Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-16
SOuth and West.

COLUMBIA JUNCTION, Iowa, was nearly
destroyed by fire. Twenty-thres business
houses were burned.
RICHARD Won OLTYDA, a blacksmith. .mur-
dered his wife at Sacramento, Cal. and then
killed himself His wife had left him on
account Of cruel treatment.
WALL Of tho burned Van Camp building
at Indianapolis Ind, fell, fatally injuring
three iremen.
A sIx.YEAR-oLD boy was literally de
voured by hogs at Vincennes, Ind.
FIFTY THOUSAND people witnessed the
parade in honor OF the Yelled Prophet in
st. Louis, Mo.
THE steamer Chickasaw sank at Cat Island
crossing sixteen miles below Memphis Tenn.
She had $50 bales of cotton on board.
The dead bodies OF Deputy Sheriff Bill
Castor and bartender were found in Ghio's
saloon at Arthur City, Texas. The men
were shot in the back.
EXPERT ACCOUNTANT WILLIAM F. ROC
ERs has found a deficit Of $2I, 00O in the ac-
counts Of ex-County Treasurer Morgan, OF
Towson, Nd.
A rwo-sToRY frame building was de-
stroye1 by fire at Wilber, Washington, AMI
Mrs. Wagner and her two children, who livsi
III du upper oOOil NOiO AOA "
Another child was fatally burned.
The bronze statue of General Grant was
unveiled in Lincoln Park at Chicago in the
presence OF nearly a hundred thousand per-
sons. Mrs. Grant was among the guests.
THE first colored peoples fair ever held in
Virginia took place at Richmond.
JUDGE JOHNSON, in the Circuit Court at
Topeka, Kansas, has ruled that an arrest
made on a etter or telegram is not due pro-
cess of law.
The match race for purse Of $4,000 be-
tween the stations Nelson, OF Maine aud
Allerton, Of Iowa, at Grand Rapids Mich,
was won by Allerton in the presence OF 49,
0OJ people. Nelson won the first and fastest
heat OF the race, the others going TO Aller-
ton.
LEE TAYLOR, United States Deputy
Marshal, was shot to death by w. Q. Rogers
Postmaster OF Skiatook, Indian Territory.
Rogers was intoxicated.
MANY thousands of both political parties
listened to the debate in Ada, Ohio, between
James <. Campbell and William Mckinley,
candidates for Governor.
The indictment against Doninick OMal-
lev. the detective, who obtained such noto-
riety from his connection with the trial OF
the italians accused OF the murder at New
Orleans, La, Of Chief OF Police HenneSsey,
was abandoned by the State, the District
Attorney entering nolle prossqui.
The United States survey steamer c. P.
Patterson has arrived at San Francisco
Cal, after having reconnoiterei tae Alaska
coast as far as Yakutsk and made some i'm
portant surveys.
REPORTS from the Northwest showed that
the rainy weather had seriously injured
wheat in the shock.
THE storage warehouse of Hunter & Co,
at Montgomery. Ala. was burned with
about 200 bales Of cotton. The loss is slz5,-
900.
A FIRE at Mayfsld, KY, burned over
nearly six acres Of ground. The Newport
News and Mississippi Valley freight and
passenger depots the Western Tobacco
Companys warehouse and 600 aogsheads OF
tobacco and a number Of residences were
destroyed. Loss, 100000.
JOHN WILLIAMS Company D. Tenth Kan
sas Infantry, and Peter Cusick, navy vet
erap. were run over and killed by the rapid
transit train at Leavenworth, Kan. botn
men we're inmates of the Soldiers Home.
JOE Coz, the colored assailant Of fiveyear-
old Lizzie Yates, was taken from jail at
Omahs, Neb., by mob soon after midnight
and lynched.
A yosr remarkable and previously UNI
heard of occurrence took plaza at Aacalester
Colle1e st. Paul. Mimi, when the whole
senior class deserted the institution. They
aid Z. too, on the advice OF the Board OF
Trustees What is at the bottom of the az
fair-finances or bad feeling-is not known.
AN elevator fell in tis Shelby Cabinet
Companys mill at Sheloyville, lnd, fatally
iniuring three men, Joseph Scnotb Crnt
Mee.y and r. Thayer.