West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-24
THE NEWS BPITOMIzED.
Eastcrn aud Middle States.

A PIERCE storm ragged or tho Massa
chusetts coast and did much damage 20
shipping.
A WOMAN named o'Brien was killed with
her babe 10y falling from the roof OF tenc
ment house In New York city.
THR American Board OF Commissioners for
Foreign Missions began their annual session
I'm New York city
THE Episcopal General Convention In New
York city decided that IL was i'm favor of
further revision of the Prayer Book.
Mons thnn three fourths of the private hand
actually needed for the great fair of 1892 In
New York city has already been voluntarily
offered 10y property owners.
THE annual meeting of the Republican
clubs of New Jersey was held in Elizabeth.
THE schooner Laura capsized in the East
River, close TO New York city, aud three
sailors were drowned
THE first general assembly of the Demo.
cratic societies of PennsylVania was opened
I'm Philadelphia.
The United States steamship Pensacola
has sailed from New York with the African
Solar expedition on board
THE entire plant of the Brush Electric
Light Company, OF Boston, Mass, has been
sold 10 the Thomas Houston Electric Com
pany for about So $50, 600
GOVERNMENT control OF timber land was
urged before the Forestry Congress at Phila.
delphia.
THREE lads each about eighteen years OF
age, were run over by locomotive at IIud
son, N. Y, and were oil killed.
Ex-GovERNoR JoHN +. HARrRANFr. of
Pennsylvania, died at his home in the sixticth
year of his age
BY tho breaking of scaffold at Bethlehem
Penn, two men were killed aud three severe
ly injured.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN AMOS j. CUMMINGS has
been nominated by the Tammany Hall Con
vention of the Ninth Congressional District
To I'LL the vacancy caused by the death OF
Congressman 3. y. Cox.
Sonth ana West.
THE total vote for Governor IN South
Dakota shows: Mellette (Repl, 90, 1919; Me-
Clure (Dem), %, AL. For prohibition the
vote was 80, 300, and against, 38, 456. Tho
contest for the temporary capital resulted i'm
Pierres getting 2L008 votes, TO l40i4 for
Huron. 1870 for Watertown, IL 763 for
Sioux Falls, 1916 for Mitchell and 24l4 for
Chamberlain.
AN engine at Heinleins sorghum mills at
Bucyrus Ohio, exploded, killing the engineer
and two other men.
DAVID MENcIA and his son, Alphonse.
quarreled OH their ranch near San Antonio.
Tex, and the father was killed and the son
fatally wounded
Born parties at last accounts were claim
ing the Montana Legislature.
DIR. w. M. TETT, of Nicholson, Miss, quar-
relied with II. G.. Collins and shot him dead.
A few minutes after he met the same fate Dt
the hands OF j. w. Turner, Collinss brother
in-law.
THE nine-yeaT-old daughter OF q. 6.
Brown, q farmer living near Harrington,
Kan, fell into vat of boiling sorghum and
was scalded 10 death.
FIVE THOUSAND railroad brakomen assem-
bled in ST. Paul Mimi, 90 attend tho second
annual convention OF the Brotherhood and
had an imposing parade.
NINE men and three women, all colored
have been arrested, charged with robbing
over 100 residences and business houses in
Charlotte. NC. Robbery is capital offense
in North Carolina
THE stem Of the new coast-defence vessel
has been successfully cast at the Pacific Roll
ing mills In San Frarcisco. Sixteen thousand
pounds Of molten steel were poured into the
mould for the stem.
ROBERT BEHRIRR, who shot and killed his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Waller, near Lexington,
N. e., was captured near Greensboro and
taken 10 Lexington where hc was hanged 10
tree on the outskirts of the town.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF an English syndicate
have purchased the three largest breweries
In Indiana, all situated in indianapolis.
A FRIGHTFUL collision hns occurred Al
~
Union Pacific passenger train, In which about
thirty passengers were killed and many in-
jured.
In fight between members OF the Farm
ers' Alliance and the town party at DOtheu,
Ala, two men were killed and several Sc
verely injured.
THK Ohio River steamboat Minnie Bay
bound from Manchester 20 Cincinnati with
l25 passengers aboard struck snag opposite
Moscow, Ohio, and sank. The passengers
and crew were saved.
WHILE Ave men were digging a large well
at the Victor coal mines Ia Colorado. the
walls caved In, killing two white men and
one negro.
PAUL McBmDE, son OF a wcll-kuown st.
Louis lawyer, while drunk shot and instant
ly killed Frank LOTUS, n fireman, who acct
dentally jOstled against him on the street.
LEssIEG, SOLOMON e. RosENTHAL, whole
sale dealers in dry goods and cotton in
Waco, Texas, have suspended, with liabilities
Of nearly " 100000.
GOVERNOR Hill. Of New York. spoke toa
large crowd at the Atlanta Exposition.
Two bands Of brigands are raiding Came
ron County, Texas. Many murders and rob
berries are reported, and the people Of the
county arc in n state Of terror.
GREAT destitution prevails among the
farmers Of Central Dakota caused by the al
most total failure II crops. Many are with
out wheat corn or vegetable. A relief com
mittee has been organized
john OsLEN and William Draper have
been hanged at Piacerville Cal. for tho
murder Of John Law. ! VI. Myers was
hanged for participating i'm tho same crime
some time ago.
Mrs SCHOLL, of Santa Ana. Cal muir
derod her two children 90 prevent them from
falling into the hands Of her husband from
whom She was divorced. She afterward at
tempted 81 take her own life
ONE man has been killed and several fatally
injured in a railroad wreck At Lebanon,
Ind.
p. r. KnBALL, United states District At
tOrncy for tho Western District Of Missouri
has died in Kansas City.
BY the explosion Of boiler in saw-miH
at Marshall, IT,, two men were killed. and
three badly injured.
JANIS HICKEY, who had confessed 10
being concerned IN some brutal murders
was iynchod IN Chiffon County, Ala
r. j. PErrIGREw and Gideon g. Moody
have been elected United States Senators ~
she South Dakota Legislature.
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