Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-07-11
Items of Interest.

committed suicide by drowning near
Clarksburg last week.
The next encampment of the West
Virginia National Guard will be held
at Parkersburg, beginning on August
6 and continuing one week.
The barn of Thomas Waugh, near
Berkeley Springs, was struck by light
ming during recent severe thunder
storm and burned to the ground.
An appeal from the decision rem
dered by Judge Daley, perpetuatlng
the injunction against the lease OF
Berkeley Springs, has been taken.
Katie Mccoy, Philadelphia girl
fourteen years old, committed suicide
by hanging the other day because her
older sister had not bought her new
shirt waist
S. F. Whiting, an extensive lumber
dealer at Chenille, this State, made
an assignment Monday for the benefit
ofcreditors. Liabilities about $50, 900,
assets $4,000.
Mrs. Ann f. Baldwin, widow OF Rev.
Charles F. Baldwin, in his time one Of
the most distinguished divines in this
State, died last week at Parkersburg,
at the age of seventy years.
As a result of eating rhubarb, upon
which Paris green from neighborin8
potato patch had blown, Mrs. Henry
Platt and her infant son, Of Elvlra,
Iowa, are dead and her husband and
mother are in a precarious condition.
Wherefore University, at Wilber-
force, Ohio, an institution for the edu-
cation of negroes, few days ago con-
ferred the degree of LII. D. upon
President Cleveland. The President
declined the honor, as he Is not Il COL
lege graduate.
News has Just been received Of the
murder of A Mrs. Faulkner by man
named Johnson, near Bramwell, on
the 22d inst. Johnson was to be tried
for the stealing of hog, and Mrs.
Faulkner was the chief witness against
hun. At night he went to the house
of Mrs. Faulkner and shot the woman,
killing her instantly. Johnson Is now
in the mountains, and the citizens are
searching the country for him.
The wedding Of Kennedy Tutwiler
and Miss Mary a. Rubbish at Staunton,
Va, on Monday, was novel affair,
The couple are nineteen and sixteen
years old, respectively, and having
procured license and being unable
to find preacher, had boarded the
train to return home, Seeing Rev John
Donovan on the cars they made known
their wishes. and AS the train was about
to move he tied them in forty seconds.
They went on their way rejoicing.
According to statistics gathered by
the Railway Age, the number Of miles
of railroad constructed in the United
States in the first six months Of 1895
was Gal, which is to be compared with
525 miles constructed in the same
period in 1894. There is, it appears,
slight revival of railway enterprise
in 1895, and the Railway Age makes
the guess that the year, when conclud-
ed, will show a total of $500 miles.
Texas heads the list of States with lOl
miles of new road, West Virginia fol-
lowing with 50 miles. The Southern
States have added most new mileage.
The guests of the Phoenix Hotel, at
Winston, \. c., rose in revolt against
Geo. w. X. Kittelle, the proprietor
because they learned the ice used in
their iced tea and other cool drinks
had first been utilized in cooling a
corpse. The result is that Kittelle'S
troubles multiplied, and he was forced
to assign. 1t was claimed that a rub,
Der sheet was between the ice and the
body, and that the cooling material
was not therefore injured in any way
but was as pure as ever. The guests
couldn't seeit in that way, however.
In a recent Agricultural Depart,
ment report farmers are cautioned tc
refrain from waging a general war
of determination of crows and black
birds. While at times they injure
crops, their depredations, according tc
the department, can usually be pre-,
vented. On the other hand, they dc
incalculable good by destroying in
sects. The grain eaten by them under
ordinary circumstances does not cause
serious loss, as much of it consists Of
scattered or waste kernels. Their oc'
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