Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF $l20,UUO.
There was dreadful explosion in a
coal mine in Nova Scotia last Friday,
by which 116 men were killed.
Six persons met death and thirty
two families were rendered homeless
in tenement house fire in Brooklyn,
n. Y, Oh Saturday night.
Four men have been rescued alive
from the Jeanette mine at Hazleton,
Pa, after having been Imprisoned In
a little hole for eighteen days.
Two trains collided in a tunnel at
S5th street in New York City last Fri
day, and six persons were burned to
death by the fire that resulted.
Miss Catherine Drexel, the Phila-
delphia heiress, has taken her final
VOWS as nun. She gives to the
Catholic Church u fortune OF $1,000
000
The President has appointed Mr.. G.
c.. Cole 70 succeed Judge Hoge as U.
| S. attorney for the District of Column
bia. Mr.. Cole is an old Washington
ian.
A negro named Scott Bishop muir
dered Mr.. Hugh Hammock, in Notta-
way county, Va, whereupon mob
caught the murderer and lynched
him.
Two butchers living in a suburb OF
| Chicago had fierce duel with big
butcher knives the other day over
girl. They cut each other up fright
fully.
Hon. Ephraim X. Wilson, United
States Senator from Maryland, died
suddenly in Washington on Tuesday,
after very short illness, from heart
! disease.
DIR. James q. Armstrong, once a
prominent minister in the Presbyte-
rian and Episcopal Churches, died
suddenly at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday,
from apoplexy.
At Fredericksburg. Va, Michael Nc
Cracker and his son Thomas had u
quarrel. The son procured shot
| gun fired both barrels into his father
killing him instantly.
Little Will Heron was playing
about some coke ovens near Pittsburg
the other day, when he fell into one
of the blazing pits. In an instant he
was q mass of shriveled cinders.
Sir knight Dickerson, of Chicago,
upon whose body u square foot OF
skin, taken from the arms Of his
brother knights, was grated three
weeks ago, died Monday OF exhaus-
ton.
w. Stewart Diffenderfer, Of Baltl-
more, has just purchased "Hepsey,"
one of the most remarkable st. Ber-
nard dogs in the world. He paid
81 900 for her, and got her from Bath,
England.
Frank Holland, Of Philadelphia,
who has become a crank on the sub
ject OF burglars, shot and killed his
sister the other night. She was going
through a hall and he thought she
was robEer.
Young Darnell, who lived at Della
plane. Va, and who, while braking
on the railroad, was killed recently,
had a policy of $4,000 on his life
The Warrenton Trgiman says hi,
mother burnt the policy up, saying
that no money could compensate her
| 1Or the lOSh Ol IleT SOb
No wonder the prisoners are well
satisfied with the new administration
in the county Jail, says the Deadwood
| rs. d. Pioneer. yesterday the bill
OF fare consisted of porterhouse steak,
with onions, corn, potatoes, cabbage,
stewed veal, tomatoes, with apple pie
and rice pudding for dessert. This
was only an ordinary weekday din
ner."
Kate Willis, girl Of seventeen, Fin
crossing the Louisville " Nashville
wards at Louisville, KY, got her foot
caught and was unable to extricate it
before a freight train backed down
upon her. Just as the car reached
her she fell fiat upon the ground be
side the track and saved her life with
the loss of her foot. She was taken
to the hospital and probably will re-
cover.
Edward McMullen murdered his
wife, Ann, aged fifty years, at Stur-
merville, Pa, on Sunday, after tor
turing her. Both were beastly drunk,
and it is not known exactly how the
murder was committed. but from all
circumstances it is evident that he
took a pair of blacksmith's tongs,
heated them in the fire and put them
about his wife, burning her to death.
Her body was frightfully mutilated.
The room in which the deed was COM
mitted looked like slaughter pen.
1.-THE Sound Of Voice; or, the Song
OF the Debardeur,h is the title of the
complete novel in the March number
of LIPPINCoTT'S MAGAZINE. The au-
thor is the late Frederic 5. Cozzens,
the famous humorist, whose Spar
row-grass Papers" are known the
country over. The story is delight
| full romance, literary gem, and 1t Is
a wonder that its appearance in print
has been so long delayed. 1t relates
the adventures of a young American
in Paris, is full of stirring incidents,
and is told in u most captivating man
ner.
1t seems odd that man who is sick
must be made we'll so that he can be
hanged. Such is the case with the
man West, who is now under sentence
of death in Washington county, Pa,
| for murder. The date OF Vests Of
fetal death was set for the Goth OF
February. The Governor has been
informed that the man is very i'll. and
the prison physician does not think
that he can be got into condition INT
for hanging in less than four months.
West is in this pickle as he lies upon
his sick bed: IF l get well, then |
must die. II / don't get well, then |
can live, but | can stand chance OF
dying"
Almost atrocious outrage was per-
petrated on Friday on William Fer
guson near Troy, Ohio. He was
walking along the Dayton and Michi-
gan Railroad track that morning