Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-09-08
Items Of Interest.

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tongue close to the root. She.wi be
speechless for life.
Ernest Webber. farmer living
neaI Marseilles, Ohio, went to town
and bought 100 pounds Of dynamite.
As be was returning home his horse
ran away, the dynamite exploded, and
nothing has since been found of horse,
buggy or farmer.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will
make a material reduction in the oper-
ating forces over the whole system
within the next few days. While the
reduction of forces will not be large
at any one point, taken all over the
railroads lines it will amount to
couple OF thousand men. The reduc-
tion will principally include Office
clerks, train employees, yard men and
shop men. This action is taken in
order TO reduce the operating eI.
penses to the lowest possible amount
Mayor Hoyer, of Altoona, Pa, has
issued an edict closing all fruit and
candy stores in the city on Sunday.
He gave as his reason that children
on their way to Sunday school stopped
and spent their pennies intended for
collection boxes. The Italian aud
Arabian shopkeepers, who have been
doing a big Sunday business, are
angry. Speaking Of the order, the
mayor said 81 think it proper for We
Americans to teach foreigners to OBJ
serve the Sabbath instead OF permit
ting them to teach US TO desecrate II.
over 200 thoroughbred sheep be-
longing to Morrow q keenan,, OF vii.
low Creek, Crook county, Oregon,
have been killed at Little Summit
Prairie, 40 miles east of Prinevllle.
While the herder was alone and oc.
cupied with the care OF his flock,
about 20 horsemen, with faces black.
ened, emerged from the timber and
commanded him to throw up his hands.
Leaving the herder behind tree for
protection from the bullets, general
fusllade with rifles was commenced by
the mob, which lasted nearly two
hours, by which time the entire band
of sheep had either been killed or
scattered in every direction.
The annual report of Pension Com.
missioner Eugene F. Ware for the
year ended June 30, 1904, shows that
during the year the cost Of maintain.
ing the pension system was $l44,7l2,-
787. The appropriation for this pur-
pose was $l46,4l9,296, leaving an
unexpended balance of $l,7O6, ,5OS,
During the year 47,374 persons were
added to the pension rolls-326 by
special act Of Congrass, and the re.
mainder by the Pension Bureau. Dur
ing the same period 49,l57 pension
ers were dropped from the rolls. or
these death claimed 1890, Of whom
81, ,72S were soldiers, 30,07l being
volunteers for the Civil War. The
total number Of pensioners on the
rolls, as covered by the report, is 720,.
3l5 soldiers, 273,84l widows and de-
pendents and COG army nurses.
After remaining hidden for seven
days, Daisy Ness, Of Dallastown, near
York, Pa, was found in the sitting
room Of her parents home crouohed
behind an organ. The girl was in an
emaciated condition from the want Of
food. She is about II years old.
Having become dissatisfied with her
home life, che took this means Of as
certsiDing the feeling Of her family
concerning her. When found the girl
was 30 weak that she was unable 10
give any information az 10 her where
abouts or whether she had remained
in one position all the time. She adj
mitted drinking can Of milk that
had been put down for the cat. The
girl ran away from home some time
ago, and when che was found she was
qusrtered at neighbors. She will
recover from her present weak con-
dition.
By application Of mental thsrspy,
an imaginary piece ofrabbit meat was
removed from the oesophagus Of Hen.
ry Rollins, Philadelphia, after he had
suffered from il for SIX months. Rol-
Inns told the physicians at the Hahn.
emsnn Hospital that be had swallow
ed piece Of rabbit during a hurried
meal. He declared be could not
swallow solid food, and was forced 10
subsist upon liquids. He had under.
gone operations in other hospitals, but
without success. "They don't seem
to understand rabbit in the throat,
he sAid. It was found by the physi-