Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


King Humbert has sent 800 each
child left an orphan by the steamship
Utopia disaster.
Kagey and Miller, the defaulting
bankers, were tried last week ana ac-
Quilted of the charges against them.
A woman named Sitterding in Bal
timore cut her husbands throat be,
cause he did not cook the dinner well
while she was out.
A Kansas City mob of 800 attempt
ed to seize Schweinfurth, the alleged
Christ to tar and feather him, but
the police stopped them.
A Georgia man in splitting wood
one day found a hickory nut flrmly
embedded in the heart of the timber.
How it came there is a mystery.
The mayor of Philadelphia has of
fered a reward of $4,000 for the ar
rest of Gideon w. Marsh the abscond-
ing president of the broken Keystone
Bank.
The class about TO graduate from
the academic department OF Yale Is
reported to be the largest in the his
tory of the college. 1t numbers 1877
men
The Young Mems Christian Associ-
ations of Virginia will encamp this
year at Hampton, Va, near Fortress
Monroe. \ very pleasant time Is an
ticipated.
Burglars broke into the jewelry
store of John A. Faber, at Clifton
Forge, Va, Saturday night, blew open
the safe, and stole about "a, 900 worth
Of jewelry and cash.
A yellow fir tree, measuring 113
feet in length by SO inches in diameter
at the big end, was shipped by rail
from Seattle, State of Washing
ton, Tuesday, to be exhibited In
Chicago. The tree will be called the
$ aattle.
julius Macarthur, horse thief, who,
while evading arrest, shot and caused
the death of Deputy Sheriff Charles
Smith, of Burlington, n. H., has
made his will, which includes be
quest of 800 to the nearest relative
of his victim.
The colored man seems TO be COM
ing TO the front as class orator. Ru-
fus Perry, of Brooklyn, only "a years,
of age, will be the class orator at the
commencement exercises at the Uni
versity of the State of New York,
Law department.
A female passenger on the Santa
Fe Railroad threw her child from the
4 6 tA;l,t 81 thA
as the train passed over IA bridge near
Cimarron, Kansas. The conductor
saw the body sink beneath the water
The woman could give no account of
herself. She was taken to Pueblo,
Col.
The new press on which the n. Y.
Herald is printed, is II seXtuple ma
chine consuming over fifty miles OF
white paper in one hour, and delivers
twenty-five complete newspapers, cut
pasted and folded in one second. 1t
prints | 500, 900 words in asecond, and
ninety thousand six page HerdtdS in
one hour, this is moving more rapidly
than thoughts.
Mrs. George l.. Cresson, of st. Paul,
MINI, rushed into the embroidery
school kept by Miss Margaret II. Glib
son. in the Mannheimer Rlock, ST.
Paul, on Saturday last and fired sew
eral shots at Miss, Gibson, eXclaiming,
You won't steal any other woman's
husband as you have mime Mrs
Cresson soon tainted, and was taken
home. Miss Gibson was not hurt.
While John Osborn and wife, of
III a IL ,,,.,,,
yard taking in the clothesline, n re-
markably vivid flash of lighting oc-
cured Osborn threw up his hands,
and, falling PROSTATE, died within
few moments. There was no evil
dence of lightning having touched
him, and the coroner is of opinion
that he died from fright.
A man in Buffalo, n. Y, was fined
IS for selling cigars TO minors. This
is probably the first conviction in
that neighborhood, at least, under
law which was passed two years ago.
but has been dead letter on the stat
ute books. Similar laws were enacted
in many States. but if there have been
any convictions under them trey have
been kept secret. This has not re-
ever. The evil which these laws are
intended to corret exist as openly and
extensively as ever. Any observer is
aware OF this fact
a peculiar malady, of which Miss
Lilly Miller, daughter of Henry
Miller, of York, Pa, has been suffer
ing for a number of years, resulted in
her death last Sunday. The young
lady. who was twenty-five years of
age, was a seamstresS, and had the
habit of sticking large numbers Of
needles and pins into the bosom Of
tightlitting dresses. The pins and
needles entered the flesh and worked
out in different portions of the body.
Even after discovering the result of
her habit she was unable to break off
Dropsy and blood poisoning set in,
caused, the doctors say. by the pins
The young lady suffered intensely,
and tue case hafIled the skill of the
physicians, who pronounced it the
most singular that had ever come un-
der their observation.
DIAPER AND ENVELOPES.-A large sup
i ply just to hand and for sale, very cheap,