Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-06
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE ReapportiOnment bill, amended 10
give New York thirty AssemblymeD. Kings
nineteen and Steuben and Dutchess two each,
passed the special session Of the New York
Legislature at Albany, which then ad
| journed sine die.
FARMER JAMES TRUAx, OF Clarence, NY.
and his pretty stepdaughter Susan Chase
aged sixteen, quarreled about Leonard Shad,
one of the farm hands, whom she had
daughter into the barn and with an ak or
heavy hammer pounded her head into g
Jelly. Then he drew a razor from his pocket
and cut his own throat from ear 70 ear, dy-
ing instantly.
ENGINEER JOSEPH II. GRAY was thrown
among the machinery Of his engine and
crushed to death by the collision OF the ferry.
boat Cincinnati with the bridge in her slip
at New York City.
AMBROSE SEELEY, aged twenty-four, son
OF Andrew j. Seeley, a well known boat
man in South Brooklyn, N. Y. was killed
in fist fight with David Ryan, aged TWEEN.
ty. The two young men had difference OF
opinion about SONS matters In dispute be-
tween then for some time. aud they decided
to settle it by a resort to their fists.
HIRAM d. UPTON presided over the New
Hampshire Republican State Convention at
Concord. The names Of Harrison and Blaine
were loudly che.re1. The delegates were
uninstructed.
THE New Jersey Republican State Con-
vention met at Trenton and elected twenty
delegates to the National Convention at
Minneapolis. Ii was a Harrison gathering
through and through. The delegation will
go to Minneapolis uninstructed.
THE Maine Republican State Convention
,IoNfO
presses the continued loyalty and devotion
of Maine Republicans "to that great states
man and leader, James G.. Blaine" and ''be-
lieve the best interests Of tho country will be
answered" by the denomination AMI re'slec-
tion OF President Harrison.
LATER particulars showed that az least
six persons were killed in the fire which de-
stroYed the Central Theatre, the Times
annex and other valuable property IN Phila-
delphia, Penn. The victims were: William
/. Brooks, aged forty-seven; Thomas Lor-
ella, thirty-one; Miss Flora Lorella, twenty
eight; Miss Fancion Conyers, twenty; Miss
Vincencia Chtten, twenty-nlne; Miss Sara
Goldman, seventeen. They were members
of theatrical company. The wounded
numbered sixty.three, AMI tho loss is
s500C
MRS HANNAH ALEXANDER and Mrs,
Elizabeth Jones !os5 their llYeS oy Tue DuEn-
ing of the Cayuga fats New York City
which we're firei through the incautious uso
of naphtha by Dr. James e. Briggs.
FOREST fires playel havoc in the New
Jersey pines near West Pleasantville.
THOMAS c. PLArT, Frank Hiscock, Chauu-
cey NJ. Depew AMI Warner Miller were
elected delegates to the Republican National
Convention by the New York State Con-
vention at Albany. They were not iu-
structed, but the platform indorses President
Harrison's administration and the Mckinley
Tariff bill.
JOHN LEE, Chinanan, hanged himself
in his cell in Boston, Mass. He was under
arrest for entering another Chinamans
shop. He used blue silk handkerchief for
a rope.
GENERAL WILLIAM WELLS one OF thu
best known citizens OF Vermont, died sui
denly in New York City OF heart diselse. he
was born in Waterbury, VT, December H.
1887.
A FOREST fire was started by spark from
a locomotive near RichianJ n. j., and be-
fore midnight had burnel over thousand
acres of the finest standing timber in South
Jersey. A fierce fire also ragged for several
da7s on what is know as Rattlesnake Noun
tans, near Oxford, n. j., and hun1reds OF
acres of fine timber were burned.