South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-03-11

mouumeub In nicQmOuus DEs reen
successfully cast in New York.
1 Rev. James 4. Latimer, profess
sor in the Union Theological Sem
mary Of Hampden-Sidney College,
died last week.
Stephen b. Elkins has sold ais
residence in New York for So, 500.
Chill will not appropriate any
money for representation at the
Cole mbian Exposition.
1t Is stated that Secretary Blaine
Is now undergoing the worst attack
from which he has suffered recent
~ and those who are aware of his
condition regard him as danger.
ously i'll.
Latest returns from the local
elections in New York last week
show that the Democrats lost eight
out Of the twelve counties con;roll-
ed by them.
Ire Demoe ratio convention of
the sixteenth congressional district
Of Illinois has renominated by ac-
ciamation Congressman G.. w.
Fithian.
The grand jury at Fort ID dye,
iowa, returned indictments against
eleven saloon keepers. charging
them with violation of the State
laws. Civil injunction suits are
pending against many of the. par
ties. Ii WAS the first session of the
now grand jury.
An accident on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad ar bridgeport,
this State, last week, r,sulted in
the injury Of a number Of persons,
two of them seriously.
Timothy Higgins, Il. and o.
engineer, was killed on the railroad
near Cumberland.
Rev. DR.. joshua Pcterkin, rec.
tor Of St. James Episcopal Church,
Richmond. Va, died Monday.
He was born in baltimore in 1914
and WIS the fat! er of Bishop
George w. Peterkin, of this State.
The State central committee of
the Cleveland movement in Georgia
has promulgated a lengthy call to
the democrats. urging them to or
nize for Dir. Cleveland. The
call is signed by B NJ. Blackburn,
chairman; A. j. West, r. III. Rich
rdson, Hooper Alexander and w.
IL. Hammond.
Reports from number of points
in Southern Iowa show that the
fear that winter wheat has been de-
stroyed because Of the open winter
Is unfounded. While the acreage
is not very extensive the crop
promises 10 be as good as in form
CIR years.
Seven railroad workman were
killed at Milwaukee, Wis, by o
local train running into the rear of
a work train on the Chicago, Mil
yankee and st. Paul railroad.
The life Of Mr.. VIM. A. Stuart,
OF Saltville, Va, who died recently
in Philadelphia, was insured for
$50. 800, Of which $4,000 is for
the benefit of Mrs. Gen. j. T.. j.
Stuart, Of Staunton, his sister in
law. ~
Right Hon. Sir William Henry
Gregory, X. G. NJ. G., member of
the privy council Of Ireland died
Saturday.
The snow storm Of last week
ragged with great violence in other
parts of the country. at Boston it
drifted from to 2 feet.
w. +. Richards, editor OF the
Clarksburg Truth, died last week.
A blacksmith in Philadelphia
while shoeing a horse recently
found $40 gold piece Embedded in
the Eoof.
Java is said to be the region OF
the globe where it thunders often
eat, having thunder storms on
ninety-seven days of the year.
Reports from Breckenridge, Col
orado, say that great gold strikes
have been made near there, and
that prospectors are coming in
from all directions. Henry Book
er from Breckenridge, says that he
has seen tellurim ore out of the
new mines which he was sure ran
over $50, 900 to the ton. The dis
coveries have been made along belt
OF over five miles in length.
Mr.. Douglas Tilden, the deaf
mute American sculptor, a native
of California, who has been study
ing art in Paris for tho last four
years and in the Salon Of 1890 re-
ceived an honorable mention for
his 'Tired Boxer is at present
engaged upon n composition rep
resenting a fight between two In
dams and a grizzly bear who's
cubs the redskins are trying to
carry off. 1.-The work." says n
Paris contemporary, els sure to
attract much attention, and will in
all probability, gain him a media"
Senator Hill is said to be per-
/ fectly serene over the democratic
losses in New York.
DIR. Noah Porter, ex-president of
Yale College, died Friday at New
Haven, Conn, aged eighty-one
| years.
A bill has passed the Virginia
Legislature, charging the limits OF
Winchester.