West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-11-09
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Domestic, Foreign and Political.
DONESTIE.

eh"t anu hlllcu at New Ork on the Slst bN
his mistress, Jennie Mitchell. The woman
claims IL was an accident.
Two masked men robbed tho vault Of
the County Treasury of Virginia City,
New, few nights ago OF 5000. They
overpowered the Treasurer and locked him
mp in the vault. The affair is considered
mysterious, as $4,000 OF the amount was in
silver and too heavy 70 carry OH.
The Detroit Free Press and the Post and
Tribune have reduced in price from Eve 10
three cents per copy.
TRAGEDY resulted from a game Of Gro.
quet near Woodbury., n. j., few days
since. Rudolph Hines became angry be-
cause his wife beat him at the game, and
kicked her with his heavy cowhido boot.
She became unconscious and died soon
after.
The libel suit OF the Allan Steamship
Company for $4,000 damages against tho
Montreal Witness (newspnper), was de.
cided in favor of the newspaper.
THE fence-cutting troubles in Texas are
believed to have been adjusted, and no
further trouble is anticipated.
GANG OF ten counterfeiters, whom a
Government detective has been watching
Tor months, have been captured in Pike
County, Ind
NEW liGht-buoys, from England. are to
be anchored OF Cape Lookout, the Diamond
Shoals and Cape Hatteras, which are sup.
piled with condensed fat gas. They will
burn day and night for four months with.
out attention, and can be seen a distance
of ten miles.
The steamer Katie Z. Kountz and cargo
was destroyed by fire iR the Mississippi
River, at Davis Landing, twenty miles
ahOUa nr1 mn
was valued at $4,000, and insured in East.
ern offices for $4,000.
As THE freight train on the Southern Pa.
cihc was crossing the Santa Anna River
bridge near Canton, Cal, on the 1st, a car.
wheel broke. Eighteen cars were precip-
itated into the river. The loss was heavy.
Two tramps were killed and two brake.
men injured.
IHE double team, II. b. Winship and
Hiram Bruce, made their mile at Nara.
gansett Park on the 1st, in 2:IOsf. II is
the best time ever made by double team.
and is within half second OF Maud s. .
best time.
The New York Chamber OF Commerce
mas adopted resolutions strongly condemn.
ing the watering Of stocks by corporations.
ana iaNoring reduction in city postage.
a committee was appointed to prepare
plan for National bankrupt law.
steve" Raymond, the English forger,
convicted at New York for passing a forged
coupon OF the Union Pacific Railroad, was
sentenced 10 the Penitentiary for life.
The Post-ofiice at Haverhin, Mass, was
entered by burglars few nights ago. the
safe blown open and five hundred dollars
In cash and one thousand dollars in STAMPS
stolen.
AT Richmond, Va, Chris. Baker and
WIN. Burnett, colored, were arrested on
the @Oth while moving the body of dead
pauper through the streets on a wheel.
barrow. The body was stolen from the
morgue. David Parker, the keeper of the
morgue, was also arrested.
CHRIST DICKSON was overcome nv fonl
air in n well at Allegheny CITY, Pa. on the
Both. Ferdinand Schradcr and Charles
Schultz went to his aid and all three per.
ished
LATEST information from the scene Of
the alleged race disturbance i'm Tcxas states
hot considerable excitement still exists.
but there IS no indication of violence or
rioting A meeting composed OF both
wnite and colored citizens was held nt
cameron on tho Goth, al which peaceful and
harmonious sentiments were expressed
hU-hLUN outrages continue in Georgia
III spite oi the recent convictions. Public
sentiment is represented rs favorable to
severe punishment Of such offenders.
BY an accident on the Northeastern Rail.
way in South Carolina the engineer was
killed and three colored men were injured.
Several cars were burned
Four popular young men OF Erie, Pa.
while duckshooting on the lake on the gd.
were all drowned. They were John w.
Eyster Giles Russell, Fred. C.. Kilsv and
Charles Brown.
The business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for tho seven
days ending the I'd, number 2ij, against
2ls the week previous
The physicians Of Milwaukee are bewi.
dered over the case Of girl thirteen years
Old whose legs below the knee are 90
sensitive that they can not be touched
between daybreak and midnight. but at
u O'Clock midnight becom. So inssusibis
TO feeling that tho strongest current of
electricity has no effect on them. She
walks and runs about al play in the dav.
time, but If she strike any object she is
thrown into paroTysms of agony While
the lower part of hor limbs are I'm this
condition her legs, from the knee up, are
completely dead. The disease came on
year ago. She is strong and healthy.
except for cataleptic commissions. Promi.
nent physicians OF other cities have oxam.
med the case, but failed 10 effect q cure.
The West Boylston (Nass) schools arc
closed, fifty cases of diphtheria having oe.
CURED within a week, with Eve deaths.
a RIOT occurred ON the 2l among labor
ers on the Schuylku Valley Railroad who
had been refused an advance in wages.
The participants were pursued by a strong
posse and twenty Of them arrested.
ATTORNEY JAMES YoUNG, Of Camden. n.
" was murdered q few days ago. and his
body thrown into tho Delaware River.
THE New York Grand Jury has made
presentment 20 the court, calling attention
to The practice of granting liccn cs to keen
saloons 20 notorious thieves and criminals.
Tho Grand Jury severely cc1sures thc *.
else commissioner, aud advises that such
licenses bo revoked.
THr entire Sophomore and Freshman
classes, Of RennsoIaer Polytechnic usff.
tute, iu Troy, N. Y., have bosu suspended
on account of struggle for % class banner.
in which two students were seriously iu
jurcI and prop soy destroyed
AcNrrE show opened in Kansas CITY ON
The 2d. I'm The street parade the Scotch
Pipers were put in the leod. followed bv
the Angus cattle, nnd after them by Che
imported G1Ilowoys Twenty .veu heif.