Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Lord RandolphIC hurchill, the noted
English politician, died last week.

Enol;sb politician. died last week.
A. vandalia passenger train was
wrecked by the spreading of the rails
at Coatesville, Ind, on Monday. Two
persons were killed and forty more
seriously injured.
Mrs. Gotel is under arrest for at
tempting to burn her infant alive in
the kitchen stove at her home in Buff
falo, N. Y. Insanity from spiritualism
is the alleged cause.
Hon. Jerry Simpson says life in
Washington broke him. He couldn't
keep up style on $1,000 a year. and
had to mortgage his Kansas ranch to
pull through. Washington style costs
something.
Miss Nettie Desmon, aged seventeen
years, found railroad trestle burning
near Wellston, O., and tagged an ap-
preaching train, carrying 100 miners,
including her father and lover, just in
time to prevent its destruction.
At Charlottesville, Ind, a wedding
party was driven home from the depot
in a sleigh, to which was attached ten
horses. The telegram giving notice OF
the arrival, directed that they be met
by sleigh and tin horns, and the re-
cipient read ten horses for tin horns.
An awful disaster is reported from
the North Sea. The German steamship
Elbe, bound from Bremen to New
York, came in collision with the steam
er Crathie, and was so badly injured
that she sank in twenty minutes. Of
$50 persons who comprised the passen-
gers and crew only 81 are known to
have been saved.
Samuel w. Small, editor of the Nor
folk Pilot, and R. E. Byrd, editor of
the Winchester Times, have each been
sued for $4,000 for libel by Hon. John
E. Massey, state superintendent of the
public schools of Virginia. The suit
is the result of certain charges against
Mr.. Massey, in reference to the books
now used by the public schools, which
appeared in the columns of the Pilot,
Times and other papers.
While the three children of VIM.
Reabuch were alone at their homes at
MIlldale, Ky, two boys and girl, all
under twelve years old, they under
took to start fire in the kitchen stove
and poured coal oil in the kindling
wood. When a match was lighted an
explosion followed, and the children
were enveloped in the flames. When
the neighbors ran in the two boys
were dead and the girl was in dy-
ing condition.
The people of Texcoce, Mex, are
greatly excited over the dissection of a
man named Vargoe, while still alive
A medical student made a dissection on
the supposed corpse, and the latter
writhed in agony and sprang to his
feet, shouting: Don't kill me !"
The dissectol endeavored to replace
the pieces of flesh and sew up the in
cisions. The effort was of no avail,
and the man was genuine corpse in
forty-eight hours.
A. ]. Sugar, of Baltimore, had the
novel experience of seeing preparations |
for his own funeral going on the other
morning. He had been in Washing |
ton on business, and while there re-
port reached his home that he had |
been killed. When he returned he |
found his coffin had been made, flow
srs for his funeral procured and his |
house besieged by about 500 members
of different lodges to which he be-
longed, all wearing Grape on their
arms.
Three years ago Mr.. Ogden Wood |
sold some hogs to Mr.. Edward Amber; |
among them was one which made its
escape and became wild. 1t grew to
be a great nuisance in the neighbor-
hood and many unsuccessful attempts
were made to kill it. Finally, during
the Christmas holidays, all the best
dogs in the neighborhood were gotten
together and hunt was made for the
hog. After desperate fight the men
and dogs killed the hog, which weighed
five hundred pounds Wmrrenton
Viryinian.