Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Major s. M. Yost has resigned the
editorship of the Valley Vrginian, pub
lished at Clifton Forge.
Mrs. Catherine Hanshew, a niece
of Barbara Fritchie, died in Freder-
ick, Md, Il few days ago, aged 81
years.
The contract has been made for re-
building the Episcopal church at
Front Royal, which was burned last
winter.
Stage robbers shot and killed an ey-
press messenger on the Reddlng and
Shasta stage, California, on Saturday,
and wounded a passenger and the
driver. They secured an express box
containing $1,000.
John Anderson is on trial at Cleve-
land, Ohio, for stealing $1,000 from
Ellen Purcell, whom he recently mar
ried. TWAS developed that Anderson
had been married 1s1 times, the OBJ
iect being to rob his brides.
Vim. Wilkins, of Niota, H., WINS
vicious stallion which attacked and Sc
verely bit him. Wilkins subdued the
stallion by roping him down and then
picked out the animals eyes with
needle. He will be held to the grand
jury for cruelty.
A mob of 200 men broke into jail at
GAINESVILLE, Ga, at 2 O'Clock Tuesday
morning, took therefrom three col.
ored men charged with the murder OF
Night Policeman Carter at Toccoa
last week, and hanged them all on
one limb Of large oak tree.
Butler Bronnenberg, of Anderson,
Ind, returned from hunting and
placed his loaded shotgun on the bed.
While he was absent from the room,
his sons, Gus. aged ten, and Thurman,
aged four, played Indians, and Gus
shot Thurman, blowing the top Of his
head of.
John Boettcher, an old German
living near Wilkesbarre, Pa, two
months ago sold small farm for a
nominal sum. A week ayr coal was
discovered on the land which in
creased its value to $4,000. The dis
Covery of this fact so prayed on his
mind that he took gun and killed
himself.
Phoenix, Arizona, for the construction
of one Of the largest reservoirs in the
world. The site taken was Box Canon,
creek and Salt river. The height of
the dam will be 200 feet and the back
water will extend 16 miles, making q
capacity of 1913, 05S, 040, 500 cubic feet.
After being used as a football by
two locomotives, William hartman, of
Myerstown, Pa, is still alive with no
immediate prospect Of dying. He
was struck by q west-bound train and
thrown on the opposite track where
an east-bOund engine caught him and
tossed him twenty feet away. His
only injury was broken breastbone.
The great steel bridge across the
Mississippi, which was opened to the
public on Thursday, is said to be the
third largest of its kind in the world
1t is three-quarters of a mile in length
and occupied four years in building.
The cost was about S3,000,000. The
bridge was built by the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham Railroad,
and is doubtless destined to become
great artery of communication be-
tween the South and the West.
y little boy named Martin met with
death in strange way at Pine
Grove, Pa, the other day. a large
hogshead, containing a quantity Of
straw, was left standing near his
home, and, while playing about it he
climbed in and set fire to the straw.
The straw was dry, and in an instant
the flames had enveloped tile child
\ companion came to his rescue and
upset the hogshead, but it was too
late. The lad was fatally burned.
At Fayetteville, n. c., the other
day, Albert Gilmore, a notorious out
law, went to the house of Rev. VIM.
Brunt, and finding Miss Brunt alone
made her get him his dinner. Then
he cursed her and behaved so badly
that she grabbed u gun and fired,
thirteen buckshot striking Gilmore,
from which he died in few minutes
A reward of $500 was out for Gilmore,
to which Miss Brunt becomes entitled.
The young lady is the heroine of the