South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-04-03
ITEMS OF NE WIS.

featuring establishme mis-.
Postal cards were introduced ON
JuEe 8, 1872.
There are $4,000 coins il one
collection in Vienna.
There were S04 deaths from grip De
in Chicago last week.
| Charles Arbuckle. he millionaire
coffee merchant is dead.
| Gen. James A. Ekin, of The United
States Army. died at Louisyille,
Kentucky las, Friday.
The Massachusetts, committee on
woman saffrage has reported bill 10
give municipal suffrage 10 women.
Houses struck by lightning and
| destroyed are among this years
weather freaks in Massachusetts,.
Judge Andrew K. Syestsr. died
last week at Hsgerstown Of progres-
sive paralysis, aged sixty-foar years.
There are, it is said over a shous.
and persons suffering with La Grippe
in Dabsque. Iowa.
A handsome Pre- yterian church
is TO be erected at Basic City, Vir.
GINA.
| Gen. Gordon, United Stotes SEN
ator from Georgia, has joined The
Farmera' Alliance.
In West Virginia during 1890 there
| were manufactured 1872 ,6S1 barrels OF
bear ADD 454.75 gallons OF whiskey.
The movement for the establish
ment in Winchester, Virginia Of o
beet.sugar factory Is being pushed
enereetiealiy.
Come South. yourg man. come
Ssuthl Channcey NJ. Depew says
that the South is the bonanza Of the
flu tnre.
| Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, the
eminent Presbyterian minister,
died Sunday Afternoon at his home
In N ew York, aged sixty five years.
7 Baltimore seems TO be compara-
lively free from the grip, which is
prevailing to snch an alarming ex.
tent In other cities.
| The org ans Of smeh in the turkey
vulture and carrion crow are 30 del
icate that they can scent their food
for q distance Of forty milcA
| Way Lee, chinaman who fs said
to be related TO the Emperor OF China,
has opened q restaurant In jackson.
vile. Fla
An engineer on Texas railroad
found big flock Of ebecp huddfed
together In cot to get out Of the
! storm, and in driving through them
killed seventy eight.
Helen p. Clark, an indian girl.
who was teacher ut tho Carlisle Pa
Indian school has been appointed
special allotment agent By the United
States government
Three Senators and ten Congress.
men died during the last Cong gross
8 larger list than of any other Con-
gress since The foundation of the
government.
| o. Fl, p. Williams. aged eighty one.
and Mts. Rebecea Afford. aged seven
ty.nfne. OF Bartholomew county. In
q lana, havejust been united 10 mar
riagc.
The centenarian who had nine
wives and forty children AMI who Is
now confined in tho Chattanooga
workhouse is old enough to know
better.
At Basic City Virginfs, the roof OF
the large knitting factory collapsed
from the weight Of snow and much
damage wac dene to building and
machinery.
Little Wallace Chapman. a four.
year -old Kansae City boy, has most
wonderful memory. lie recently re.
peated verbatim a nineleen.stanza
poem afer hearing thread aloud three
| times.
John W. Yonng, sou OF Brigham
Young, has made contract for build.
ing 1900 miles of railroad in Mexieo.
and will take In payment $500. 600
acres OF land on which he Will Locate
a Mormon colony.
| 1t has been prophesied that in ten
| years time there will be more cam.
| phor trees than orange trees in For
ida, and that the camphor producing
Industry IN that State will become Of
great importance.
1t has been ascertsined that there
are about 1913. 900 acres OF land in
Allegsny and Garrett counties, Md.
owned chiefly by non-residents, on
which no taxes have been paid ior o
century.
The bill to pension disabled Con-
Tolerate soldiers and their INDECENT
widows and to appropriate 10000
for soldiers home ss Little Rock,
has passed both houses Of tho ATkan.
sas Legislature.
The population OF United States
doubled from 1860 to 1890. The ex.
penses have Increased during the
same period more than seVen-foId.
This is what SOME people call running
q government on business principles.
In response TO the order of the
State Board OF Health OF Maryland
in regard to the vaccination Of all che
children who attend the public schools,
the Cumberland physicians have been
kept pretty busy. Last Wednesday
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