Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| heir TO S00U, UUO, uHeApeCteuiy
uueathed to him by relatives IN Italy.
Harry Carpenter, a wealthy In,
diana farmer, committed suicide, ana
the coroner's jury found that 1t was
caused by broOding over an increase
in taxes.
Gen. John NJ. Schofeld, commander
of the Army of the United States, was
married last week TO Miss Georgia
Kilbourne. He is 60 years old and
she is %.
At Bringhurst, Ind, little boy
named Willie Firman was hanged by
his stepmother and other relatives so
! they could get possession of fortune
| through his death.
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Schlessinger ar
rived in New York from South Amer
lea the other day, and before they got
off the steamer they were robbed of
$40. 900 worth of jewelry.
The Missouri river is cutting into
the Kansas shore and threatens to
leave st. Joseph, Mo, two miles TO
the east, with the city's million dollar
bridge spanning dry spot.
Annie Fredericks, aged II years,
was lost in the mountains at Wilkes
barre, Pa, last week, and although
thousands Of men have searched for
her she has not yet been found.
Anton Karl, an old and trusted dis
bursting officer of the |. :. Geological
Survey. is short in his accounts
$4,000. He was arrested and it i said
confessed that he took the money.
Joseph Demeritt, aged nineteen
wears. plunged knife into his fathers
heart Monday afternoOnat Key West,
Fla. death resulting instantaneouSiy
The father, George w. Demeritt, was
chastising his son for stealing $40,
which the boy denied.
In Page county Va, Monday, Bud
Kaufman. aged fourteen years, was
fatally shot by his brother, Dorsey
Kaufman, aged sixteen years. The
bows were examining revolver, when
the weapon was discharged. The ball
entered about the region of the heart,
and death was almost instantaneous.
Three boys were drowned while
bathing near Washington, Pa, last
Monday. One of them was John Nc
keown, the favOrite son of John Nc
| keown. the millionaire oil operator.
! The bov was worth four million dol
! lars in his own right. The other boys
! drowned were Walter Jones and John
| ChanliS.
Mrs. John Larson, wife OF a farmer
! living in the town Of Troy, Wis, drop
ped her three little children in Lake
| st. Croix during fit ofinsanity. Her
| husband. on finding her absent from
! the house, began search, and found
! her at the lake shore, wading, and
two of the children lying on the shore,
! dead. The third could not be found.
Mrs. Larson imagines that devils pur
sue her.
Four colored men and two cOlored
women. all strawberry pickers, who
were employed at Brooklyn. Anne
Arundel county. Md. were drowned
saturday night in Curtis Bay They
lad been taking holiday in Baltimore,
and all had been drinking. They
started from the county wharf on the
bugeye Thomas b. Brown, and when
in Curtis Bay ten of them climbed
| INTO Il Sllldll DObl anu ONtl luI HtH H.
Mrs. Martha Maryland, so years of
age. disappeared from her home in
Macomb. illinois, on recent morning.
In the evening her grandson went in
10 N pasture and there discovered a
drove of hogs fighting over some OBJ
iect. An investigation showed that
. the brutcs were feasting on the Wo-
/ N..i.tpnan 4
and the men were compelled TO beat
the hogs away from the corpse with
clubs.
Mrs. Ann Jane Thomas, aged sixty
two years, who, with her daughter,
has tOiled many years Is a spinner IN
the Barbour Flax Thread Company 5
mills in Paterson, y. ., received legal
notice on Saturday night of her fall
inc heir to 5000, 0O0and three valuable
pieces of property in Liverpool by the
death Of an uncle living in Ireland.
Mrs. Thomas. who was left widow
with large family of small children
many wears ago. has lived in great
poverty throughout her life, and 1t
was only by diut OF hard toll that she
gained u livelihood for herself and
family.
At Moulton, Ala, John SiverIy
bought pound of powder, pair OF
shoes and a new tin pan. He put the
! powder and shoes in the pan, set the
pan in the back of his wagon where
the sun shone directly on il, and
/ started for home. He was not smok-
| inc. and no fire was about the wagon,
but a mile out of town the powder eN-
ploded. knocking him out OF the wag-
on. almost tearing his clothes oil and
! burning him terribly about the face
and body. The bright tin had acted
/ as a Sun-glaSs TO concentrate the rays
| Of the sun 10 focus on the powder,
hence the novel explosion.
\ dispatch from Mt Jackson, Va,
saws: The heaviest rain in this section
since 1899 fell Friday night. Small
ravine became raging torrents. The
| Shenandoah river overtlowed its
banks, inundating the surrounding
valley The water was within ten
inches of the highest point reached
during the flood of two years ago.
! One-half Of the famous Meems's bot
toms. comprising l,6O0acres, was com
pletely submerged. thousands Of dol
lars damages being wrought to the
growing crops. The principal loss falls
upon Gen. Gilbert :. Mems and j.
Alex. Carter. - 900 being II coHserya-
tive estimate. The Valley pike bridge
across Narrow Passage creek, seven
miles north of here, was carried away.
\ terrible fight between a man and
an Infatuated mule occurred in Hey
mans blacksmith shop at Sebewaing,
Mich, the other day. The mule had
an aversion to being shOd and had to
be thrown. Heyman said he would
shoe the mule in the regular way or
die. With the help of three men Hey
man finally fixed the shoes and went
10 the door to cool off. He had hard
ly done so when the mule broke away
from the man holding him, and with
distended jaws made for Heyman.
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