Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Secretary Of State John hay Is quite
i'll again at his summer home IN New
Hampshire.
A FIRE among the retail stores IN
Nashville, Tenn, last Sunday caused
damage to tn. amount of 100000.
A freight train crashed into a troll
lev car in Baltimore Monday night
killing two women and lpJuring d
dozen other persons.
President Roosevelt has left Wash.
ipgton for the summer, and will spend
the next three months at his summer
home in Oyster Bay.
The National Christian Endeavor
Convention will be held in Baltimore
next week. Thousands of delegates
are expected to be present.
The japanese are pressing on to-
ward Vlsdivostock, and the Russians
there will either have to surrender or
fight against hopeless odds.
Commander Robert E. Peary will
sail from New York next Tuesday for
the Arctic regions, and will make an
other strenuous effort to find the
North Pole. His new vessel, The
Roosevelt, is the strongest and most
thoroughly equipped ship that has ev-
err been used in Arctic explorations.
She will carry crew Of 70 men and
supplies sufficient to last for two years.
A young woman, Yankee school
ma am, is to accompany the expedi-
ton.
Putting her religion above all price,
Mrs. Lucinda Ganson, of Davenport,
Iowa, has refused to accept $4,000
left to her by the will of the late
Charles Simpson, a Sacramento, Cal,
wealthy friend of the Ganson family,
the bequest being made on condition
that Mrs. Ganson become a Catholic.
In the event OF her refusal Of the mon
ey on this condition the will provides
that the money shall 60 to Catholic
orphanage in Sacramento. Thirty
thousand dollars is an immense sum
to refuse, said Mrs. Ganson yester-
day, "but canuot think Of changing
my religion or belief for any amount
OF money.
A sentence of 10 centuries, or 900
years, in States prison was pro-
nounced upon Lee Robertson, a negro
laborer, who attempted to assault Mrs.
Alonzo Robinson, wife Of his employ
er at Waco, Texas. Mrs. Robinsons
husband was absent at the time and
in resisting the attack her scalp was
badly torn and one hand was bitten
to the bone. The jury could not as
cess the death penalty, as the deed
was not accomplished, but, there be-
ing no limit as to the time he might be
given in the penitentiary, the court
made it l0centuries and one day over.
The negro asked the court to pass SEN
tence in order that the term might
begin at once.
Mrs. Mary Burnett, who lives near
Beaver, Pa, and who weighs some
thing over 200 pounds, WAS walking
along the Cleveland and Plttsburg
Railroad tracks last Saturday, carry
ing a pail of water and humming a
tunefuI Jitty, when the Cleveland ex-
press approached at speed of 80
miles all nour. So engrossed was she
that she did not hear the train at her
back. The engineer whistled shrill
alarm, jammed on the air brakes aud
then shut his eyes. The pilot Of the
locomotive struck Mrs. Burnett and
threw her in the air. She turned a
complete somersault and alighted on
her feet. She gave one look of anger
at the engineer and then started back
to the spring to get another pail of
water, for every drop Of it had been
spilled. The train stopped so quick
ly that the cars "buckled" against the
locomotive and it was half an hour be-
fore the train was able to proceed.
The railroad officials say that they
have a notion to sue her for damages.