Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

University of Virginia.
Former Sheriff Charles E. Smith, OF
Washington county, Nd, died recent
ly in Baltimore, aged 45 years.
1t is said that the Republicans Of
Kingwool took negro prisoner out
of j.il last week and voted him.
Rival steamboats, on the Ohio river
have a rate war on, and are carrying
passengers free between Wheeling and
Parkersburg.
The enormous new bridge of the B
& O. Railroad across the Monongahels
river Just below FAirmont has been
opened for traffic.
Six hundred steel passenger cars are
to be built for the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company in the next year. The
total cost is estimated at Sc 100000
Thos. G. Platt, the aged Senator
from New York, and his wife have
separated. She was formerly an &C.
tress, and their married experience
was a brief one.
The government reports say that
the corn crop in the United States this
year will amount to 1881 ,096. 00C
bushels. The average yield is 80 z
bushels per acre.
Edward Moore bought l45 acres o.
land near Brunswick, Md, for So, 700.
ReserviDg ninety acres, he sold the
rest for $4,000 even. 1t is near the
Baltimore & Ohio development.
The location of the Wabash railroad
shops at Hagerstown and the estab'
lishment of various other industries
there is giving that town a great
boom. Within the next year zoe
more families will locate there, and
many new houses will have to be
built.
A message from Hamphire county
announces the death there OF Mrs
Frank Haines, wife of a well known
farmer. She died Of malignant diph
liberia after an illness of several days
Her husband contracted the disease
from nursing his wife, and is now al
the point of death. His child is alec
i'll of diphtheria.
After having been deaf and dumb
from birth, Mrs. Alice Thornton, o
Huntsville, Ala, aged 25 years, raw
ing in dying delirium, spoke clearly
and in good English. Though he
statements were at times rambling
they dealt with events of her life dur
lug her Is years of silence. She dice
soon after speaking.
In the will of James G. Megeath
the well-known and wealthy Omah'
pioneer, who died recently in Califor
MIA, the testator bequeaths $1,000 t
Mrs. Kate Lucas, formerly Of Charlie
Town, who attended him as a nurs
when he underwent surgical opera
tion twelve years ago in the ChurcI
Home Infrmary in Baltimore.
Curtis G. Metzler, of Boston, offer
ed his umbrella to the millionair
leather merchant, Edward II. Dunn
as they were. leavingchurch on a rain,
day. AS result, the leather dealer
who died recently, LETT the young ma
$4,000. The will gives hundreds O
thousands of dollars to the Methods
Church in New England. Herber
II. Dunn, of Thurlock, Cal, nephew
who was given but 500, is contesting
The man who invented the barbec
wire fence died ID Illinois the othe
day. 1t is said he amassed a forum
of over million as the result of roy
alties on his Internal implement 0
destruction and lived to be over ninet,
years old. 1t would be interesting t,
have statistics of the amount of stool
killed or injured by his invention. als'
the list of torn clothes, oaths and los
of temper caused by the device, which
once so popular, is now passing.
The connected twin babies of Mr.
and Mrs. John Cullom at Mounds.
vile, W. Va, continue to attract
much attention. Ever since theil
birth the Culloms have been beseigec
with persons anxious to see the won
derful babies. 1t was reported Tuel
day that Mr.. and Mrs. ,,Cullum were
permitting visitors to see the babies
for fee of $l.00 each. They were
permitted to see the babies, however
only as they were dressed, their heads
and hands only being exposed. Were
the public permitted to call and see
the babies without any compensation
whatever, the parents would be con-
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