Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
South and West.

SERIOUS damage by floods occurred in the
Kanawha Valley, W. Va
E. E. SwEARNGIS, State Senator from
Cloud County, Kan, committed suicide at
Kansas City, No, by shooting. He was a
Republican.
A RACE war broke out near Mi1dlebor-
ough, KY, and, but for the interference Of
the police and troops it might have proved
a disastrous conflict. As it was, three men
lost their lives, one white man and two col
ored men.
WILLIAM E. TRUDEAU and Miss Beatrice
Harrig, of Louisville, KY, chartered a loco
motive and eloped to Jeffersonville, Ind,
where they were married.
TIE only son of Colonel Charles Fred.
Crocker, Second Vice-President of the
Southern Pacific, was killed at San Fran
cisco, Cal, by falling over the Danister in
his fathers house. The lad was under ten
years of age. The boy would have inherited
the bulk OF his fathers large estate. now es.
timated at $4,000, 900, and growing every
year.
The Ohio Legislature met in extraorii-
nary session at Columbus. and received a
message from Governor Campbell recon-
mending the abolition Of two Cincinnati
Boards.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN L. WILSON. Of Wash
ington, who returned TO Spokane Falls few
days ago, reports the loss Of his pocket0OOk
containing $4,000 in securities. $3.50 in
greenbacks and gold and other valuable pa
pers.
WALLACE WAGGONER & Co., wholesale
grocers, assigned at Houston, Texas. Liabili-
ties. 100000. The bank of F. H. Haggerty
81 Co., suspended at Aberdeen, South
Dakota. Liabilities, $3.50, 900.
THE third fair OF the Piedmont Exposition
Association was formally opened at Atlanta.
Ca, in the presence of a large crowd. The
procession to the grounds was made up Of
military companies Senator Colquitt and
John Temple Graves were the orators OF the
day, and Mayor Glenn was master OF cere-
monies.
THE Consolidated Ice Machine Company
of Chicago, ILL.,, has made an assignment.
Assets, $475, 900; liabilities, S35OOOJ.
CoNcoRDIA COLLEGE, at Milwaukee, Wis,
has been closed because OF an epidemic OF
diphtheria among the students.
OFFICER THOMAS J. MADDEN shot and
mortally wounded a brother policeman, Al
bert Junge, in Chicago, Ill. The shooting
was the outcome Of differences between the
men over politics.
J. BAILEY, William r. Davis and J. Fisher
were killed, and two other men were hurt by
a fall Of rock in the Ludington mine at Iron
Mountain, Mich.
FOUR horse thieves were captured in the
Iowa Reservation by three Deputy Marshals
after a desperate fight. One Of the thieves
was killed When they saw that they could
not get away with the horses, eleven in all,
they shot them.
LIEUTENANT ALPHEUs ROBERT FRENCH,
the last survivor of the Black Hawk War,
and veteran Of the Mexican and Civil
Wars, was buried at Baltimore, Nd. Lieu
tenant French was born at Chittenango, \.
Y, November 25, 1SO6.
DAVID c. HENNEssEY, Chief of Police Of
New Orleans, La, was shot and killed by an
unknown man, supposed TO be an Italian.
The R. G.. Peters Salt and Lumber Com
pany, Of Manistee, Mich, has failei with
liabilities of over So 000, 0OO 1t is the biggest
crash in the State tor many years.
Mrs. WILLIAM WELLHAUSEN and her
seven-year-old son were drowned at the well
at her home in Marine City, Mich. The boy
fell in the well and the mother. hearing his
cries, grew frantic plunged into the water
and was also drowned before he p came.