West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-16
NEwsY NOTES.
PHILADELPHIA has $50 churches.
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PHILADELPHIA has 800 churches.
Texas has $500 miles OF railroad.
KANsAs is developing extensive salt
fields
Hot winds have damaged tho Kansas
crops.
CONGRESS has appropriated "a, go for
big guns.
THE German Emperor was hissed at
Copenhagen.
YELLOW FEVER has appeared in the In
terror OF Cuba
CABLE rates have advanced to twenty five
cents per word.
IRELAEp's butter export 10 England Ii 40, .
O6O.0O0 pounds per year
THE Hebrews in New York city have dou-
bled i'm number since 1880.
WITHIN seven years over 1000 national
banks have been established.
Ex-GovKRNoR PORTER declines 10 DO a
candidate in Indiana this fall.
OVER S14, 900, 600 was paid out during tho
month OF July for pensions.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER does not propose
10 take tho oath Of Office until October
CROMWELL Comm pickling firm will
salt dOypa 100000 cucumbors this year
EEw oil pipe line from Lima, Ohio. TO
South Chicago 2O6 miles long, has just been
competed.
THg Connecticut Democratic State Con-
veution has been called % meet at Hartford,
September g.
ELEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND dozens is the
estimated output Of canned peaches for Bal
timore this season.
TIE Car has given q farewell audience 60
Mr.. Lotbrop, who has just resigned tho
American mission 81 Russia.
HINDOsTAVEE merchant has como TO
New York with fvo clerks 10 open a shop for
the sale OF HindOstanee goods.
TaE production Of anthracite coal TO date
Is 1905 53 tons. against 1888, lG1 tons tbs
corresponding period last year.
A GOLD mine near Sitka, Alaska Is said 10
be the greatest producer in the world. Tho
monthly output Is worth $1,000
THERE were 9O,G2i paupors, besides luna
tics and vagrants, In tho 3,5l5 900 inhabitants
Of London In the first week OF July.
UNifKD STATES COSsULs IN Italy have
formed n society 60 encourage commercial
relations between the two countries
CHICAGO Is ovorrun with myriads OF sand
flies. which extinguished the electric lights
and greatly annoyed patrons Of hotels
~ is said that moro than 1000 cattle have
been stolen during the last three months by
'uplandors' Ia the Bald Knob region Of Mis-.
souri,.
RUar has appeared on the wheat i'm No.
braska, and fields that lately promised a pho.
nomcnal yield, 10 is now thought, will not
bring n half crop.
TaE Department Of Agriculture will have
$4,000 ~ eXpeud I'm sorghum sugar expert.
monig Ia New Jersey, Kansas, ioxas and
Louisiana this year.
THERE have been shipped into Montana
within the past fortnight 1000 cattle from
Texas. most Of WHICH will DO put upon the
ranges OF Eastern Montana
THE Canadian iails contain no present no
murdorers under sentence Of doath Tho OF
hcinis iu the Department ~ Justice say that
this incident is without precedent
Russian preparations Tor war are aga.u
active. The bin which has made an immsdi
ato increase In tho army OF 400 90 vii
eventually increase it BY 10000
THE widow OF q man who died 40 Ellenville
~ ", Tho other day confessed thot he was a
professional grave rObber To took iewsiry
from the dead and silver plates and handles
from The caskets.
TnE eighty fifth annivorsary Of the birth
Of John Ericsson. the mgn who royolufionizaa
naval warfare and ocean steam trausporta
tiou. was celebrated in n quiet way at hu
homo in New York.
Hiram 8 Thomas, handsome color.
ed man, for many years head waiter AZ
The Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, IS
now proprietor Of that hotel. The sys-
tenn Of tipping prevails extensively at
Saratoga.