West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-04-12

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boy. The free and easy aerolite ia great
| help to the sensational news gatherer..
A colored woman named Rebecea Anderson
I died lately, at Shelbyville, Ind, at the ad.
vanced age Of one hundred and eleven
! years. She was, perhaps, the oldest person
in the State; was never sick in her life,
and remembered events Of more than
I hundred years ago. She was
native OF Virginia, and leaves children
eighty years old. She is one OF the few old
| people who never saw Z" Washin Rton cross
the Delaware ..............Leyi Fasig, aged
thirty'two, harness maker by occupation
and well-known citizen of Terre Baute
Ind, committed suicide by shooting in the
right temple, the ball comir out at the
top OF the heal. lie lived ONLY about half
an hour. lie had been partly insane for
some time, and arrangements had been
made Tor sending him 10 the State Asylum.
The affair creates great sensation aud In.
terest.
Tho West.
AT Fort Scott Kansas, Bill Howard. a
negro, who cruelty and diabolically out.
ragged Clara Pond, n twelve year-old daugb.
ter OF George Pond, was discovered in an
old mine half mile distant from the
residence OF Pond, and about six miles
from ST. Louis. After some little barley.
Howard came forth and delivered himself
up, upon being promised by his captors
That he should receive no bodily harm
from them. The cortege arrived In town,
ana the prisoner was promptly
| lodged in jail. Excitement rose To n
| FEVER heat, and threats of lynching were
announced with emphasis, the facts in the
| case being so horrible Ms to be without
| parallel in the history Of crime. About
seven o'clock in the evening crowd of peo.
pie numbering fully one thousand,
accompanied by thirty masked men in solid
line, with drawn revoivers in their hands.
marched to the Jail, overpowering all re.
siStance, tere the iron grating from the
window Of Howard's cell, and forciblv took
MIN out. A rope was tied around his neck.
| and amid yells and shouts the demon WINS
dragged by hundred hands the distance of
I'VE blocks, and hung 10 a lamp.post on the
corner OF the public square. After hanging
few minutes, he was taken down and his
remains were burned TO ashes in the SQUARE
Sioux Falls, Dakota, special says prairie
fires reached the suburbs OF the town, and
were only checked ny great exertions. The
vile OF John Forbion, q farmer, was burned
- death IN attempting to save the barn.
The South.
AT Frankfort, Ky, few days ago, most
sensational murder was perpetrated. Alta
quarter past one o'clock in the afternoon.
in front OF the ladies' entrance of the
Capital Hotel, Colonel Thomas Buford, of
Henry County, shot and killed Judge John
NJ. Elliott, OF the Court of Appeals. The
weapon used was a dOuble-barreled hot gun
loaded with twelve buckShot in each barrel
tie also intended to shoot Judge Pryor, of
me same court, but that gentleman got out
of his way. The Court had rendered a
decision adverse to Buford's interest which
lncensed him to madness. Judge Elliott
the murdered man, was well known in all
parts of the State. lie was elected to
succeed Judge Peters in 1877. His residence
previous to his election to the bench of the
court OF Appeals was near Catl ettsbuTg, in
Boyd County. He was member of the
Confederate Congress during all or
greater part of the war, and has served his
county In the Kentucky Legislature for at
least two terms. His character was such as
10 make him many friends, being social and
manly. lie was nearly fifty years of age,
and leaves an invalid wife and, we under
stand, several children.
The Governor of Kentucky issued the
following announcement concerning the
ass assinaticn OF Judge T. lott, the day
after the occurrence: The announcement
OF the death Of Hon. John NJ. Elliott. Judge
Of the First APPELLATE District, which oc.
CURED at Frankfort, March 20, 1879, will
cause sorrow and regret in every section Of
the Commonwealth. His long career Of
usefulness, end the many positions of pub.
TIC trust which he so honorably filed
won for him the respect and confidence
OF the people of the entire State AS n
citizen, ne was beloved for his in.
tegrity, patriotism and fidelity; IS Pc.
preventative in Congress he was energetic
prompt and distinguished, and as a Judge
ne was able, incorruptible and imp artial
Ia token OF respect for his memory, / re.
commend that all the public Offices be
closed at IL m, and remain closed the resi-.
n he duNv - ttok al
and their clerks attend the funeral in a
body.
few miles from FarmersvilIe, Collin
County, Texas, Citizen Clark, with two
neighbors, went hunting in the woods.
Clark discharged one barrel OF his gun at an
owl, and went to reload it, putting his foot
on the trigger and blowing in it at the muz.
zle, the loaded barrel accidentally went of,
literally blowing Clark's head off, Two
inches square Of the top of the skull was
found fifty yards distant and oneAeye hang.
ing TO the limb of tree near by. The
corpse fell with the gun between it's legs.
Notes from Abroad.
A famine is reported in Upper Egypt,
VII ch causes terrible suffering. In some
villages people, naked, like wild beasts, dig
Tor roots. In one town women and chill.
dren fought over scraps Of bread. Inland
Captain Dandeman telegraphs that he
was attacked at Baghau, the oath ult. by
t~o thousand Maliks. He routed then.
killing one hundred and forty.fve. The
British lost two killed and six wounded.
A DIsPATCH from Vienna saws many
members Of a Revolutionary Committee
have been arrested a. Warsaw. The prison.
ers had revolyers in their possession when
taken. Other arrests have been made
elsewhere, making in All three hundred.
.....GeneTal Meiikof telegraphs that he has
completed the burning Of infected houses
in Weltianka.....The Lancashire cotton
strikes have been svertsd, owing 20 the
mer having submitted TO a reduction Of
wages......A Calcutta dispatch says the King
OF Burmah has summoned all Of his men
70 arms, and that the excitementis increas.
/ iDg.....A battalion Of Zouaves and skir.
miShers on the way from Aumele ~ Bagber
Algeria, was caught between Sonaki and
/ Soukeltleta on the 2sth Of March In q
snow storm, and nineteen men perished.
Fourteen others are in the hospital.
E'iros.
The Licking County Court.house. At
Newark, Ohio, was lately injured by Ere
and water IN the extent Of about szSO00
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