Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-01

There Is telepnOne war az OIdltoi
between the Bell and the STANDARD
companies. Rates are very low.
At Wheeling Tuesday morning Mrs
Martha Bone was burned to death by
her clothing catching fire while she
was cooking.
Joseph Elwood, teen-year-olo
bov, who said his home is at Martins
burg, while riding on a Chesapeake &
Ohio freight train at Huntington
claims to have been pushed off. Both
lower limbs were badly injured and
the right leg had to be amputated
near the knee.
Charles Bradley, aged IA, was killed
in the B. & 0. yards at Cumberland on
Saturday, He attended a picnic at
Harper's Ferry Friday, and rode home
on a freight train. When it reached
the yards Bradley was asleep on the
bumpers of a car and fell, being hor'
ribly mangled by the wheels. The
dead boy was a son of Daniel Bradley
an engineer, and the third member Of
his family to meet violent death
within three years.
Superintendent H. G. Bowles, o.
the West Virginia and Pittsburg Rail
road, who had made all arrangements
for Rev. DR.. Talmage to preach
special sermon at Gypsy Grove Oh Au-
gust llth, to which excursions were
to be run from all over the State, has
cancelled the engagement. This Is
due to the action Of the preachers IL
towns near Gypsy Grove declaring
boycott on the proposed entertainment
they deeming the running of excursion:
on Sunday, even to religious services
a dissertation of the Lords Day.
w. H. Shay, a well-known and pros
porous farmer of Preston county, took
his life Tuesday morning by cutting
his throat. Shay lived near Newburg
and owned a valuable farm. He went
out into the woods near his house anc
deliberately gashed his throat with d
pocket.knife until he severed the Jug
ular vein. When found he was lying
in a pool of blood quite dead. Hi
friends do not know why he committed
suicide, unless ill-health caused it
Shay was not quite thirty-fve years o
age and leaves a widow.
A special from Moundsville, thi
State, says that the people Of the east
ern part of the town are terrorlzeC
and afraid to venture out unarmed
even in daylight, aud not at all aftel
nightfall. The trouble is all caused
by the appearance Of strange anc
decidedly vicious wild animal. 1t ha.
been seen at a distance by several per
sons, but none has had the hardihooc
to engage it in battle. Those wh'
have seen it say it resembles a panther
or tiger or leopard, none being able t
give an accurate description. Friday
J. D. Wright heard violent commo
ton in the field adjoining his premises
his big mastiF dog being one Of the
parties to the racket. The next morn
Ing he found a quarter Of an acre o
corn trampled down, and the hal
eaten carcass of the dog lying in tn,
center Of the wrecked space. The SANE
morning Ephraim Rine reports having
seen big strange animal making it
way to the woods through corn field
The undevoured portion Of the dog
carcass was left lying in the field the
next night, and the next morning /
was gone. 1t has been current re
port for six months that tiger es
capped from a show train passing along
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, nea
Rosby's Rock, last fall, and numerou
instances are cited where calves anC
sheep have been carried away.