Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Presbyterian Church at Mid
dlebrook, Augusta county, Va, was
burned last Sunday.
William Jobe, an old and prominent
resident of Frederick county, Va,
died last week, aged So years.
By the collapse of an old building
at Memphis, Tenn, last Sunday nine
or ten colored persons were crushed
to death
The famous Ferris wheel, known to
all visitors to the Worlds Fair, is to be
brought to New York and set up near
Broadway.
AT Henderson, n. c., Louisa Paris,
aged seventeen years, stabbed William
Johnson to the heart Johnson charged
her with immortality.
The Iowa legislature has passed
bill allowing women to vote for town,
city and school officers and on all ques-
tons of issuing bonds.
S. Teaokle Wallis the distinguished
lawyer. orator and author, died at
his home in Baltimore Tuesday OF
Bright's disease, aged II years.
Richard Wister, an enormously
r.aol+bv ord eccentric PHILADELPHIA
man. is dead 1t Is said he has left
all his property to his housekeeper.
At Phpnixville, Pa, there is a
street called Breckenridge street.
The women of the place have petit
toned the council to change the name.
There has been quite lively war
between the whites and Indians IN
Oklahoma Territory Fourteen SOL
diers and settlers and % Indians have
been killed.
Jonathan Thayer aged 81 years,
and his wife, aged 90, of South Brain
tree, Mass, celebrated their diamond
wedding on Monday, having been
married IS years.
Capt. Q. S. J. Beckley has sued
Messrs. Harp & Smith, publishers of
the Frederick MD Examiner, for
criminal libel, on account Of an article
published in their paper.
Front Royal is to have a trades dis
play May l, the occasion being the
formal opening of two iron bridges
over the Shenandoah River connect
ing that town with Riverton.
The stable of Griffin & Manion, in
Baltimore, was burned last Monday
night, and l25 horses persisted in the
flames, many of them very valuable.
The loss on vehicles, horses and
buildings will reach 100000.
Samuel Mckee, a bachelor farmer
living near MELVILLE, Pa, diedrecently,
leaving large estate. Afterward the
appraisers found $685. in gold, silver
and paper in a box in the garnet.
The paper money was mouIdy with
age.
Severe hail storms visited Texas and
Kansas Sunday and did much damage.
Many cattle were killed by the stones,
some of which were six inches in cir
conference. The great chunks of ice
went through roofs Of houses and
ruined the prospect for fruit crops.
A curious accident was noticed at
Frederick junction, Nd. A hound
started a rabbit up along the B. & 0.
track, and while in full chase, both
the dog and the rabbit were caught
by a passing train and cut in twain,
the dog on one rail and the rabbit on
the other
The Davidson Theater the finest
playhouse in Milwaukee, Wis, was
destroyed by fire Monday While
the fire was at its height the roof col
lapsed, carrying about twenty fremen
down into the blazing auditorium.
Eight were killed and eight others
badly injured The loss on the thea
ire is nearly 100000,
During fire in the fireworks fac
tory of Romano Brothers, at Peters
burg, Va, there was a terrific explo-
sion of gunpowder, resulting in great
loss of life and property Fourteen
persons were killed outright, among
them some of the most prominent men
of the city, and many others were in
jured The loss to property was
$4,000.
Miss Annie Laurie Cannady, aged
twenty years, died at Salem Va, last
Friday. She was bitten in January
by dog with rabies, The dog was
killed, and Miss Cannady's wounds
were cauterized, and apparently
healed. Nothing more was thought Of
the matter until Thursday, when she
was taken ILL., At l o'clock she died
in great agony.
-Four little boys were playing in an
empty B. g. 0. car in Baltimore the
other morning, when the door was
closed and the car attached to west
bound freight train. They screamed
as loudly as they could, but no one
heard them. One boy was so badly