The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-10-21
NEWS ITEMS.

all the principal cities and large towns
throughout Canada
Judge John Wickham, a prominent
member of the St Louis bar. Is dead.
aged 81. of paralysis
The American Telephone and Tele.
graph 10. will formally open their long.
distance line from New York 70 Chica.
go Thursday afternoon
Prince Pedro Of Coburg. Dom Pedro's
grandson. sbo was recently placed in
I the DOcbling Insane asylum, Is CON
stantiy raving violently.
Thursday morning fire destroyed
large part Of the business portion of
Hin City, S D. Ed Cunningham, an
old Black Hills miner was burned tc
death
The West Virginia university has con
ferred the degree Of IL d. upon Rev.
Stephen A, Hunter. missionary for thir-
teen years, of the Presbyterian board.
IN China
The loss by FIRE at salix. Ia, will
amount 10 $4,000. with an insurance
Of 81. 600 Only two elevators, church
and half a dozen residences escaped de-
struction.
LIMA Simpson, editor Of the Gazette.
published at Point Pleasant. w. Va. has
taken the stamp for the republicans
Her father IS 4 democrat and she has
challenged him for debate.
Peter Maher. the Irish champion, and
Joe Goddard. the barrier champion.
were matched Friday night To fight al
the Coney Island Athletic club for o
purse OF g.. 800 on December 5
a barn containing eight acres of to- I
hacco. belonging 10 Mr. T. sellers, Of
Henderson, Ky. burned This IS the
second barn Mr. Sellers has had burn
cd, and finishes his entire crop.
Kingsburg. Cal, Friday morning
suffered a destructive c0nfagration- /
The loss j. estimated at s5D.Cy5. Very
little Insurance All the buisness build
ings in the town were destroyed
Perth. Ont. Is engaged in making
mammoth cheese for the Chicago fair. .
Il will bo seven feet high and nine feet
In diameter. and will require for It's
making the milk Of six hundred cows
for three days
Mr.. II. + sunny. Of the Edison Gen
eral Electric Co. says there i no truth 4
in the report that Mr.. Edison i about
70 associate himself with MeSsrs. Wash
burn and Piliabury in the formation of
another company
, The Vienna fiacdTrespondcnf0 Of the Lon
don Daily News says that. owing % the
Threatening attitude of Russia. Austria
and Germany, Prince Ferdinand. OF
Bnlgaria. has decided % give up his
planto visit Constantinoplc
Al New Haven, Ct. two boys named
Martin l.eahy and Thos- f.edwi;h. were
arrested for setting fire 10 Hascomb's
shipyart, recently The police think
that these two, with seven o;hcr boys.
are responsible for several FIRES
The man Francois. who caused the
explosion in the restaurant Of VI. Very.
ia Paris, several months ago. by which
the proprietor aud a waiter were fatally
injured, was arrested in East London.
Eng, after desperate struggle
Il has been discovered that weeviI
has invaded the wheat bins Of farmers
in various portions Of Hancock county.
Ill, and as result thousands Of bush
els OF wheat have been thrown upon the
market By them at reduced price
The American Institute of Mining
Engineers, which has 3. 900 members ia
all parts of the world. opened its
session in Reading. Pa. Wednesday.
Two hundred members had already ar
rived, and many more are expected
Lathaire Bucher. the distinguished
scholar, statesman and diplomat. ISL
dead, at Berlin Prince bismarck has
telegraPhed 10 the Hamburger Mach
riehten: Il have lost my most faithfaI
friend. Bucher. Ny family IS dcsolate.- .
Arrangements are being made for the
establishment Of colony OF 1900 Japa-
nese in the state of Sinai6a, Mexico.
This movement IS the result OF an ex-
tended investigation made by the com
mission sent there by the japanese gov
srument several months ago.
After graduating from the Keelyl
so-called cure" for the appetite for
drink. Robert Gran. the theatrical man
lger, brother 70 Maurice Grau, returned
10 New York recently. But the cure
was n failure, and he IS now in Bellevue
hospital, being treated for prolonged
Iebauch-
T. D. Fulfori, the crack eastern trap
shot has challenged Jim Elliott who
holds the American field cup. to shoot
Eve races for the championship Of the
world. Elliott will accept the chal-
enge- The matches will probably take
place at Pittsburgh; Harrisburg. Kansas
Tity. indianapolis, Cincinnati and Cleyc-
and
Another case of mutiny exactly sim
liar to that which occurred few days
ago at Windsor has occurred at Ports
mouth, Eng. The Thirteenth company
has been compelled to attend number
IF extra drills, which the men claim
we're entirely unnecessary. The har-
iesscs belonging to the horses of the
had been SO badly cut that
they are worthless /.
The national officers of the Union
Veteran Legion of America Were elected
II Thursdays session of the sixth an
lual encampment, rs follows; National
VIM II. Tucker, Indian
Seggs Cincinnati; junior vice com
nander, H h Sloan. Indiana, Pa: Sur ;
,eon general, Dr. Winfield Norcrcss.
lewiston. Me; chaplain-in-chief. John .
\. Danks. Pittsburgh n
Fred burgess. Of Elk Garden, W. Va,
miner, climbed after some coons in .
rec, and when 50 feet up limb broke
md he fell, receiving some injuries. A
ew days before his clothes wers strip
'ed off by catching in the tumbling nod I
4 thrashing machine,
Martin Peterson. by his next best
ricnd, Peter johnson. asks Judgment ;
n suit taken mp ut Goshen, Ind.
Thursday against the Lake Shcre Rail-
Dad Co, for $4,000. for the loss OF 7,
10Th arms lie alleges that he was ,
'ushed OH a moving train, and, falling {
'ctween the cars had both arms ;
so badly that amputatiOn was
necessary.
At Columbus lo.l Edward Herman, a