Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-02-06
South and West.

CHRIS ABRANSON, aged thirty-tve years,
wanted % marry Mamie Ronnlgan at west
port. MINI. and because sne refused he shot
her dead, then blew out his own brains. The
parties were well connected.
BorH Houses Of the Wisconsin Legislature
elected William F. Villas to succeed John ).
Spooner as United States Senator by a strict
party vote The Republican members voted
for Senator opooner.
WHEN the new administration took charge
of toe Texas General Land Office the ac-
counts Of the Receiver of the office, o. II.
Hollingsworth. were found short about
$1,000.
THE first stake was driven and the first
snadeful of earth was turned on the Lake
Front for the Worlds Fair in Chicago. Ill.
The digging was begun for the laying OF the
foundation of a temporary building to be
used by the chic. Of construction and MS
assistants during the erection Of the far
buildings proper
ROBERT DorsoS aud John Banks fell under
fhe wheels Of passenger tram at memphis
fem. ana were instantly killed. The men
were stealing a ride.
A SPECIAL train, conveying about 400
United States soldiers to Fort Riley from
the Pine Ridge South Dakotal Agency, col
lided with a passenger train at Florence,
Kan sergeant Schortbat and Private Neil
we're killed and twenty others wounded.
CHARLES MILLER, aged fifteen, who muir
Tered two boys named Fisbaugh and Emer-
son i'm a freight car within the OordeIs OF
wyoming. while they were en- route from
their home in st. Joseph to Denver, has
been sentenced to be hanged on March ".
A PICTURE of one of the farmers members
in the Illinois Legislature was recognized oy
prisoners in an Ohio penitentiary as that OF
a paroled convict who never returned
By the caving of the roof Of mine cham,
her at Ameret, No, two men were killed anu
five buried under debris
CAPTAIN WILLIAM d. DIETz, assistant sur
econ United States Army, and his wife were
3onnd dead at Alcatraz Island, San Fran
cisco Cal Captain Dietz first shot his wife
and then himself with double barrebed
shotgun.
ApARIYG safe robbery was COMMITTED at
Ssltillo Tenn The safe of Craver VIII
hanson merchants. was cracked by dyna-
mito and several thousand dollars stolen.
The exolosion awoke number OF citizens,
hut the burglars escaped in skin down the
Tennessee River.
A BLIZZARD ragged west and north OF Snl-
cago ILL.,; railroad travel was greatly nih-
dered by snow.
Fx.GOvERNoR GEORGE A. CRAWFORD, oil
Kansas died recently at Grand Junction
Col. OF hemorrhage OF the lungs. ne "a'
the founder of the city, and unmarried
ALI the fruit canneries Of California, with
one exception, have agreed to form cor
poration TO last fifty years.
THE long deadlock of the Montana Legs
latnre Is over. The Democrats have the or
fonization and the Republicans nave ma
jority of one.
HC KREBLE. prominent resident OF
coIma Ala is missing. He had failed toi
so50 O1O lie is believed he is in Mexico. and
Il susnected that he fed with the proceeds
Of 60Obales of cotton consigned to bim o>
neighboring planters.
THE boiler of Reau & Henry's saw mill, a
Ovarton Texas. exploded, killing Billy henry
end Dan Tucks and fatally injuring JohI
Austen, all colorea'
AN overloaded boat from the Ruece, Il
San Francisco Call Bay, capsized, precipi
tating nine sailors into the water; 1hree o'
thans- William Blum, William Murray an'
Stephen Tide-were drowned.
Coroxx1 GEORGE S. MANN, veteran o.
the Mexican war, died few days ago at oal
Francisco, Cal, at the age OF ninety-Onre
years.
In the Nevada Legislature Senator Jone
was reelected United States Senator for th
third time, receiving fifty-four votes out o
sixty.
Ar jefferson City, No, the Senate passe,
a resolution similar 10 that adopted by tn
House a week ago, pleiging that branch no
TO appropriate any money for the World
Fair should the Federal Election Force bill
become law.
THE Government Board Of Control sc
lacted a site for the Federal exhibit at tn
Worlds Fair, Chicago, III. The building /
to be placed upon plot of thirteen acres o
the lake shore in Jacksnn Park, opposit
Fifty-ninth street. The main building viii
cover four acres. The structure will be o.
stone, iron and glass
THERE were but six men under ground a
the time the fire broke out in the Chapi1
mine at Iron Mountain, Mich, and fou
were saved. jeremiah Bennett and Thoma
Edwards were found by the rescuing parties
but died shortly after being brought to tn
surface.