The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-05-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Items Of lntereat from Home and Abread
Captain. General yAlmAsOdA has issued
proclamation offering unconditional pArdol
10 all tho Cuban rSbels who surrender previou
to May 90. He eFcepts descrtsrs from tn
Spanish army, who win DO obliged 70 servo q
the war guard Of tho army pntil the close o
the was..,.. John Metzeger, miner, Will
on his way TO work At MAfitS mines neA
wllkesbAtro was attacked by four other miner
and shot in the face, but not danseFousl!
wounded. 4. Rev. Thomas A. Jaeger, D. D.
has been CousecratOd a. Episcopal Bishop Q
Southern Ohio. 80. The eorOue4s Jury hN
eSoaeratsd Frederick BlanckmOysr from com
plcity In tho death OF his wife, whose bod!
Ws found In her Apartmpnts In JenSy City,.
Sheriff Hoyt OF onngo county, n. Y, la
levied on the real estate aud personal prCpert!
OF John II. Conner, dOiAulter ut Goshen
valued at $4,000, under an attachment Ii
favor Of tho National Stock Yard Company
Among the property seized are forty head o.
imported Holsteln cattle. .... Dan. White /
negro, attempted to rayish widow living neal
Raleigh, Shelby county, Tenn, on whose plan,
tAtIon he was at work. Her cries attracted the
attention Of her son, St the sishtof whom The
negro fed, but was AfterwArd captured and
tAlen 70 Bartlett to await trial. That night he
was taken from the jail byA party Of disguised
men, carried 70 tho woods, and hanged TO q
tree. ~. The President has accepted the 10
kignAtioa Of Attomey-G General Williams and
appointed Edwards Pierepont to the vacant
position ..... The city Of Oshkosh, wlA., gas
nearly destroyed by tlre the loss Is estimated
at 100000. -. Tho Germans OF New York
teudered complimentary dinner to ex-senator
Cad sChurr !. The Allegheny county work.
house, situated at olarcmont, nine miles frdrn
Pittsburgh, Pa, was partially destroyed By
FIRE, oithS $50 inmates, mono wore injured OF
escaped
A fre at Sing Sing. N. Y, destroyed three
hotOls. !. Philip Sheridan was struck on
The bead with paving stone in the hands
Of Joseph Doyle, In jersey CITY, aid dicdaicw
days AftewArd Doyle was arrested. :. The
residence Of Ma Lucy Bakowella Ut shelbyyille,
n.y., In which was tho library Of the great
hasuralIst Audubon, was burned. Mn. Bake
we'll was Audubons sistor-in-laW, and his
library had boon left with her, Tbs collection
contested Of about eight hundred volumes,
Nothing was saved, 49,. Two colored women,
! mother aud daughter, were found dead In
.hUIr beds In q ANAL house In Detroit, their
heads chopped and hacked With an AZ almost
beyond the lemblAnco OF human beings.
Suspicion points to John ThomAs, the husband
Of the aHtnamed victim, q colorcd barber, and
ho has been arrested. 4. The bodies OF two
oolorod children. aged respectively si1 and
eight year., were found near Cuba, Tenn.
The leah lsd been eaten from the honesty
buzzards but the skulls were in good con.
dltipa aud indicated having been broken In.
The father Is suspected o. completely in their
murder. Somebody entered the city hall,
HObOken, \. u, and cut out $3.50 worth of
ordon for groceries from tho oyerseer Of the
po0r's book 80. John Miller, German, WA
instantly killed In PayonlA avenue, jersey City,
by being accidentally thrown from a truck
which he was driving. No fell before the
wheels, Which passed over his cheat. ;. Aboy
named Simmons, aged fourteen, was fatally
stabbed In tho abdomen by another boy Of the
same ago, in New York. ..,Joe Howard,
eolorOd, cut tho throat OF Gus Strickland, q
white boy, twelve years Of Age, in Milton
county, Georgia over = game Of cards. Howell
aed. Strickland died instantly -. David
stnton has decided to erect on the Fifth street
market space, Cincinnati. = granite tower one
hundred and sixty feet high surmounted by a
colossal statue OF cincihhatus hAblted In u
toga. ThotowSr will cost $4,000.
Gov. Kellogg, OF Louisiana, has entered a
suit in the superior district court against Audi
tors cllntons securities on lis special bond for
tho recovery Of various sums Of money alleged
to DO fnudulehtIy withheld from the STATE
treasury, and moneys Illegally paid by Clinton
70 unauthorized parties. The amount sought
to DO recovered aggregates sSOO,0Oo ~! ~ FL.
tensiye forest fires ragged along tie line OF the
Manchester udLaWrencb railroad, New 1Iamp.
shire, and destroyed great amount Of timber,
together with dwellings and mills i. ! .Ionl
FGlmouth's horse splnAwAy, won the great
-Engllah thrse-yeAr-old race for Owe. thousand
guineA4 .,.,A terrible explosion occurred in
the Buhkess I'LL colliery, North stAaordshire
England, while tue miners were at work.
Ttirty.ave men were killed. 80. The case Of
Leader against Moody and sankey, tho AmOri-
can reuvalists in London, has been settled BY
the acceptance Of 70 suggestion OF the Master Of
the Rolls that the defendants pay one shilling
damages and costs, and agree not TO again use
her Majeatyt Opera House for their me ytings.
-. The death L announced Of the famous
traveller and artist Jean Fredericide Of Wal
deck, at the extraordinary age Of 10 years.
lie was BON March l0th 1865. IA 1eret
gallo passed over Rochester, blowing down the
Leighton lrou works, involving loss Of s5o,-
900. Many persons on tho streets wero In
jured BY falling awnings. Judges Brooks
aud Deck. in thOlr respective charges to grand
jaries In North Carolina, declare the criminal
features OF tho Civil Nights bill unconstita
tioual, on tho ground that no law can declare
that men are socially equal. e. g a-. b
The ili-teellng existing between the French
men and Enslbhinen engaged In the Ashorie
OF Newfoundland "a likely to lead to eollIsIons
and the governments OF Franco and Englant
have resolved TO send war vessels TO proven
disturbance. Vessels passed through III,
straits Of Mlsklnaw this year on the first o
May. The Falcon estimates the less o
hnr.na s,A urta. a., p.rnt.n nnrt,,, Fftsnu