West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-11-16
NEWS IN BRIEF
Domestic, Foreign and Political.
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NATHAN S8KoLNT was arrested at Boston
, ON the 9Th, charged with extensive forger.
les In Bromberg, "rn5sia. Szkolny was for
many years in the banking business. Be.
I coming financially embarrassed, it is al.
iesed ne forged accoptancss 10 the amount
OF nearly $4,000.
a CHICAGO, Rock Island aud Pacific
tain coilided with freight train at Chi.
eago on the eth. Six persons were 90.
riously injured.
TWO men named Oleson and Nelson,
Swedes, Were suffocated by gas in well
at Painted Woods, Oak, few days ago.
H. CLAY MCGEE, farmer, living near
Kansas City, Mo-, on the sth cut the
throats of his wife, Oldest daughter, and
then his own. All were dead when found.
he was insane.
AT the wedding of Alexander l.. Stauss,
in Erie Pa, on the Sth, "a colored waiter
named Jones picked the groom's pocket Of
S-O'oOo In bank notes and checks, which
were afterwards found under the doorstep.
NEW York bignmist named LOYAL La
Iouche, has been sentenced TO Sing-SinE
prison for four years.
DUEL was fought with swords At Chan.
ultepec, Mexico, on the Sth between Deg.
heest, OF the American National Bank,
and Oliver French merchant. The lat.
ter was killed, and Degheest badly wound.
est The trouble grew out OF dispute re.
garding seats at the races, and led to Deg
heest receiving several challenges He had
arranged for another duel to-day.
DISPATCH from Vicksburg, Miss, says
the Senate Committee, ,Iwho are examining
river improvements, arrived there on the
sth and gave the Government work at that
point thorough inspection. The commit
tee expressed satisfaction with the work at
the different points examined by them, and
approved the plans OF the River Commis.
sion.
AN order has been granted at Boston dis
solving the Palestine Railroad Company.
Inc road was originally designed TO run
from Cairo, Egypt, 20 Jerusalem.
BAD feeling has existed for some time
between City Marshal Cannon, Of Hearne,
Tex, and Albert Bishop, promising
young lawyer. a fow days ago Cannon,
pistol in hand, followed Bishop into yard,
where the lawyer unexpectedly produced a
double-barreled shotgun, and perforated
cannon with twenty nine buckshot, killing
him instantly. Cannon has been Marshal
four years, during which time he killed
two men.
THE roof and inside walls Of the new
south-wing OF the Capitol building at Mad.
ison, Wis, fell on the afternoon of the 8th.
Four men were killed and twenty injured.
some Of them fatally. The cause OF the
disaster is not known.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF firms throughout
the country engaged in the manufacture Of
barb-wire fence, met in Chicago on the Sth
10 determine the amount Of royalty they
will pay the Washburn g. Moen Company,
which practically controls all the barb
wire patents. IL was resolved TO offer the
company thirty cents per hundred weight
instead of seventy-fve cents, which they
have been paying. committee was ap.
pointed 20 make the proposition to the
company.
HoLLISGER's store at Lincoln, Pa, was
robbed by burglars few nights ago. A
large party Of citizens went i'm pursuit and
overlook the thieves at Welsh Mountain.
In the fight which followed, the leader Of
the robbers was killed, one captured and
one Of the party Of citizens fatally wound
ed. The rest of toe thieves, four in num-
ber, escaped.
A GANG Of expert thieves are working
Pittsburg and vicinity. They entered the
store of Samuel schultz, few miles from
the city, on the 18th, hauled his safe out OF
the building on planks, blew IL open with
powder, and got 5000 in cash and jewelry.
THE Chicago police on the 9Th arrested
twelve mombers Of what is thought TO be
thoroughly organized gang Of shop-lifters.
Their leader, woman known as "Mother
Weir" was among those arrested and two
thousand dollars worth of stolen goods
found on her premises. 10 is estimated
that the pcculations OF the band, nearly
all of whom are women, amount TO fifteen
thousand per month.
AS a solution Of the fence.cutting diff
Guilty I'm Texas It is proposed 10 increase
the penalty for that ofrense, and fix pom.
atty for inclosing land without authority,
and place the venue Of all such cases at
Austin, whore convictions are certain, the
juries there not being swayed by tho SEN
timent which renders fence-cutters' con-
victi0ns so difficult in the disturbed
counties.
COLONEL J. CoNDr SMITH, once Quarter.
master Of General sherman corps, and
an extensive railroad builder, died in New
York ON the 0,h
Az old charge Of stealing n suit Of clothes
nt Erie, Pa, has been revived against State
Senotor-elect Fassett (Republican). Of the
n NAIIN HN.IHH l NNsI DiaNIIHts a ~ fiIDrt lE
being made 10 prevent him from taking his
sent.
THE steamer City Of Peking hns brought
70 San Francisco one hundred and seventy.
six Cinnamon, who are oil provided by the
Chinese Government with Graders" Ger.
ti6cates emitting them 10 land.
GLASS importers in the East are suspected
Of Offering financial aid to the disaffected
operatives in the Pennsylvania fac.
tories in case they should 60 out on long
strike.
a GALE at Buffalo, N. y, on the 9th
blew down n four.story building which
was undergoing repairs. Five workmen
were killed and seven others seriously in.
jured.
THE main walls Of the Mormon Temple
iu Solt Lake were completed on the 9th
They arc ~ solid granite, cighty-ave feet
high and ten feet thick, and were begun
twcnty-eight years ago. The cost thus TAR
has been ,it0),o0O.
a DEATH from yellow fever occurred in
tbo Charity Hospital no New Orleans ou
Che 0th. The victim was q child belonging
to au italian family of immigrants who
recently arrived from Vera Cruz.
a MEs. SCorr, Of Now York City, has so-
cured @ divorce from hcr husband on ac-
count Of q quarrel, which began iu the hus.
bands inability 70 buy her scalskin
sacquc.
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