Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-10
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newspaper lost $4,000.
George Davis, of Cleveland, Ohio,
was to have been married on Tuesday.
While the bride was waiting for him
he committed suicide.
Tramps have become such null
sance in certain parts Of Connecticut
that the farmers have taken to tying
them to trees and whipping them.
Ella Norwood, young woman is
to be hung at Raleigh, N. c., on Feb
ruary sth for the murder of her baby.
She killed it by making it swallow
pins.
At a ball at Wallace, Idaho, the
other night, neof the ladies took her
baby with her. While it was asleep
in the dressing-room some one sat up
on it and killed it.
At dance near Hazleton, Pa, the
other night the music was furnished by
Hungarian. His music didn't please,
and one of the dancers cracked his
head and killed him.
Charles Hughes dropped dead in
Boston the other day just as he was to
be married. Soon afterward 1t was
discovered that he had wife and two
! obildran In Kentucky
Col. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, is
not making fortune at lecturing.
He addressed an audience of forty per-
sons, including three women, at
Charleston, S. c., Saturday night.
Robert McMullen, Western Union
line man, was almost broiled to death
by an electric wire at Newark, N. j.,
some time ago. He sued for damages,
and jury has just awarded him $685.
900.
Hugh Rutherford died at McDade,
Texas, from wounds received in a
shooting affair with his brother-in-law,
William Black. They quarreled over
a race horse. Black was killed in the
fight.
Samuel Swims, in attempting to kill
James Fields, a successful rival in love,
near Newport, Ark, fatally wounded
Fields's bride and her mother, Mrs.
Mary Cooper, who sprang between him
and Swims's gun.
The President has settled the dis
pute over the Cumberland postoffice by
appointing Daniel E. Kean to succeed
Postmaster Shiller. The appointment
was made upon the recommendation of
Representative McKaig.
Seymour Jordans throat was cut
from ear to ear and Sylvester Jordan
was probably fatally shot in fight
with William Wright and James Cosby
at Harrodsburg, KY. The Jordan
brothers some time ago deGed the coun-
ty officers.
David McQuade, of Corning, n. y,
an engineer on the Fallbrook Railroad,
was caught Saturday in wreck near
Middleburg Station. His legs, back
and right arm were literally cooked by
the escaping steam and other parts of
his body were frozen, the temperature
being 20 degrees below zero He can
not recover
John T. Shelby, law partner Of Col.
Breckenridge, assaulted Charles G.
Moore, editor of the Blue Grass Blade,
at Lexington, KY, Friday, breaking
cane over his head and tearing out
bunch of his whiskers. The editor
published an open letter to Madeline
Pollard, inviting her to go on the
lecture platform, as Colonel Breckiu-
ridge had done. He said she had more
sense than the colonel and all his law
yers put together.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bartholomew,
of Moorestown, Pa, had a very expen-
sive party at their house the other
night. They invited many of their
friends to spend the evening with them,
and fire was lighted in the parlor
stove by one of the family, When
Mrs. Bartholomew saw the fire in the
stove she screamed and tainted. Being
revived, she announced that a few
days before she had placed for safe
keeping in the stovepipe $500, which
she had received as an inheritance.
The money was totally destroyed.
According to advices received by
the Congregational Home Missionary
Society, the circle Of suffering in parts
of the West is widening. 1t includes
the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma, which
was opened for settlement year ago.
The country is emphatically new.
With the thermometer below zero,
there were thirteen men at religious
service who wore no overcoats and
were known not to own one. Some of
the women were without wraps of any
kind. A mother and daughter alter
nately wore the same pair Of shoes
Women have been found barefoot at
home, not possessing any kind of an
old shoe.
Says the Washington Star: "Show
me the man that beat Billy Wilson,
was the remark made on the Republi-
can side Of the House today by curious
members, and was occasioned by the
presence on the floor of Congressman
elect Dayton, who succeeds Mr.. William
L. Wilson of West Virginia. Mr.. Day
ton was discovered by Congressman