West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-02
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Pinkston, colored, who figured
prominently as witness in 1916,
died in Jail at Canton. She was
but a pauper.
New York, April 25.-Judge
Barrett, of the Supreme Court, re-
fused to admit "Owney" Geoghegan
to bail pending appeal. He holds
Geoghegan was righteously con-
victed of allowing minors to fire.
quent his notorious resort.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April %. AT
the second annual Convention of
the Ministers Temperance Associa-
ton of Kentucky, in session in this
city, General Green Clay Smith,
pastor of Baptist Church in this
city, was elected to preside over
the Convention. In accepting the
position, he said he wanted no com
promise on the whisky question,
but absolute prohibition. No bust
ness was transacted beyond perfect
ing the organization. The Con-
vention will probably remain in
session several days,
ANNAPOLIS, MD, April 25.-Wm,
Pack, for whipping his wife, was
given twenty lashes. This is the
first enforcement of the law pun
ishing wife heaters in this coun-
try.
DETROIT, Mich, April 25.--In
the Legislature this forenoon the
prohibition amendment to tie Con-
stitution was taken up in the Sen
ate, put on its passage, and lost by
20 to l1-not two-thirds-nearly a
strict party vote. The matter was
then reconsidered, and that and
the proposition providing for local
option was laid on the table for fu-
ture action. The action of to-day
is considered to have settled the
impossibility of CARRYING prohibi-
ton in this Legislature.
KNOXVILLE, April 24.-W. B.
Staley, son of Judge Staley, com
mitted saicide at the residence of II
young lady who refused to marry
him This was the third attempt
. take his own life for the same
cause. Staley was 20 years of age
and lawyer.
OFFICIAL TMBER.-The Richie
Gazette give us this;
Mr.. T. P. Jeffrey, of Ellenboro,
was the recipient lately of the fol-
lowing from an Indiana recorder,
which shows they must be hard up
for official timber out there.
"Sir your mortgage to hand
which the fee is one Dollar & 25
cents which / Demand in advance
before | Dwo the Recording if you
ont it Recorded Pleas Send $1.25
Rite away yours"
REDWOOD. In Humboldt county,
California, the whole area of the
Redwood forest has been mapped
and plotted There are something
over 100000 acres of that timber in
that county alone. DISTINGUISHED
experts estimate 100000 feet of
lumber per acre as an average, if
not small yield. At $18 per
1000 feet. the redwood of Hum
boldt county alone would just
about pay the present national
debt.
The worlds product of lead last
year is estimated by Herr Lands
berg at 100000 tons. China and
Japan are not included as pro
ducers of this metal, although the
proba bility is that their output of
lead is very large every year.
Hamburg Lake, near Lake City,
Florida, , sheet of water of about
forty acr IS, is being drained by an
underground outlet. The water
rises again in stream six miles
from the lake. Another lake near
by ran dry in 1852. but has since
filled up again. Lake Tuskawilla,
in the southern part of Alachua
county, now deep lake and full of
fish, was dry for several years, and |
used as cultivated field.
J. M. Walters, General Job Prin-
ter, IS Market street. Every de-
e