West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-01-23
South ana West.

BELL Boy tho phenomenal three ycar-old
trotter. and forty-two other horses, many OF
them valuable trotters, were burned 10
death in their stable at Versailles, Ky Last
July Bell Boy brought SOL 600, up TO that
time the highest price ever paid for horse
in America. The other burned trotters were
valued at s03,OO0.
JoHN KERNs was fatally hurt and three
other mon wero seriously hurt 10y the explo-
sion OF dynamite blast at Quio, III.
ELEVATOR No. 3, ON the north side of the
PatapSco River at Baltimore, used by the
Northern Central Railroad Company, was
burned with all its contents An engineer,
fireman and seaman perishcd I'm tho flames
The pecuniary loss is between $500, 900 and
$1,000
HENRY AND MARTIN REMERs were rur
DOWN and killed by locomotive nsa.
Whec'c Station, Ind
MISS Lucy RAY. n young lady who lives
I'm the outskirts OF Dawson, Ga, shot and in
stantly killed H. a. Suggs. She says that
Suggs came to her door about eleven O'Clock
i'm a state OF intoNicaton, demanded nd-
mittance, and upon being refused cursed
her and tried 90 burst the door In
AT the opening Of the Iowa Legislature
deadlock occurred over the election OF Off
GERS in the House 10y reason of the five In
dependents voting with the Democrats and
creating tie
T.. X. WILSON has bcen reelected 10 tho
United Stntes Senate by the Maryland Legis-
laturc.
\ PACKAGE containing eli, 600 was stolen
from the Wells Fargo express offices at Dal-
las, Texas. just how the money disappeared
is n mystery.
THE largest saloon I'm Dubuque, Iowa, was
closed, as was also the principal brewery
This was the first attempt 10 enforce the
prohibitory law in that place. Great excite
ment prevailed.
MISS Lou A1IBURY, Dan Ashbury, Lizzie
Bowler and win Rose were drowned while
rowing on Carm an lake.
PROFESSOR CHARLES A. CLARK. Prin-
cipal of Albion tWisl Academy, is dead OF
hydrophobia, believed 20 be the result OF the
bite of "A cat, received last March
JUDGE MCCONNELL, at Chicago, granted
n new trial 10 Kunze the Cronin convict.
but denied the applications of Burke Cough
lin and OSulivHn; the last three were taken
20 the penitentiary
THE National Colorod Convention met I'm
the Madison Street Theatre, Chicago. More
than one hundred delegates were present
IL "A street fight In Macon, Mo, between
Morris Norris and DR. w G.. Larrabee the
Doctor, Deputy Sheriff Pearson and s. w.
Virgins were fatally wounded.
CARNIvAL week opened in AugIstn. Ga.
with the turning over of the keys of the city
by the Mayor 10 King Cotton In the night
there was trades procession with 200 floats.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt at
Columbia, $. G. IL wns stron" enough 20
~'-'-a bumps yibrite.
The black measles are raging at Fordsville,
Ky, in epidemic form. Mrs Mitchell and
two children have died, and Mr. Mitchell
was in a critical condition Over one hun
dred cases were reported in the neighbor-
hood
THE Afro-American leagues IN convention
at Chicago elected w. A. Pledger President
THREE HUNDRED people at Carmi, III. have
been compelled 81 leave their homes by a sud
den rise in the Little Wabash River
BY the swelling Of dry timbcrs an 81. 900
gallon tank collapsed at Jcffersonvlle. Ind
fatally iniuring Joe Gable, Lowell McCloud
and William Hahn, workmen.
Four men were killed and several others
badly wounded by the premature explosion
Of blast at camp near johnson City,
Tenn
THREE cars were hurled down on embank-
ment at Hampton, Utah, and eleven persons
more or less seriously injured.