Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-03-20
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ton for his California trip about April
10th.
John Snyder, an old canal-boat
builder at Cumberland, Md, died
last week.
Michael Schall, a well-known bust
ness man of York, Pa, has failed for
over $4,000.
Syracuse, n. Y, had a million dol
| lar fire last Saturday. Some of the
finest property in the city was de-
stroyed.
| A poll of the Minnesota Legislature
| the other day showed the following
figures: Blaine SIS, Harrison 1; Cleve-
land 81, Hill l.
The Central Insane Asylum was
burned at Nashville, Tenn, Saturday
burned to death.
Hon. John f. Carr, of Haverhill,
Mass. an eX-member of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, was gored to
death by mad bull few days ago.
O. II. p. Williams. aged eighty one,
and Mrs Rebecca Afford, aged seven
ty-ninr, of Bartholomew county, In
diana, have Just been united in mar
riage.
Capt. J. II. Manning. a well-known
citizen and soldier of the late Conted-
crate army, died at his residence, near
Sterling, LOudoun county, Friday,
aged siXty-three years.
A thrifty sheriff out in Decatur, H.,
made thirty dollars last week by al
lowing the public to gaze upon a
scaffold which was TO be used in hang
ing murderer Ten cents admission
was charged.
The Hon. JAKE Kilrainand the Hon.
George Godfrey. the former a Balti-
more rize-fighter and the latter
colored pugilist, had fight in San
Francisco the other day. Jake
knocked the coon out in the 44th
round.
Many Of the negroes who emigrated
| from Texas and Arkansas to Oklaho-
ma are returning TO Texas. Theyare
very indignant at the manner in
which they have been imposed upon
bv the agents of the emigrating com
pany which prevailed upon them 10
go to Oklahoma.
A recently married young farmer,
living near Sheboygan, Wis, has hit
upon novel and effective scheme for
getting his wife out of bed III the
morning. He fills the stove with
damp shavings, lights them, and then
| shuts the damper in the pipe. by
| Il, = ha ln lnn iS of
fectually smoked out.
a special from Pottstown, Pa, says:
papers completing the agreement OF
! the removal of the Ellis and Leasing
Iron Works. of this city, to Salem,
Va, were signed here today by the
firm and by Colonel Logan and Cap
tain Langhorn, representing the cltl.
zens of Salem, Va, who offered
500, 900 and forty acres of landto the
iron company to locate there"
Mrs. John Maple, residing near
White Ridge, Va, in blowing out u
kerosene oil lamp before retiring on
Saturday night, caused the lamp to
explode. The burning oil and wick
were thrown over her, igniting her
clothing. Her husband promptly
smothered the flames with a blanket,
but not before she was so badly
burned as to cause her death four
DAYS later She leaves a large family
of small children.
Frank Y. Hagadorn stood on a
street corner in Chicago Tuesday
morning waiting for a car. Three
Italians were near him. Hagadorn
began to talk of the New Orleans
lynching, and said that every mem
Der of the Malta should be hung. The
words had hardly been uttered when
the three Italians drew their knives
and attacked him. He was severely
cut about the body, and would have
been killed outright had not his cries
brought several men to his assistance.
The Italians escaped.
David Handy and his eldest son,
farmers, on Thursday night were
dragged from their home, near Kan
sas CITY, by White Caps, and tied to
fence in their night clothes, where
they nearly persisted from the cold.
The mob then wrecked the house.
They tore off the roof, smashed in the
windows, broke off the door and de-
stroyed the furniture. Handy says
he knows Of no cause for the outrage,
except that he has been in litigation
over a farm lease for some time.
Last October Kate Weaver, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Weaver, prominent people of Indian
apolis, married Lemon +. Rhinehold,
prominent young lawyer, and life
seemed full of promise. a pistol shot
was heard within their house Satur-
day night. Mrs. Rhinehold was found
diving from wound in the breast.
She had taken her own life while
alone in her home. She left the fol-
lowing letter: when this reaches
YOU, | will be out of this world. L
had a bad, low husband, who beat
and cursed me, and tried to make
me believe | was unfaithful. | could
not stand it, so | took my own life.
Census bulletin No. 81 states that
in 1890 there were in the United States
1928 convicts i'll population OF
60 co., $50, an increase of Is in the mil
lion as compared with 1880. The pop
ulation was 24.S6 per cent greater In
1890 than in 1880, but there were 2'.2S
per cent more cOnvicts. or the whole
number of convicts g. SO per cent were
whites, 3247 per cent colored. OF
those in penitentiares 1880 per cent
were native-bor 1919 per cent for
eign born. In the South Atlantic
States S1.3S per cent of the convicts
were colored, 1862 per cent white.
Women were but $50 per cent of the
convicts in penitentiaries. Maryland
percentage of the population of the
Union was 1.66 per cent. Her per
centage of its convicts was 1.SS. Nir..
ginia also had less than her share OF
convicts. and West Virginia had only
half of her share. California and
Texas, on the other hand, had about
twice their proper proportions.