Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-04-11
Items Of interest.

twenty-one States
Three manufacturing establishments
were burned at Lynchburg. Va, on
Tuesday, causing loss of $4,000.
Sixty-four clerks, mostly women,
were discharged from the Treasury De-
partment at Washington last week.
"Some women remind me Of hens,
said Crimsonbeak to friend. "They
never find anything today where they
laid it yesterday"
Albert Evans and DR.. Babb quar-
relied about the division of cover while
in bed together in hotel in Oklaho-
ma, and DR.. Babb was killed.
The system of paying workmen IN
the shops of the Baltimore and Ohio
bv piecework, which was discontinued
about two years ago. owing to the
business depression, has been resumed
at Mount Clare and in other shops of
the company.
Five-mile trestle on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, near Portsmouth,
Ohio. was set on FIRE by brush burners
Oh Saturday and freight train was
ditched. One of the seventeen cars
contained matches, which ignited the
wreck, and all Of the cars and contents
were consumed.
The manufacture of stockings and
gloves of paper has been started.
The articles are light and very cheap
The fabric is made Of paper yarn,
spun like other yarn, and then woven
in the SANG way as other cloth, a soft
nap being given to it in the process.
At Des MONIES, Iowa, the other
night, Michael Smith died suddenly,
and his wife was subsequently, convict
ed of poisoning him and sentenced to
Imprisonment for life Cora Smith,
daughter of the deceased, confessed
that she was the guilty one and sur
rendered to take the consequences.
The object Of the murder was to get
$4,000 life insurance.
John H. Potter, engineman on B. &
o. accommodation between Martins
burg and Cumberland, while sitting in
the dispatcher's Office in the latter
place permitted his leg "to 60 to
sleep" When he attempted to walk
the limb sank under him and he fell
to the floor, sustaining severe frac-
ture of the thigh, He WAS taken to
his home in Martinsburg
The remains of Mrs. Resch, for
many years an eccentric character of
Oshkosh, Wis, were buried Monday.
She had attained the age of one hun
dred years. The most peculiar of her
eccentricities was that of sleeping
nightly in coffin Twenty years ago
she purchased casket, and at her own
request she was buried in it, after she
had used it score of years for bed.
The Salem T;mes-RegSter says:
"Col. George P. Tayloe, that big
hearted old Virginian, has recently
taken back the land sold by him to
the Buena Vista Land Company, and
released the stockholders from an in
debtedness of about $154, 800, which
amount was still unpaid. Doubtless
by doing this he has lifted heavy
burden from many man S shoulders.
Four lives were lost in a trolley-car
accident at Evansville, Pa, Saturday.
The car became unmanageable and
ran down the mountainside at high
speed. The passengers became panic
stricken and crowded about the con-
ductor so that he could not turn on
the brakes. Several jumped from the
car and were instantly killed. When
the car jumped the track every person
in it was injured.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
eve believe in giving the devil his
dues and we are disposed to reject the
accuracy of the following paragraph
about Chicago saloonist, which ap-
peared in the Chicago Tribune: A
bow Of Grape was tied to saloon
door-knob on Wabash Avenue. The
blinds were drawn and on the door
was a card, on which was printed ::
Please go to the side entrance until
after the funeral. "
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has asked for bids for the erection Of
the new round-house and waterworks
which are to be located at Cumber-
land, Nd, where the road will make a
new yard. The round-house will ac-
comodate forty-seven locomotives. and
will be the largest of its kind on the