Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ting slow suicide by excessive snok-
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Mr.. Jas. b. Russell, of Winchester,
has been appointed receiver for the
Middletowu Carriage Works, located
at Middletown, Va.
Hon. Redfeld Proctor, Secretary of
War, has accepted the appointment OF
United States Senator from Vermont,
to succeed George F. Edmunds.
MRS. BURTON HARRISON, the au-
thor of The Anglomaniacs, has
written a new novel OF New York life
which The Century will print. 1t is
said to deal with divorce.
DR.. S. NJ. Gold, a prominent physi-
clan in the Shenandoah Valley. was
found dead in his home in Buena is
ia Monday morning, death being due
TO an overdose of morphine.
Rich & Hurd's circus exhibited at
Ford City, Pa, last week. Mrs.
Taylor wife Of an employee Of the gas
works, went to see the performance,
leaving her husband home with her
baby. As his wife was returning,
Taylor started out in the dark 10 meet
her when he fell in a ditch and broke
the child's neck.
DR.. Charles f Ballard, of Saybrook,
ILL.,. shot and killed Miss Bertha Ison.
late of Baker City. Oregon, and
daughter of the late Judge Luther b.
Ison, Of Baker City, in Bloomington,
H., Tuesday, and then killed himself.
He had asked her to marry him at
once, but she asked that he wait
until her education was completed.
The steamer w. w. Corcoran, which
had carried a million passengers 10
Mt. Vernon, was burned 10 the waters
edge on the Potomac river, at Wash
ington, last Thursday. Robert Grant
ley, a colored boy who worked on the
boat, jumped overheard and was
drowned. The steamers George Leary
and Manchester were slightly damaged.
Friday last the building OF the
Franklin Brass Company, at Buchan-
an, Va, was burned to the ground,
the fire originating in the engine-room.
The estimated loss il S15, 900. The
company had just finished setting up
its valuable machinery, and had COM
menced operations about one week
ago. The building itself cost over
$50, 900.
James Hunt was found dead on the
Norfolk and Western Railroad, near
Doran, Thursday morning. His body
was horribly mangled. The inquest
revealed the fact that he had been hit
on the head with blunt instrument.
His hat and heavy club We're found
a few hundred wards away. The jury
rendered verdict that Hunt was
murdered and his body placed on the
track.
Plans for the Odd Fellows Temple
to be erected in Chicago have been
prepared They provide for build
ing as high as the Washington Mon
ument. The entire ground space is
built up TO a height OF fourteen
stories. Above this the building eX-
tend. six stories i'll the form OF Il
square cross, the four spaces i'll the an
giles of the main building being left
vacant. Above this is Il towershaped
structure fourteen stories high, max
ing thirty-four stories altogether,
with an aggregate height Of $50 feet.
The.estimated cost is SO, 800, 900. The
ground space covered is 10 be III by
233 feet.
Five young ladies Of Reading, Pa,
suffered a painful experience with
hornets at the Saratoga camp meeting
last week, and some of them barely
escaped with their lives. They had
taken off their shoes and stockings to
wade through brook, and on ascend
ing the farther bank disturbed hor-
nets nest. a swarm OF enormous in
sects attacked the girls and severely
stung them on the feet and lower
limbs. Some Of them tainted from
fright and pain, and none were able
to put on their shoes to walk back 10
camp. A searching party late in the
evening found the young women still
at the brookside disabled.
A horrible story Of double murder
comes from Livingston, Overton coun-
ty. Tenn. The familyof VIM. Smith
went to church, leaving two girls, az
ed II and 10, in the house alone. A
bout Q o'clock neighbor notice an
unusual light in the direction of
Smiths dwelling He ran over an d
found the house rapidly burning. e
arrived Just in time TO see the bodies
OF the two girls, both dead, lying on
the floor in the center OF down
stairs room. Their faces were covered
with blood and their clothigng disor-
dered. SO fierce were the flames
that the bodies could not be rescued.
The girls had undoubtedly been muir
dered. after which the house was set
on fire. The family was a very re-
spectacle one.
A terrible fight among farmers is
reported from Celina, Ohio. Tuesday
morning, while James Lewis and Tom
Johnson were running a thraShing
machine on John COles's farm, Lewis
cut Johnson on the hand. He claim
ed that the act was accidental. John
son. however, would listen TO no eNpla-
nation and rushed at Lewis, striking
him a terrific blow in the face. Lewis
fell under the thrashing! machine and
was drawn between the cylinders.
Hejwas killed instantly. Frank Lewis,
a brother Of James. was witness OF the
affair, He caught up pitchfork,
and, before anybody had time TO re
strain him, he plunged the tines into
Iobrgon's stomach killing him al