Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Urief Notes of News Gathered From
Here and There.


Norfolk and Western train at Roam
oke and killed few days ago.
Percy E. Phelps, aged twenty-five
wears. died suddenly at his home in
Harrisburg, Pa, last Sunday, from
excessive use of cigarettes.
The farmers mill and barn be
longing to Jerry Bauserman. near
Woodstock, Va, were burned Mon
day night by an incendiary. Loss
So, 700, insurance 80, 200.
Four desperadoes made great row
on a train near Jellico, Tenn, last
Saturday. In an attempt to arrest
them the sheriff and deputy and
two of the ruffians were killed.
a delegation OF Grand Army men
from Washington visited Richmond
and formally presented Ii complete
outfit OF furniture for one OF the rooms
of the Confederate Soldiers Home.
At Jacksboro, Tenn. the other
night, five men took Jesse Jones, a
murderer, from the Jail and lynched
him. Just before they swung him off
Jones remarked, Boys, I'm sorry 10
GO
A family quarrel resulted in II. F.
Ducell being shot and killed near
jackson, Miss. Oh Friday by James
and Robert Rutherford The latter
was dangerously shot in the thigh by
Ducell.
Henderson Smith. aged 1l9, died at
Quincy, ILL.,, Wednesday night. He
was born in Virginia in 1874 and at
one time it is said was in the employ
of George Washington. He was
Democrat.
Mr.. Blount, Of Georgia, recently
chairman of the House committee on
foreign affairs, has started for Hon.
olulu, under appointment otthe Pres
ident, to investigate the situation in
the Hawaiian Islands.
The boiler Of the steam rock-crush-
er Of w. +. Patterson at Roanoke ex-
plOded the other day, killing Joseph
Marsh, the engineer, and wOunding
Jacob Ownes, fireman, and James
Furgerson. an employe, who were
standing near by.
Mrs. Nicolaides, the wife of pro-
prietor of a fashionable bric-a- brac
store on + street, Washington, who,
it is said. was jealous of her husband,
went to Lis store and, with $500 vase
in her hand, smashed all the cases
and everything in them.
Fire partially destroyed the resi-
dance of James w. Wood, No. 1906
Walnut street, Philadelphia, last Sun
day, and Mr.. Wood. who is an inva-
lid, was seriously shocked. Rose
Gallaher, a servant, was burned TO
death in an attempt to recover her
savings.
The ten-year-old son of Justus Zell
living near Eau Claire, Wis, fell down
a well fifty feet deep Sunday and was
instantly killed. His brother, aged
IL, started to save him il possible,
but he lost his hold when half way
down and also fell to the bottom, and
was fatally injured.
Carlyle Harris, who murdered Helen
Potts Harris, his secretly UNMARRIED
young wife, by giving her morphine,
was refused new trial by Recorder
Smith, in New York. He has been
taken to Sing Sing. where he will be
killed by electricity the second week
III may uhIcN7 '"S WV " HOi 'i'Si
feres.
The death of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
A. Boedecker, found burned to Il
crisp IN their house, at Freeport, H.,
is being investigated There was AT
insurance Ct S27,000 on Mr. Boedeck-
ers life They left no children. 1t
will be necessary TO settle which died
first in order to decide whether his
or her heirs get the money.
fremont Temple, in Boston, was
damaged bv fire Sunday evening to
House, adjoining, was also badly dam
aged. Since 1863 fremont Temple has
been celebrated all over the country
ss the largest Baptist church in New
England, if not in America, and the
headquarters of that denomination.
Howard Schneider. the murderer
of his wife and brother-in-law, was
hanged in Washington last Friday.
All that money and influence could do
to save his neck was done, but the
courts all decided against him. Siren
uous efforts were made to have Presi- |
dent Cleveland respite him, but the
President firmly refused to interfere.
William Foust, an employee of Eber-
Tvs lumber-vards, fredericksburg,
Pa, while attending to his duties at
the yard on Sunday accidentally spied
a box. which upon examine ton proved
to be the tin box with about 1000 in
cash and notes which was some time
ago stolen from Mr.. Rowe's store, at
Shepherdstown, Pa. He was given
$50 for his discovery.
Radford Inn, the principal hotel at
Radford. on the Norfolk & Western
Railroad, in Montgomery county, and
a dining station for several passenger |
trains, was destroyed by fire last |
week. The house was full of guests, |
who lost everything in their rooms.
A few articles We're saved from the |
dining room. The hosiery was built |
and furnished by the Radford Im- |
provement Company several Years |
ago at a cost Of about $4,000 The |
company will rebuild at once. There |
was an insurance of about 100000.
Henry Heist, the young man who |
is charged with the killing Of Emanuel |
Nom, near Fairfield, Adams county, |
Pa, and who gave the Franklin |
county officers such a fruitless chase |
for several days in an attempt to eff
feet his arrest, walked into Gettys-
burg the other morning and surren-
dered himself to the Adams county !
authorities He was Immediately .
committed to the custody Of the sher-
iff and will in due process of the law
be given trial on the charge pre-
ferred in the verdict Of the jury of in
quest. The prisoner protests his in
nooenGe and explains his conduct in
avoiding the officers simply as due to
his determination not to be disgraced /
by an arrest.
Application has been made to Judge
Mclaughlin, of the Augusta Circuit
Court, for the appointment OF re-
ceiver for the Grottoes Company,
owning several hundred thousand