Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Notes of News Gathered FroU
Here and There.

Here and There
Seven persons were killed ina wreck
on the Bare Rocks Railroad, near
Somerset, Pa, on Tuesday.
Edwin Booth. the eminent actor.
had paralytic stroke last week, snd
is now lying critically i'll in New
York.
William Scholl, farmer OF Fred
erick county. Md, aged 81 years, CON
mittsd suiside by hanging himself
last week.
An express train on the Nickel
Plate Railroad ran into wagon near
Warsaw, Ind, Saturday, and John )
Smith. his wife and three small chill
drsn were instantly killed.
The Rev. DR.. 7. De Witt Talmags
celebrated the twenty-fourth anniVer-
sary of his passionate of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle Sunday. He says the
Tabernacle is still Sc, 900 in debt.
The b. i o. depot al Oakland, Nd,
was entered by thieves last Thurs
Cav night. who carried the safe away.
They were unable 10 open II, how
. ever, anu llcAA ll4Ol mus u WIS AcNAAN
near by with its contents safe.
The PENNSYLVANIA Steel Company,
one of the greatest manufacturing
concerns in the United States, has
/ been forced to make an assignment.
Its works are located at Steelton, Pa,
and at Spsrrow's Point, near Balti-
more.
An unpleasant taste in the molss-
| ses used by Il Tennessee family led 10
al investigation of the barrel, which
had been received from the wicked
CITY OF Nashville. and inside the body
| OF negro boy OF ten or eleven years
was found.
In an affray in bar-room in Wood
/ stock, Va. Saturday night G. ). Mar
/ shall. the bartender, shocked down
Reuben g. Allen, who died soon after
from his injuries Allen was we'll
| known stage driver on the valley pike
| before the war.
The First Regiment Armory, Chi
| cago. was DESTROYED by fire Tuesday
| The powder magazine exploded, blow
ing out the north wall Harry John
son and Walter Williams, colored
janitors. were burned 10 death The
total loss il estimated AZ $4,000.
On the 4th of last March Col.
Charles J. Murphy, a well known
Washington claim agent, mysterious
" disappeared, and no trace OF him
could be found. Last Friday his of
fee was entered 10y the janitor and
his dead body found sitting upright
i'm chair. He had died OF heart dis
ease. with the door locked from the
inside, and no person having entered
his corpse remained undiscovered.
The Oldest church existing in the
United States is situated in Smith
field. Va. Ii was built in the reign OF
Charles l.. Letwren the years 1880
and 1875. the brick. lime and timber
imported from England. The timber
is English oak. and was framed in
England. 1t is brick structure,
erected in the most substantial man
ner. The mortar has become so
hardened that it will strike fire IN
collision with steel
A Young man named Anderson was
married at Ness City, Kansas, few
nights ago, and crowd of nelghbors
serenaded him and his bride with tin
pans. COW bells aud shotguns. A
drunken cowboy fired load OF buck
shot into the cottage where the we'd
ding was being celebrated, slightly
wounding the bride. The groom hred
both barrels Of a shotgun into the
crowd outside Two men were in
stantly killed and third fatally in
jurrd
The Rev. Sam. p. Jones, of Georgia
WAS engaged to preach ten days in
Bowling Green, Ky, and was given
g.. 500 Tor his services During that
time more than $500 persons made
profession OF religion, 300 of the mum
Der Joining the various churches Sun
day and being baptized. Besides the
work Of converting sinners, the
Georgia evangelist inaugurated
great moral wave against the liquor
traffic and the city council has refused
To reissue the saloon men license for
the next year There are forty sa-
looms in the city.
Postmaster General Bi'sell has is
sued notice to all postnasters that
there is now i'm operation in the gov
eminent building on the grounds OF
the Worlds Fair branch of the Chi
cago postoffice, known "a the Worlds
Fair Station. This station will make
regular collections and deliveries
through its own force OF letter-carri-
ers from and to all parts Of the expo
sition grounds and will transact
money order and registry business "a
well as all other business pertaining
TO a first-cass postoflice. Postnastsrs
are instructed to use every proper
means to give publicity TO this infor-
nation. in order that persons intend
inc TO visit the fair may, il they 80
desire. have their mail addressed TO
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