West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-11-30
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prand jury oil the county has indicted the
following members of the Cleveland Home
opathic College Faculty for unlawfullv
Concealing the body OF the late Edwin
French: Drs. Smith, Baxter, Boynton,
Gambler, Schneider and Miller. The ian
ltor of the College, together with the body
Snatehers, Carlisle, Joiner and Minor, were
also indicted Tor the same ofense The
International Humane Society met i'm an
nuaI session lately, at Baltimore, Edwin
Lee Brown, of Chicago, presiding and re-
spending 10 the address OF welcome The
matter OF providing Tor better protection of
ANIMALS IN transit by railroad and water
was referred 10 a special committee on
motion OF Mr.. Proll, of Chicago, a committee
was appointed TO apply TO Congress for "A
charter that the organization may have a
regal existence. IL was also agreed to drop
international designation. Henry Bergh,
upon invitation, gave a concise history of
ms experience for the past thirteen wears
within that time thirty-three States had
adopted laws for the protection OF the
lower animals. He favors the slaughter Cf
III cattle before shipping TO foreign markets
as he had been advised that cattle reach
por-s OF destination with life, but of their
suffering none can tell. Colonel w. NJ
Roberts, one of the irSt contractors on the
keokuk and DesMoihes Railroad has been
engaged, at large salary, by the Emperor
OF Brazil for three years to improve the
highways of his Empire.
About four o'clock in the morning. re-
Gently, policeman on the bridge at Zanes-
vile, o., noticed a suspicious looking wagon
crossing. He called to the man in the
wagon TO stop. The driver whipped up his
horses, and got away. The policeman at
once reported at headquarters, and two
policemen started wiih n team in pursuit of
The suspicious vehicle, chasing il fourteen
miles, when, at their close approach, the
strange men took % the woods The wagon
was found to contain the bodies of four
prominent citizens who had been buried i'm
Woodlawn Cemetery for three days
Policeman Still received pistol wound
from the men in the wagon, they hay.
ing come up so close at one time as to en-.
gage in tight. The men escaped. Mar.
snail Fell, of GAINESVILLE, returned from
Columbus afterward, having i'm custody the
author OF this outrage. He gave his name
rs r. t.. Evans, OF Columbus. r. c.
Brooks, OF Newark, says his name is Lyman
J., Laton. He confessed the crime To the
oihcers, and said there were two others
with him, but refused to tell their names
Later IN tae evening Captain Hiliard, OF
Ianesville, who had been strongly suspected
Of completely IN the deed, was arrested, aud
by little strategy Eaton was induced 10
peach, and threw the entire blame on
billiard and two others.
Hoyt, the Republican candidate for Gov.
ernor OF Pennsylvania, has a plurality of
22,Sl9, according to the official count. lis
estimated that the greenback vote in the
State will reach 10000. ........ Official returns
from all but seven small counties in Michi.
gan give Croswell, Republican, for Cover.
nor, 1928; Barnes, Democrat, 1905;
Smith, National, 74,01l. The remaining
counties viii not change CrOSwellis plurality
by more than fifty. The Congressional
plurallties are as follows, all Republican:
First District, 1927 Second, 4,775: Third,
%l50; Fourth, 6,O92; Fifth, Go; sixth
1872.
AZ Mahanoy City, Pa, locomotive boiler
Exploded, killing the engineer, Frank Bros
Gus, coal train foreman Jacob Trout, and
two boys, Willie Wenrich and Calvin Lutz.
Several were more or less injured ...
The Treasury Department has begun
TIE purchase of gold bullion at Den.
yer, Col, purchasing directly from the
miners and paying them in green
backs The Department expects to buy at
least twenty thousand dollars a week for
some time, and TO eS tend its purchase to all
the gold OF the Black Hills country.
William V. Tyler of Whitehall, Michigan,
who kept an. ice-creamery at that place
has hllen heir to 100000 by the dea h of
an uncle in England; bat according
TO the provisions OF the will IL he
does not marry before becoming OF age, the
money IS T. 90 to the English Church. Mr..
tyler IS not quite twenty years old .. The
othelal vote of Illinois on the two principal
Offices Is as follows: State treasurer
Democrat 10000 Bates, National,
6iie37; CORN, Prohibiuonist, 1871.
superintendent Of Public Instruction
Slade, Republican, POS az Etler. Demo.
crat, l7l,l96; Hall, National, 6I,779........
Mormon women held meeting at the Salt
md ,s.al,.
avOwiDg belief in the Patrarchal order of
marriage as revealed TO Gods people i'm
pest ages, which, If lived up to, is condu-
Give 20 long life, strength and glory.
Ihey indorse II as one OF the mos impor-
tSnt principles OF their holy religion, and
claim the right of its practicable is
rumored that project is on foot by Jaw
Gould and other prominent capitalists to
organize q telegraph company in opposition
10 the western Union, In which all the
leaulng railroads except the New York
Central will be interested. CAPITAL SO.
100000, aud the lines will be built and
in operation to all parts OF the country i'm
twelve months. Among telegraph officials
the scheme is considered a stock iobbing
mpvement....At Fremont, o., Judge Fin.
trock' sentenced Miss Eta Smith TO the
Penitentiary for two years for attempting
To poison the family OF w. w Slime
The Judge imposed the lightest sentence
possible OnHaccount OF the position held
~ Aii ~ il4t cthuDlhs ana Dtlng the main
support OF her aged mother. Miss Smith.
health has been very poor since her trial
and fears are entertained that she wilt not
1--we out Der term Of sentence..........
7 he Ashtabu'a disaster and the subse-
quent death Of Charles Collins. Chief En-.
E.neer Of the Lake Shore and MICHIGAN
Southern Railway, are still well remem-
bered. Relative 10 his demise terrible
story has just got in circulation Ills that
hr. Collins Lever committed suicide, as
was supposed 40 the time, but that he was
murdered aud his liie'ess body placed in
the bed where il WIS found 10 was
thought that on account of his being en-
gineer Of the road, and therefore RESPONSE
Die Tor The condition Of the bridge, he had
become insane by brooding over the terrible
catastrophe and taken his own life But il
- said the gentleman who found the body
mas never believed 10 case OF suicide, and
mat ). ". Brewer, assistant engineer Of the
road ls especially firm in that opinion.
special dispatch FROM Mt Sterling
hy5 70 the COuTierJ0urnGi, says riot took
place there on the 18Th, in which from
twenty 70 thirty shots were fired, and two
men instantly killed and three wounded.
Marshal Young, in attempting 20
q1iet the disturbance, was m0rtalIy
wounded Two OF the rioters. George and
WiIiiHm Howard, we're wounded, one dan.
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