Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Two and a-half feet of snow fell in
Colorado on Monday.

Two and a-half feet Oh snow Tell IN
Colorado on Monday.
VIM. R. Leeds, a prominent Phil
adelphia politician, died on Monday
last.
There was a severe earthquake IN
Mexico last Saturday. A number Of
persons were killed by falling houses.
Burglars broke into the postofice at
Salisbury, Md, blew open the safe with
dynamite and got away with some
plumber.
Vincent Sanner, a prominent Re-
publican of Middletown, Md, died
suddenly Sunday from paralysis. He
was GA years old.
Alexander III, Car Of Russia, died
last Thursday from kidney disease,
after many weeks of suffering. His
son Nicholas succeeds to the throne.
The dwelling-house of three elderly
ladies was destroyed by fire in Annap-
oils, Md, on Tuesday and Mrs. Julia
Wright, aged y years, was burned to
death.
1t is stated that the famous Libby
prison which was removed from Rich
mond to Chicago, will be returned to
the former city and be rebuilt on its
old site.
The Virginia building at the world S
fair which cost $4,000 was bought
by Chicago policeman for $500. He
had it removed, and now occupies it
as a home.
Platinum has been drawn into
smooth wire so fine that it could not
be distinguished by the naked eye,
even when stretched across a piece of
white cardboard.
George Marion, II years old, a clerk
in the store of Charles Broadway Rouss
in New York, was arrested for theft the
other day. He admitted that he had
been stealing from the store for three
years
A farmer living about ten miles from
Wauseon, Ohio, the other day went to
town and had a policy on his barn
issued to him. The locomotive that
took him home set fire to the structure
he had just insured.
At st. Joseph's Hospital at Fort
Wayne, Ind, John Hoffman shot Her
bert Aller for snoring SO loudly that
other persons couldn't sleep, Hof-
man then shot himself to escape arrest.
Both will likely die.
Three burglars broke into the house
of James D. Scott in Denver, Colo,
the other night. Mrs. Scott, who is
a large woman, scratched and clawed
them so successfully that sher ran them
off. Then she tainted.
Amateur robbers held up a passen-
ger train on the Kansas City, Memphis
and Birmingham railroad, near New
Albany Miss, Friday morning, but
only secured a S. package Of cheap
jewelry from the express car.
Samuel j. Dunlap, postmaster at
Redfork, o. T., was shot and killed
Saturday by the Cook gang Of outlaws,
who then robbed the store and post
Office. That whole section is being
terrorized by organized bands Of rob-
bers.
John R. Englebert, a civil engineer,
was shot dead by son of Uriah Kop-
penheffer at Rife, near Harrisburg, Pa.
Englebert was trying to brighten the
boy by playing whitecap and forced
his way into the house after being
warned that he would be shot if he
entered
Booker Amos, farmer, about %
years of age, was shot and killed near
Roanoke, Va, last Monday by Elisha
Murray, a farmer, about As years old.
Amos accused Murray Of poisoning his
dog, and went to the latter's residence,
where he attacked Murray and his wife
with knife, wounding both slightly.
He then went into the room where
Murray's children were, and thence
into the yard, where Murray fired and
killed him. Murray was arrested.
Mrs. Emma Sheppard, widow Of the
late probate Judge of Walker county,
Ala, went out Friday morning to feed
her chickens. She did not return in
time for breakfast. Her daughter
went in search Of her and found her
mothers body lying on the ground,
with a lot of Berkshire hogs feeding
on her head. 1t is thought that
vicious hog knocked Mrs. Sheppard
down in trying to get at the pan of
meal in her hands, and the swine
trampled her 70 death.
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