West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-05-30
South and Wesr.

THREE Of the persons implicated in the
robbery OF United States Paymaster wham
IN Arizona have been captured.
LIGHTNING has done much damage In many
places. At Leonardtown, Md, Judge John
~; ~; Miiburn was struck and instantly killed
lhe ten-year-old son OF Nj. Dorsey met n siui-
lar fate near Chamberlain, Dakota. At Ell
dora, la, ten valuable horses were killed
X. y, THOMAS editor Of the Caseyville QSyO
HeIdfd, shot and killed George Elmore and
himself received wounds in the stomach and
SIDE. The shooting grew out Of reference 10
Eimore In Thomass paper
NELSON COLBERT tcolored). who murdered
Ihilip w entzell, the Superintendent of the
Columbia street car stables I'm October last
was hanged at the District jail
DELEGATES from fifteen OF the principal
block coal mines OF Indiana represent{ng
over 1000 men, met at Brazil Ind rejected
the operators demand for twenty cents re
duction, and declared strike by two
thirds vote.
THE business portion Of Huntinburp. Ind
was destroyed by fire. Loss $l75, 1000.
An eight-year-old girl and an eleven year.
old boy, children Of Gabriel Steadman, mur-
dered their baby sister in Columbia s. C.
because she cried -
A PARTY Of colored men wore returning To
Vicksburg, Miss, from the Louisiana shore
IN u, two skiffs, and when near tho foot Of West
'N.s ehe IN one OF tnein, frightened
ny the wind and waves, capsized the boat
Nine OF them were drowned, one little girl
alone escaping.
BITTER feeling, engendered by an election
Tor School Directors In Forest City. Ark. re-
suited In the killing of three white and one
c9iored man. Marshal Frank Folbro was
shot down first, but before he died he killed
Sheriff ID. M. Wilson and Thomas Parham.
a. Nj. Nicely, a prominent colored politician
charged with causing the trouble took refuge
In newspaper Office, but was hunted down
and riddled with bullets.
AN earthquake was felt in middle CaIifor-
MIA. At some points the shocks were ouite
severe and in a few cases the tops of chin
neys were thrown down. The shock was suf-
hciently heavy in San Francisco 90 awaken
nearly all slumberers.
Mrs. EMMA c. FOLSOM. the mother Of
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, was married in Jack
son, Mich to Henry y. Perrine, a wealthy
was present at the ceremony.
THE steamer Rockton, bearing EIGHT officers
and $50 men Of the Vandslia and twelve Off.
GERS and 300 men from the Trenton. arrived
at San Francisco, Cal. from Apia, Samoa. in
command Of Captain N. r.. Farquhar. Adj
miral Kimberly, ten officers and seventy-fivs
men remain at Apia.
FIRE IN Howard City. Mich. DESTROYED
the Opera House building, Matherss Bank.
the Baptist Church, several stores and eleven
dwellings. Loss, $50, 600.
DoSALD MCDONALD. a Sergeant Of tbo
United States Army, stationed at Presidio
Cal. shot and killed Ethel Anderson. n voung
woman, and then shot himself, dying in.
stantly.
a STORM did heavy damage TO crops and
small buildings In the West.
The Supreme Court OF Ohio dismissed the
case against Ives and Stayner, indicted for
swindling stockholders Of the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
JosEPH ScHEIDHELB and Peter Goetiz
Two Milwaukee cOOpers, went fishing in the
milwaukee, River The boat capsized and
both were drowned
The passenger steamer Johns Hopkins. Of
the Baltimore and Savannah route. was
burned at Baltimore. Loss 100000