West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-11
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a. 'ue shHlpON very fatal in
that province. Deaths in the Capital
number six hundred daily. Distress i'm the
interior rs appalling. People devour car.
ron aud DO lies of the dead ......J Judge Ran.
uall mas opened courtin Breathitt County
NY and the soldiers have arrested three or
iour oil the ringleaders i'm the late troubles
order may be said TO be teuiporar;lv re-.
stored. Judge Randalps court. however
sauNlscd To transact what business il has
on hand while the militia are present..
me IT. Louis Globe Democrats special says
the Courthouse at Maysviue DeK ain
County, Mo was burned, and all the county
records, excepting those of the Circuit
'Ierk ana treasurer, were DESTROYED. The
VaIue oil the property consumed is said to
be worth 100000. Ex. Congressman
owen Jones started from his residence 2.
Nlnnewood, Pa, to visit "A neighbor. and
was found before midnight frozen to death
by the roadside. Deceased represented the
ruin Pennsy lyania District i'm the Thirty.
NTH Congress. Cause OF death, apoplexy.
Two freight trains on the Crank Trunk
colided at Trenton, Ont, killing Hugh
McGregor, fireman, and Thomas Gamble,
brakeman ........A six-year old girl OF John
Meningitis, a miner, of Zileski, Ohio, was
burned to death recently. She was left in
charge of the house while her mother was
absent for short time and when she re
turned found the girl in the yard, burned SO
she was lifted. Her injuries we're such that
she lived hut about five hours How she
was burned is unknown.
Cleveland has completed and dedicated
the new viaduct connecting the cast and
west portions of the city. The work is over
half mile long, sixty feet wide, and cost
two and a quarter millions
Henry Smith, middle-aged man, dressed
ms a Roman Catholic priest, who repre.
sented himself to be Broth er Sinnott. did n
profitable business in New York and
Brooklyn for three months past, collecting
subscriptions from servant girls. He is i'm
Jam now. Kew. Joseph Cook spoke. a
lew nights since, of tue danger to which the
republic Will be subjected il Utah should
ne admitted rs Il State while polygamy re.
mains as one OF its institution, He re.
viewed the rise and progress of the Mormon
religion, and declare4 there had been more
Mormon marriages IN Utah within the last
Two years than ever before in the same
length of time.
The National Executive Committee of the
Socialistic Labor party has issued an ad.
dress to the sections and the working peo.
pie generally, calling for the Simultaneous
holding OF public mass meetings in all parts
OF the country on the 18th of January. for
the purpose of condemning the action of
the German Government in stpprpssing the
freedom OF speech and OF the press ....
ne citizens OF Cincinnati have subscribed
800 600 for the building Of Exhibition
Dulidlngs IN connection with the Music
nan Reuben Springer gives $4,000 add.
uonal' and the project is now considered a
certainty, at cost Of $3.50. OO...A rch.
bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, having senti
his resignation of the Office to the Pope.
petitions are being signed by large numbers
OF persons requesting the Archbishop ia
reconsider vii
rope to refuse to accept the resignation.
Inc pedestrian contest between O'Leary
ana Campana closed on Saturday evening
the 18th inst, at Gilmore's Garden. New
lork. The Garden looked like a very full
menagerle. 1t was thronged and everv
man present who could afford a CIGAR was
smoking one. The match was a fizzle. as
lbr as good distance was concerned for
OLeary only covered four hundred miles
WhiIe sport made but three hundred and
nlty-seven miles and two laps The widest
enthusiasm prevailed throughout the even
ing, and the walkers were cheered beyond
measure, although they did nothing ex.
traordinary............Mr Mrs. j. A. Utter
OF Peasant hin, Indiana, was burned
20 death by the explosion of a
OotIe oil alcohol ............The Emerson Piano
company, OF Boston, had their factory
burned recently, which caused a loss Of
@lUO,OOO and threw eighty-fve men out OF
mploymeut............Re Rev. James A. Dixon
inc gentleman connected with recent New
Albany, Indiana, scandal, attempted to com
nit suicide by taking strychnine at the
Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Friday night
............IwO men were burned to death Sat
urday morning in New York. They had
gone into a burning stable, owned by Will
lam r. hIdder, to rescue the horses, falling
IN which they persisted with the animals
:''',..'....A Sacramento dispatch saws the
bodies OF Allen Reynolds and wife were
Iound IN their house. They had MT been
seen Tor several days The cause OF their
"eatn was pOlsOn-a supposed case Of wife
luufutf ana Lulclde............At dance two
miles northeast OF Bunker Hill, Indiana
Allen Cunningham, aged about thirtv.6ye'
called George Daniels, aged sixteen or sew.
ehtten, out and began beating him. STATING
II was Tor making fun Of his sister. where.
upon Daniels drew a revolver and shot
cunningham, killing him instantly. Daniels
was arrested Immediately. ........... Maggie.
Lahere, Peoria (Iil.) girl, claims 10 have
been kidnapped late at night by a couple OF
masked men. Alter chiOrOfOrmiDp her they
TOOK her into the country, and. alter tviue,
her . tree, set fire d her clothes. Con.
sciOnsness then returned and with the
names she burned the ropes that bound her
hands, and with snow ex'inguishcd the fire.
FARMER came along soon after. and bearing
her cry, took her % his residence BEING
Aken home she relapsed into an uncon-
sciJus state.
The west.
Portland, Oregon dispatch SAYS Moses
with ten Of his principal men have been
taken. Moses and three men are now m
Yakima in confinement Scattering bands
are Fastening on 10 the reservation. they
-'y Tor protection. Not gun has been
fired.
The South.
Abe Rothschiid, the murderer OF Bessie