West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-03-01
NEwsY NOTES.

The Italian troops arc building railways
In Abyssinia.
Iowa has $50 butter Gro lmerieJ ami 0j
cheese factorieA
THE German Crown Prince IL now able 10
take solid food.
CANADA is preparing an extensive system
OF coast defenseS
TdERE is no silver coin In Peru, and plpr
money wont pass
d.. HANSEN, OF Norway, har como to this
country 10 study leprosy.
THE surplus of tho wheat crop OF this
country last year was l0I0OJ, CO.. bushels
KRUPP has received orders from Austria
for 100 siege guns, To cost 3, 3,h0J,0JO norinS
LIrrLE Jos,f Hoffman, musical phenomo.
non, has been received Mt the Whit, House.
ToNQUiN advices say that eighteen French
soldiers were recently shot at ono time for
desertion.
DURING January there were 37T fires h.
New York city, the largest monthly record
in its history.
ERNEST BRocK, thirteen years old, lied
in Chicago, OF hydrophobia. lie hal been
bitten by dog.
ENORMOUS avalanches along the line OF tho
Arlberg Hallway, Austria, have resulted In
serious loss OF life.
IN 1873 the United Statos pensions
amounted To S2J 100000. This year $50 600,
900 nr1 asked for.
II is reporte that Russia and Franco are
about to conclude tralty OF n llinncc similar
TO that between Austria and Germany.
IN one night, recently, ST persons were
arrested in ~. Petersburg, Russia, on sus
picion of completely with Nihilist schemes
AN undertaken and n grave digger in Hun.
gary p1o'e their issues an poisoned OF
fourteen pc ,ple before their plan was discov
cred
SCARLET fever is prevailing TO such an
extent at Pan1, ON the Ohio and Mississippi
road. that the public schools have been
closed.
MISS SUSAN Ia FLEscHE, an Omaha
Indian maiden, is studying medicine as the
ward OF tho Connecticut Indian AS )cia-
tion.
THs Mississippi Legislature has adopted a
new constitution for the StIte aud IL will be
ratified by tho people at n spScIal ele ,tion
August I.
Two cowboys named Arthur an1 Potts at.
tempted 20 run the town OF Buffalo Gap,
Dakota, and the citi ems turnsl out i'm force
and killed both Of them.
THE people OF Exeter, N. H., are going TO
celebrate In June naxt the p lth anniversary
uf the settlement OF their town, and have all
tho arrangements now made.
TRAIN DISPATCHER MACE, OF Homes lale
lenns VINO caTeloasy BhNo OrierS winch
wrecked two engines aud killed two men,
went crazy over his mistake.
THE Chicago police discovered gaug Of
youthful bandits in cave un Ter the sile.
walk. They arc all under fifteen years OF
age and are desparate characters
DURING a recent storm mt he mouth Of the
Columbia river In Oregon, the waves dashed
over tho top OF thS ii ;hthoIsc, 100 feet above
the sea level, and extingu.shc the light.
GEORGE W. DARRow, n prominent hotel
keeper of Union City, Penn, while returning
homo from Eric, slipped over n bank in a
secluded spot aud, receiving such INJURIES as
prevented his helping himself, was frozen 10
death.
WOLVES have become dangerously numcr.
ous i'm tho vicinity OF 81. Cloud. MINI, an |
several beasts made n raid on iIunstiger &.
Lemmersens pig pen, almost within the city
limits, and destroyed nearly 200 pounds OF
live hogs.
"OLD BUcEsKfN" tho horse ridden by
Lieut.. l.. j. Baker. Of Lansing Mich, IN the
pursuit and capture Of j. Wilkes Booth
died there recently His sdin will be
mounted and placed on exhibition In the
State Museum