West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-06
South and Mcst-

w I'LL bEAfHARr, Young CpiOrcd mal,
uas been sentenced 60 death I'M the Lexington
County - c. Court for crminnlly assault
ing girl of sixteen
THREE children of Hunt Bead. ot Franklin
County. Ga, were burned to death i'm thCir
fathers house. They were aged respectively
six, four and two years The skeleton of the
youngest was found i'm the arms ot the old
MRs SANTA BAKER and her eight year
old son were burned TO death ina stable at
Salina, Kan
Tit Gill usking General Robert Lees
birthday "A legal holiday has passed the Nir-
ginin House of Representatives.
THE Superior Ice Company building at
Bayfield,, Wis, collapsed one man was ia
tally and several VtherS more or less seriously
injured
CHARLES HANLEY aud William Dobson
were found in round-housc at Terre
iaute, Ind the former dead and the latter
unconscious. They had Entered through tho
windows during the night and became
asphyNiated 10y escaping gases.
THE President sent 90 the Senate the TO-
lowing nominations Joseph A. Wingheld,
TO loo Supervisor of Ceusus Third District
~ Nirgiuin aud Albert F Price, United
States Marshal, District Of North Dakota
HEAVY rains have occurred at Bowling
Green and Hopkinsvillc Ky The streams
were Swollon and at Bowling Green the
from their homes AT Hopkin,yillc about
one million pounds Of tobacco WAS destroyed.
COUNTY TREAsuRER FfyNN, Of Custer
County, s. D., is short in his accounts SlI.
900
DURING revenue raid ON mn Illicit dis
iillcry near Hillsboro y c., cOlorod man
connected with the distllciy war shot and
killed by the officers and Revenue Agent
Kirkpatrick was shot I'm the face and had one
eye put out
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, was visited by a
severe cyclone and FIVE minutes later tho
town WAS almost in ruins.
LATER news received az Phmnix. Ariz..
from tho scene of the Walnut Grove dicastei.
is more appalling than the first reports
-Four couriers arrived from the dam and
brought tidings that fully 100 lives were lost
and 5000, 900 worth of property destroyed.
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over part
OF Northern Texas, Tho Masonic Hail in
gainesville was torn 20 pieces the Court
House uprootcd. the Santa Fe Railroad depOt
wrecked and twenty buildings blown down
Nobody was killed, but several persons wers
injured The damage will aggregats S}JJ,.
900.
a LITTLE coored girl, aged seven years,
was burned 10 death az Clayton, H., by
matches having set fire 30 her clothing In
her death agones the child tore large strips
OF burned aesh from her body.
THREE Louisville tKy1 physicians and two
colored assistants We're surprised n q New
Albany 0nd) cemetery robbing graves One
OF the assistants was Killed. two Of the doc
tors arrested with one NJ tho COlOrcd mon
and ono doctor escaped.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked above
Nincenncs Ind, by the giving away of n
bridge over a small stream The whole train
excepting n sleeper went through into the
water and mud The engineer and fireman
were killed, aud several other persons were
injured
A CLCCD-BURST caused Martindale Creek
near Cambridge City Ind, b. riss 50 quickly
that woman and three children Of the Hall
family were drowned. They belonged 10 "a
party Of gypses encamped near the stream
THE County Court House az Vancouver.
Wash, which was also used as n jail. hos
been completely destroyed by FIRE Loss,
100000
THE City Council 81 Charleston. s. C..
unanimously adopted resolution inviting
Nice-P President Morton 20 visit Charleston on
his trip 20 the South, and appointed com.
mittee 70 make arrangements toreceivc bm
'NoRFoLK AND WESTERN" tho Grst-clasg
coach Of the Enstbound passenger train. was
wrecked 0t Roanoke. Va, by the truck jump
ing the track and upsetting the coach Eleven
persous we're injured.
Az enormous body Of earth. including
several acres Of surface OF q hill which rises
abruptly from the Ohio River on tho Ken
lucky SIDE, opposite InWreuCeDurg Ind,
slipped into the river with o frightfnl sound
Trees and buudors we're carried ne n the hil
had been upheayed w an earthquake
A DOG licked the chapped hands of a Hired
CarbDugh, n boy Of Sedalia. Mo- and the
child died in terrible agony Of hydrophobig.
Boz POPE, q white man Of bad character.
and his son, eleven years old, were shot dead
while riding from Cummiug's Mil t0 their
home Doe Hampton County. S g..
THE oHiccrs Of the Bankers Mutual Relief
Association Of San Francisco have fed with
tho entire receipts The victims viii number
over five thousand
A DELEGATION from forty.two Germou
singing and other sooefie- representing d. f..
900 to 2D 900 citizens. went from Baltimore
Nd, ~ Annapolis TO- object 30 tho provision
Of tine proposed High License bin.
TuE rival Kansas towns. ingalls, and
Cimarron. arc again at war. lu fght
which has taken place one Cimarr1u man
was killed ond Eve Ingalls, mon were
wounded
MISS ANNA Hall. daughter Of W g.
Hall. ~ LOuisvillc. was drowned boo the Oceun
near Lake Worth Fla
BROwy WhsHfvorOv. colored. who as
saulted little white girl in Morgan County,
Ga. has been lyuched