West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-03-09
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little colored boy in Madison, Indiana,
who was tried for murder, condemned to
death, and hanged, by his playmates, in
sham, in imitation of the Beavers affair has
since died from the effects of the sham hang.
ing, he having been barely cut down in time
by his mother to escape death from the
rOpe......A savings bank AZ Newport, Maine,
and one at Great Falls, n. H., have sus-
pended......The Indiana Democratic State
Convention met at Indianapolis February
20. Thomas A. Hendricks was elected
Chairman Of the Convention, and made
speech upon national topics, reviewing Bel
mon's letter on the silver question, pro-
posing plan for retiring the bank
notes and substituting greenbacks, and re-
viewing hard times and election frauds.
platform was adopted by the Convention
In favor of making greenbacks a full legal
tender in payment of all debts, public and
private, the restoration of the silver dollar
of 4l21S grains, and the unconditional re.
peal OF the Resumption Act. The nomina-
tons were as follows: For Secretary of
State, john G.. Shanklin, OF Vanderburg;
Auditor of state, Mahlon ID. Manson, Of
Montgomery County: Treasurer of Stat @
VIM. Fleming OF Allen County; Attorney
General, Thos. w. Wooden, OF johnson
county; Superintendent of Instruction. }.
III. Smart-present incumbent-of Allen
County.
report says: Tuesday evening the in.
sane asylum at Winooska Sheboygan
County, Wis, was destroyed by fire, and
that four inmates Lucretia Toothaker, Mrs.
Mcdonald, August Althrop, and Billy Doe,
an Indian, persisted in the flames For some
reason no attempt has been made to remove
their bodies, and they still lie i'm the
smouIdering ruins. The property lost is
only $1,000 to $1,000 with no insurance. g..
). Jewell, the keeper owned the building
defective fue was the cause.
a National Convention of Greenbackers
met at Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of Feb
ruary. 1t was largely attended by men Of
ability from all parts of the country in
favor of the Greenback policy. Twenty
eight States were represented. Resolutions
were passed in favor Of making greenbacks
legal tender for all debts public and
priva e, etc.
General Cook predicts that there will be
no trouble with Sitting Bull the coming
season........A motion for new trial in the
case OF Thomas c. Anderson, at New
Orleans, has been refused .... Thos. p.
cheney, Superintendent of the New Eng.
land Mail Service, is charged with number
oil Irregularities. Congress will investigate
;.:...:..Orris Winebar attempted suicide at
Mechanicsburg, by shooting himself througb
the heart. A small note book in his pocket
saved him.........The Signal Service nj
Iiatteras reports the wreck of the German
bark Philip. Luppicich. She crew was lost,
and the body of the Captain washed ashore.
mask ed
men took possession of passenger train on
the Texas Central Railroad, and robbed the
express messengers safe of two Thousand
hve hundred dollars. Bill Harbaugh, 4
notorious gambler of Cleveland for years
has just fallen heir to one hundred thousand
dollars in United States ten.fortv bonds
by the death of relative in New York
An OLD lady named Parker committed sui
eide at Fostoria, Ohio, Saturday, by hang
ing hersell with shawl i'll an clubhouse
N or nIs =
tween George Elsnawgle and James Noble
oil Jacksonville, Ohio, the latter was shot
through the body with probably fatal re-
suits: ........Six men masked and armed
boarded train on the Texas Central Road
at Allen Station, Friday night. and robbed
the express car Of 50 800. 1t is said one OF
the robbers was killed ......A few davs
ago John Wharton, of North Benton. Trum
bull County, Ohio, committed suicide by
hanging himself to sapling in the woods
ne was not discovered until FRIDAY even.
ing:...:....lt is reported that VIM. S. liar.
oeck, Tor many years n notorious gambler
OF Cleveland, has fallen heir TO S75 DOC
worth of United States bonds on account OF
1he death OF a relative in the East......
The l. bera emigration movement has TAX or
a,trong hold of the freedmen in south Car
DINA and Georgia. Money is being raised
TO purchase vessel TO convey them 10 III
oerIa....:. Charles Hayward, q Photographic,
OF Bourbon, Indiana, shot his wife three
her ah6O.
men, one causing fatal results, and then
shot himself in the head, causing instanl
ueath ......,.. Heinrich Wahlen " no has beer
conhnd In the county Jail OF PHILADELPHIA
on CONVICTION OF murder in the first depre,
his victim being Max Hugo Hoebne wSow
he afterward personated-was found deat
IN ms cell, having committed suicide
some months ago Joseph Brown of Carmi
Illinois committed suicide and twent,
days after his father Elijah Brown, followed
sult with shot gun, after having dug hi,
own grave. Friday night Mrs Brown toll
laudanum and died from its effects
n lew weeks ago Emma Neal dauphter n
respectable farmer living near Evansville
indlana, while in fever rose from her bed
anu pressing leit the house and did not not
return and has since been missing. Satur
DAY her body was found hanging to a ire,
In the woods near the city. Abner Cool
farmer, living five miles from Detroit
michigan, was found in his wood.lot Satur
uay pinned to the ground beneath an oak
tree top, nearly dead. He had been misseg
for two days, and it is supposed he wa,
caught by the falling tree in such wav n,
Iender MIN senseless, at the same time fasten
ing MIN so that he could not get out.
Robert Walker Taylor, First Comptroller
oil the Treasury, was stricken with paralysi,
on the morning of the 25th OF February. In
Washington, while at his desk. He wa,
carried nome and died in the afternoon.
ana Potomac Railroad was wrecked in ,
singular manner, a few nights since
ana VIC. Mainwaring, Of Baltimore, killee
and number OF passengers Injured Tbe
train, which was bound north from Eicb
mond, Virginia, when near Milford. was OH
served by the engineer to mysteriousl,
increase in speed. Upon investigation I,
was discovered that two sleeping coacbe,
on the rear Of the train had become do
tached through q defective coupling. Tn,
tram was stopped, and the sleepers cam,
1ashlng down heavy grade and telscopet
the train.
SOutber Items.
terrible fatal shooting ARRAY and four
handed duel occurred at Bryan, Middl,
le1as, recently. -Four men met in IN,
street armed with six-shooters and ouns
Their names were Hodges. Rush. Irwin An,
ahotner party whose name could not b.
asceriained. The cause of the diAicuItv /,
supposed 70 have been an old feud. All
-FOUR began shooting simultaneously. anr
persons near the scene fed Spectator "a,
Iiooked like q small skirmish Two rne1
were left on the field wounded on,
MORALLY and one dead Fifteen shots wer,
fred. '''
While workmen were engaged i'm raisip,
the George & Weir bath.bouse at ITo
SPRING, Ark, the building fell, crushing i
~ atoms There were nine mon ia a.