South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-01-30
ITEMS OF NEWS.

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Washington and Baltimore in 1914.
Telephones are now being intro.
duced on board men of-war
Eugene Field will publish next
spring new volume CT verse.
Prince Baudonin, nephew to King
Leopold and heir TO the throne OF
Belgium died suddenly Friday.
| Dulng the year just closed 3l,793
Russians. most OF them Jews, landed
at New York.
Out OF 81 democrats in the West
Virginia legislature SO ara for Cleve.
land fer President in 1892.
| Pomona (Cal.) people could eat
ripe Strawberries on Christmas Day
by paying fiftee1 cents q box.
| Gen Beuregard's Battle of Mnnas.
sas. q reply to Gen. Joseph Il. John
ston, Is in press.
| Secretary Of Navy Tracy asks for
| S25, 599,253 rs for the present year 9
expenditures of the navy.
! A grand banquet, in the interest OF
the Worlds Fair, is TO DO given in
Charleston, February IL.
| How many there are who would be
unhappy II they could not find some.
thing to be miserable about.
/ There will be more than thirty-sx
matchleas steel armored vessels in our
navy in 1893.
| Up to date twenty-five wolves have
been killed 10 the neighborhood of
AiDsworth. Neb., this winter.
j California will soon have IN the
San Jacinto Valley, geo acre orange
grove, the largest in the world.
y King David Kalaksua, of Hawaii,
, died last week at San Francisco, aged
City Eve years.
France has 20S, Germany 204,
England 1T8, and Italy $50 more
torpedo boats than the United States.
The foundation for the monument
at Richmond to the privates OF the
Conf ederate service has been COM
pleted.
+ Andrew Mclaughlin has sold HE
, farm In Pocahontas county, to the
West Virginia and Pittsturg Rail-
road company for $4,000.
I Miss Nellie II. Whalrigbt, OF THU
, State, has been promoted from .
J. 1000 to 200 clerkship in che
q Pension Office.
4 Mrs. Maggie Van Colt, the Evan
q gelist, who is now sixty one years o.
}. age. often speaks at five meetings In
+. one day,
The stock OF wheat in the North.
J, west 10 figured ut 22,345. 953 bushels
J an increase Of 532,393 bushels sine,
last week.
General Butler is said to have sucs
|, marvellous memory that be can re.
member everything he has done sine,
childhood.
The Tocoma Coal Company claim
to have struck vein of coal which
they estimate will yield 100000,
: tons.
= Mrs. Hattie fletcher, a desti,u,
widow at Lehigh, 1. t., choked he
J two children TO death, then jumped
! into spring with the two bodies ant
Il drowned.
Twenty thousand tons Of bonde:
Java sugar. the property OF Clau
3 Sprcckles, lies In the warehouses of
Mission rock in San Francisco BAY
Q where i! will be held until April /.
Seals are not often seen in Ne,
York wsters but severalJ it is deelar
. ed, have made their appearance Il
D the harbor near Ellis Island thi
n winter.
J. 10 Boise. City, Idaho. the waite
r company has sunk an artssian vel
Y ll2 feet deep, from which flows
Q sulphurous water With Temperature
| of lis degrees.
. A telephone line about FIVE mile
/ long has been established in Iceland
0 and Is regarded as a great curiosit,
e being the first ever established on th,
r Island.
Z. Orion Frazes, OF Atlanta, is at worI
{ on the sta ne of Jefferson Davis, or.
2 dered at the time the ex.president o
/. the Confederacy died. He has
Z death mask taken With his own hand
. to aid him in getting a good likeness
There ara said 10 be food OF coun
. terfeit silver dollars in circulation
q They are made of Rabbit metal
q washed with silver, and arc yer,
near the weight and appearance OF tn
real dollar. they will tsrnish will
age,
Martin Grinniug, OF Surprise. Neb.
chopped a red elm tree down the 9th =
or day Chat measured 49, feet in cir.
conference A. the base. Martir
claims Chat the tree is over 100 year,
old and badly Scared by Indian,
with their tomahawks.
The fifteen bandits who robbed N,
5 Rio Graude Railroad train In Texs
last week secured $4,000 in silver
) from The United States Mail pouehe
and escaped into Mexico. Postmas
9 ter-Genoral Wanamaker offers q 70,
: ward Of 81 900 for each OF The ban
> dts.
Or. D. y. Conrad, formerly oil
Winchester, has received the position
= OF superini endent OF the Iunalic ssy-
J lum ct Independence No. peal
J Kansas city. The Institution, de
signed for the insane Of a city of $50, 5