Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

day, aged 80 years.
A big fire at Culpeper, Va, last
| Thursday burned the Baptist csulon
aud a number OF other nuliuins7'
causing loss of about $40, 900.
house occupied by non-union
workmen at Homestead. Pa. was
blown up by dynamite last Friday
NIGHT. No one was killed, but num-
Der were injured.
Fire occurred at Crewe Station, Va,
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
Monday morning. burning six stores
with contents. Loss $4,000; parity
insured. The fire originated IN
bakery.
NIL. G. Jahnke. leading jeweler
in Lexington, Va, died Saturday after
q very brief illness. The immediate
cause of death was lockiaw, resulting
from a broken and decayed tooth.
Mrs. Thomas KAUFMAN, widow,
aged eighty-one years, OF HecktoWn'
Pa, was fatally burned Saturday by
stove polish, with which she was pol
ishing a hot stove. catching hre'
The polish was a patent liquid con-
tanning benZine.
Albert Leeds. professor of chemis
try in Stevens Institute of TechnoIo--
gy. Hoboken, n. j., has renowned
the Republican party, and will sup
port the cause of Democracy. In his
letter Prof. Leeds says the Mchin-
ley tariff is palpable robbery.
Senator D. B. Hill has written to
Senator John w. Daniel that he will
speak on the political issues of the
dav in Lynchburg, Va, October 26th.
1t is proposed TO make the occasion
one of the greatest political demon
STATIONS ever witnessed in Virginia.
The Canadian Pacific Navigation
steamer Premier and the steam collier
Willamette were in collision in fog
near Port Townsend, Wash. Five
lives were lost The vessels were Sc
tightly locked that they could not
separate even after one had been
driven ashore, and both were strand
ed.
One year ago last Friday John
Hopp was struck by Michigan Cen
trail express train and instantly
killed. Friday his widow, while
walking along the track of that road
with flowers to place upon the grave
of her husband, was struck by pas
senger train and instantly killed. This
happen ed at Lansing, Mich.
The six members Of the celebrated
| Dalton gang of robbers tried to rob
the banks of CofTeyville, Kansas, last
week. In the fight that ensued four
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badly wounded, while the sixth eS-
capped. Five Of the citizens were killed
by the thieves. James Spear, livery
man, killed three ofithe Daltons him
self
A frightful accident occurred at
Kaska William Colliery, near Middle
port, Pa, the other day, by which
Jeremiah Mcdonald, a miner will lose
his life. He had left box Of dynamite
cartridges standing in the gangway
he was working, when a mule, walk
ing in, trod on them, causing them TO
explode. The mule was blown to
pieces, and Mcdonald, with all his
clothes blown from his buck, was
picked up so badly burned and mutt
lated that he cannot live.
The village of Coatsville, Ind, was
| the sceLe of terrible tragedy few
DAYS ago. The wife of VIM. Sharp
poured coal oil on his bedclothing
while he was sleeping and then APP
piled a match to it, burning him to
| death. Sharp endeavored to eXtri-
cate himself, but she opposed his eff
forts with all her might and was her
self severely burned. 1t is fought
the woman will also die. She had
but recently returned from the insane
hospital at Indianapolis.
Messrs. Deford & Co., Of Baltimore,
have now in their yards, at Luray'
| Va, the largest stock of bark ever
| gather ed together at any one place
| in this part Of the country. There are
%, 900 cords under shelter, represent
ing an outlay Of 100000 This i'm
mense quantity was taken from diff
| ferenU points along the Blue Ridge.
| This tannery is now running at its
| best capacity, employs two hundred
and fifty men, and pays out monthly
! over $4,000 1t Srinds seventy cords
of bark daily, all of which is at once
used, and the quantity on hand, large
as it is, will only last one year. This
the South.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
papy will soon begin the construction
| Of the largest freight car ever built by
any American or European company
at its works at Altoona. 1t will
have thirty-two wheels and a carry
ing capacity of 124 tons. 1t will be
used for transporting the mammoth
! 124 ton cannon which is now being
cast at the great ordnance works Of
the Krupp Gun Company, Essen,
Prussia. The gun is expected to ar
rive in this country early in the ensu-
ing year, for the exhibition at the
Worlds Fair, together with several
other pieces OF heavy ordnance, and
an immense armor plate manufac-
tured by the Krupp Company.
The two little children of Farmer
Askmore, of Cleburne county, Ala, a
| boy and girl, while playing in the
woods, came to a small decayed log,
and, curious to see what might be I'M
der it, turned it over. BY so doing
they uncovered rattlesnake, which
! qui ok as a flash, buried its fangs in
the leg OF the girl The boy sprang
to defend his sister, snatched up a
stick and attacked the snake. The
first blow missed, and the RATHER,
striking back, bit the boy in the foot
But the little fellow fought the snake
determinedly and finally killed it.,
though not until he had been bitten
the second time. The father heard
the children screaming and FASTENED
TO find them. When he learned what
had happened he hurriedly applied
remedies, but it was too late The
little ones both died in a few hours.
Advices from the interior Of Mexico
give particulars Of most deplorable
state Of affairs at Toqua. The poorer
classes are dying every day by hun
dreds from starvation and exposure.
augmented by an epidemic of typhoid