Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-23
Soufh and West


JUDGE GOODRICH has declared the Alien
Land law OF Texas void
SIX laborers on a construction train at
Ensley City went to sleep in a car where a
redhot stove was close TO two kegs Of pow.
der The powder caught fire aud exploded
blowing the car to fragments. All we're
killed
THE Minnesota Presbyterian synod in ses-
sion at Minneapolis protests against opening
the Worlds Fair on Sunday.
ONE of the Latest moves Of the Farmers
Alliance is the boycotting of the town OF
Ladonia, Texas. The boycott was started
because the Town Council enacted law
prohibiting the running at large Of stock in
the corporate limits.
REPORTS from Northern Minnesota and
North Dakota as far west as the Missouri
River are Of the most discouraging charac-
ter. Itsnowed and rained all over that sec
tion for eighteen hours, and not a wheel
could turn among the thrashing machines.
1t was calculated that from 1000, 900 TO D.
600. 900 bushels of wheat would be utterly
ruined.
The indianapolis Gnd.l city electic1 re-
suited in a Democratic victory. Sullivan
was reelected Mayor over Herod lRepubli-
cam by majority Of 272S.
A PASSENGER train jumped the track just
east Of Hicksville, Ohio. All the cars left
the rails killing three persons and injuring
twenty-,hree Others. The private car OF
Emmons Blaine son Of the Secretary of
State was in the wreck. Young Blaine was
slightly injured.
SAN WRIGHT, colored, was hanged by a
mob near Helena, Ga, for aSsaultlng Miss
Ada Beckwith.
THE surgeon who accompanied tho Coro-
ner from Wyoming TO the Sargent ranch In
Idaho TO exhume the alleged remains Of the
late Rober. Ray Hamilton. Of New York
City. reported that the examination was
made. that the remaiIs were unquestionably
those Of Robert Ray Hamilton, and that he
came to his death by drowning.
CT. HEINRIcKs, disappointed inventor,
committed suicide at Chicago, ILL.,, by inhal-
ing chloroform. BY his bedside was found
the model o. an uncompleted electrical ma
chine.
ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY MoarAR-
TY. who is also City Councilman, and six
other prominent citizens OF Omaha,
Neb have been arrested for taking part in
a lyncning.
GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY FIrzHUGH
LEE. second son of General Robert F.. Lee,
died at mis- home, in RavenSworth, Fairfax
County, Vs.. ayei fifty-four He had rep
resented his district for two terms In Con-
gress and was a member-elect OF the next
House Toe cause Of his death was heart
trouble and dropsy.
THE vestfbule limited, eastbound, was
wrecked at Mingo junction, Ohio. TIE killed
wers William Marshall, brakemeD, OF Co
lumbus, Ohio. Joseph Weston, express mes
senyer Four others were severely hurt.
COMMODORE NATHANIEL DUNCAN ISGRA-
HAM, formerly Of the United States Navy,
died at Charleston, s. C., aged eighty-eight.
He was born in Charleston and entered the
Naval service at the age OF nine yelrs.
The boiler of the steamer Evangsl. plying
between Port Townsend, Washington. and
Whitcomb, exploded, killing Gus Carlson
aud William Biggs deckhands, AMI Julius
Flint, fireman. Five others we're severely
scalded.
The bodies Of 900 soldiers who fell in the
battle Of Fort Recovery, Ohio, including the
body Of General Butler were inferred with
impressive ceremonies In one immense grave
at the cemetery set apart by the Govern
ment for that purpose. More than 1000