West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-02-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN BUDGET
important Facts Recorded In Con.
else Styl>.
Eastern and Middle state.

A NATIONAL anti saloon Republican con-
Terence will he held i'm New York City ON
April Is and 10
Owing To tho binding blizzard, the cngi.
neer OF fast freight on the Connecticut
River Railroad dashed into a gang of labor
crs at Holyoke Mas, killing Martin Griffin,
James Kennedy and John Shea, and fatally
mjuring Mike Connors
AN engine ON the Greenwich Railroad near
Philadelphia, dashed into n carriage contain
ing ms,iirs the Reys. Phillips Brooks, William N.
McNickar, Z. ID. Cooper and Miss McNickar,
tossing the vehicle fifty feet, but the occu.
pants were injured.
DANIEL REESE, Jr.. was killed and Mat.
thcw Davis, John McOliver, aud stephen
Ward fatally burned by a gas explosion at
Plymouth, Penn.
The Martha flats in New York City were
destroyed by iirc. rendering sixteen families
homeless. Several persons were rescued
from the flames 10y firemcn.
CHRISTIAN FrEcR, of Snowden. Penn,
murdered his wife with a shotgun i'm the
presence OF his six little children and then
committed suicide by shooting himself In the
mouth. He was miner and was insane
from poverty.
ware and Hudson Company was blown up by
the explosion OF am experimental heater it
was supplied with, and William Burt was
fatally injured.
TuE business houses of Urling & Sons,
Heercn Bros, and William Haslago * Sons,
were burned at Pittsburg, Penn, with n loss
OF S3b0.0OO.
BURNING nnphtha i'm the sewer at Bing-
hamton, ~ y, caused considerable damage
TO property and two men lost their lives.
IN Marbiehead. Mass. ,dphther.a Is epidemic
and twenty eight persons have died thus far.
DURING n fire at Norwich, Conn Fred w.
Splcer, fireman, slipped ON the ice and
struck his nose against the hydrant with such
force as to break his neck
HEAVY earthquake shock was felt at
many places in Rhode Island and Massa-
chusctts. Furniture was thrown down and
window glass broken in Newport, r. L. and
New Bedford, Mass. but no further damage
was done.
EDWARD WENTworH. of Sidney Centre,
Me-. attempted 10 kill his wife and thirteen
small children, when one OF his sons grabbed
the revolver and shot him dead
THE Retail Grocers of the United States
will hold pure food exhibition at Albany,
N. Y, in June.
TuE snow blockade made sad havoc with
the live stock EN- route to Eastern markets
from the West Tho animals were made
furious from hunger, and tore each other like
wolves. Thousands of them pcrished.
THE steamship Alexandria has arrived in
New York IIarbor badly battered by n hurri-
cane, which carried away the life boats, the
shrouds ana the rigging. She was sixty days
at the mercy Of the waves and added TO
this, smallpox broke out ON board and many
were taken i'll with il.
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, the eminent botan-
ist OF Harvard College, diel at his home in
Cambridge, Mass, mt the age OF seventy
seven.
THE suits for eviction against the miners
who ars on strike in tho Lehigh region,
were decided in favor OF tho strikers, by
Judge Woodward
BY she dcraiIment of train at Somerset,
N. V, two people were killed, and thirty
more or less injured
THE Paymastcr Of New York City lost n
satche containing Ss2j, 900, but IL was found
by stranger, who turnol IL over to the
authorities.
JOSEPH w. LoCnER, Of New York City,
was convicted OF stealing LETTERS from tho
Postoice, and when his mother heard the
sentence she fell deal.