Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-03-26
Items of Interest.

Norman Swain, a nineteen-vear-old
boy of Cincinnati, has become totally
blind from the excessive use of cigar
cites.
DR.. A. P. T. Grove, OF Dallastowu,
York county. Pa, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
at the Eutaw House, Baltimore, a few
days ago.
At Ladonia, Texas, the other day,
a party of twenty women visited DR.
Hancock and gave him a terrible cow
hiding because he persisted in prescrib-
ing whiskey for the men.
Rev. Charles William Schafer.
professor of church history in the
Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Germantown, Pa, and one Of the most
prominent Lutheran divines in the
State, died last Sunday. He was
born in Hagerstown, Nd, May 5, 1913.
The United States Senate has passed
a bill restricting each package Of
fourth-class mail matter to four pounds
in weight. Mr. Wolcott declared that
the object was to shut out Of the mails
rolling chairs, rolling desks, electric
motors, carpets and various other
truck.
Tom Washington, colored, was
lvnched in Essex county, Va, at an
early hour Monday for an attempt to
crminally assault a nine-year-old
daughter of a prominent citizen Of that
county. This is the first Iynching with
in the State since OFerrall has been
Governor.
The widow of the late Thomas B.
Sloane, Of New York, is paving a good
price to marry Nh Barclay, which
she will do in April. Her husband
left a piece Of property in New York
city worth 100000 to her, with the
condition that if she married again it
should go to Yale College
By vote of 81 to II the Iowa SEN
ate has passed bill making it a crime
to manufacture or keep for sale cigar
cites in the State of Iowa 1t Is
known as the Phelps bill and it will
pass the House by q big majority. II
makes it unlawful to handle cigarettes
in any manner They cannot be given
away. The penalty IS fine or I'M
lrisoumeut, or both.
A sensation was created in the car
riers department ofthe city postothce
in Washington last Friday night. when
Charles w. Swiugle. one Of the carriers,
emptied the contents OF bis collection
bag upon the big table One of the
packages contained a dead infant 1t
had been placed in one Of the big re-
ceptacles for papers and packages, but
by whom may never be known. Every
effort was made to find some mark by
which the person depositing the pack
age could be traced, but there was not
clue 10 be found
Both houses of Congress have agreed
to an amendment to the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill abohshing the fee system and sub
shutting salaries for United States dis
trict attorneys, marshals, commission
ers and others The testimony Of near
ly every member Of Congress during
the discussion was that the fee system
has been productive Of gross abuses
and great corruption. There was
hardly any opposition to the measure
based upon IA denial Of this sweeping
charge, and such members as opposed
it did so because, in the particular
clauses in which they took a personal
interest, they thought the salaries Of
the officers affected had been placed |
too low.
\ recent dispatch from New York
says Charles Broadway Rouss, who
has offered to give 100000 toward
the buildingand maintaining ola Bat
tie Abbey" where Confederate relies
of the late war might be collected, pro-
vided the people of the South raised |
an equal amount, when asked whether