Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-10
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more, drank quart of whiskey Christ
mas day. About bedtime he died
from its effects.
Daniel Trombley, of Bay City, Mich,
went crazy over politics Tuesday,
killed his wife and child, set fire to his
house and then jumped down we'll
Dora Williams locked her three
children in her home at Rome, Ga,
and went visiting. The result was
that the house and all the children
were burned.
William A. Lippert was arrested In
Chicago the other day aftera long chase.
In 1890 he stole several hundred
thousand dollars in Africa, and officers
have been on his trail ever since.
The skeleton of a mastodon over 40
feet long and 10 feet wide has been
found by a farmer near Sioux Falls,
S. D. One of the teeth is lit inches
long, inches across and II inches
deep.
Two men were hung at Maynards-
vile, Tenn, the other day for murder
The execution was to have been private,
but mob of 5000 smashed down the
stockade and enjoyed the CHASTITY
spectacle to the utmost.
Miss Mary Case, of Columbus, O.,
missionary of the First Congregational
Church, has just had most remarka-
BILE experience. For four years she had
been afflicted with muteness. She
resorted to the skill of specialists and
the remedies suggested to her by the
numerous callers at her home, but
without avail. A few days ago her vo-
cal powers returned, and she has now
the full use of her voice.
Miss Mabel J. Roseman, assistant
postmaster at Bay Shore, L. l., and
daughter of Harry Roseman, we'll
known political leader, was suddenly
stricken blind on Wednesday last.
Her sight was apparently perfect up
to the moment darkness came to her.
She had no warning, and says the
light went out suddenly as thunder
clap. She cannot now distinguish
light from darkness. She is hand
some brunette and has large black eyes.
1t is thought overstudy caused the
trouble. The physicians are st sea
over the case.
The Kansas City Times says "a
novel reason was given recently by
gentleman who resides in Oklahoma
for the low price of wheat. This gem
tlemen said, it is because it is the
lazy mans crop There may be more
in this suggestion than one would con-
cede upon the first thought. Wheat
is very easy crop to raise, 1t can be
sown in the fall of the year when the
weather is pleasant, it requires no cul-
tivation whatever and the crop can be
harvested in the early summer, only
requiring few weeks work from seed
ing to thrashing. Corn, cotton, to-
bacco, potatoes, beans and other crops
require constant cultivation and much
more labor than the wheat crop"
John Connors, Of Derby, Conn, aged
so, got ready to 60 to bed at II o'clock
Thursday night. Without saying any
thing to his family, bare-footed and
bare-headed, clad in his night clothes,
he walked six miles through foot Of
snow and in a binding storm to the
home of his uncle, Michael McEnerney,
at Orange. He was found there by
searching party early next morning
McEnerney was surprised at the ap-
pearance of his nephew, and the more
so when Connors explained the reason
of it. He said as he was about to get
in bed all apparition appeared and
told him Mrs. McEnerney, his aunt,
was seriously i'll, and SO he had at
once started for her home At 10
o'clock, an hour before Connors left
Derby, Mrs. McEnerney had stroke
of paralysis, which will doubtless
prove fatal. Connors is confined to
his bed and is not likely to recover
from the effects Of his exposure.
Standing on the platform of the rail-
road station at Harper's Ferry, the
scene of John Browns raid, and look
ing up at the Maryland and Virginia
heights on either side, the travellers
attention is arrested by mysterious
white objects, gliding like ghosts across
open spaces on the dark mountain
sides. These are the wild goats Of the
cliffs. How they came there no one
knows. The oldest inhabitant recalls
no period when these apparitions were
not visible. The mountain sides are