West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-08
South and West.

THE Hon John T. Clarke. Judge Of tho
Georgia Court, stepped OF the train al
Smithville, Ga, and was killed.
TOMMY WILLIAMS aged five, and his sister
Agnes, aged three, put lighted match IN
coal oil at Columbus, Ohio The cnildren
were 80 badly burned that they died in an
hour.
WHITE GHOST head chief Of tho Crow
Greeks, has signed the Sioux bill. Eo was
the bltterest opponent of the bill.
PRESIDENT FRANK BROWN, of the Denver.
Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, and
two OF his assistants, have lost thoir lives in
attempting TO make survey for that road
through the canyons OF tho Colorado River
ScoTT ToDD and Charlie Hosicr. two
boys, were drowned in White River at
Anderson, Ind, and Stephen Bilby met q
IKE tato while trying TO recover their bodies.
NEARLY all the business part OF Little
Rock, H., has been destroyed 10y Ere
GEoRGE LEWIS. colored, living near
Beiden, Texas has been lynched for poison-
ing the well OF William Shaw.
CARBoS g. JOHNSON. big builders nt Ishpc-
ming, Mich. have failed; liabilities, $50 OJ0
THE entire Chinatown district Of Sacra-
mento, Cal, consisting Of forty wooden
buildings, mainly rookeries has been dos
troyed by FIRE
TBE bodies Of thrco unknown men, two
~hito and one colo~e,i. were forrd ri Pine
c, ~ -h~ee OF tine mems heads were
,iuaEed, ana ~ is supposed Uhcy were muir
dered while asleep and that the decd was
committed by tramps.
THE yield OF spring wheat in Minnceota
and Dakota Is placed az 1000, 600 bushels
jess COLEMAN, a young man, shot and
killed his sweetheart Miss Modgs Smith at
Xenia, Ind, and then killed himself
JoE Cook and Sol Dorsey, two colored mon
of Trenton, La. quarreled after "A church
meeting and killed each other.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. j. H. Helwig, Of Springfield, for Gov
ornOr.
THE North Dakota constitutional Conyen-
ton decided 70 submit tho prohibition dues-
tion TO popular vote, and the Constitutional
Convention at Olympia. Washington, has
approved tine taxation Of churches, private
schools md charitable institutions.
Two little sons Of Fred. Droenke were
killed while playing on the railroad tracks
at ElmhuTst, TT.
JAtfEs KELLY. lcolored). who assaulted Mrs.
Peter Grow, wife of n section boss was faken
from jail and hanged 20 a bridge at Paris,
Ky, by a mob
w. r. DAVIS, who Tor three years has been
The Secretary Of the Tenncsgce State Wheel.
n farmers association, mysteriOusly left
Nashville after confossing I'm y letter 10 Off
GERS of the organization that he was short
nfN l tlAa AAaHNAA1 aNiA iNH.lttt.tA W fpltililt
suicide.
Ay English syndicate has purchased cove
cnty-cight grain elevators I'm the Van Dcu-
sen system IN the NOrthwcst
MUCH damage was caused by storms Ia The
Northwest: excessive rains threatened 10
ruin the wheat in shock
Tou BOWLING ,colorcdl was hanged in
the jail % Baton Rouge, La. for the murder
of Philip Walsh fwhitel. Charles Seilars
who murdered Bunyan Adams in Richloud
Parish, Ia, was haHged at Raville Ia.
and Frank Blunt. p colored desperodo was
hanged a. Valdosta, Ga for the murder OF
willie tlilic-. als0 colo-r'.
CoLOHEL r.. -. JONES. surgeon Ceneral oi
Ohio and prominent resident of Cincinnati
was found in a nauhoie, murdered. His col.
Orcd servant has confessed 20 the murder
CHARLEs s.. CRYsLER. n prominent law
yer ~ independence, Mo. is d defauiter to
Che amount of 10000 He he's fed
THE joint commission, between the two
Dakot0s ot Bismorcs hes reached an agree
mont, North Dakota agreeing 20 pay South
Dakote $50 900 90 square ncc0unte
FIVE railroad hands were reported 20 hov,
Jos, their lives bv an explosion of dynamite
twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind
fN FIX Township. Clayton County, lowe
wesley Ekius but n little more than clover
ycsrs OF egc, murdered bis father and stef.
uuCt.scl.