Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-12-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Twenty-Five thousand square miles
of grass lands in Texas were swept by
prairie FIRE last week.
Jack Howerton, young white
farmer living near Paris, Kentucky,
married negro women the other day.
The Pennsylvania Steel Works at
Steelton will shut down the first OF
the year, throwing 1000 men out OF
employment.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps. the ia
nous French engineer and the design
err of the Suez canal, died last Friday,
aged 80 years.
H. o. Havemeyer receives salary
of $4,000 year as president of the
Sugar Trust and an additional $25, 600
year as trustee.
Mrs. Louise Albert, whose mind
was unbalanced by spirituallsm, pois-
oned four of her children at Galveston,
Texas, few days ago. Three died.
Ex-Governor Tillman, ofSouth Car
DINA, has been elected United States
Senator by the Legislature of that
State to. succeed Hon. NJ. c. Butler,
the present senator.
R. NJ. Capehart, justice of the
peace at Velpin, Pike county, Ind,
while trying man for some minor
offense, was struck on the head by the
prisoner and killed almost instantly.
An attempt was made by band of
conspirators to steal the solid silver
statue Of Ada Rehan that was exhibit
ed at the Worlds fair. The statue IS
now on exhibition in a Chicago store.
The other day Miss Josie Brand drew
$10,5OO from a bank in Cincinnati.
Ten minutes later a man snatched from
her hands the bag containing the money.
Miss Brand tainted and the thief es-
capped.
While some children were playing
with a gun near Cumberland, Md, on
Tuesday the weapon was accidentally
discharged, instantly killing daugh-
ter of Emos Flintstone, pretty girl
of,sixteen.
Samuel C. seely, who stole $354-
900 from bank in New York and
escaped, was finally arrested in Chicago
Tuesday. He will be brought home
for trial and will no doubt serve a
long term in the state prison.
By an act of the New York Legis-
lature the usual three days of grace
given on all negotiable notes will be
| abolished. The law will become effect
i've on January l, 1895, and after that
there will be no more days of grace for
bankers to calculate interest upon.
Some days ago several farmers iv-
ing near Gushing, Oklahoma, gave
deputy marshals information about a
gang of outlaws that infest that region,
and next day four Of the outlaws Wis
| tied the home of Cyrus King, one Of
the farmers, shot him dead and burned
his property.
William Sheetz, of Staunton, Va,
aged sixty years, was struck by Nor
folk & Western train near Basic City
Monday and almost instantly killed.
1t is thought he had seated himself on
the ties and there fallen asleep. One
of his sons was killed in the recent
riot at Roanoke, Va.
In collision between cable cars in
the Washington street tunnel, Chicago,
Tuesday evening, one man was fatally
hurt, fifteen more people were seriously
injured and score of others more OF
less bruised. The cars were SET on fire
by the stoves, and for time there was
feraful panic around the wreck.
On Wednesday at midnight OF last
week, as the Norfolk and Western YES
thule train pulled out of Buena Vista
Mr.. S. V. Watts, living near there, en-
tered the train with double barreled
gun loaded with buckshot and ran
back and forth through every cal
searching for his daughter, Miss Cora
The passengers thought the train was
being held up by train robbers and
were much excited. The young lady,
it turned out, had taken an earlier
train at Riverside station and gone tc
Basic City, where her lover, John Stat
on, of Riverside, joined her, and they
went to Washington and got married
Miss Watts is fifteen and Mr.. Station
thirty.