West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-12

Notes UNFIT for circulation,
assorted and delivered 10
COntrollerof Currency for
destruction and replace
ment with new notes.. 3 los 400 q Q0o ON
Notes OF failed, llquidating
and reducing banks de
posted I'm Treasury ......... 7297OO RITA 4Oo
Total for ls77............ sl7 46e, 90 siO6 75I4
Iouu Tor ls'6........'...... l5,S737OO iO93G5 500
Increase for month ........... 1892 400
Decrease for half year......... ......'.. 26ii 9O0
sub committee of the House Committee
on Territories recently heard Col. Briarly in
reply to the argument recently made bv
Delegate Corlett, of Wyoming, against the
organization of the new proposed territory
oil Lincoln. Col. Briarly presented statistics
anu other information, by which he claimed
10 demonstrate the Black Hills country *
occupied by large and permanent popula.
uon oil energetic men, and that the mines
are proving to be among the most produc.
i've IN the world; that the people need
.srIltoflal government to protect them in
tnelr rights and property, and especially in
view OF their isolated condition the nro.
posed organization is imperatiyely d..
manded. Judge Whitehead, another dele.
gate from the Hills, followed in an argument
sustaining the position of his colleague
Inc silver wedding of President and Mrs
Hayes was &C ebrated on the evening of
december 81. The preparations for the oc.
caslon at the White House were not es.
pecially elaborate. The handsome Red
and Blue Parlors were adorned with most
appropriate taste, with flowers from the
large hot-houses pertaining to the Mansion.
and the air was redolent with odors Of
'wers arranged in wreaths, bouquets and
pretty symbolic shapes and about the
nails ana to and fro the doors" the fra
GRANGE bore n festal signifcation Tho
party invited in honor of this anniversary
were In all essential considerations received
en- JGmHfe, and n major part of the guests
were guests at the original wedding twenty
I'VE years ago.
Itoms In GonoraI
The Passaic County Savings Bank at
Paterson, n. j., has closed. Depositors
were notified to draw their money on
January 8. 1t is stock company. of $50
600 capital; $4,000 paid up. The deposits
are 100000, but have run down to 500 600
within a year. Ex-Mayor William G.. Wat.
son, while President, borrowed 50, 900 ON
worthless securities, and failed soon after
IRWIN X Mason, Leading Director borrowed
$4,000, mostly unsecured, and failed LAST
spring. 900 in New Jersey Midland
halfway bonds and notes are among the
assets. The capital is all gone, and
Slo,OOO more. The Directors promise
to secure depositors against loss
be,ween one and two o'clock i'm the morn
ing, charles Ryberg, wiper in the shop of
the indianapolis and St Louis Railroad
East 81 Louis, attempted to murder his
Mue while she was lying in bed asleep.
lie struck her four heavy blows ON the
head with potato-masher, rendering her
lnsenslble. Thinking his wife dead he
shot himself just back of the right temple
with small Derringer, but this not pro.
ouclng the desired result, he cut two deep
gashes across the left wrist seyerin0 tho
tendons and arteries, from which blood
howed copiously. Soon after, Mrs. Ryberg
recovered her senses, and found her hus-
Dand lying insensible on the floor By great
efforts she aroused the neighbors. A doctor
was sent Tor, and the wounds of both at
tended to. Neither is supposed To he fatally
hurt, but Ryberg is i'm a critical condition
from the great loss of blood Mrs. Rybero
ATTRIBUTES her husbands act to Temporary
insanity, caused by sickness last sumner.
lie has had, she SAYS two or three simiIor
attacks, but in neither of them did he com.
INIT any Vloience......F lorian Urban, n night
Waterman at a saw mill, at Evansville. Ind
herman forty-five years old committed
buielde the other morning by hanging him
sell TO the rafters in his room.
The New York EUenfng Pot saws that the
hrm OF Meter d Co, No. 2 Exchange Place
mas notified the Stock Exchange Of its ina.
bilty TO meet its contracts No failure hos
occurred in Wall Street for many months
that has caused more comment The fiyn,
mad been regarded as one OF the prominent
herman houses OF the city, Ii was re-.
Gently discovered that the Meters were LARGO
makers and sellers of puts, calls and strad.
uies. ne FIRST National Bank loaned them
Iecehtiy SlUO,OOO, and the Third National
BANK $4,000, but the officers of both saw
they held ample security. Judge Often
hOeIer, counsel for the assignee said tho IL
abilities are between $4,000 and 5000 600
ana would not exceed the latter sum. IL is
htniPOSSsIoie 70 name the assets until they
nave been collected and examined.
A receiver has been appointed for the poo
pies Savings Bank of New York. Liabili
ties, s 100000; assets $157 900. ......... Tom
ONeal, weil-knOwn locomotive engineer
on the Chicago & Alton Railroad was oe.
ssulted Few nights since, at Bloomington
IL, while on his way home from the train
lis BOiS watch, pocketbOok and ring were
untouched; hence he was not murdered
Ior money. Tracks Of a small foot ,yere
iouhd IN an adjacent a'lev. which
rs nearly the only clue vet found
feter Reagan, Of indianapolis. the otLcr
nlghJ went 70 bed without johanna. his
Wite. When he got up the next Jpor1ino
about five o'clock, he saw her bodv lin,
on the hoor Of the privy, with her head
hrust through q torn hempeu sack s,s
pended from the door, over which IL boJ
Desn thrown. She was dead, the body being
S9la and still The face was swollen. and .
blue mark around the meek showed tb,t
strangulation had done its work. Under
tne chin darker line revealed the fact that
she bad FIRST tried 20 cut her throat before
IthyfhhE 70 the moose. According Ia fhr
testimony Of her husband and peioLbors
the suicide had been addicted to dri9t ord
Tor several days had been drinking To- excese
shocking tragedy has just occurred n.
Farmville, Va. Col. William RapdoIpb
berkeley, an eminent lawyer Of the place
vas seated IN his office, conversing with NJ
aired Moth, Cashier Of the English and
American Bank, when n knock was heard M
the ooori and Col. Berkeley got up TO austror
~ On opening the door, a shot was Gyed
from without, and the Colonel fell back win
Dai ln MS temple Immediately afterward
capt. Nm. III. Kennedy entered tho oaic.
ana, stepping behind Col Berkeley do.L'
placed pistol o. his own head and Gr.I
Mr Moth says all he heard was "a remark b,
Capt kennedy, az he FIRST fred. which i9.
lmateQ he bad some grievance against fba
Colonel DO BIS stated Kennedy made fbroo
previous attempts on bis own life. and for "a
lohE time has been iu "a moody and ~
bpouaent condition. Col. Berkeley died ir.
SANITY. lie leaves large family. ne was
member OF the law firm of BarkeIey u
berkeiey, sf Richmond. Kennedy rccoy.
cry was regarded as impossible.
General George w. McCook died in Vo,,
York on the 2sth December. Deceased ,rss
the son Of the late Judge Daniel NcCoot
Of Carolton, Ohio, who az the outbreak ~
the war entered the army with bie nine
fHan Of aaN. ~. Al