Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-08-06
Items of Interest.

ing across the heavens, has three
tails.
About 10000 men are idle in Pitts
burg as result Of differences with
the building contractors.
Many New England cotton facto-
ries have shut down because Of the
high price of raw cotton.
Thomas A. Edison has invented
new electric motor by which he says
one can ride hundred miles for thirty
cents.
A fisherman was pulled into the
Mississippi river by an enormous cat
fish at Lacrosse, Wis, the other day
and drowned.
The federal grand jury in Washing
ton last Friday found indictments
against nine persons for frauds con-
nected with the Postofhce Department.
Some of these were persons not before
suspected.
The Doylestown National Bank, of
Doylestown, Pa, has burst The
surplus and capital stock have both
disappeared. Speculation and high
living by the cashier and president
seem to be the cause.
Capt. Oberlin Carter, who was given
a FIVE year sentence for stealing $780,
900 of government money, is to be set
free in December under the three
fourths law, having made model
prisoner at Fl. Leavenworth.
Mrs. George Schlosser, OF New York,
has erected in Woodlawn Cemetery a
monument surmounted by a marble
bull kneeling in position for slaughter,
because her husband was for 40 years
a butcher. The monument cost s.. 800.
A two-year-old child of Lee Mont
gomery, an Usage, I. T., farmer, was
killed by Plymouth Rock rooster the
other day. The child was throwing
sticks and pebbles at the fowl when
it suddenly flew at its childish tormen-
tor and drove its spurs deep into the
child's head, neck and back. The
baby died before medical assistance
could be procured.
Pension Commissioner Ware has re-
ceived shock from a veteran who
bad applied for a pension. Walter
Vail, Of Michigan City, Ind, who
served in Company B, l3Sth Indiana
Volunteers, wrote him withdrawing
his application for a government stl-
pend, saying: 81 DO not need it, and
the services rendered do not, in my
Judgment, entitle Inc to it. -
The heirs Of Z. B. Gonzales, who
about 80 years ago conducted large
grocery business IN East Orange, n
j., have Just received a check for $50
from consciencs-stricken woman
who says she not enjoyed niGh o.
sound sleep since she ran up a bill tol
groceries q years ago and left with
out paying it. Alter she paid the
money, with interest, she said she fell
much better. She went to bed anc
slept until 10 o'clock next day.
The new constitution of Virgins
makes the payment Of a poll tax
prerequisite to voting. No one keep
war veterans now has the night t,
vote in Virginia unless then pol
taxes have been paid. The law /
such an eminently good one that l
meets with general approval and ha
two very desirable results, one in add
ing greatly to the treasury receipts
and another is that those who do no
take enough interest in the affairs 0
the State to pay the petty poll ia:
imposed by law are debarred from
voice in its affairs.
Because he could not or would no
keep silent, Henery Motz, a well-to
do citizen of Waterloo, ILL.,, is dead
Each time that he talked he cause,
wounds in his jaw to open, and eacI
time the services Of a physician t.
close them up again. A week ag
Motz was injured in a runaway acct
dent. When he was taken home ard tn
family doctor had mended his lnjure,
anatomy he felt an uncomfortable i'm
pulse to talk. And talk he did
Warnings by the doctor and by mem
bers of the family could not keep hin
still. The physician warned him 0
the danger of dying, if he continual
" +olLad en1 on Tburs1av MOtz died