The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-06-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Interesting Items from Home md Abroad.
All the buildings OF scvcnttcn strcots wcro
destroyed by Tho graz fro III Quebec, ind
seven thousaiI! people were fCuie!cd hOuO-
less. Only d few cAsuAltios arc reported. 49,.
Virginia Democrats Rend their delegates TO
tho national convention to work for reform
candidate ...... Louisiana Republicans send
their delegates uupicdged; but they aro un-
dcrstood to favor Morton ...... MarylAnds
Democratic delegates arc left unpledIed AID
favor DayRrd. The Iowa Republican dele.
gates are all pledged for Blaine. -. Tennessee
Democrats cxprCss their preference for He'll
bricks, but do not pledge their delegates $50.
The great English Derby WAS won by All un-
named colt, over fourteen competitors.
George PArker's second attempt to ride
thirty California mustangs 3O5 miles In ftteon
hours, near New York, resulted in a failure
tho rider becoming blind after tho 2lGth mills.
PGralto, another rider, rode forty miles In ono
hour, forty.threo and ono-half minutes. So.
Tho preliminary work on the tunnel between
Franco and England las been begun on the
French shore. 49,. Eight thousand Knights
Temrla's, representing twcaty-:hree stI:es,
pa:adcL in Philadelphia, being tho largest
gathering Of Knights ever held. "A company
Of Cincinnatiaus, under Capt. Stone, oil tho
WAY TO the Black Hills. wero struggling along
after their wagons, whoa several hundred
Indians swoopcI down upon them and suo.
cceded in killing tho entire fUIco.. The
now sultan OF Turkey makes liberia! proniees
Of reform. $50. Fory.two sLorthorr COWS snl
lloif6rs were sold ut Cambridge CITY. Ind., for
I'll 500 tho highest price being s2.525.....
Tho Vermont delegates to tho Democratic nR.
tioral convention are in favor OF Tildcn and
will vote As unit, although unplcdsOd .....
MicLigsn's Democratic delegates ase divided
between Hendricks aud Tillon MnucsotG
appointed Democratic delegates In favor OF
Tildcn.
A mammoth OK weighing five thousand
pounds was shipped from Jersey City to the
Centennial for exhibition, but whom tho car
train reached Philadelphia the OK was dead.
The owners valued 1t at $1,000. .... AS 4
freight train was passing Slug Sing prisol
at speed OF fifteen miles an hour, six cenyicts
ran to the wall and Jumped on the cars and
tender, four OF them boarding the engine,
ono OF whom presented a revolver to tho
engineer and ordered him 10 increase tho
speed. while another uncVupled tho locoro-
tive from tho train. They successfully passed
tho guards, who worc afraid to fire on account
OF tho engineer and fireman. When near
TarytoNn the couvic.s ordered tho engine
stopped and they jumped down and di.ap-
peared in tho woods. All had cItizens' clothes
under their prison suits. Two oonviets who
bid batwesn the cAs were recapturod. So.
Reyenuo Collector J. A. HoltzelAw, OF Atlanta,
Ga, Is . detaulter to the amount Of els, 900.
$50. Tho now sultan Of Turkey has confined
his unclo, the ex-sultan, in a magnificent
palace, but gives ASSURANCE that no harm shall
bofAll him. -. Goldsmith Maid trotted three
heats at Philadelphia In the eudeAyor to beat
her record Of 2.1i, bnt did not succeed, the
tine being 2.2lI, ais and 2.l9i 49,. Tho
ChiricHhus Indians refuse to remove from
Arizona to tho no. observation assigned them,
and propose to make an armed resistance. 80.
While Andrew Moore and Frederick LAWYER,
fourtecn-year.1ld boys, were quareling in
New York, LaSlvr struck Moore, who INSTANTLY
stabbed him twice with knife no was using.
Lawler foil to the GROUND and in two minutes
was dead.
Ex.Sultan Abdul Aziz committed suicide in
the palace whoro he was confined by opening
the veins OF both arms with pair Of scissors.
...... The family OF Martin LAro., living noar
ESston, Pa, werc all taken sick after meal
and physician stated that they had beon
poisoned. Laros and his wife, together with
u boAtdor named Moses Schug, died from tho
effects; the six children recovering. A cor
outr'S Jury found that the poison was adninis-
tc:ed by one OF tho sons, Allen, and on his
arrest no confessed tho crime and acknoRl-
edged his object to have been a rumof money
known to DO in the house. .....A lightning
train WAS run from New York to San Francisco
in cighty-thrte hours and thirty four minutes,
carrying twenty-five passengers, who paid $500
apiece for tho round trip. 1t was tho quickest
long trip over make In this country. :. "A man
calling himself Joseph May, Of Evansville,
TnJ bln,.. mt tI. brajnu ~ IIa vito aud ,hTIJ
In the woods near Delevillc, Ill.,, and then
committed suicide.
]. q. Aver, tho noted patent medicine man,
has been sent to m insane Asylum. .....A
fourth member OF the Laros family has died
from tho oiIocts OF the Arsonic administered
BY ono Of tho sons ...... Notwithstanding the
report signed by nineteen surgeons Of Con.
stantinoplo 10 tho effect that the ex.sultAn
did Of the wounds on his arms, tho European
press Is inclnod to discredit tho suicide Theory.
...... WllhelmnA WetcK was sentence 10
dcAth In BufIalo, N. Y, for the murder OF hor
stopson. Sue received tho sentence calmly.
....,.A party Of lac Mormons arrived In New
York from England on their way to Utah.
Mormon agents who have boon proselyting In
tho old country state that one thousand more
converts will shortly follow $500. Counterfeit
So on the Hamden National Bank OF West
Geld, Mass., arc common... "A boy named
Gray, wh!lo bathing near NoshAnic, n. j., got
fastened By rock and was drowning when his
brother went to his assistance. Being unable
to ertIIcate him, no cried for help, which was
responded 10 by Alex. Smith, who wont to the
rescue, wherCupon both Gray boys seized him
and all throo were drowned.