The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-01-11
NEMsl OF THE Dan.
lions Z q d Interest nom Home and Abroad,

ia estimated Of s6O,OOO, QUO. During q
furious storm recently tho lightning struck the
powder magazine In scutai, Turkey, and
caused ltOnible explosion. A portion Of the
city wall wAs overthrow, many houses were
Demolished, and 100 persons were killed and
wounded. e. Eddie Collins and two other boys
named lbgct AMI Stevens, Of Ponns Manor,
Penn, opposite Trenton, veO drowned while
playing on a pond, -. The coal operators
Of the Lehish, Upper Lehigh, Wyoming, aud
adjacent anthracite fields met to consider the
fixing Of the basis Of wages to the miners for
1875. There was general demand that the
price Of coal Of ali grades DO reduced at least
tifty cent, a ton, but tho operators contend that
il a decrease Is made there will DO no profit
left. Tho miners agree that thoprcscnt wages
are sufficiently low, aud they will resist any
attempt at lowering them by stopping work,
Between Is, 900 and 10000 men will join IN the
Threatened strike.
Adyictd nom Venezuela report that des-
pcra.o battle was fought in the Province OF
BarlusIncnto, between force Of government
troops under Gen. MApnss and a body Of
insurgents under Gen. COlina. The engage
rnont las.oi cighty-Eoar hours. BStEotn seven
and eight hundred men werO killed and wound
cd on both sides. BOIl parties claim a victory,
.... Charles wilIne, babO, was burned to
death In Nov York, his clothes taking fro in
the absSucS Of bis rnothOr.... yellow river
near It's mouth has changed ita course' causing
widespread foundations and distress In China
About twenty miles from HoochoO the country
Is vast ocean. .... "A. ", Hedges, postmnstor
at Lancaster, Ky, was shot and Killed in his
oaleo BY Ibenozcr Best The two men wore
brotherAIn.lRW, Hedges having married two Of
DeAss sAten. A fanily quarrel was probably
tho cauAS respectfully dressed man wAA
run over and killed on tho Pennsylvania rtll-
road near Hallway. The Arkansas LOgi7A.
sirO has passed tho Hill providing for issuing
two and half million bonds for bonding tho
floating Indebtedness and to raise mcans to pay
the current expenses Of the State government,
de. The United States House Committee OH
Appropriations has agreed to billappropdatins
$4,000 for defruyins the expenses OF enter
tailing Tic King Of tho Sandwich Islands.
President Grant nominated Joseph ArcliIbold
collector Of internal revenue for tho third dis
trict Of New York; NJ, @. HolIlator chief Justice
Of tho Supreme Court of Idaho John Clarke
associate Justice of tic supreme Court Of Idaho
.a..D@ Clapp and Chase, Of Boston, were
tried before tho Massachusetts medical society
on charge OF pnleticing homeopathy. Ten
members have already benn expelled for tho
same oileusc. :. Mr. loss has offered reward
Of SSOQO for the return Of his stolen son
Charlie lIoes,
Two nlrOad accidents occurred in England
by which several persons were killed and In
jured 900, Il. Tanly, Of Mobile, WIS killed In
duel with Il. D. Lay, near tic Alabama and
Mississippi State line. =. Several of the rittr-
burgh furnaces have recommended blasting.
-. An attempt to suttlu a wages dispute
among tho coal miners Of West Yorkshire,
England, by Mbitratiou has failed. ..a The
bark Sohee, from New York, Nov. 49, has
arrived nj Queenstown with two survivors otthe
CROW Of tho bark Alnily. Tho latter foundOrud
Cd tho voyage from Philadelphia to Antwerp
and eighteen hands wOro drowned. .... The
crew Of tho bark Resource, wliicl, was aban-1
lonCl OH the passage from baltimore for
London, have arrived at Plymouth, England.
They have suffered severely When rescued
they had been four days and nights clinging to
the wreck. 49,. .In shooting ARRAY in Mercer
county, Kentucky, two men wOrO killed and one
MORALLY wounded. Tie quarrel arose about
dog, ard one Daniels was shot in the leg by
Isaiah 0Obhort. A constable with posso at
tempted the arrest Of Colbert, and In Tho
melee Colbert was fOIled with shovel, whom
one Herring, friend Of GobhOrts, shot the
constable through the body, killing him. The
constabO's brother, who inleriered, was also
killed. GoOhert'u wound IL mortal, More
than 100000 women, exclusive Of servants,
are working for wages IN Great Britain. \
vigorous movement is OH foot In LOndon for
the organization Of trades societies among
tliCui 90. The number Of persons employed in
American breweries is 1i,l9S. in malt houses
$500, In barley culture ss,7S9, in hop culture
5000, and tho total employed in oil these
branches amounts to 6G,i77 n,NLr, Page, Of
California, introduced bill in tho United
States House to amend the revised statutes, &c
as to exclude Chinese from naturalization.
Tho King of tho Sandwich Islands ha'
had grand reception at all points in The
United States. lie la tile FIRST real king the
United States ever had tho honor Of entertain
| ing. "a daughter Of Sebastian EielicnlGub
Of Syracuse. N.Y., aged four years, was burnct
to death Tho mother left the child near thu
stove, to attend to some household duties, ant
on her return the little ono was dead. i.
Indian agent bingham reports that he pltnnct
the Minors en- route for. the Black Hills thirty
Ave miles, but failed 10 oVortAko them OF
acconn! OF his supplies being exhausted. $50,
In thSNlit Of Josephine Mansfield against tht
Fisk estate 10 recover on two pronissory notoi
given lOr by James Flfk, the Jury awanlOl TIT
plaintiff s25, 20l.9l. Walter Abbott waA iOtint
dead ID the road at llumford, SIO., shot through
the body, aud with three stabs In the breast
Ills pockets were riilcd and his team stolen.
Two American war vessels have entered Hong
Kong with additional survivors Of the burnct
steamship japan, by railway accident Al
Woodstock, in England, thirty persons were
killed and hfty wounded.
personal collision between Governor War.
moth Of Louisiana, and s. c. Dycrly, editor OIL
tho Buleiin, occurred in New Orleans, in which
the latter was killed. Governor wannoth was
arrested. 49,, Tho Grand Duke Nicholas, Of
Russia, son of the present Empcror'S brother
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