Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF lNlEKtSl.
An Indiana man has left his wife
because she wouldn't talk. Some
men never know when they have a
treasure.
During the past year over $50. OOO.-
600 worth of diamonds and other
precious stones were imported into
the United States.
The statue of the devil that Her
man Menu set up in Detroit has been
taken down and carted away for debt.
Menu has never paid for the statue.
Former Governor Frank Steunen-
berg, of Idaho, was blown to pieces
by bomb as he was entering his
home at Boise one night last week.
1t is supposed that he was killed be-
cause of the hatred of miners whose
strike he bad broken in 1899.
For the first time in the history of
the Pennsylvania Railroad a passen-
ger train travelled over the system
from Jersey City to Pittsburg without
passenger. This happened on
Christmas day Oh the Pennsylvania
Limited leaving Jersey City at II IA
a. m, and arriving at Pittsburg at
9.35 p. m. Not passenger was TAX
en- on until the train reached Pittsburg.
This train carries IL employees. be-
sides the dining car chefs and wait.
ers.
Last Saturday night some unknown
miscreants destroyed nine of the large
street lamps at Sharpsburg. Several
of the lamps, after being twisted and
torn out of shape, were thrown into
"big spring." the chief water supply
of the town. The surface of the
spring was coated with coating Of
oil and the water was unfit to use
throughout Sunday. The rest Of the
lamps were thrown into field on the
outskirts of the town. The affair has
aroused the town authorities and ev-
cry effort will be made to capture and
bring to justice the guilty parties.
A dispatch to the Record-Herald
from Berkeley, CAL, says: Within a
short time hens will lay eggs accord
ing to programme, whether they want
to or not, instead of refusing to work
for so long season every year that
the prices of eggs mounts up to fam
inc rates, if the plans of Professor
Jaffa, nutrition expert at the State
University. do not 90 astray. Pro-
lessor Jafa announces that his re-
searches have justified his belief that
he would be able to control the
moulting period of hens, which nor :
mally begins in the middle Of the sum-
mer and continues into September,
October or November.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey
has received letter from Libbie
Garraband, who was paroled from
State prison last week after serving
thirty.three years of life sentence
for murder. The woman expressed
the great obligation she felt toward
the Governor in favoring her release.
After her long term of imprisonment,
the thing that most impressed Llbbie
was her first glimpse of the stars.
She was taken from prison at night,
and it was the first time she had seen
the heavens at night since the day of
her incarceration. Neither did she
remember the appearance of the stars
prior to her imprisonment. On ma
terial changes such as the introduce
ton of trolley cars and automobiles,
the prisoner was 20 well posted by
reading that these occasioned but lit
tie wonderment. The sight of the
stars, however. caused her to express
the greatest wonder.
Frank Smith, negro, who was sen.
fenced at Montgomery, Ala, January
7th, 1905, to serve term OF one hun
bred and forty-four years in Pratt
Mines on two charges OF assault, es-
capped from the mines few days ago.
Next morning a night constable at
Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham
arrested a negro for vagrancy. When
the prisoner appeared in court that
morning he was sentenced by the may
or to serve ten days in the street
gang. He grinned ard chuckled as
he heard the sentence pronounced
A Birmingham detective who hap
pened to be in the courtroom noticed
the negro's peculiar manner and ex'
amined him more closely. 1t turned