Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-03-13
Deferred Items.

The centre of population is creep
ing West. 1t is now near Greensburg,
Southern Indiana.
John l.. Sullivan had his eyes
BACKED by a train hand named Town
send on Georgia railroad passenger
train on Tuesday. The big fellow be,
gan abusing the trainman without
provocation. After Townsend was
pulled of Sullivan tried to bluff him
out of the car. but he did not go.
It is announced that the remains
of Emma Abbott, the opera singer,
who died at Denver, Col, were Gre
mated at Pittsburg, Pa, on Februa-
nv 18th. The ashes are in the vaults
of the Safe Deposit Company, in New
York, where they will remain unit
the mon ument to the singer is finished
A sad case of suicide occurred at
Lima, Ohio, a few days ago, when
Mr.. Fred Niehausmyer, aged about
thirty, went suddenly insane over the
continued illness OF her babe, and in
a fit Of desperation, grabbed the babe
from it's bed and rushing to an open
eistern, jumped in. Both were
drowned.
The ella river in Arizona has been
flooded to an unprecedented extent,
and the valley though which it runs
is completely submerged. The town
of Yuma has been utterly destroyed,
only one building remaining unln'
jured. Many lives have been lost, In
addition to the enormous destruction
of property and live stock.
Mrs. Sanders, Of Jasper, Ala, has
secured verdict OF S44,5OO against
the Kansas City, Memphis and Birm-
ingham Railroad for the death OF her
husband, who was killed in collision
on that road at Ensley City last DC
tober. 1t is said to be the largest
damages for personal injury ever
awarded in the State of Alabama.
Sansalito Bay, Cal, is actually
packed full of fish. They are so plen'
tiful that they are forced out OF the
water Oh to the shore, where they Ole
and decompose, much to the detri'
ment of the public health OF Sansali'
to. a little town situated on the bay.
The great popularity about the mat
ter lies i'm the fact that no one knows
to what species they belong, where
thew come from or what brought
them to that particular part OF the
coast.
At415 o'clock Monday morning d
large meteor, apparently about the
size of a full moon, was observed at
number of points in Maine. 1t burst
with loud report over Madison VII
lage, blazing fragments scattering In
every direction. Houses were shaken
as though by an earthquake, and
hundreds OF people were awakened
from sleep by the conclusion, when
reverberated for some moments
sounding like heavy rolling thunder
while the shooting particles seemed
like so many flashes of lightning.
Four weeks ago, at Akron, ONO,
Mrs. Frank Bauer became the mother
OF a baby girl. For that baby her 4
vear-old son took the most intense
dislike. Tuesday the mother left her
children together. She was gone on
" a few minutes When she returned
the baby was crying piteously. Con
tinual crying led to all examination
of the little things body. The moth
or was Mortified to discover that the
great toe of the right foot had been
bitten off near the first joint. The
bow admitted that he had done it.
In Baltimore Friday night Mrs
Louisa Murphy was busting a mantel
over the kitchen stove, when section
of the hearth gave away. She jumped
on one side, and just then heard
screams from the cellar. She recog
nized the voice of her daughter, Mrs
Mary Shenandoah, who was getting
coal The brick work had pinned
her to the floor, and hot grease from
pans on the stove, which had upset
was streaming ON her neck aud arms
More of the brick work gave way
and Mrs. Murphy saw at once that the
stove would soon fall into the cellar
Screaming for help, she gripped the
hot stove at the base and tipped II
back until another woman in the
house had so propped it that al
danger of falling was avoided. Mrs
Murphy's wrists and hands are hor
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