Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
SOuth and West.

WORK on the Worlds Fair site at Jackson
Park, Chicago is entirely suspended. Six
hundred of the $50 men at work struck, and
the remainder declined to go TO work next
morning.
CHARLES CURTIS, a colored hoy, was taken
from Jail at Liberty, Miss, by a mob and
hanged. His body was ridile1 with bullets.
He had attempted an assault.
JOHN WRIGHT, of Spring Valley, Mimi,
bet 81 that he could run across the Milwau-
kee bridge in advance of an approaching
train. but the train overlook him and he lost
the bet and bis life at the same time.
WILLIAM MUscoE. alias William F. Jor.
dan. VINO murdered Policeman George T.
Seal was hanged in the jail yard at Char
lottesville, Va He made full confession
of the crime in his cell few minutes before
execution.
THREE members of a family going over
land from Tennessee to Texas, were fatally
poisoned by coffee in which a mountain
centipede was boiled.
TWELVE street car lines are tied up by
strikers in Detroit, Mica
LABoRERs at the Gilbert Hedge g. Co.
Lumber Yards Burlington, Iowa, drank
freely of water drawn from an old well in
Ine Nltlultls anu icoNAb VI iOAooh AiCut
sewage. five of them are dead aud several
Others were not expected to live.
THE farmer legislators of Illinois resolved
to oppose all bills 70. the Worlds Fair until
such bills as they desire for the interests OF
farmers and laborers shall be agreed upon
GEORGE WHITMoRE, President Of the
Nephi Utah National Bank, was "buncoed'
out OF $1,000 by gold-brick swin1lers, who
have disappeared.
GEORGE GRADER, a Cincinnati porter,
shot and killed his wife and then himself.
THE entire street car system of Detroit.
Mich was paralyzed few days ago by the
strike.
FIRE destroyed /. B. Cookies boarding
stables in st. Paul, Mimi, with other prop
erty. Loss, Sl25, 600. In trying to save
valuable horse William Groves was burned
TO death.
KATE BRAMMER, agel eighteen, smashed
the skull of burglar named Thomas with
an ak as he was attempting TO break into her
fathers house near Raleigh, W. Va. The
girl was alone aud in desperation killed him.
She is quite low from the effects OF fright.
WILLIAM NJ Ross a farmer living in
Perry County, Ark. some miles from Little
Rock. committed suicide by hanging de
first assaulted his wife, knocking her down,
and then putting a rope around her neck,
hanged her to beam in the stable, where
she was found before life was extinct.
The State Treasurer of Illinois received a
draft for 5000 600 from the United States
Treasury at Washington, the amonnt OF
direct tax raised during the war and now re-
funded.
TIE Detroit CSlich) Street Car Company
backed down. 1t appointed two lawyers to
confer with the strikers committee, and they
agreed to the demands of the men. The city
presents holiday appearance in conse'
quence.
CHEF OF CONSTRUCTION BURNHAN, OF tho
Worlds Fair, Chicago, ILL.,, appointed Z. b.
Atwood, OF New York, designer-in-chief.
NELSON BRAY, desperate awaiting trial
for arson and burglary, was shot through the
head and killed by Jailor Hall, while at
tempting to escape at Versailles KY.
WAIrEs MARTIN, colored, was hanged in
the iai ward at Columbia, $. c., for the
murder Of Alice McLeon, white woman.
Bill Miles. colored, was executed at Pickens
S. c., for the murder Of Jake Griffin. ed.
mund Holloway, also colored, was hanged at
Manning, S. c., for the murder Of John w.
Dubose, white.