Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-08-18
Deferred Items.

destroyed SJ,UUU worm vi collns
owned by undertaken Spear
The Amoskeag Mills, at Manches-
ter, y. H., have closed down, and
eight thousand operatives are idle.
Glass bricks are on exhibition at
the Worlds Fair They are intended
for buildings wherein great light is
needed.
There is talk of keeping the World 5
Fair open through another summer.
The proposition meets with consider
able favor.
The great ban on Levi p. Morton $
country place ii New York was de-
stroyed by fire last week. a hundred
head of prize Guernsey cattle, three
thousand fancy chickens and much
other valuble property were burned.
The total loss to the eX-Vice-President
is about $4,000
Samuel Cole, an old soldier living
near Brazil, Indiana, applied for a
pension some time ago. Last Satur-
day he was surprised and gratified to
learn that the pension had been
granted. He at once got drunk, and
as he was going home his team ran
away and he was fatally injured.
Juan Berger, the thirteen year-old
son of Edward and Mrs. Burger, of
South Kokomo, Ind, died from the
direct effects Of cigarette smoking.
In his room was found 9SS empty Gig
arctic boxes he was saving up to send
to the manufacturers for a prize, he
lacking but twelve boxes Of the re
quired 1000 emitting him to the COW
cted prize.
Near Amigo. Wis. William Nune-
macher. farmer, killed his wife and
babe and two boys, aged five and
three years, by dashing out their
brains. He then plunged head first
FROM window in an attempt to Kill
himself. He is still alive, but paraly-
zed. The cause of the quadrupIe
murder and suicide is said to be the
fear that the family would die from
starvation.
The farmers in the neighbornood
of Huntingdon, Pa, are in great de
spair over the great loss they have
sustained by an invasion of grasshop-
perS. The insects have appeared in
countless swarms and are destroying
every growing thing in their path.
They have ruined hundreds of tons of
hay and the entire crop of timothy
seed Now the pests have attacked
what few growing vegetables have sur
liyed the prolracted drought.
over in Tucker county an Adven-
ti,t. who prophesied that the end of
the world would cone at u certain
date, just passed, put on his ascension
robes, climbed to the top of straw
stack and waited the crack of doom.
Getting tired waiting and forgetting
himself, he fell asleep. Some boys
discovered the man and touched II
lighted match to the straw. The fire
ran up the straw aud awoke him.
Gazing around at the flames on every
side, he cried ont: "In hell, just rs
| expected"-Ktng,cood argus.
For some time past officials of the
Traus- Ohio division of the Il. & o.
Railroad have been working up data
concerning what is believed TO be all
extensive plot among some of the en-
poyees TO defraud the company. As
u result, on last Friday there were
ten en@inee"s and five conductors de
Capitated at one time. The allega-
ton is that for several years past
there has been II scheme worked by
them with the time keeper at New
ark, Ohio, by which he would report
more time than they had really made
aud then they would divide with him.
1t is probable that there will more
heads fall
Here's a pretty good snake story
that comes by the way OF York, Pa:
While Mitchell Sloan was descending
the Conewago mountain, near Mt.
ROYAL, in buggy, a large black and
yellow rattlesnake tried TO cross the
road and got fast in the wheel. Sloan
whipped up the horses. At each rev
olution of the wheel the head Of the
snake struck Slonn on the back, and
it was not till level ground was reach
ed that hr was able to stop the
horses. The snake by this time had
been torn in two. When Sloan reach
ed Dover he found one of the fangs
of the snake on his collar. In the box
of the buggy he discovered thirteen
lattles.
The dreaded army wolm has been
at work on the grain fields Of Polk,
NllbOIl anu Vial SlIil IL NOullifS' Ahlih''
for the past ten days, and its ravaGes
have been frighttul Hundreds Of
acres have been wholly ruined by the
pest, and in others the yield will not
exceed five bushels per acre. Wheat
which at the beginning of the week
looked good for at lea It fifteen bush
els to the acre is, in many instances,
in such bad shape that it is not worth
The worst reports come
from Stephen, where it is believed at
least 100, 900 bushels has been destroy
ed in one body. The situation has
become so serious that meeting Of
the county commissioners has been
called to consider means of relief
y few nights ago, near Somerset.