Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Notea Of News Gathered From
Here and There.

Brief Notes Of News Gathered From
Here and There.
The smallpox has broken out in
Homewood, Pa, a suburb OF Pitts
burg.
Joseph Remsburg. a veteran school
teacher, died near Middletown, Nd,
last Saturday. aged 70 years.
Senator Colquitt and his wife, OF
Georgia, are both seriously i'll from
the effects OF paralytic strokes.
Carlo Alberto Cappa, bandmaster
OF the Seventh Regiment OF New
York. died last week, aged fifty-nine
years.
The courthouse at Cumberland,
Md. was burned last week. Loss
$50 900. insurance 100000. The rec
ords were saved.
Rev. R. s. Cunningham. a minister
of the Baltimore conference of the M.
E. Church South, died in Highland
county, Va, recently.
Donaldson Gallery, of Hillarv's
parish. La, has been appointed uni
ted States Senator for the unexpired
term of Hon. Randall l.. Gibson.
w. A. Rodgers killed bear at the
foot of the Shenandoah mountains,
i'm Augusta county, Va which weighed
when dressed for market 291 pounds.
A midwife in Russia has been sem
fenced to one years imprisonment
for numbering one hundred and eleven
infants. She killed them by piercing
their hearts with needle.
At New Haven, Conn, the other
day, a negro laborer named Edward
Skinner had a fight with man
named John Conner. Skinner bit
his antagonists ear off and swallowed
it.
Dogs have long memories. Simon
Slade, of Bethlehem, Pa, cut of q
pups tail two years ago, and since
then the dog attacks him whenever it
gees him. although gentle as dove to
other people.
Ralph Butterfield, dirty old miser
who lived i'm Kansas City, Mo, and
who died a short time ago, has sur
prised the natives by leaving $l85,000
to Dartmouth College. Nobody knew
he had money.
Mrs. Yates, wife Of Springfield co.
teamster, gave birth to her oath child
SATURDAY, morning. There are five
sets of twins. She was married at IA.
The oldest child is 81. Thirteen chill
dren are living.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral badly injured in natural gas
explosion in house in PittsburS, Pa,
Monday. A man, his wife and child.
who were asleep in house, were
crushed to death.
Mrs. William Vann. who lives about
three miles from Lasker. n. c., wrapped
up her eleven-moDths-ol baby IN n
cradle and left it near the fire. She
was gone about fifteen minutes.
When she returned she found the
baby burned to death.
Cigarettes killed Thon. as Coleman,
aged thirteen years, in Philadelphia,
decided coroner's jury. 1t was in
evidence that the lad smoked cigar
cites from the time he arose in the
morning until he went to sleep in the
evening.
A resident of New York city has
given to DR.. Julius ID. Dreher, presi-
dent Of Roanoke College, Salem, Va,
the sum of $1,000 year for three
years. to be used in supporting schol-
arships for deserving young men OF
small means in that institution. The
gift will aid quite number Of stu
dents.
Joseph Church, who was worth
$3.50. 900, died recently in Allegany, n.
Y. After his death this note in his
own hand writing. was found: Il have
DESTROYED my will. If man like A.
w. Miner cannot make n will that will
stand law / don't propose to try it and
have nv heirs Quarreling over its pro
visions Miner was man whose will
had recently been broken in the
courts.
Mrs. Wade, mother Of Miss Jennie
Wade, who was shot while baking
bread for the soldiers during the bat
tie of Gettysburg. died at her home
in that place, apparently from great
joy, she having received a box and
letter as Christmas present from her
son, whom she had long thought TO
have been dead, aud the good news
was too much for her to bear in her
old age.
While a lot of men were cutting ice
on the river above town one OF them
hauled out large cake in which a
black bass measuring s2s inches was
imbedded, says the Clearfiald Public
Spirit. The fish was put in a tub OF
water to thaw out and when the lady
of the house went to the tub to get
his fishship ready for supper it was
found swimming around in the tub.
When weighed the bass tipped the
scale at 4 pounds and II ounces.
The wedding Of Miss Catherine w.
Stadler. daughter of J. B. Stadler, to
Baptist S. Scull, Of Camden, N. j.,
came to sudden termination last
Wednesday. The Clergyman had just
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