Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-09-15
Items of Interest.

Seventy-hve per cent OF the makers
of silverware in this country are said
to have been asked to sell out to
combine.
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, widely
known as jurist and constitutional
lawyer, died at his home, in Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, aged seventy-four years.
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Dele
ware, is so i'll that there is no hope of
his living more than few days. Miss
Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson
Davis, is also very sick.
Thirty assertions are reported from
the First West Virginia Reg iment at
Knoxville. One deserter is noted in
the Second Regiment. S. Bliss, of
Company NJ. He is not Jefferson
county man.
The candidates for Congress in West
Virginia are Blair against Dovener in
the first district, McGraw against Day
ton in the second, Johnson against
Edwards in the third, and Neal against
Freer in the fourth.
By an explosion Of gasoline in Phil
adelphia last Sunday night four houses
were demolished and five persons
killed and others injured. 1t took but
forty gallons of the gasoline to make
miniature earthquake.
Yellow fever has broken out among
the American soldiers in Porto Rico,
and sickness among the troops is in
creasing at disastrous rate. In some
commands one-third of the men are
down with fever, principally typhoid.
The government has contracted with
the California Powder Company and
the Dupont Powder Company for a
million pounds of smokeless powder.
The contract price is so cents pound,
the government to furnish the alcohol.
The war is over but the expenses are
going on.
Ex-senator and Mrs. Henry G.. Da-
Wis have issued invitations to the mar
riage of their daughter, Miss Grace
Davis, and Mr.. Arthur Lee, Of Rich
mond. The wedding is to take place
in the Davis Memorial Church at the
brides home at Elkins Monday, Sep
TENDER 10Th.
A couple were recently married in
Lewis county and the bride invited
an old aunt to the wedding. The
cards were swell affairs and in one
corner bore the inscription: Children
not expected" After scanning it
closely over her specks the old lady
said: "That is all right; they'll have
EN- just the same.
The Democratic legislative conven-
ton for Randolph and Tucker coun-
ties, held at Elkins Tuesday last, I'M
animously adopted resolution that
the delegates from that legislative dis
trict "be instructed to oppose any at
tempt to fasten upon West Virginia
any part of the old Virginia State
debt" Several Democratic legisla-
tive conventions have adopted resolu-
tons of similar character.
During the rain storm that passed
across through this section on Sunday
evening lightning played havoc with
the team of horses belonging to Fred
Carder, who resides just east of town.
His four horses, all good ones, were
standing under tree which the light
ming struck and all Of them were killed
instantly. After the storm was over
Carder was Mortified to find his horses
lying dead.-HampShire ReuleaU.
Joseph Letter has cleared up his ia
nous wheat deal. Every creditor has
been paid, obligations to banks have
been cancelled and 100000 bush
els of wheat have been liquidated
since the announcement of the volun-
tary assignment nearly three months
ago. This has been done only by
great sacrifice, including the giving of
mortgages on property belonging to
the Letter estate aggregating nearly
$5,500,000 in value.
Miss Carrie Hinkins and Mr.. How
ard Crabill, both of Strasburg, Va,
eloped to Hagerstown, Nd, on Thurs
day and were married there by Rev.
DR.. S. W. Owen. The young lady is
a daughter of Jacob Hinkins, prom
inent farmer of that section, who OBJ
jected to his daughter marrying Cra-
bill. She escaped from home in the
night and met her lover and together
they went to Hagerstown on a train.
The irate father followed the clippers
as far as Winchester and there gave
up the pursuit.
Bowman crossing, on the Manassas
Branch of the Southern Railway, six
miles south of Woodstock, was the
scene of most distressing accident
last Sunday night, in which Misses
Alice and Rebecca Dellinger, sisters,
aged seventeen and twenty years, lost
their lives,and George Sessler, young
man of Mt. Jackson, was seriously in
jured. The three young persons were
driving in buggy. On reaching the
railroad, less than two hundred yards
from their home, an east-bound extra
freight was seen approaching, and the
young man, thinking he had ample
time to cross the track in advance of
the train, struck the horse a sharp
blow and the animal cleared the track,
but the vehicle was struck squarely,
hurting the young ladies to one side
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