West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-12
South and wcst.

MISS PHRBE COUSINS has announced her
self as an independent Prohibition candidate
for Governor Of Missouri in the coming cam
paign.
A RIVAL Of the Mammoth Cave has been
found ON the farm of Ben iamin WILSON, near
Bloomfield Ky. The cave is fully seven miles
IN extent aud rs said 90 contain many rcllcg
of the prehistoric cave man.
DURING 1857 the new mileage constructed
OF railroads in the Southwest aggregated
1896 miles Kansas is far ahead of any
other Stnte.
ANOTHER handsome ice palace is in course
OF erection at St Paul
JoHN SrRICKL ANp, twenty years old, was
hanged in Conway = G., for numbering his
stepmothcr, and n similar fate befcl William
Flnchman, at Harrisonburg, Va. FOR tho
murder of his brother.
PARTIES to a bitter legal fight were ar
rested and brought before Justice Haynes
worth at sumter, $. G.. They began TO fire
upon each other and killed the Justice ID.
r. Kills, one Of the parties and a bystander
were fatally wounded Several other men
were dangerously wounded.
THE floor Of n crowded colorod Baptist
Church at Forgetown, Ala. gave way, and
the building collapsed. Two women and n
child were killed, aud between twenty and
thirty persons were INJURED
FOURTEEN human kelotous were fonnd in
pit under the dwelling Of a half breed Sioux
Indian near Pierre. Dakota. The remains
were travellers who had been murdered and
robbed. The Indian had disappeared
HOSTILE Apachcs are on the warpath in
Arizona and have killed n number of trav.
elers.
FIRE nt Houmn, La. burned away
twenty business houses and lJJ dwellings,
causing an estimated aggregate Ices OF $50,
wEAK-NuNDED white man named WAL
drop was lynched mt Central s.. g.. by n
affffN Of colo g..
sault upon a thirteen year-olI coloro1 girl.
DURIvG political row in New Orleans
salOOn Police Comm ssioner Patrick Mcaley
and Mike Welsh were fatally wounded Dan
Markcy was shot in the mouth William
Delaney was cut il tho h1nd aud Louis Clare
was badly beaten
THREE members OF the notorious Kelly
family who had been numbering and robb'ng
travellers at their house ON the Tcxas bOr-
der, have been caught by vigIantc5 nnl
hanged. They were William Kelly. ng g'd
fifty four; his son "Bill. ." aged twenty am
daughter Kate, aZci eighteou. IN. oh
man cOnfcsse his family had murdered nine
men and two women.
Washington.
President DELANO, OF the National Wool
Growers AssO -iation, has issued u circular TO
the wool growers of the United states calling
for organization ~ resist any proposed abO-
litiOn Of the tariff on wool.
COUNTERFErr money captured by tho Sc
cret Service Bureau during the past year
amounted o. sl0s, ,s3i COS.
President CLEVELAND denies tho report
that he would send n supplementary message
giving his views ON The tariff g. Congress.
COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. Of tho National
Bureau Of labor. reports that during the six
years ending December 5l, lbsG. there were
M this country 1906 str kos md lock outs.
involving - 1896 establishments During
1897 there we're about 80 strikes
THE past twelve months have b.cn tfo
greatest year in fha history of the Iuit.d
states Tor railrOli building. The total mil .-
age n new mlin truck lines being o.. l3i
miles
Two reports have boon submitted by tn1
Commissioners examining the affairs ~ Tho
Union Pacific Railway Company Jho ma
lOritY report fav0rs an adjustment Of the
Company dobts the minority report adyp
Gates n forfeiture of the Company charter
SENATOR HEARST. Of California, wants t0
increase the pensions of the lew remaining
veterans Of the war ~ 1872
THE total amount Of national hank notes
outstanding at tho beginning Of the ~ seut
year was f.GS JOS .3W
THE United State Treasury contained
S65', so, go at The beginning of The year
FIVE thousand persons inoludnx tho
Diplomatic corps. Army and Navy officers
supreme Court Justiacs. otc shook hands
with Tho President nud Mrs Cleveland re-
tho White House reception ON New Ye1.s
Mrs Cleveland was assisted BOD rocriving by
Miss Boyard, Mrs Foirchid and Mrs.
whitney.