Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-03-21
Items of Interest.

Oiu last MOuudy.
The Walter A. Wood Harvester
Company is in financial difficulties.
John S. Lewis, a prominent citizen
of Harrisonburg, Va, died last week.
By the explosion Of saw mill boiler
near Carthage, Texas, Monday, six
person were killed.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is being men
toned as the next Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Virginia.
General Adam Badeau and General
Philip st. George Cooke, two famous
Union generals, died yesterday.
Rev. DR.. John A. Broadus, the en-
inent Baptist theologian and author,
died on Saturday in Louisville, KY,
aged II years.
Jack Kerry, well-known gambler
of Colorado and Iowa cities, has fallen
heir to large estate in Ireland and
100000 in cash.
While lighting the fire with kerosene
and gasoline, at st. Paul, Mrs. Frances
Sumner and her niece, Miss Nellie
Closson, were burned to death.
William Boteler, printers appren-
tice was killed by electricity last week
in Baltimore printing office where
electricity was used to run the presses.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Regente,
one of the largest war ships afoat,
foundered off the coast of Spain last
week, and it is believed every soul on
board was lost.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeanette were murdered
in their home at McGregor, Mimi, by
two Italians, with whom they had a
quarrel. Four children were left or
phans by the tragedy.
Mrs. Katherine Krupka, ninety
years old, committed suicide Sunday
night by hanging at her home in Chi
cage. 1t is supposed she feared be-
coming blind and deaf.
Joseph Kress, aged seventeen years,
shot and killed his stepfather, Christie
pher Prisendorfer, at their home in
Baltimore Tuesday, because he was
choking the boys mother.
The dynamite factory of the Han
cock Chemical Company, at Dollar
Bay, Mich, blew up Friday, and of a
dozen men employed there the body
of but one has been found, that OF
Dominick Christian.
Probably the highest office build
ing in the world is the Manhattan Life
Insurance building, New York. 1t is
347 feet in height. It's foundations
90 down SO feet below the pavement
level, which makes the depth 20 feet
below the water level.
An old brick stable connected with
Sparrow's Hotel, Middletown, Md,
collapsed Tuesday. Mrs. Sparrow,
wife of the proprietor, had her leg
badly broken and was otherwise Sc
verely injured. A workman named
Edward Herring was hurt also.
William Navens, of Norfolk, Conn,
a brakeman, left bottle of whisky on
the dining-room table when he went
home drunk the other day. His son
James, aged FIVE, and his daughter
Marguerite, aged four, found the whis-
key and drank it. The boy died next
morning of commissions and the little
girl is considered fatally i'll.
A remarkable case of rapid growth
has recently been investigated by the
French Academy Of Science. A boy at
the age of FIVE began to grow beard
and to change his voice; he seemed a
man of thirty. At six years old he
was 5 feet inches tall, and strong
enough to lift and carry on his back
a bag of grain weighing two hundred
pounds. At eight his hair and beard
turned gray; at ten his teeth fell out
and his hands and legs became palsied,
and at twelve he died.
Five masked robbers entered the
house of John McMillin, near New
Castle, Pa, the other night, bound and
gagged the hired man and three wo-
men, and then waited nearly two hours
for the return of McMillin. When he
came he was bound to a board and
leaned head downward against the
wall, while the robbers threatened
him with instant death unless he re-
vealed the hiding place of his money.
McMillin had deposited 81 900 in a
bank the previous day. After burn
ing his feet with hot Goals and whip
ping him numerically the villains f.
nally believed his story and departed.
Mrs. McMillin and daughters, who
were compelled TO witness the torture
of McMillin, are in very serious con-
dition from fright.
For long time G. S. Crawford, who
lives in Buena Vista, Ga, and who is
well-to-do citizen, has been scandal
izing his neighbors by denouncing the
Bible and the name of God. The
other morning he was standing in the
center of a group of listeners and said ::
"There is hardly word Of truth in
the book, and it is only superstition
that makes people worship the Bible
as a FETCH. No sooner had he said
this than there came fash of lightning
which made several of the crowd jump.
"There," said he, "you now show how
little you believe in your God. The
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