Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
The honest mosquito never sends j,
a bored bill.
A tie race-Two tralnps running o.
railroad track.
| Everybody rides the wheel. Eve,
the sun is scorcher.
A motion to read the minutes doe
not require 90 seconds.
Price Packard was run over anS
killed by a train at Radnor.
The fact that thermometers are 90
ing up doesn't make them cost anv
more.
Thieves broke into clothing stor,
at Thurmont, Md, and stole thirteer
suits of clothing.
There are o95 graves in the Boons
boro, (Md-) cemetery, more than the
population of the town.
In Hungary there are thousands Of
villages and small towns without a
doctor within ten miles.
James Anderson, sixteen-year.oad
boy OF Wellsburg, was drowned while
bathing in the Ohio river.
A glass factory, employing $50
workmen, is to be removed from Fos-
toria, Ohio, to Morgantown.
Several Indian princes are expected
to make the tour to England this sum.
mer. but at their own expense.
A house and store at Fairview, be-
longing to Mrs. Ella MCGOWAN, OF
Wellsville, was burned; loss So. 900.
The Meerweim residence at Park
ersburg was robbed of 500 few DAYS
ago and the burglars were captured.
Tommy Studying geography Pop,
tell me something about Council
Bluffs. Tommy's Pop-common OF
Select
By the vote of the people of Park
kersburg and district, Parkersburg
subscribes $I75, 900 to the building oil
railroad up the little Kanawha VAL
ley.
Lizzie n. Heckler, residing near
Harleysville, has just completed a
quilt that contains 1865 patches.
She is now Ia years old and started
the quilt at the age of z.
The body of H. ]. Oberhelman, of
Pittsburg, who was drowned, was
found at Wheeling. Coroner Shuttle
held an inquest and returned YER
dict of accidental drowning.
The administrator OF the estate OF
Consul Fred Muenmeyer, who died
recently at Salvador, of yellow fever,
brought suit for $1,000 against the
Providence Savings and Life Insur-
ance Company OF New York.
Mrs. Will Dickey, of Huntington,
became respondent because her hus-
band remained out late. Procuring
vial of laudanum she drank one-half
an ounce of the drug with suicidal in
tent. A stomach pump saved her life.
A telegram was received at Birds
boro, Pa, June FL, stating that Will
liam Haws, citizen of that place, was
killed by train at Binghamton, N. Y.
About the same time his son, Victor,
aged IS, was severely injured while
coasting down hillon his bicycle near
Birdsboro.
G. P. Mum, wife, and family of
twelve children, moved from Lincoln.
Neb., to St. Louis, Mo-, on the 10th
of May. The father, mother aud
eleven children were killed in the
tornado. Advices to that effect have
just been received by relatives from
Frank Mum, the sole survivor of the
family.
During thunder storm at Spring
City, Pa, hen with large brood of
little chickens, became frightened, and
leaving the chicks to take care OF
themselves. took shelter in the coop.
A rooster hearing the cries OF the for
saken ones ran to their assistance and
taking them under his large wings.
kept theni dry and warm.
A car on the Harwood Lumber Co. S
railroad on Big Run, Webster county,
suddenly started from the top Of the
mountain with FIVE men Saturday
James Moffett was found dead 100
yards down. David Moffett was found
still further down terribly cut and Ia
tally hurt. Jacob Holcome was pick
ed up 400 yards from the starting
point, also fatally hurt, and Cal Long
was found unconscious and horribly
injured nearly quarter Of a mile from
the top of the mountain.
Joseph Haggerty, Of Hoboken, n.
j., two months ago, pared corn on
his left foot with his pocket knife.
The corn grew worse and he had the
toe amputated. Then blood poison
set in and he was told that the leg had
to be amputated. To this Haggarty
would not consent. He said he would
rather lose his life than his leg. Sun
day morning he swallowed carbolic
acid. He waited awhile, but death
did not come fast enough. and with
his pocket-knife he cut several deep
gashes in his left wrist. Finally. be
threw himself out of a window to the
sidewalk. He died two hours later.
Ii is not often that the love and f.
deity Of a dog is more singularly
shown than by little incident which
has just occurred at the home ofsGeo
Huoo in Purifupfou ". r. HUGO