Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-06-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Notes of News Gathered From
Here and There.


wife and cousin.
Ernest Hoen, aged sixty-five years,
head of the firm OF A. Hoen Il Co.,
photographers, engravers and printers,
of Baltimore, died last week.
Sixtv-seveu clerks were dropped
from the rolls of the general land Of
flee. in Washington last Friday. The
reduction was made necessary by a
lessened appropriation.
Rev. w. d. Morgan, OF the NJ. E.
Church South in Baltimore, who has
announced his intention OF becoming
an Episcopalian, was not allowed ny
Presiding Elder Edwards to fill the
pulpit Sunday.
At Gleason, Tenn, the other night,
a mob determined to lynch Lee Ben
nett, a murderer. They got hold OF
Jim Harris, an innocent man instead,
and hanged him The mistake was
not discovered until the next day.
The United States Court of Appeals,
at Chicago, unanimously decided in
favor Of open Sundays at the Worlds
Fair. The court holds the local direc-
tory in full control and the govern
ment has no standing in the matter.
An unknown cowboy entered the
Turtle Mountain Bank, Dunseith, y.
d., held NJ Cashier Tucker and rob-
bed the bank of 81, 900. He next shot
James McRae, clerk in store. A
crowd gathered and killed the outlaw.
DR.. Gulick, one of the best-known
physicians of Scranton, Pa, commit
ted suicide by thrCSting the muzzle OF
a shotgun into his mouth and pulling
the trigger. He told his wife that his
head panied him and he believed he
was going crazy.
Miller F. Long, a well-do-do farmer,
near Napoleon, Ohio, died from the
objects of stab wound received at
the hands of his siXteen-year-old son
Emanuel. The father asked the son
to stop whiting. The son kept on
whiting and a scuffie ensued, in
which the father was cut.
The first new wheat Of the season
arrived at Baltimore Friday. 1t was
a lot of one hundred bushels, and was
grown in Lancaster county, Va, by
| Mr.. Jas. Wheaton. The wheat sold
at 50 and 50 cents II bushel The first
new wheat received In Baltimore last
year was also from Virginia and sold
for 81 "a bushel.
Last Sunday George Hogan, Of
Lynch's Station, Va, while waiting
for his wife to get ready to go to
church, noticed that one OF his hives
Of bees was swarIning, and went into
the yard for the purpose of hiving the
bees. They were full of fight and at
tackled Hogan, singing him in many
places about the head, eyes and nose.
He died in twenty minutes.
Col. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the
records and pension division OF the
War Department, Contractor George
w. Dant, Engineer Francis Sasse and
Supt. w. q. Covert were all declared
guilty of criminal negligence by the
coroner's jury and are held response
BILE for the frightful loss Of life in the
accident at the old Fords Theatre
building in Washington two weeks
ago.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, DR.. Charles
Fluhrer, Universalist, preached a
sermon on Edwin Booth, and created
a considerable sensation when he de-
clared he would sooner stand his
chances for heaven with Booth, who
paid his debts in full, than with that
other actor, Talmage, who Joined in
the doXology after announcing that
the debt Of his church had been com
promised at % cents on the dollar.
A week ago fire broke out in the
storage ward of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal Company at Buffalo, n.
Y, and $4,000 tons of anthracite coal
took fire. 1t is still burning, and 1t is
impossible to do anything to save the
coal that has not yet caught fire ex-
cept by carrying it away, but not
more than 10000 tons can possibly
be saved. Forty thousands tons, rep
resenting 5000, 900, will be consumed.
Beside the immense loss on the coal
and sheds, there is also the loss OF
sixty freight cars. The total loss Is
now figured at $500, 600.
The famous barney stone, which
for centuries occupied place in the
walls OF historic old Blarney Stone
Castle, in ireland, has arrived at the
Chicago Fair. 1t was shipped here
by Lady Aberdeen, and will form one
of the attractions Of her Irish village.
1t will be placed in the walls OF the
reproduction of Blarney Castle, which
forms part of the Irish village,
where it may be kissed by all who
have the hardihood TO be lowered
head down to where it is to tempo
rarily rest.
The Salvation Army at Frederick,
Md, is very hard TO squelch. Its
members have been arrested several
times for beating big drums ON the
streets, but the Army refused to sur
render. Last Saturday while they
were holding services on street
corner some unknown parties at
tackled them with rotten eggs, and IL
nally drove them away. The officers
of the Army resisted the assault for
some time, receiving each shower OF
eggs with shouts of "HalleluJah,
and did not give up the struggle Gntll
their clothes were almost completely
covered with the contents Of the eggs
A correspondent of the Rockbridge
| va NelCs tells of the discovery ut
Timber Ridge, in that county, OF
hole in the ground from which locusts
are pouring in great abundance. The
local conviction is that this hole eX
tends through the earth to Egypt or
! China. 4 citizen attached a bullet to
the thread of a spool of cotton and
lowered it in the hole. ut went, -
says the veracious narrator, down
and down until the thread Of the spool
was all run of, making 900 feet, and
no bottom was discovered" The pre-
sumption is that the hole goes on
through, and it is suggested that lit
would be we'll for the President to
place guard at the hole and keep
back the paupers and scoundrels from
China
Guaranteed Cure.
W. authorize our advertised drug
gist to sell DIR. Kings new Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
upon this condition. II you are af-
flicted with a Cough, Cold or any