sister-in-law, a
beautiful girl of II years, near Cam
den. n. j., because the girl tried TO
keep him from killing his wife. y
mob tried to hang him, but the pc
lice managed to get him III Jail.
Recently b. F. Whitener, farmer
residing near Marquand, Mo-, was en-
gagged repairing his fence, and while
digging post holes discovered a yes
sci containing $4,000. Some of the
coins were of very ancient date. The
treasure is thought to have been bur
led during the late civil war.
VIM. Garner died in Mexico, Mo.
Wednesday, of hydrophobia. Dur
ing the last night his sufferings were
terrible. He CRASHED his teeth apC
frothed at the mouth continually. Ii
is said that about twenty years age
he was bitten by u mad dog, which
the doctor thinks is the cause.
Robert Bartlett, town marshal
of Prestonville, KY, which is located
a few miles above Madison, arranged
to elope with the wife of DR.. Contr
Monday night, but at the last moment
Mrs. Contri refused to accompany
him. Thereupon Bartlett shot anC
fatally wounded her and he also sho
and slightly wounded Mrs. Hale, will
whom Contri and wife boarded. Bart
lett escaped arrest.
1t is asserted that at Big Stone Gap
Va. the electric lights are utilized II
novel way. 1t - said the town a:
laid off is two miles wide and five
miles long, and that all this space il
lit I'D by electric lights, and that il
the woods there the people hunt pos
sums and coons, not by the light o
the moon or pine torches, but by the
light of the electric lamps.
A Kansas paper tells of farme
who wanted to dig well The frs
thing that he did was TO pillow a lot o
land and plant it in oats. Every day
he watched the oats, observing thu
spots that showed the greatest mois
ture. Finally he selected spot an'
sank a well. At twenty.four feet h'
had a fine stream Of water. 1t is sale
to be the best well in the country
Other farmers in the same neighbor
hood have failed 10 find water at 2O
feet.
Four negroes, two men and tive
women, were arrested and lodged IL
iail at Belgreen, Ala, Friday night
charged with burning the town o
Ru.sellville last NJ onday night. The
women confessed and told the whol'
story. Saturday night a mob OF TIVE
hundred and fifty armed men went t
Belgreen, overpowered Jailer Walt
trep and took jeff Densnore and +
Hudson, the two men, to neighbor
ing white oak tree, swung them to
limb. filed them full of bullets ant
left them. They denied their guilt.
There was another fire at Luray
Va, on Monday. Flames broke on
in the loft of Walter CampbelIs larg'
frame livery stable, consuming thu
structure and large quantity of har
ness and provender All the horse
and vehicles were gotten out unin
jured. DR.. Hudson's carriage house
opposite. was the only other building
| Tho al iapant DWELLING