West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-06-15


the town of Richmond, Mo-, Saturday Morn
ing, leveling everything in its path a
breadth OF three hundred yards, demolisk-
ing buildings and stripping trees. Twelve
persons are known To have been killed and
seVenty'bveseriously and mortally wounded.
:.......: Rev. John Jones, a Baptist minister
IRON Pittsburg, was arrested In New York
on the charge of forgery. He was about
TO board the steamship Halsatia when the
officer seized him. His passage had
been secured in the name of Robert
Anderson, in the steerage. Mrs.
Baldwin, of Tazewell Court.house, Vir.
ginia, was found few days since, lying in
dyiog condition on the floor of her resi-.
dence. She lived long enough to state that
she had been attacked by three tramps for
the purpose of robbery, two of whom she
ia XII ed with an AK before being MORALLY
wounded herself. There were two dra.
matte suicides from the decks OF Hudson
hlver steamers. The parties were young
ana discouraged physician OF BROOKLYN
named Talcott, who failed to find patients,
and the other Clarkson Height, wealthy
horse dealer of Catskill. Both men leaned
from the deck in daylight, and sank in view
OF many passengers, who could give no aid
,.....:By new schedule OF passenger rates
by the Wabash Railroad round-trip tickets
for the benefit of land explorers have been
liked ms follows: Toledo to Topeka and re-
turn, $40; Emporia and return, S3l Kinsley
ana Ellis and return, $3I. The rates from
Defiance and Fort Wayne are reduced cor
respondingly. The tourist rate from Toledo
TO Denver aud return is placed at $75........
saturday morning Frank GoOdridge, thir-
teen years old, while riding horse on the
grounds Of Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.
lost his balance AS the animal tur, cd shaply
round the corner and was thrown of. His
right foot caught in the strrup strap.
through which IT had beer thrust because
he could not reach the iron, and he was
dragged over the stony pavements and
struck by the flying hoofs for some mo-
ments, being finally hurled to one side by
release OF the foot. Life was almost extinct
when medical attendance was procured but
death ensued in thirty minutes. Mrs.
Dust, wife of Prof. l. Dust, of the CONNER.
cial College of Madison, Ind, was dis
covered hanging dead in a bedroom at
eleven o'clock Saturday morning She had
driven nails to the door-frame To which the
clothes-line was attached, and then to her
neck. Domestic trouble is supposed In
nave been the cause, and suspicion of foul
play was so strongly apparent in the eyes of
the officers that her husband was arrested
and put in Jail. she leaves two children,
one boy OF five years and the other babe
oil i've months. The remains were cold and
stih when discovered, and the little babe
lying on the bed crying from hunger.
George Mealey, jun, accidentally shot
himself with revolver in his fathers furni-
ture shop at Doylestown, Ohio, and died
the ball entering the center of
his breast. lie was nineteen years old.
The Governor of Kentucky has committed
the sentence of jerry Anderson, the Mason
County wife-murderer, who was to have ex-
plated has crime on the gallows at MAYS
vile last Friday, to imprisonment for life.
......An Enquirer dispatch says that about
seven hundred miners from different mines
near Charleston, w. Va, captured the
steamer Modock, and went to Blacksburg TO
make those mines stop work. They threat
ened TO Kill or drown every body who OPP
posed them. They succeeded i'm stoppinp
the Blacksburg mines, after which they took
possession OF the morning train on the
chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and came
down TO their different places of business.
making the train stop when and where they
pleased. They refused to pay their fare.
Western Items.
dispatch from Gen. Mcdowell was re-
ceived at army headquarters in Chicago,
saturday, which gave hopeful indications
OF hrstclass Indian war again this sum-
mer. 1t is stated that the Bannock Indians
had been making threats to the settlers for
some time past. The latter report that the
Indians above mentioned have gone into
camp, with about two hundred warriors.
we armed ana equipped, between the Big
Calnmas Prairie and Snake River i'm the
Lava Beds. The settlers counted sixty
lodges of them, and twenty more lodges
oil Buffalo Horn warriors have lust Joined
them.
kilograms have been received at the War
Department from Generals Sheridan and
Mcdowell, stating that as many men as pos.
sible should be sent to protect settlers from
the Bannock Indians. The news from the
North is considered very alarming. The
following dispatch from General Howard To
General Mcdowell has been received:
= AS war preventive measure please ask,
through the war Department, the Presi-
dent that formal patents be authorized as
already guaranteed in treaties to reserva-
ton Indians in my department With the
forces in hand the promise could be car
RED out at once by the agent. Thus the
main cause OF Indian dissatisfaction will be
obyiated. Quick work in this direction
VIII, think, save life and vast expense"
southern Items.
Bill johnson, a colorcd fend of Karnes
County, Texas, attempted to rape a respect
able white woman. Shortly after, a tree was
found bearing fruit, and that fruit was
William.
GIrcS.
At Peru, Ind, late at night, while ter.
rife wind and rain storm was passing over
the city, accompanied by sharp flashes OF
lightning and heavy thunder, the lightning
struck the car and machine shops of tho
l., Z. and {. Railroad, at that place, enter.
ing the building by the telegraph wires
terminating in IL. The stroke was so Sc.
we're that three men, who were in the round
house adjoining were stunned for several
moments, and upon recovering they dis
covered that the main building was en-.
yeloped in sheet Of fame, the electric
nuid having communicated all over the
building, and finally burning IT, The build.
ing destroyed was a large brick structnre
slate rooted, containing much valuable and
intricate machinery. Insurance not known.
nut the supposition is that there was none.
Inc loss can not be less than 100000.
rotes from Abroad.
A Vienna dispatch says the propositions
which Count Schouvalof took to London
and which appear TO have been substan.
tally accepted, were that the southern
boundary OF Bulgaria is TO be a line from
Burgas TO PhilippopOlis and Prania; Turkey
to retain BatOum on coalition of the de.
mOlition Of the Uanubian fortress. subst
tuition Of European for Russian control i'm
carrying out the treaty, and the remaining
questions 70 be left 20 the Congress .. The
London Times continues TO dwell ON the
necessity Of British protcctOrate for
Turkey, as inAsia. The Pan Nan ggzeyts nov
takes the same ground, arguing that such n
ProtectoTate rs absolutely necessary i'm the
interests Of future peace. The G0zCur has
htltherto rejected every suggestion Of an in.