Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-05-16
Items of Interest.

Eckley b. COKE, the WealGhlesI coal
operator in Pennsylvania, died last
Monday.
Joseph H. Casey was killed by
stroke of lightning while walking
along the street in Roanoke, Va.' last
Saturday.
At Lexington, KY, last Friday Al
bert C. Hall shot and killed Volney
Beard, who was, he thought, too fond
of his wife.
John Friese, in the Maryland peni-
tertiary for ten years for murder,
leaped over balustrade and killed
himself last Monday.
Mrs. Mary Ridgeley Brown, wife of
Governor Frank Brown Of Maryland,
died in Baltimore last Sunday. She
was rich and beautiful.
During a fight in Baltimore the 9th
er day between William Harris and
Moses Dorsey, both colored, Harris
bit off the whole Of Dorsey lower lip.
The President has appointed as civil
service commissioners John B. Harlow,
of st. Louis, and VIM. G. Rice, of New
York. The former is a Republican
and the latter Democrat.
A cloudburst caused landslide on
the main line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Huntington, Pa, Sun
day. A freight train was buried by
earth, and the track was covered for
a mile.
DR.. J. D. Robinson, who performed
the first amputation in the war Of the
rebellion, died in Wooster, Ohio, Fri
day night, aged seventy-fve. James
E. Hanger, a Confederate soldier, was
the patient.
William Dungee, colored under
taker of Baltimore. was forced to bury
a body on Monday that he had kept
in his shop since December IS, 1894,
waiting for the relatives to raise the
money for the funeral.
Three grooms and eighteen race
horses from Mercer, Pa, were killed
Sunday in the wreck of fast freight
on the Western division of the New
York and Erie Railroad. The train
was ditched by a broken wheel.
President Cleveland and Commits
sioner Jos. S. Miller spent last Saturday
fishing for trout near Leesburg, Va.
1t is said that the party caught eighty
fish, of which the Presidents share
was thirty. This, however, may be a
fish story.
Engineer Kester was slowly burned
to death last Sunday in wreck on
the Lehigh Valley railroad, near Jer-
sey City, n. J. The train, freight,
ran into an open switch and was de-
rallied. Hester was thrown under the
engine, the hot Goals from which set
fire to the wreck.
DR.. H. NJ. Wharton has begun the
publication Of the Whosoever Journal
for spreading information about the
Whosoever farm, which be has estab-
lished at Luray, Va, as home fol
needy and friendless children. The
farm was recently opened and its cot
tages are being filled rapidly.
The General Assembly of Delaware
adjourned sine die last Friday. Nc
United States Senator was declared
elected by the joint assembly. The
Republicans claim the election of Col
Henry A. Dupont, who received tfteer
votes. Governor Watson presided IL
the Senate and the Democrats CLAIM
that sixteen votes were necessary t
an election. The Republicans propose
to take the matter to the United State
Senate.
Postmaster-General Wilson has re
ceived as a gift one of the finest ell
heads ever seen in Washington. The
antlers are of tremendous size anC
beautifully painted and the trophy
will hereafter form one Of the mos
striking ornaments Of the private room
of the Postmaster-General. The heaC
was presented to Mr.. Wilson by Thos
V. Teter, of West Virginia, who is nov
the United States Indian Agent a
Fort Hall, Idaho.
A recent dispatch from Chicag
says: There is dismay amongthe ZOO
or more men engaged in the FISHING
industry in this port over the remark
able disappearance Of the fnny tnb
from the waters of Lake Michigan
There has been a dozen or twent
steam tugs and 200 sailboats employee
in fishing near Chicago, and most c
these have abandoned the work. VIVA
has become of the fshis mystery t
the local fishermen.
Twenty-one days ago Peter Young
of Aurora, H., left home for a lon
5 Journey. The mode of travel adopte
, was in an open-top buggy drawn b
, two horses. He took with him HI
two sons, Charley and Harry, and tw
Scotch spapiels. Tuesday at P; n
he drove into Hagerstown with all c
D the party in fine condition. The
came by the way of Chicago, ILL.,, Foi
5 Wayne, Indiana, Columbus, Ohit
Pittsburg, Pa, and Cumberland, Md
which place he left Tuesday morning
e The nights were spent at hotels, boarc
: ing houses and farm houses. III
t dogs travelled nearly the whole di
tonoa on foot Mr. Youno came ca,