Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Notes Of News Gathered From
Here and There.

An Ohio farmer fell dead of heart
disease when he saw Coxey's army.
B. H. Blackston has been appointed
postmaster at Frederick, Nd.
At Dolgeville, N. Y, last Friday,
Carl Kloetzler, an anarchist, cut the
threats of his wife and four children
and then killed himself.
Mrs. Maria Gardner, wife Of Rev.
J. S. Gardner, of the Southern Meth
odist Church, died in Stanton, Va,
on Sunday, aged about 80 years.
W. Laidlaw at New York was
awarded $4,000 damages in his suit
against Russell Sage for using him as
a shield against Norcross, the bomb
thrower
Governor Northen of Georgia has
appointed Patrick Walsh, editor of
the Augusta Chronicle, to be United
States Senator in place of Senator Col
quit, deceased.
Coxey's army, numbering couple
of hundred of men, reached Pittsburg
on Tuesday and went into camp for
two days. The army doesn't amount
to much, so far.
In Richmond county, Va, on Thurs
day Mrs. Clark and her seven-year-
old child were burned to death. The
child's clothing caught fire and the
mother made futile effort to extin-
guish the flames.
Messrs. E. c. and E. A. Pry, who
have 500 acres in Keedysville district
devoted to peach trees, say the recent
cold weather has destroyed all the
buds in the uplands, but they think
there will be few peaches in the low
lands. They estimate the loss in that
section at $4,000 bushels
The most destructive fire that has
occurred in Winchester, Va, for five
years occurred early last Sunday
morning. 1t started in the NewS
printing Office and burned out the fur
niture establishment of Funk g. Ray
and Miller's drug store. The total
loss will be about $4,000, partly COW
cred by insurance.
John Beckley, aged lightweight
years, the first white settler in Boone
township, Ill.,, died suddenly last Mon
day night A striking incident con-
nected with his death was postal-card
written to the Logansport Journal,
dated at 6 a. M, in which he said that
after lightweight years Of Democracy
he had joined the Populists.
A bill permitting the construction
of an elevated electric railway between
Washington and New York was in
troduced in Congress Monday. 1t is
designed to run trains at the rate of
100 miles an hour over this road.
The company is to be capitalized at
Sl5, 100000 and the charge for trans
porting passengers is not to succeed
two cents per mile.
Miss Sarah Billings and her sister,
Linda, aged thirty-fve and forty
years, respectively, were found dead
in bed at Winchester, Ohio, on Thurs
day. A note explained that their
death was by poison, self-administered,
because one Of them was intending to
get married, but love for each other
prevented them from enduring sepa-
ration. Therefore, they chose death.
They were well-to-do, and have no
relatives.
Walter Johnson was stabbed and
killed at the Methodist Church at
Give, Ohio, Saturday night by John
Williams during a revival service.
Johnson's brother pinned something
on Williams's back, and the latter,
thinking it was Walter, drew large
knife and stabbed him, killing him
instantly. The tragedy created great
excitement, women fainting and men
leaping from the windows