Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mvriads of crickets are destroying
vegetation in parts OF washington
State.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis will probably
take up her residence In the Guy VI
Richmond.
Mr.. Parnell is to marry Mrs. OShea,
the woman with whom be has oeeh
intimate, about the middle of June.
At the sale of lots on Tuesday by
the Staunton Development Company
112 lots were sold, aggregating so, OOO.
Tump Hampton, a Louisiana negro,
was burned to death one night last
week for crimes committed year
ago.
The oatmeal mills of the country
have been consolidated into one
company, with a capital STOCK OF
SO, 500, 900.
4 freight train on the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad was wrecked near
Anderson the other day, and q cars
were piled up in heap.
Mr.. Freeman, formerly connected
with the Luray Inn, at Luray, va
will have charge of the Berkeley
Springs hotel this season.
An attempt was made one night
last week to steal the body of the late
p. T. Barnum from its tomb In the
cemetery at Bridgeport, Conn.
1T Jordan's saw mill near Bow
ling Green, Va, was blown up by an
explosion on Monday. Five men
were instantly killed and eight others
injured.
Miss Mary Fitzgerald a very
wealthy woman living near Troy, y.
Y. has created a great sensation by
marrying her coachman, who is tif-
teen wears younger than she Is.
Out in Wichita, Kan, woman kept
a line of voters waiting five minutes
until she found her ballot, which she
had put in her pocket. Then she tried
to vote recipe for mixed pickles.
Four hundred and sixty-two natives
of Denmark have bought LOO acres
of land between Baltimore and Wash
ington, upon which they will settle
and engage in dairying and truck
Farming.
Near Birmingham, Ala, jed Thomas
assaulted a woman. He was soon
captured bya mob of men and is sup
posed to have been lynched. All the
captors would say was Thomas had
escaped to hell.
The coke operators of the Scottdale
region have black-listed the men who
took part in the recent strike, and
refuse to give them employment.
There is great restitution among the
laboring people.
George Hertner, Henry Phillips,
Mrs. Henry Phillips and Clinton
Glide were burned to death in the
house of Henry Phillips, in Taylors-
town, Pa, at 2 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. They had been on a big spree
VIM. Peeless and Charles Chapman,
EMPLOYED by Thomas Murtagh and
Thomas Fitzgerald, respectively, two
farmers living six miles north OF Ham
mond. Wis. engaged in a fist fight
Friday night to settle a dispute. Pee
less was killed.
William and John Anderson, colored,
- W
Rossier parish. La, until a train ran
over and killed her. The men were
pursued by posse of colored men and
hanged. They offered no explanation
for their deed.
A few days ago some fishermen
found a baby alive and well perched
on some driftwood drifting placidly
toward the gulf, about twenty miles
down the river The child belonged
to family fourteen miles east OF
Ennis. 1t was restored to its parents.
Dallas Te1.) NecS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dulany, the Virginia
bridal pair who were injured in
wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad
while on their honeymoon, and who
spent three months in a hospital III
Pittsburg as the result Of the accident,
have instituted suit against the rail
road company for $50, 900 damages.