Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

M. jules drevy, ef-preSluent OF the
French republic, died last week, aged
"a years.
Hon. George B. Loring. former COM
missioner OF agriculture, died in Sa-
lem, Mass, on Monday, aged "A years.
Great floods are prevailing through
out Spain, and in the province OF To
ledo alone over 2, 600 people have per-
ished.
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley. chairman
OF the interstate commerce commits
sion. has resigned on account OF ill
health.
Mr.. John II. b. Latrobe. one of Bal
timore's most honored citizens, died
last week in the eighty-ninth year Of
his age.
At Elkton, Md. the other day, Per
cy Carr, aged 16 years, deliberately
shot and killed Harry Price, his cous-
in, aged years.
Cornelius Reagan, of Bethlehem,
Pa, commenced to hiccough six weeks
ago, and he kept it up until last Fri
day, when he died.
A passenger train on the Union Pa
cific Railroad teppled over an EN-
bankment near Denver last Sunday,
causing the injury of 90 persons, five
OF them fatally.
There was a remarkable tragedy
i'm Paris the other day, where fam
lily Of six persons committed suicide,
the parents hanging themselves first,
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example.
A burly negro committed heinous
outrage upon young lady school
teacher near Arcadia, Louisiana. \
party of men caught him and skinned
him alive, and then left his body to
the buzzards
Somebody to blame, but we don't
know who" was practically the YER
dict OF the coroner's jury who investi
gated the cause of the death of the
sixty-three victims of the Park place
disaster in New York city.
Louis Ramel was arrested at Easton,
Pa, the other day, for placing dyna
mite on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
track, causing bad wreck. He con
fessed, and said he did it because he
liked to see the trainmen blown of
the cars.
A Washington telegram sayt that
Senator Kenna and small party Of
others have gone down to the Lower
Potomac in the Senator's house boat
for shooting on the marshes. One of
the men on the tug which took them
down fell overheard and was drown
ed.
The $19S, 900. ice machine for st.
Louis, now in course OF building at
Frick Company's in Waynesboro, will
weigh 1000 tons and will require so
cars to ship. This will probably be
the largest single manifest that has
ever been made out or in any railroad
office in the Cumberland Valley
Repository.
A Berlin physician has made the dis
covery that simple water injected I'M
der the skin with syringe renders
the flesh at that point insensible to
pain. The effect of the water is to
create q slight swelling resembling
that caused by the sting OF a gnat.-
The space marked by the swelling
remains luseUslDlc W pain lOT sOille
minutes, so that missions can be made
without causing the slightest pain.
Gen. John Gordon, Of Georgia, com
mandipg general of the United Con
federate Veterans, has issued an ad-
dress Ito the eX-soldiers and sailors of
the Confederate States OF America"
in which he urges the formation of
camps in all the Southern States of
the Benevolent, Social and HiStori-
cal Organization of United Confeder-
ate Veterans" The object of this or
ganization is to band together the
survivors of the war who fought on
the side of the South, their sympathi-
zers and descendants, into u body for.
the preservation of the memory Of the
South in the civil war, the taking care
OF the families of Confederate veter
ans who are in need of assistance and
the general instruction and cultivation
of the minds of the descendants of
those who died in defense Of the
Southern cause.