Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ex-Governor Thayer, Of Nebraska,
has gone crazy over the political COM
plications in that State.

Ex-Governor Thayer, Of Nebraska,
has gone crazy over the political COM
plications in that State.
E. B. Sears. of Boston, has bought
the famous English St. Bernard dog
Sir Bedivero, paying for it $4,000.
Governor Robert E. Pattison was
forna ly inaugurated as Governor Of
Pennsylvania at Harrisburg on Tues
day
Last Monday was the anniversary
OF Gen. Robert K. Lees birth. and 1t
was observed as legal holiday in
Virginia.
George Bancroft, the venerable his
torian, died at his home in Washing
ton City last Saturday He was in
his 91st year.
King Kalakaua, the king OF the
Hawaiian Islands, died in San Fran
cisco on Tuesday of Bright's disease
of the kidAeys.
A whale was killed in Behring sea
a short time ago in whose body was
found a harpoon that had pierced its
body sixty years ago.
A terrible scourge known as BLACK
death" is killing thousands of persons
in Asiatic Russia. 1t is feared that 1t
will spread to Europe and America.
Earl Davis, nine-year-old boy of
Adrian, Mich, shot himself fatally
in the lung because he had been
chided for running away from school.
Mr.. Jacob Hessinger, of Middleburg,
Md, had hog 80 fat that it could
not get up, and the rats cut its jugu-
lar vein by gnawing hole in its
throat.
Mrs. Annie C. Scott committed
suicide at her husbands store in
Baltimore few days ago. They had
only been married year, but she
was dissipated.
John l.. Sullivan says he is done
fighting without gloves, for he has no
desire to buck up against the law
again. But he's willing to tackle any
body with gloves.
Amelie Rives, the American auth
Dress, is seriously i'll in Paris. She
has not left her room for six months,
and has not quilted her bed since
early in December.
While working in the rolling mills
at Bristol, Pa, Charles Carpenters
body was pierced through and
through with a red-hot bar Of iron,
causing fatal injuries.
There was a frightful explosion of
natural gas at Findlay, Ohio, the
other day. The Hotel Marvin was
wrecked and two girls and dozen
other persons were injured.
The great carpet mills of John and
James Dobson in Philadelphia were
burned last Friday night, causing a
loss Of over $1,000, 000 and throwing
1900 persons out of employment.
Tyler Droneburg, blacksmith Of
Evansville, Frederick county, Md,
was killed by train while walking
Oh the railroad. He was thirty years
old and leaves wife and several
children.
During her coming American tour
Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the French
actress, is to receive $500 a day for
hotel expenses and 5000 for each per
Torrance. in addition to a third of
the gross receipts.
The cowboy days are not yet over.
William Dillon, a saloon and cattle
man, from Rawlins, Wyo., who has
been on a spree at Ogden, Utah, for
week past, entered the bar-room of
the Brown Hotel. in that city. Tues
day morning and demanded that Geo.
Mitchell, the barkeeper, drink with
him. Upon Mitchells refusing Dillon
whipped out a revolver and shot him
dead. Dillon is quite well-known
character in the West, and has been
all Indian fighter for some time.
A short distance out from Buena
Vista, Col, there is a cave literally
swarming with spiders Of a curious
species Of immense size, some OF them
having legs four inches in length and
a body as large as that of a canary
bird. The cave was discovered i'll
December, 1879, and was often re-
sorted to by the pioneers, who OBJ.
tanned the webs for use in place of
thread. Early and late the cave con-
stantly resounds with buzzing noise,
which is emitted by the spiders while
they are weaving their nets.-H.
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