Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Note. of News Gathered From
Here and There.

Thos. A. Edison has invented a
machine that will take forty-six photo
graphs second.
James Conner was killed at Cum
berland, Nd, last Sunday by his horse
falling upon him.
Up to date Andrew Carnegie has
given $l25,l70 for the relief Of the
poor of Pittsburg.
Walter Wellman, a Washington
newspaper correspondent, has started
to find the north pole.
DR.. Talmage has decided to remain
pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
as its debt has been provided for.
Baltimore and Ohio officials deny
the published reports that division
shops are to be located at Terra Alta.
All the admission tickets to the
Worlds Fair, about 100000 in all,
have been sold to Chicago Spectator
for 81 900.
The number Of pensioners on the
government rolls is now approximate
" 100000, against $4,000 for the
corresponding week last year.
Near Covington, Va, the wife and
baby of DR.. H, W. Anderson Were
thrown into Jackson river by the up
setting of buggy and drowned.
1t is stated that Philip D. Armour,
of Chicago, will give 100000 to the
San Francisco public schools for the
establishment of a manual training
school
Philip Petre, at LoganspOrt, In
diana, killed his wife and then him
self. He left note saying that his
wife let him have no peace this side
of the grave.
It is reported that Senator David
B. Hill Of New York is engaged to be
married to Miss Lefty Scott, a Ken
lucky belle and a niece Of Vice-Presi-
dent Stevenson.
Bids for the purchase and removal
of the Worlds Fair buildings were
opened in Chicago on Saturday.
Twelve bids were recorded, the most
favorable of which was $l5, 100 for the
ten largest structures.
A student at Washington and Lee
University attempted suicide, having
become respondent because a young
lady returned ring which belonged
to him, with the explanation that she
would be married in a short time.
It has recently been discovered that
the log cabin Abraham Lincoln built
has been laying for nearly two years
in an alley in Chicago, in the shape Of
pile of logs. The cabin was built in
1880 by Lincoln and his father For
years this cabin gave the Lincoln
family protection from storms and
early pioneer danger 1t was pur-
chased and taken to the Worlds Fair
for exhibition, but was never erected.
After three years Of not wholly
cloudless domestic bliss Cora Belle Eel
lows, the young white woman who
shocked her family and friends by
marrying Chaska, the Santee Indian,
at the Cheyenne River Agency, finds
herself deserted and destitute, with a
family of half-breed children on her
hands. Her red-skinned husband has
forsaken her and has married another
woman, full-blooded Indian, with
whom he is now living openly on the
Santee Reservation.
The New York Herald'S European
edition publishes this: The treasury
Of the Kings Ousourtesen, of tho
twelfth dynasty, has been discovered
at Dashour, by Mr.. Morgan, the di-
rector of the excavations going on IN
the interior of the pyramids. 1t was
hidden in tomb near a relative of
the royal family. Jewels and gold IN
crusted precious stones were in great
variety, including a crown, probably
the Oldest specimen of Egyptian art,
and exquisitely moulded lions. This
discovery doubles the Importance OF
Ghizeh.
An Illinois lady lately deceased,
Mrs. Lucinda Graham. bequeathed
her property, valued at $4,000, to her
niece, the wife of Rev, NJ. Z. McLinn,
of Loudoun county, Virginia, instead
of to her daughter Mrs. Hodge
who married against her will. Mrs.
McLinn, recognizing the injustice of
the bequest, has relinquished her right
to the property-her husband joining
her in the signing of the necessary
papers. Things like this are of very
infrequent occurrence-an exhibition
| OF generosity ana love OF justice IaFely
witnessed.
A horrible outrage was committed
in Camden, n. j., Monday afternoon
by two colored boys named Conrad
Cook and John Ellis, who seized
Charles Tinney, a white boy aged
eight years, and tying him to a stake,
piled brushwood around him and set
FIRE to it. The agonizing cries of the
lad attracted the attention of colored
man, who rescued him from his awful
position, but not before he had been
probably fatally burned The doctors
say that even if they succeed in saving
young Tinney's life, it will be neces-
sary to amputate both his arms.
Cook and Ellis ran away, but were