West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-03-22
NEwsy NOTES.

Az "ink lake" has been discovered Il. 600
RADIO.
TuERE arc SoIOio acres OF artificial forest
in Kansas.
DE BRAzzA. tho explorer, has returned 10
Paris from Central Africa.
THE latest census OF the Russian Empire
shows q population OF los, JS5, ,2B5.
THERE is movement to have Congress
ISSUE S'o,pOO,OOO fractional currency.
MEN arc dcserting by tho hundreds now
from tho great European armies.
\ VIOLENT sand storm has been raging In
Egypt, stopping traffic on the Suez Canal.
SEVENTY officers and men arc implicated
In the robbery OF Government stores In Lon,
don.
In is said in England that the Russian
wheat crop this year has been better than for
ton years.
liz is proposed 10 reorganize the United
States signal Corps aud accomplish n saving
Of Sl2OOOO annually.
EXTREME activity prevails at all OF the
French arsenals, and lighting feet IL being
prepared for active service
FARMER HANNA, OF Indiana, buried two
pounds of dynamite with his daughters re.
mains TO keep OIL body snatchers.
TIm German Government win take part
officially in the Paris Exposition by sending
exhibits TO the fine art department.
VARIOUS valuablo' which were presented
TO tho Pope ns jubilee offerings have been
stolen, among the rest chalice worth &c.
000
An LIN SIN. the richest Chinaman IN San
Francisco. is millionaire, and there is a
Chinaman in Loporte. Cal. whose fortune
Is reckonod at S2,O00,O0O
MAGISTRATES BENJAMIN WEssoy was shot
and instantly killed at Olive Branch Miss
by County Surveyor w. III. Moody, in a
quarrel over load OF wood.
Dr. SCorT's twelve-year-o son found a
stick OF dynamite IA his fnther'e office at
bherman, Texas, aud attempted to whittle "A
whistle out OF it, whom it exploded and blew
oil both his hands,
TuE sum OF 81, $50 has boon set aside by the
An -ric0n Baseball Association for prizes for
the leading clubs nc the end of this seasons
play. The money is divided into sums OF
$1,000, $3.50 and $500
a TRAIN on the Alabama and Great South
crn Railroad dashed through drove OF fifty
mules at Akron recently and killed eight OF
them outright. The locomotive kept ON It's
way without leaving tho rails.
A SUBMARINE cable has been laid across
the Formosa Channel, from Keeling.
Formosa, TO Foochow, ON the China main
land, thus bringing Formosa into talegraphic
communication with Chinn, Europe and
America
CHINESE woman who kidnapped two
married women at Shanghai and took them
60 San Francisco, whore they were sold on
returning TO Shanghai was arrested and
broken over tho wheel. After two days of
fearful agony she died.
FARMERS of New Jersey are bitterly com
planning that tho insects are DESTROYING their
fruit trees aud fruit and want Something
done 60 oxterminate tho sparrows which
they say are driving away the blue birds
robins and other insecteating birds
ELMER @. GUNNER was recently killed AZ
Cadillac, Mich, by q locomotive that had
been named II. G. GUNNER, after its un-
fortunate victim. Since the accident the,
engine has been retired from service. TO re.
main ~ n monument 70 the memory of the
life it destroyed.
THERE were some wonderful escapes from
the recent storm at Mount Vernon, Illinois
One man found himself I'm the middle OF n
yard bowildered. He had been carried bv
the wind over two fences and beyond thu
place whore a house had stood A baby was
lost in tho whirlwind. 10 was found alive
and happy in a pasture, having been carried
10y tho wind over a block from its father and
mother.
THg famous Unieg1 states sloop OF war
X kearsargo, now nt the navy yard, Ports
mouth, N. H., Is TO bo repaired and refitted
ibis spring An engine from one of the
nj on up vessels ia Silly built during the
war viii be placed i'm the ke0rsaTRe
GIDEON HILL, a Greene County (ObioD
farmer, claims 800 acres OF the finest farnl-
ing lands in Madison and Fayette counties,
that state. under land patent granted by
John Quincy Adams when President