Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Notes of News Gathered FroIu
Here and There.

Brief Note. of News Gathered From
Here and There.
London's latest census showed the
population to be 4,211,0 people.
Mrs. Depew, wife of Chauncey NJ.
Depew, died in New York last Sun
day.
Sharpers played the bunco game on
John Jones. of PottstOwn, Pa, last
Saturday, and got g, 500 in cash from
the old fellow.
The Croser Iron Works Of Roam
oke last week made reduction OF III
per cent in wages, which was accept
ed by the men.
Large nun bers OF japanese labor
ers are comm ; TO the United States
and are finding employment in rail-
road construction in the West.
At Kingston, y. Y, Tuesday night
August Wilmcu, German, placed a
dynamite cap in his mouth, and then
bit on it. His l.ieless body, with the
head blown off, was found next morn
ing.
Ex-Uuited States Senator James w.
Patterson died suddenly lat Thurs
day night in prayer-meeting at han
over, y. II. lie sat in his seat for
half an hour before his death was no.
ticed. q
The Protestant Episcopal Conyen-
ton of Massachusetts elected the Rev.
Dr.. William Lawrence, dean OF the
Cambridge Theological school to
succeed the late Phillips Brooks as
Bishop of Mas Hciusetts.
The K. Z. Lee Camp Of Confederate
Veterans has extended, through Nd
iutuut General Douglas. an invita-
ton to the Maryland National Guard
to participate in the ceremonies at
tending the rpiuterment OF Jefferson
Davis remains n Richmond, on May
81.
An unknown man euticed two little
girls iutO the woods, near Dulutn,
MINI, on Saturday and criminally
assaulted them. \ mob OF miners
captured him, and ten minutes later
he was swinging from tree near the
spot where he committed the crime.
The engineer OF II Cleveland, Gin
cjnuuti, Chicago and 81. Louis train
lost control of it tat Lafayette, Ind,
early last Sunday morning The To-
connective and several cars left the
track and were in collision with the
station shed. Six persons were killed
aud many others injured.
\ statement prepared from the rec
D,-tAfJ,ra DEPARTMENT
shows that during the iGst two
months of the present administration
the total number OF fourtH-class post
masters appointed was 3,Sg4, as
against 5.lO4 made during the lrst
two months of MIR. Harrison Gdnln-
iStrGtIOn.
\ flv will lay four times during the
summer, about 50 eggs each time,
and careful calculations have demon
~trated that the descendants Of Il
single insect may from June to the
end Of September exceed 10000 GEO.
| We're il not for bats, insect-eatlng
/ birds and the inuumerabie micro
scopic parasites with which the fly Il
particuiarlv afflicted, there would be
| no worse pest in the world than the
fly.
\ peculiar and serious accident be
| fell a Young man, IL son OF y. w.
Shrewsbury of Toms Creek, last
/ Thursday. He and his father We're
/ splitting fence rails and upon strIH-
/ ju., q wooden wedge with Il maui, the
wedge rebounded and struck the
vouuy man in tae forehead. 1t was
n very serious stroke and it was at
| first feared that the skull had been
| fractured which fortunately did not
/ happen TO be the case.
Down in EdgeGeld, $ c., chicken
raiser, are advised to bait their chick
/ ems with strychuiue IN order 10 de
/ strOy hawks. \ paste of strychnlne
| the size of pin head Is placed on the
head of a chicken, and then the fowl
| is turned out where the hawks may
! have free chance at the prey. TO
seize a chicken 50 baitcd usually
means death to the hawk, and a.
| there are more chickens than hawks
| this is esteemed an economical meth
| od Of destroying the latter
The Mlchigander who gets drunk
after Senator Turubulfs bill becomes
IL law, and it passed the Senate re
Gently, will be confronted, upon con
victi0n of the oiTense, by two alyerua-
| tivcs: the one to pay the usual fine
| for being disorderiy. and the other to
| give n good and sufficient bond that
| ne will 20 to some good, reiiaEle gold
cure institution and be deprived Of
| his appetite for liquor. The bill pro-
vidps that in case the culprit be too
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