Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-04-14
LIENS OF INTEREST.
nr;ef Notes of News Gathered FroU
Here and There.

President Cleveland spent last Sat
urdav and Sunday with Hon. Thomas
f. Bayard at Wilmington, Del.
President Cleveland will touch of
the Worlds Fair on May l in the
presence OF from 100000 to $50, DOC
people.
Frank X. Ward, a well-known resi-
dent OF Washington City, fell in front
! of an electric car the other day and
was ground to pieces.
II. n. Rector. barn, in Loudoun
county, was burned one night last
week. together with its contents, in
Guiding eight valuable horses.
Lou Stiles and Lee Newman were
burned to death in the county jail at
Stanberry, Mo. the other night. They
were arrested while drunk, and it is
supposed they set fire to the jail in
hope OF making their escape.
Charles f. Salyard, u criminal
well-known in the Cumberland Val
lev, shot and instantly killed Police
man George Martin in Carlisle last
Saturday night. He made his escape,
DII WAS III " c'i
Monday.
The McShane Bell Foundry, Of Bal
timore, is preparing drawings for the
largest bell on the American CONT
nent. 1t will be named The Great
Bell OF America" and will weigh
Al, 900 pounds, 1000 for each State OF
the Union.
Fanny Taylor was shot in the
breast at Pocahontas Monday even
ing by Hamilton Buffalo, who at
once placed the muzzle OF the revol-
yer to his own breast and shot him
self. Both will probably die. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
All franchises and rights Of way
have been secured or are guaranteed,
il Is said, for an electric railway be-
tween Baltimore and Washington,
and construction will begin at an
early date. The road is to be thirty
eight miles long and capital to the
amount OF $l,500,000 has been sub
scribed therefor.
William II. Singsrlv, of the Phila-
delphia Record, has put on exhibition
the great steer Prince Victor, which
he claims to be the biggest in the
world and which is to be sent to Chi
cago. Prince Victor weighs $3.50
pounds, is six years old, stands feet
3 inches, measures 10 feet inches in
circumference and is 10 feet long.
J. H. HoIcombe, a well-known
Roanoke butcher, who was arrested
there several weeks ago, jailed and
subsequently, released on bail to
answer charges Of stealing cattle,
was tried on Saturday on the irst Of
the two counts in the indictment
found against him and sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary. When
the verdict was read the prisoner fell
from his chair in a dead faint.
"Elway," the home Of Gen. J. y.
Belhune, near Warrenton, Va, was
DESTROYED by fire last week, together
with his kitchen, meat house and
three other outhouses, also all the
household furniture. Among the lat
ter burned was handsome $1,000
piano the one used by Blind Tom
while in the possession of the Gener
ais family. General Bethune barely
escaped with his life.
Bishop Joseph S. Key, OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, was
married Wednesday evening to Mrs
Kidd, of Sherman, Texas The
Bishop has counted three score years,
but has the appearance OF a man Of
forty-five. His wife is q brilliant and
talented woman, who has been a
teacher for some years in the college
fnhn nni1rl il II N hn
an exceedingly happy one.
Last Monday night at midnight the
warehouse of S. H. Moffett y Co., at
Harrisonburg, Va, near the freight
depot, was fired by an incendiary.
Two hours later on an attempt WAS
made to burn an unoccupied dwell
ing house in the same locality. But
little damage was done in either case.
Other attempts at arson have been
made during the past week, all in
section OF the town remote from the
street water mains.
An aerolite fell near Osawatomie,
Kan, Saturday evening, striking the
monument to John Brown, or "Osa-
watomie Brown as he was some
times called, erected to him by pri-
vate subscriptions originated by
Horace Greeley in 1863. The meteor
broke off the left arm of the statue
and passed through the dome and
nave in a slightly southeasterly di
rection and through six feet Of clay
just south OF the crypt, stopping only
at bedrock.
Mr.. George Brown, resident OF
Cedar Keys, Florida, is tramping
from st. Augustine to Chicago. He
passed through Atlanta Saturday and
was in good condition. Mr.. Brown Is
walking on wager for some gentle
man, one of the conditions being that
he is to give an account of himself in
the newspaper offices OF all the towns
along the route. He left st. Angus
tine March Sd, and under the terms
of wager be must reach Chicago not
later than April 80. The distance is
l 500 miles, and when he left Atlanta
he was considerably ahead of his
schedule. He is confident of win
ming the wager, of which he is to re-
.aira half