Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-11-24
RANDOM NOTES.


50. AS there are at least 5000 regu-
lar stopping places for freight and
passenger trains on the Pennsylvania
road, according to the estimated cost
of So for each stop, the company. loses
$4,380,0O0 annually by stops alone, or
that in other words, it costs more than
to make the run between stations and
pay the train crews. Recently an
other estimate has made the cost of
stopping 6 train 60 cents, and even
this would run up into millions of dol
lars on the Pennsylvania system in a
year. A number of years ago cal
culation was made that it cost SIS
every time train was stopped and
started. At this rate train would
be used up before the year was out.
The long contest which has been
proceeding between Adam c. Hen
bricks, of Martinsburg, and Joseph c.
Hanger, formerly of Shepherdstown,
and Clarence A. Macy, of Rochester,
n. Y, relating to an automatic back
pedalling brake for bicycles, has been
decided in the Patent Office at Wash
ington in favor of Mr.. Hendricks.
The right to this invention was con-
tested by Macy and by Hanger and
after prolonged contest in the Patent
Office the matter has been determined
in Mr.. Hendricks, favor.
Edward Larkins, aged 81, B. & o.
yard conductor at Brunswick, early
Monday morning fell under train
and the wheels passed over his left
arm aud shoulder, crushing them bad
ly. A deep cash was cut in the back
of his head. He walked to his home,
where he remained conscious and con-
versed with his friends until five
o'clock, when he passed quietly away.
His body was taken to Martinsburg,
where he formerly lived, for inter-
ment He leaves a wife and two
children.
The use of states has been forbidden
in Zurich, Switzerland, and pen, ink
and paper have been substituted, even
in the lowest forms. The reasons given
are that the light gray marks Of the
pencil on the slate cannot be followed
without straining the eyes; that the
pressure which it is necessary to exert
upon the pencil lessons the facilities of
the hand and renders an easy, flowing
handwriting more difficult to attain,
and that the use Of the slate is not in
ducive to clearly work.
Here are a few very juicy annual
salaries ]. NJ. Toucey, while manager
ofthe Vanderbilt railroads, from which
he has lately resigned, $4,000; E. W.
Box, editor of the Ladies Home Jour
nal, $4,000; Frank Thompson, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
$4,000; John A. Mccall, president
of the New York Lite Insurance Com
pany, $4,000 Conrad H. Mathieson,
president Chicago Sugar Re6nery,$75,-
900; DR.. John Hall, the New York
clergyman, $4,000.
A wealthy Baltimore lady, whose
name will not be made known, has
presented the Sisters at the Convent
of the Visitation, in Parkersburg, with
beautiful chalice, elaborate in de-
sign, wrought in gold and set'with $50
jewels and precious stones. 1t was
designed and manufactured by Will
liam H. Saxton, Baltimore jeweler,
and is said to have cost $l1 800.
J. H. Laird, a merchant of Kirk
wood, ILL.,, drew $4,000 in currency
from the bank and hid it among some
old papers in his house. His young
daughter, in cleaning the room, threw
the papers containing the money in
the stove and it was destroyed. The
amount represented many years saw
ings.
Last Thursday afternoon a we'll
dressed woman entered a pawnshop in
New York City and pawned her we'd
ding ring and a pin marked baby for
fifty cents, bought a razor for the
money and Immediately severed her
iugular vein. Her death was instan-
taneous.
Cards are out announcing the ap-
preaching marriage of Miss Mamie
Boyd, daughter of Mr.. E. Holmes Boyd,
of Winchester, to Mr.. Payten Ran
dclph Harrison, of Martinsburg, to
take place in Winchester November
3Oth at 6 o'clock.
The Democratic majority in Virginia
is about 10000 on the vote for Con-
gressmen.
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