West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-29
South and West.

MARION TUCKER "A farmer living n shorb
distance from Stanton, Neb., while OFT row,
ing on small lake on his farm with his two
chillren, upset tho boat and tho three were
drowned
THE millers of Southern Illinois and East
ern Missouri have formed trust and will
operate the sixteen mills as one, thus con-
troiin3 the price OF flour int tho South and
Southwest.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR JONES, OF
Florida, was committed 10 an insane asylum
near Detroit, Mich.
DUPoNT, Ga, was visited by the heaviest
h1ilstorm ever known In tho history bf the
tiwn. The stones averaged from three
qunrters OF an inch 10 an inch I'm length.
Crops will be totally ruined by tho severity
OF the storm. The hail lasted from twenty
to thirty minutes.
Bon CRAWFORD, white convict com
mittet suicide at the Platt mines near Bir-
mingham. Ala, by blowing himself up with
dynamite, which had been given him 20 blast
mines.
SENAToR-ELEcT CARLISLE, Of Kentucky,
decided ~ continue 10 occupy his seat I'm the
Houss until the Mckinley bin had been voted
upon.
KATE KANE a lawyer OF Chicago, was
admitted 10 membership before tho bar Of
motion OF Robert q. lngersoll. Miss Kane
Is the eighth woman lawyer 90 add her
mamie TO the Suprsms Court list,
CRY TREAsURER PEAKE, OF Kansas City.
Mo- was suspended from Office n shortage
OF between 1900 and go, 900 having been
discovered in his accounts.
EDWARD FLADURo, a German, shot and
killed bis wife az San Francisco, Cal, and
then shot himself inicting a fatal wound,
His wife had left him on account Of domestic
quarrel
a MARE belonging 10 William Barnes, near
ElmwOod, Mo, recently foaled trio OF
colts. IL is believed 10 be the only case on
record.
4 LABoREH named james Hendrickson.
s1ty-flve years d.d, IN Chicago, in., unsao.
cessfully attempted 30 shoot his daughter,
Mrs Peterson, fatally wounded his wife and
killed himself within minute.
GRANT ANDERSON. colored. was taken
from tho court room at Columbus, Miss,
whore he was bciug tried Tor assault upon
thirteen.year-old girl, and hanged 20 tho
nearest tree
HOTEL KEEPER LrTrLEFIHLD Of Jesup.
Ga, shot and killed County Surveyor Mccall
aud his unfaithful wifo, Mrs. Littlefeld.
DURING n thunder storm two colOred farm
hands living ON the Jennings plantation near
Augusta, Ca, were instantly killed by light
ming.
PHIvATg TfGHg. of Battery r, First Ar.
tillery, was shot and killed at Fortress Mon.
roe, Va, by Private Manning, Of the same
regiment
Nike BAcnor. Mat Scholar, Joseph Gene
sirm md Dominick Ginglia, miners, woro
killed by a rock falling on them iu the South
uccia ihichj mine.
Washington.
THE United States Suprems Court ron.
dered decision In tho Fiske will case al.
verse ~ Cornell University, % Ithaca, N. Y.
This result means q loss 10 the university ~
about 81 $50. 900 Decisions were also handel
down declaring the dressed beef law Of Min
ncsota 70 be unconstitutional and declaring
the conhscatinn Of f75p, 600 worth of prop
erty belonging % the Mormon Church 10
have been just
THE President sont 30 Congress n letter Of
the Secretary Of State submitting the plan
for n preliminary survey for n railway line
~ connect the principal cities Of the Amer.
icen Hemisphere, In accordance With the re-
commendations Of the n-Anerican Con.
ference. The share of the United State in
the cost % the survey viii b. eos, 600
SENATOR BLAIR introduced a Joint rsso-
luton proposing an amendment 70 the Con
stitution, providing that neither tho United
states nor any state shall pass any Law au-
th0rzing che establishment or maintenance
Of any lottery or distribution Of prizes by
chance.
TIE scat in The Senate formerly occupied
by Mr.. Beck viii hereafter belong to Mr.
Reagan, Of Texas and Mr. Carlisle when he
is sworn in, viii b. assigned to one Of the
chairs - the end Of the outer row
TaE resignation Of Sergssut-at- Arms Can
easy was presented in The Senate, 70 take ef.
feet June 30.