South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

, sisg q the soveiksg II sAe Lee stat.
Ne. Gsa- fitshsgh Leo does not
wish 20 serve - narshsa on that oc-
casion, thosgA be b being urged 70
do so.-IlEsniErrA CHAM. . niece
OF Stephen Girard. after long Ike
ct abject poverty. died 10 Philsisl-
phis Mondsy.-EkLswoarH Huouss.
. nephew Of u. g. Ssnatoe Iagslls.
, was browne ! ia St. Josepb's Lake,
in Indiana, Sauday.-DR. c. r. PARx,
. Chicago physician. has received Q
fee of325. 600 for less than months
attendance on . patient afzicied with
cancer in the fAce.-Gov. FIKnrRs,
OF this s'a'e, has invested largely In
real estate ut 6oshep, VAC. s
GooDLINo. of Grafton. this state, died
Saturday from the effects Of swallow.
Ing . chew Of tobacco. The new
Government torpedo bot Gushing
can make q miles an hour.-TuE
New York papers are charging Seua
tor n. 8. Quay, chairman OF The re-.
publican national committee, With
having s.olen hundreds of thousands
OF dollars Of Pennsy lvsnia STATE funds
and tell when, where and under what
circumstances it was done. In con
sequence of these exposures, leading
republicans al over the counS
try are calling on Quay TO re-
sign, but this he obstinately refuses
TO 10. -FIyE BODIES were found on
Thursday ut Johnstown, Pa. Two
of them we're mo her and child clasp.
Ell In each others arms. The force
searching for the dead will be it's
creased.-WEARINe tight collars is
said to iDjure the eyesigbt. FIVE
Hungarians left Ashland, Pa. the
other day, taking with them $1,000.
They had been in this country less
than FIVE years. One agent at Mt.
Carmel sent from Huns TO Europe
last year over S75,000.-IN the Gus.
toms department Of the Argentine
Republic great frauds have been dis.
covered by which the government has
lost In revenue millions of dollars
annually.-Gov. TooLE, of Montana,
and Miss Rosecrans. daughter of
Gen. Rosecrans, were married in
Washington city Saturday. -PREsI
DENT HARRISON proposes TO spend
portion Of the summer again at Deer
Park, Mj.-DR. DOUGLAS, who was
General Grants physician, is repor,s
ed to be pars'yzsd and 10 poverty at
New York hospitsl.-A HEAVY
FROST over spread IIlinois, Missouri
aud Iowa Monday mornin2, doing
great damage. Ice formed 10 many
places.-EMPERoR WILLIAM Of Ger
many will be insane in ten years, ac-
cording to his physic'ans.-BUrI little
popular Interest 10 taken in the great
tariff debate.-A coLoREp WOMAN
called ut the Brunswick (Ga.) tele-
graph Office and had dictated the fol .
lowing message to Der son: Are you
deadp Answer to your loving moth.
err. Susie Louisiana Thomas. That
was a queer message, but it was sent
The next day the answer came back.
It read: Not dead, but alive. Will
let you know when l die. THE Sem
ate passed 1l8 private pension bills
in an hour and a-half Saturday,
GEN. jog Z. JOHNSTON will unveil
the Lee sta'us. -Mf,s MILDRED &.
LEE. daughter of Gen. r. F.. Lee. will
attend ,he military ball In Richmond
May ga GkoEafA editor says
We came out this morning in our
spring cult, but We had to cell our free
pass to get it.'-HoN. THOMAS NJ.
SWEENEY. OF Wheeling. this Sta'e,
died Friday. nged "a years. He was
q prominent democrat, serving In
both branches of the Virgins Lagis.
lature before the war.-Ex.pRKsI-
DENT CLEVELAND has written o letter
to the corresponding secretary Of the
Oak Lodge No. %, Farmers Alliance
in Ohio, approving the purposes of the
alliance.--A TORNADO that travelled
four miles . minute struck Akron,
OHIO, Sunday, and demolished all
buildings IN its narrow track for q
mile and a-half through the city
A NOVEL WAY Of raising money to
built Q church has been adopted by q
congregation in an Iowa town. They
borrowed Sl20,G0O and gave lite in
surance on q number of members
which is to be applied on the debt as
last as death ensues.-I HE General
Conference of the Methodist Epi CO.
pal Church South, ut st. Louis, on
Sa' urday adopted resolution con-
demning the Louisiana lotterS.
CLUB whose members are pledged TO
commit suicide has been discovered
in Paris, Prance.-A BRONZE statue
OF Henry Ward Beecher, the great
preacher, is being made in New York.
III is said that AMBITIOUS Western
cities will attempt to bride The CEN
sus-tskeTs TO make their populations
Ia ger than thay Area cablegram
from 81. Petersburg tells Of man o
YER there who pretends to be Christ,
and who, after having The Bible read
TO him once, repeated the whole book
from memory.-A Raw YORK prin-
ter succeeded 10 printing in two dit.
ferent colors al once and With but one
Observation-Disclosures deemed an i'm.
possibility ON the wet coast OF
Africa there are now 200 churches
80. 900 converts, 100000 adheron,s,
1850 schools and 10000 pupils. Re
ligious books have heen translated
into 80 dialects Of the sPction.-W
A. RICE Of San Luis Obispo, too't q
500 prize for raising the biggest Un &.
- f..r, enad Furu. .doI -, 4. Dali.