The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-01-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.



employer In drunken row.. .DcpOsitors In
the CharlcstOwn branch of tho FrOOdmAn'a
Savings Institution, numbering over 5000 and
representing over s2SO,OOO Of deposits, have
hold a meeting and adopted n MEMORIAL 10
Congress, showing that tue doposItOm were
mostly of tho laboring class, who were induced
to place their money in the bank under tho i'm
preston that 1t was guaranteed and protected
by the general government and praying Con
gress to take measures for their IpdCnnifcA-
ton. The Governor and State Council Of
Massachusetts,, by unanimous vote, have re-
fused to grant pardon to Spence POtiis, the
forgOr l. Is estimated that during the last
year 1000 newspapers suspended In tho United
staics, and that 100000 have been lost in the
publishing business within the wear.
4 A pOst-mortcm examination was held over
tho body of Elizabeth Mccarthy who was
found dead in house In jersey City, and
1t was ascOrtalnOd that shO frozc to death, hay
Ing 10 fuel or covering. 49,. Tho Milwaukee
Circuit Court has appointed Judge Voorhees,,
Of HGckonsAek, and Henry L. White, of jersey
City, commissioners to take tho testimony Of
Ms. D'Auffray, better luiown as the escaped
nun, der evidence d 70 be used In suit
| pending before that court, for the purpose Of
exposing the informal Arrangements Of converts
anu huhheHes, .''''ahe debt Of tho Guy OF
Brooklyn, including all her obligations Of what
S,sf onaA''e'' a'nOuu's 70 tue SUN 0i 800.
vie'o.,'0s, @ increase IN tue tss year Oh
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as'u'i'' 'ho increasing siANo lf'ao winch Is
OVu', , eAt,'vu VI ~ 'A'Ou' Pat's u Va, O.'O-
man NnPhe W Ai'l'1, .''''Vne Oh Tue Doiioss
y 'n' rf"n'0n'A liOh company nlil' " ware
,Am, A'ss'' oass' VIVA iilsnlia' explosion
a'nv"'pns h' West Gnu o' tne Immense
Duiluihs An' sal"o.ips 1no ehttO structure
,no,O VI ic1s' ous OF e'sh.een mon VINO were
III tue Duliun,g' Eawasu uaieFy was ta'aly ana
'0ur o'n''a susnuy ulured'
dispatch says that scnor CASTELAR, Is pre-
pairing to quit Spain before King Alionsos
arrival -. Tho Allegheny Trust Company Of
Allegheny City, Pa, suspended payment and
closed III door. Tho liabilities arc stated to
DO $4,000, to cSrcr which the company pos.
seSses in bills receivable and real estate
s2so,O0o .....Julla Theuror, wife Of Christian
ThCnrcr, Of Rochester, N. y, lCaped from tic
Central railroad bridge at tho edge Of the falls
into the river, and wAs swept over the falls,
Grief for the loss of hor child had unseatcd her
reason. ..,. The body Of drover, who was
murdered for his money, was found in slicshe-
quln, Bradford county, Pa, Joseph d. North,
alias buffalo BILL, who murdered George Jones
oil Christmas evening a year ago, was hanged
to q telegraph pole by mob In Wallace,
Kansas. Tho knot Of the rope with which no
was hanged caught under tho chin, and did not
choke him. He hung this way for long time
talking to the mob, implorlng them to release
him, but received only jeOn in return. 1IO
did not die for over two hours, IND finally frozO
to death.
The Committee ON War Claims at Washing
tou made an adverse report on tho House bill
for the relief Of certain citizens Of Pennsyl.
yania who suffered loss from Union and Con.
federate troops during the invasion Of that
State by General Leo's army. The ttll pro.
POSED an Augmentation OF sl.Q5i.67i for the
use of citizens OF the counties Of Adams, Bed.
ford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Somerset
and York .ByA collision on the baltimore
and Ohio railroad. tho Northern mail and
express car for Washington was stn,slsd nm.
rot on fire and burned, All Of the mail and
much money belonging to the United States
government was DESTROYED. Two man ware
badly crusled. Tic express lossos ArO very
hcayy. ns tho piuo safes in the car contained A
large amount Of money. -. Horace Ii. Gibbs,
an employee of the indianapolis, Cincinnati
and Lafayette nilrOad In Cincinnati, committed
suicide under peculiar circumstances. Some
two or three years ago ho married and lived
happily until fOw days ago, when his wife
died and was buried at Spring Grove. Since
then lie had beon very melancholy, and went
to his wife's grave, where he shot and killed
himself ....A Gro In Honesdalc, Pa, destroyed
100000 worth of property burglars shot
and killed watchman at TarytOwn, y. Y.....
Lewis Adams, colorcd, was hanged at Pitts
sylSAnIa Court House, Va, for tho marlOr Of
another negro named lice Wilson on tho 27tl'
Of June last. ho was stranglod to death, his
neck not being ot...'..Ille total los by
the burning OF tobacco warehouses At lialti-
more Is estimated at sSSo'OOO' s2So'OOO Of
which Is on stock inc insurance OF the