Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-08-20
News Items.

ing 10 force an entrance Monday night
into the house of n. W. Baldwin,
Chicago, was shot dead by a son OF Mr.
Baldwin. Two accomplces escaped
A son Of Mr.. John Stephenson, OF
Frederick county, whilst handling a gun
last week, accidentally discharged it,
the load cutting off the point Of his lip
making a very serious wound.
AtMargarettsville, N. S., Wednes-
day, David Gates murdered his wife
and committed suicide in fit of lnsanl-
ty.
John McDermott was killed BY fall
ofroof rock in one Of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company's mines, at Pittston'
Pa.
AT Canton, Mo-, the Canton House,
several stores and all the fire apparatus
of the town were burned; loss 100000.
The ehio State Journal gives notice
to the republicans that the campaign OF
brag is exhausted, and, if they want to
win, they must do something besides
claiming 10000 majority.
Congressman Hooker, Of Mississippi.
saws "Tllden is not much talked about
in the South. lie has lost caste. He
is no: looked upon as favorably as he
used to be-"
Connecticut newspapers are now dis
cussing with some vigor the proposed
amendment TO the State constitution
making sessions of the. Legislature
biennial. The amendment will he
voted upon next autumn. Twenty-slX
States Of the Union already have adopt
edfamendments Of this kind.
1t is believed that James Orr, a boy,
and Miss Anna Flushing, passengers
on the steamer Stcinhoff which was
burned at Detroit, Mich, Wednesday,
persisted in the flames.
Peter Dunlap, farmer, was killed by
lightning near st. Mary's, Ont, while
entering his barn, Wednesday night.
Mrs. John Wrightman was killed by
lightning at East Durham, Ont, and
her house was badly shattered by the
bolt.
A telegram from Gen. Miles, dated
Fort Peck, August IL, says: "A de-
tachment Of the fifth infantry under
Lieut.. Whistler captured 81 Indians and
100 ponies from the Rosebud agency
who were on their way TO join Sitting
Bull"
Rev. Thomas B. Sargent, one Of the
best known and most highly esteemed
ministers oftbe Baltimore Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church |
South, died last Thursday at his home,
in Baltimore, Of apoplexy, after a brief
attack. He was in his seyenty>iith |
year.
The New England Girl certainly car
ries Of the palm for originality. a
young woman Of Wallinford, Conn.,.
was married the other evening, and
while the festivities that followed the
ceremony were at their height the bride
eloped with one of her old admirers,
who was among the guests.
The excursion Of representative col.
osed men from Mississippi to Kansas is
gotten up by the planters togiye them
Q chance to find out the actual state Of
affairs in that land Of Canaan, and re-
turn and report to their brethren
whether or not j! is a good thing 10
emigrats there. AS the excursions is
al cheap rate a good many white per-
sons accompanied them.
The wife OF Rev. Andrew Merkel,
rector OF Chester, n. S., was so badly
burned Wednesday that her life is des-
paired OF. She was riding IN carriage
with her husband, who was smoking
cigar, when q spark from the cigar igni-
ted Mrs. Merkel's clothing, and before
it could be extinguished her body was
badly burned. e
Lightning stuck an iron oil tank on
he Union Pipe Line, opposite Parker
Pa, owned by VIM. Munhall, Of Pitts !
bsrgh, and containing $4,000 barrels of
oil. The tank was torn TO pieces and {
The burning oil flowed down the hill II
,ide, destroying FIVE oil wells and five i
dwellings,, and communicating to a r
ank Of 5000 barrels of oil owned by
B. IL. Brown, which, with the leading
,ack of the Union Pipe Line Company,
rss destroyed. Total loss. $4,000.
The Winchester News states that a T.
was created last Saturday
light at the camp.meetiDg Of the NJ.
z. Church South, near Wildwood, Clarke !.
Co., by a party Of young men. A JUS a
ice Of the peace being present went out u
o quiet the row, when he was knocked =
Iown by one Of the crowd named =
randolph. Randolph was subsequent t,
Y arrested, tried, convicted, fined t
zoo and sentenced to six months in il
Ill. e.
The death Of Mrs. Nellie SartOris, n,
suehtsr of ex-Presldent Grant, is an y,
,ounced. The British Parliament has OF
cen prorogued' The Queens speech W
ad few listeners. James McHenry,
he well-known London 6nancler, has =,
lied liabilities s5,Oo0.00e. The Brit az az
h government is preparing a bin to be
Empower tie execution ola consular as
with the United States. "a
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