South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-09-20
NEWS OF THE WE Elk

Virginia who refuse to support Ma
hone for Governor are getting too
numerous to mention.-1nE guberna.
torial contest committee has sd. journ-
ed to meet for the purpose OF writ
ing The reports at the call OF the
chairman at such time and place as
he may designate.-SINcE West vir.
ginia has been State the sum Of
S2.1ol, POO has been appropriated by
Congress for the improvement of her
rvers.-BoB YoUEoER, the cslebra.
tea outlaw. diei on Monday laat
In the peniteptiary at Saltwater,
Mlneesota-TH we're $500 adj
missions to the State Fair at Wheel.
ing last week. "A MAN whose neck
was broken O month ago by a fall is
sill Twin, in Philadelphia
THERE are 1900 bishops In the Ro.
man Catholic church. CADET CHAs.
YOUNG. colored, q graduate Of the
military academy at West Point, b as
been appointed second lieutsna nj
in the 10th Cavalry, United States
army. His white brother officers re-
fuse 10 have anything to do with him.
FEARFUL storms prevailed along
the Atlantic coast the latter half OF
last week. Some SO or 60 sailors
were drowned and many ver sells wer e
wrecked. Itgreatly damaged houses
and other property at Atlantic CITY,
Coney Island and other seaside re-
sorts. At some points the wind at.
tanned velocity OF GA miles An hour.
In the marshes OF South Carolina
alligators are hunted by men armed
with guns end carrying bulrs-eye Ian.
terms affixed to .heir foreheads.- THE
London Spectator, with tho assurance
peculiar to English newspapers, an.
nounces that the discovery of Ameri.
ca by Christopher Columbus was a
great mistake, because cit increased
the evil in the world.'-THE resigna.
ton Of Corpor al Tsnner, commission
er OF pensions. was brought about by
the action of Secretary Noble. of the
interior DEPARTMENT. whose views as
to how the Pension Bureau should he
managed did not coincide with those
OF Tanner, and who told the Presi-
dent that either the Corporal or him
self must rcsign.-GEN. WIN. WAR
NER, lac commander-in>chie of the
Grand Army of the Republic, will
probably succeed Corporal Tanner as
pension commissioner. ELIAS HAT
FIELD was sentenced, at P,keyille.
Kentucky. Saturday, to be hung De-
cember 3 for the murder of Alfira
Hattleld.-THE Tanner incident ba,
caused pension officials to he very
charv OF making cases 'special.'-THE
new United States cruiser Baltimore
Is said TO be the fastest man OF war in
the world.-PRoPERTY valued at ST.
600, 900 was destroyed by fire at Lou.
isville, Kentucky, Saturday .-SNow
fell in several western States Sunday.
DANIEL DoUGHERTY, the silver
tongued orator OF New York, who
nominated Cleveland for President at
the last democratic national conven-
ton, Is likely to be the late Sunset
Cox's successor in Congress.-THE
damage to shipping alone by the big
storm on the Atlantic coast ia esti.
mated at $3.50. O00.-EM1LY PAX
TON, of Pike county. Missouri. has
permission from the Governor of that
State to wear a mans dress any
where in Missouri outside OF cities Of
10000 observation-disclosures few
days the telegraph reports that some.
body has gone over Niagara Falls
without getting killed. That is q feat
no one has yet performed. The falls
are 168 feet higb.-IT is thought
that President Harrison intends 10
make Gen. Golf Acknowledgement.
MANY hustle factories in this coun
try have had TO close down. owing
10 the fact that their products are n O
longer fashionable.-THE total pub
lie school tax of Virginia for this year
IS Sl95. 318.72.-THERE il a man in
Schenevus, New York, who is getting
rich from a dog. He has sold the
animal several times. hut It always
comes back to him.-A FIRM in st.
Louis has designed a new postage
stamp two inches square, and bearing
the image Of John L. Sullivan. be-
meath which is the legend Too big TO
be licked.'-THEY have an accom-.
modating Legislature in Arkansas.
Tx -Attorney-GeDeral Garland bad
claim Of $4,000 against the State,
which he offered to relinquish IL the
hunting laws Of the State were chan.
eed 30 that be could begin to run
deer with dogs 10 August instead OF
September. This was done, and now
the STATE thinks itself $4,000 better
of, while Mr.. Garland is enabled 10
pursue his favorite sport out OF sea.
son.'-A BOY in Wetzel county, this
State, who is only nine years old,
weighs $50 pounds.-ONLY u out
OF every 100 qualified voters in Mas
sachusetts voted at the last preslden-
tial election. THE commissioners
appointed to investigate Corporal
Tanners conduct Of the pension OF.
flee have made report in which they
say that, willie they found no eviden.
ces of intentional fraud, yet the aft.
airs Cf the Office we're administered
in very loose manner and Tan
ncr gave away thousands Of pensions
regardless Of whether the recipients
deserved them or not.-A TAILOR ut
TeTe Haute, Indiana, who had been
in the habit Of pretending to hang
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