The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-05-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Itsa. Of Interest trou Home ind ASrsv

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Itsns Of Interest from Home ind Abrspd.
Walter Hyde, aged nine year,, fell into tho
MsrrimAe river At Lawrence, Mass, and his
body was swept out Of sight Soon AtervArd
Michael Barrett, aged eight Year,, was drowned
IN the spirket riyer..... The suit Of willis
Phelps against Samuel DoWles Of the Spring,
field RspusRean, claiming s2OQO0O damages
for alleged libel, vas concluded with verdict
for Phelps OF si0O. 70. RinAldo HAslias, better
known as Blaze, au old engineer employed
until recently on tho New York Central rail-
road, was found dead In hIa room In tho
DraekOts House, Rochester. II is supposed
that he took poison - :. Robert Bonner has
giym 100000 to tho Rev. Or. Halls now
church In Fifth avenue, New York. Il. The
breaker OF tho Ben Franklin eolllsFy, near
shAmoldn, Pa, was destroyed by ali incCndiAFy
fire, involving lOsa OF slOo, 900, Two bundled
men aud boys were thrown ont Of employment
...somo OF tho New York sowing machine
agents have been In tie habit Of selling ms
chinCa to poor women on tho installmeut plan,
and then, IL the last payment was not made
when due, to seize the machines -thus de-
fRudlng tho working women Of what money
they had already paid. Tho worklngwomen's
Protective Onion finally took up one Of the
cases and brought suit to recover eos which
had been paid aud forfeited. The case was
decided in favor of tho plaintiff. As this was
. test case, probably great many suits Will DO
brought under similar circumstances. i
One hundred aud sixty persons have died Of
smallpox at Ahcionne Lor6tte, Canada, ont Of
ave hundred who were afflicted. :. New Yorks
ocean outbound mail for one day consisted Of
$4,000 letters and siIty-Ono bags Of papers,.
The Southern baptist convention mot at
Charleston, s. O., and was s,tsndod BY over
three hundred delegates representing Mary
land Virginia, the carolinAa, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Arkansas and Texas, 20. Rev. brother Agel.
bert professor in La Sale college, died at early
macs He was apparently In good health up
to the timc Of bis sudden dcmlso. , .Adtpaseh
from San Francisco states that tic hono
Defiance, formerly PAGER with record Of
2.1s, has been matched to ttot against Capable,
who has made milo a In 2i2O. l. Tie grand jury
1t I,othport N. Y, reported an indletmon.
against Col. McliAe, canal superintendent
Charles MOlynou1, his clerk, and r. II. Lin
non, ono Of tho forOmon under MeIlAo. MclsAe
|. charged With certifying to false check rolls,
and Llnnon and Molynoux for forgery, Tie
indicted ofisiAls pleaded not guilty, and the
case mas sent 10 tho noxt term. -, Mcasrs,
Fulton podlne, GlldOrsleoyo, .Daldn, Yale,
Hepburn, Coleman, canaOld and Jewell have
been collected to shoot against the Irish team
in the great international ride mAtcll ri
wG, HGlpino, formerly tnoEpa4 genera
In the Fenilp army, gained verdict of sS,OOt
In New York from the Third Avenue RallroRt
Company. Three years ago hO was run over
By car. Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, ant
fifteen other Indian chiefs arc on a visit e
Washington. -. "A dispatch from Berlin statci
that the police lAYe discovered numcroui
and alarming plots against tho lives Of Biz
mArck aud Minister Falk. A special stan Of
fourteen detectives have been detailed for thei
/ protection. .....A Chinese mob destroyed III,
mission chapel Of the. American Aiethodists a
oulskAng. Tho government OF China oftorOt
to mako rcparAtion. -. Proceedings Agains
tho Prince Bishop OF DreslAu, Germany, TO
violation Of tile eccleslAstical laws have 70
suited In his removal. lie has been escortet
to tho bohemian frontier. -. Directors Of th'
Kansas Pacific railroad have elected l!ober
Perry, s. NJ. Edsell, oil Greeley, aud Il. W
Lewis, Jr., Of St. Louis Thomas A. Scott, O
Philadelphia Sidney Dillon, Jay Gould, ant
J. 8. Smith, Of Now York, and Oliver Ames, o
Boston. -. Mr.. Beach, Of Tllton's counsel
aud Mr.. sherman, Of 1,eechers, during post
psncmont Of tie scandal trial. appeared 70
gcthcr before a. New York court. ~. Judg,
Z. NJ Pitts died suddenly IN Norfolk, Va.
while pleading a case In tho court house. :.
In the lower house OF the PrussIan Dict ii,
bill for tic suppression Of religious orders la
had It's Gnt reading, "A tornado passel
over the State Of Georgia, taking in the whol,
line from Alabama TO North Carolina and prov
ing moro disastrous in results than any la
has visited tho country for years. When nrs
seon the cloud resemblSd funnel, With 1t
apex on the ground. Buildings were dctnol
ished before 1t, houses were lifted bodily from
tho ground and amAsllod TO pieces, and In on,
case a whole village was swept away. It 4
known that over seventy persons woro kllloi
and more than one hundred injured. 80. Asa
poor man named Burke was picking up Goa
from tlerailroad track near Scranton, Pa, HI
was struck by an engine of the Delaware
LackAwAnna and Western Railroad Company
which was running at tho speed OF titty mile
an hour. IIo was struck while In a stopping
position, hurled clear over the smoke.stack o.
tho engine aud fell on the northern bount
track a tnanglod and lItOlOss mass. 81
sIgnor waniAnnl a sWoAd swallowcr, Wilt
performing at CalsIs, Me-, cut himself inter
nally. Inflammation OnsuOd, and no died ID
consequence. .,. A daring burglary wA com,
mittOd at Randolph, N. y, by which tho bank,
ing house OF A. q. Dowd suffered small losa.
burglars effected an entrance through the
back door, which opens into the sleeping apart.
mont Of tho wAtclman, Henry Mccoy. BY
one crash they BURT tho door open, and before
hC had. tlme to realize tho situation no was
seized by thee strong men, gagged, hand.
cuftOd, and bound to chair, and Ills life was
threatened II no oIercdresiataneC. TIE burg.