Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT Rarltan, N. j., the otHer udy
% persons were badly poisoned by
eating canned corned beef.
Congressman Eli II. Stackhouse, OF
South Carolina, died suddenly OF
heart failure in Washington last
week
Mrs. John Taylor, an humble resi-
dent Of Anderson, Ind, has fallen
heir to $4,000, 900 by the death OF her
bachelor brother.
At Bay City, Mich, few days ago,
Mrs. George Beaudrey jumped into
the river with her two children and
all three were drowned.
Jay Gould carries in his purse ten
cent piece which he declares was at
one time all that stood between him
and q dead broke condition.
A man named Turner was convicted
at Lancaster, KY, the other day, OF
illegal liquor selling in LOTT cases.
His fines amounted to 1857, 700.
A terrible storm devastated South
eran Minnesota last week. Thirty
persons were killed and many injured,
while the property loss was immense.
David Lowenstein, OF Frederick,
Md, whose wife was injured in an
accident near Finksburg, has sued
the Western Maryland Railroad for
$4,000 damages.
The popular summer resort, Lake
Spring Hotel, near Salem, Va, was
totally destroyed by fire Thursday
morning. The loss was about Sl0,OOO,
partly covered by insurance.
Emmons Blaine, son Of Hon. James
G. Blaine, died in Chicago last Satur-
day after short illness from blood
poisoning, caused by Inflammation OF
the bowels He was SO years of age.
The celebration of the tenth an
niversary of the founding OF Roanoke
was held last Friday and Saturday.
Col. Henry Kyd Douglas delivered a
fine grafton, and Saturday there was
a splendid parade.
Emily Helm, colored, died last
week, near Weaverton, Md. In COM
pliance with II request which she
made some time ago, she was buried
under an apple tree near the house.
She said from this point she could
hear the cars pass by"
A calf belonging to Mr.. Houchen,
near Seymour, Ind, became strange
ly sick one evening this week and in
a short time began to whirl round
and round, as pup after its tail, and
within two hours was dead. 1t
whirled for two solid hours, never
stopping to draw breath or grease
the axle.
The Natural Bridge Company is ell
gagged in opening large cave, which
is situated not over a half mile from
the hotel. 1t is in the same geological
formation as the famous Luray cave
and the Grottoes of the Shenandoah,
and il of large dimensions, one cham
Der in it being GOO feet long and 100
feet high.
While John Gossart, Henry Bryan
and several other young men Of
Wayn esboro, Pa, were playing
"Jesse James along the Antietam
creek near Waynesboro, Gossart &C
cidently shot and killed Bryan. Both
young men are aged about eighteen.
The coroner's jury eXonerated Cos
sart from all blame.
The other day Mrs. Edwina Bull
lock, q widow of Wellesley, Mass,
saturated her clothes with kerosene,
went out on the lawn in the rear Of
the house and sat her dress on fire.
When her neighbors reached the
house her charred and disfigured
body was found on the grass. The
cause of her act is not known.
A freak OF nature has come to light
in the county Jail at Fort Worth,
Texas. His name is Jesse Lee, aged
eighteen years. Turn the boys face
so that strong light may shine into
his eyes, and the phenomenon is seen.
Around the pupils Of the eyes, in the
iris, are the twentysiX letters of the
alphabet, arranged symmetrically.
There are thirteen letters in each eye,
those up to M being in the left eye,
and the remaining ones in the right.
Lee, his father, and four brothers,
are similarly affected.
Two spans Of the new bridge being
built over the Licking River, between
Covinston and Newport, KY, col
lapsed last Wednesday morning. The
bridge Is being constructed for the
Kenton and Campbell County Land
Company by the King Iron Bridge
Company. Fifty-two men were on
the false bridge putting in the iron
braces for the floor, when the entire
structure gave way, carrying the men
down with it. Only seventeen men
are known to escaped death, and
some of these will not live.