Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-09-19
Items of interest.

The splendid Masonic Temple in
Boston was almost entirely destroyed
by fire last Saturday.
Joseph Ford, wealthy San Fran
cisco merchant, disinberited his wife
because she always ignored his
wishes.
At York, Pa, last Thursday Will
liam Beaverson shot his wife four times
and then put bullet through his
head. Both died almost instantly.
The electric locomotive of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad went at the
rate of sixty-one miles an hour through
the Baltimore tunnel, on an up grade.
Rev. J. R. Bridges, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, Salem, Va, has
been elected by reclamation to the
pastorate of the Presbyterian Church
at Columbia, No, and has accepted.
Mrs. Albert P. Clarke, of Washing
ton, D. c., died of typhoid fever last
Saturday. Two hours later her hus-
band, insane with grief, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head.
Rev. A. NJ. Smith, pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Myers
vile, Frederick county, Nd, has ten
dered his resignation. He has been
pastor of his present charge for thir-
teen years.
The Chicago Telephone Company,
which employs 200 young women, has
issued an order that none Of its en-
ployees shall wear bicycle costumes
while at work. They must not report
for duty with boomers on.
Greenway Court, in Clarke county,
Va, formerly the county seat of Lord
Fairfax, but for many years past the
property Of the Kennerly family, was
sold a few days ago to settle the affairs
of the late J. Mex. Kennerly.
Miss Ollie Bierly, of Highfeld,
Washington county, Md, is lying at
the point of death, with her throat
cut almost from ear to ear, the result
of strange accident. She was carry
ing four large crooks just purchased
at a store, and fell while crossing the
railroad track. The crooks were bro
ken and she fell upon them, the razor
like points cutting her throat severely
and severing the externaljugular vein
and several large arteries in the neck.
For some time past the people Of
Massillon, Ohio, have been annoyed
by what superstitious people called a
ghost. Saturday night Frank Webb
and William Conard, wishing to have
some sport, dressed themselves to
represent the ghost. Henry Ryder
on his way home, saw the pair and
thinking it was the much-talked-o OF
ghost, fired at them. Webb received
flesh wound in the arm and Conrad
got balm hisheel. Both were pain
fully injured.
Edgar j. Grove was bathing in the
Potomac at the island, Harper's Ferry,
and in his efforts to swim against the
current to one of the piers of the bridge
he became nearly exhausted He
called for help and sank twice before
he was rescued. Master Bernard
Kemp was near by and went to his
assistance and seized Grove by his
suspendels, when George Stuart, and
his brother, VIII Grove, nearby, were
also attracted and went to his assis-
lance and pulled him out.
Edward Latshaw, a sub-contractor
on the government work on the Mis-
sissippi river, had six hundred pounds
Of dynamite stored away in the cellar
of house at Specht's Ferry, twelve
miles north of Dubuque, Iowa. Last
Sunday his son, while practicing with
a revolver, missed the target, the bull
let entering the cellar and firing the
dynamite. The house was blown tc
splinters and the following persons
killed: Edward Latshaw and his
wife, Charity; Ray Latshaw, twelve
years; Mat Latshaw, eight years; Hans
Biornstadt. Wounded are Mat Fa-
Der, may die; Ed Bench, eye knocked
out and and badly bruised; Mable Lat
sbou- sl,uIl fracturad The dead wore
terribly mangled. A fOur-year-old
baby in the party escaped unhurt
Glass in buildings in the hamlet was
all broken and boats on the opposite
side of the river considerably damaged
Latshaw's body was found two hun
bred yards away, his head partly
buried in the earth. The boy who did
the shooting was thrown over the tops