West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-03-08

letters from Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois,
Texas and Nebraska showed the fact On
Long Island the disease rs being stamped
out.....The thanks OF the brute creation are
due to the Senate for the passage OF the bill,
long pending in that BODY, reducing the
hardships which animals are compelled TO
endure in transit by railroad. The bill for.
bids the keeping Of live stock in cars for a
longer time than fOrty.fve consecutive
hours. and requires the feeding and water.
ng Of animals on the cars.
Oonorai
The frame residence OF Martin ReddinR.
ton, on the West Side, BLOOMINGTON. IN.
was consumed by fire recently, probably
from lamp explosion. Mrs. Reddinrton
was burned to cinder in her bed, and Mr..
ReddingtOn, in rushing into the building
twice to save her, was bsrned so horribly
the he survived only n few hours Redding.
ton was siIty.ive, aud for many years has
been employed as n Waterman for the
Chicago and Alton Road. His wife was
aged forty, and was married to him about
year. He was quite well OF, aud had lived
NJ Bloomington twenty FIVE years ........ Con.
siderable excitement and uneasiness exists
1T brownsville and other towns along the
Upper Mouongahela, in Pennsylvania, ow.
ing "a recent outbreaks and threatened
violence bv the striking coal miners In that
vicinity. Nearly all the coal mines have
been shut down for some time, the original
cause of the trouble being a reduction i'm
the price paid Tor digging. On account Of
the troubles, Sheriff Work, OF Washington
County, assembled posse of deputies at
Be9lsvilie, and with one hundred and
eight men, mounted and heavily
armed marched on Brownsville, mr..
irving there early in the morning. The
Sheriff Immediately went TO work arrest.
ing coal miners, in many cases taking them
out OF bed, and large number OF the
strikers were jailed. Governor Hoyt has
placed Company II, of the Tenth Regiment
under Works command. Many of the
miners fed to the mines, where they were
said to have enough provisions TO with.
stand quite siege, and fears were felt that
q bloody outbreak might occur at any
moment
The execution OF George Washington, the,
negro ravisherof Frances Otte, took place
IN the eastern suburbs of Louisville, KY,
February 2l. Fully ten thousand persons
were present, hundreds of women as well as
men witnessing it. The black cap was put
around his neck at so, the rope at II 40
and then Washington, who had promised
his body to the priests of the Catholic
Church, who had been his spiritual ad-
visers, announced to the sheriff his
desire that it be given TO certain physi.
clans. He asked for his father and mother.
They failed to respond to the call of their
names. At II as the drop fell, the rope
breaking short of at the top Many in the
great crowd yelled and hooted Wash.
ington was picked up, and the rope
being quickly adjusted, another moose was
made around his neck. At 1854
the trap WAS again sprung, Washing.
ton being unconscious from the first
fall. At II :55 his pulse beat only six; at
II :57 IL had stopped entirely. He remained
hanging until 1919, when he was cut down
and the body given TO physicians. He died
without murmur, and showed no feeling
whatever. The crime for which Washing.
ton suffered the penalties of law was
an exceedingly base one. He and his con-
tederate, who is not yet convicted, seized
ltle German girl, about twelve years
oidi who lives in the eastern limits OF the
city, and rayished her. At the time she
was going out into the pastures 20 drive the
COWS home, and was singing on her way.
dispatch from Stockton, California,
says that terrific explosion occurred in
that city at the head of Stockton slough. or
Eldorado-strect. 4 crowd of more than
two hundred people assembled to witness
the trial OF new propeller pump set IN
the slough, and run by threshing engine.
Those who stood near were Frustrated.
The body Of the engine was blown n dis
lance Of one hundred and fifty feet through
the crowd. The dead lay prostrated i'm
every direction, some falli ng into the slough
from the bridge. Ten or twelve dead
bodies lay in one heap at the northwest
corner Of the bridge; others lay strewn
dead and dying on the spot. blown from
nifty to one hundred feet The heads of
some we're blown TO pieces, others blown
20 the ground with such force as to break
every bone in their bodies. Faces, hands
and whole persons were strewn in dirt, and
smoke and cinders.
4 Pittsburg dispatch says that Captain
Paul Boyton started from that point ut
eight o'clock in the morning, February "a,
on trip down the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers, intending to float to New Orleans.
and expects TO reach there in about twenty.
eight days. A large crowd witnessed his
departure ..... The Potter Committee met at
VI. 3lr-tou Un the 24;h, and received a
letter from &. w. Woolley, Of Cincinnati
who stated that he was too il TO attend at
present. he says he has read the evidence
OF one John +. Coyle before committee on
me l|th inst, and swears, without con.
slNOn5 equiVOcauon or exception, that, so
Tar IS the statements Of said Coyle in regard
- him lamsnt) are concerned, the same are
utterly false that he cannot otherwise
better describe his estimate Of them than
by simply saying they are absolutelyuutrue.
The bill providing for the sale OF the
James River and Kanawha Canal 10 the
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Com.
pany, has been finally disposed Of in the
General Assembly Of Virginia, both houses
having agreed upon the numerous amend.
ments originating in their respective
odies......"....Jennie st. Clair. walking
"a mozart Garden, Brooklyn, three thou.
SAND quarter miles in the same
number Of consecutive quarter hours
tainted on the track on the ,35Qtb ouartey
mile, ard retired ..... Thomas NeTrimon
Whle drunk, went 70 the house Of his
mother.in-aw, q mile and half from Nash.
VILE the other afternoon, and shot her
with double barrel gun i'm the GROIN
klhinR her instantly. and that wiibouf
proVocstion. lie escaped. Parties vent
ln pursuit. .......Ihe Mardi Gras procession
moved IN New Orleans, on Mardf Gras dav
according 70 programme. Every thine
quiet aud orderly. The streets alone
l9e Ine OF the procession were well
bied, and the weather was clear and warm
Inc procession consisted Of twenty LARGO
and nine small cars, containing figures nd
groups representing prominent epocbs in
me history N the world from four tbousanJ
years before The Christian era 10 the pyes.
snt DAY, viewed in o comic light: i'm other
"cfd'. comic history on the word.
Eotos from Abron.d.
Numerous failures are reported from En-.
gland John Maltby, merchant Of MiDcipg
Lane has failed. His liabilities are as
VIZ. Also. Bartrum. pFptvrnon 4 Mur,f,si