Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-12-25
items of Interest.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
build tunnel under New York City.
1t will cost $40.O0o.000.
A new ocean cable has been success
fully laid between Honolulu, in the
Hawaiian Islands, and San Francisco,
this end of the line having been land
ed last Sunday.
1t is said that the heavy decline in
the price of stocks during the past
few weeks has caused loss Of $2O,-
O00,0 900 to James R. Keene, the New
York speculator.
DR.. julius D. Drehsr has invited
President Roosevelt to attend the
semi-centennial Of Roanoke College at
Salem, Va, next June. The Presi-
dent will 90 if he can.
The Peoples National Bank at
Leesburg, Va, has what some say is
the largest deposit Of any country
banking institution in the South, the
amount being nearly $S0o,0oo accord
ing to the last report.
Five hundred clerks in the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Companys gen.
sral Offices will receive a Christmas
present from the company in the shape
of 10 per cent advance in pay.
Other departments of the road have
recently received substantial increases.
1t is said that after the lst of jan
uary the Norfolk & Western Railway
will give as small an amount of freight
as possible to the Western Maryland
road at Hagerstown. The freight in-
tended for tidewater ports will be de-
livered to the G Cumberland Valley road.
The Pennsylvania interests are carry
lug the fight against the Wabash sys-
TEN to extremes.
The Western Maryland engineers,
under G. w. Fowey, are making a sur
vey of the town of Hancock. The sur
vey runs through Main street, which the
railroad will cross just east Of the Po-
tomac Roller Mills Baltimore and
Ohio right-of-way men are also busy
there securing the right Of way for
the projected road to lockwood, Pa,
which, it is said, will shorten the dis
tance from Baltimore to Pittsburg by
IS miles.
W. w. Leach, Of the District Court
Of East Hampton. Mass, is dead. His
death was due TO disease Of the kid
ney, canSed by arsenic poisoning, the
result of living in rooms the paper OF
which wa, highly impregnated with
arsenic. A chemist, who examined
the paper, says: ut was soaked with
the poison, and the dust falling off It's
surface, il inhaled by persons in the
room, would be dangerous in the ex-
trems. Undoubtedly the breathingin
of the arsenical atmosphere settled 10
Judge Leach's system and produced
constant irritation, thereby weaken
ing the organs slowly, but surely
George T. Mapp. of Keller, in Low
sr Accomac, Va, on Tuesday killed
two hogs whose aggregate dressed
weight, be believes, has never been
eaualled in America. The two. three
year-old hogs, weighed nearly 1000
pounds. They are the progeny OF a
swamp-rooter and Poland China
crossed. One known as the marrow
hog" was 8 feet 3 inches long, Z feet
8 inches in circumference and weighed
l,o65 pounds and 8 ounces. The one
known as the "broad hog" was 7 feet
8 inches long, 7 feet 6 inches in cir
conference and weighed Gil pounds
and 3 ounces. A great guessing con-
test has been going on for some time,
the person guessing nearest each
weight to get the hog. The number
of guesses was nearly 5000. The
marrow hog" was won by Dory Hast
iugs, of Delmar. and a Mr.. Taylor. Of
Eastville. Va, who guessed the same.
The abroad hos" was won by the trsv-
cling representative Of the Hartman
Brewing Company, Of Wilmington.
Del. One thousand persons were at
the "bog killing"