The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-05-17

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Crimes and Casualties.
The fine new professional cross. was
stolen from St Paul's Episcopal church,
| Erie, Pa.
Charles Parker was caught in machinery
| in Eckstein's lead works. CINCINNATI and
| probably fatally injured
John Parks has been arrested at Bristol
Va, for criminal intimacy with his twelve
year-old daughter, who has been his victim
| for three years. Three other daughters
have also suffered He will hang
Near Brazil, Ind, William Campbell and
Mary Carter were married. Ten minutes
after the team ran away, overturning the
vehicle. The bride had an arm broken and
! was otherwise injured, while the groom re-
ceived several ugly cuts.
At Los Ojos, N NJ, Isabella Mariana
crazed by the perfidy of her lover Jose
Pedro, who had married another, cut out
their tongues and nearly killed the city
marshal who tried TO arrest her. Pedro
and his wife viii live, but can never speak
again.
| The Maumee river in northwestern Ohio
is higher than since 1883. Much damage
/ has been done.
Near Pekin, Ills, twenty families are
homeless, their houses having been lifted
from their foundations by the flood. La
| Marsh drainage district is a ruin.
! George III. Griswold, bookkeeper for the
Fourth National bank of Columbus, o.,
has skipped He is short about s., 600 Sew
eral days ago he dropped book from his
pocket. 1t was found by the cashier, who
! discovered that Griswold had made collec-
| tions for which no credit was given. His
father agreed TO make it good.
The heavy weather of the past few days
has resulted IN severe losses to lake vessel
men. The gale ON Lake Michigan Wednes-
day did not lass than SIS, 900 damages
At MidlaEi, Mich, four boilers of the
Midland Salt and Lumber company ex-
| ploded, killing three men and injuring
nineteen others. some probably seriously.
ID. A. Schofield, of Ewing, Mich, shot
and instantly killed his wife and then shot
himself in TIE breast. He will die Scho-
/ field was drunkard and his wife intended
to desert him.
Ten girls working in the cotton factory
at Admission, Ala, have been arrested for
! the murder of Rosa Brown, who was as
saulted by them and kicked so badly that
she died in {. few hours
/ On the Ohio river between Dover, KY,
and Levanna, o., Robert and Thomas Stan
berry were drowned by having their slliff
swamped by the rollers from passing
steamer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Williams, of st.
Louis, determined to suicide, but We're so
poor they could not purchase poison and
had to seek the river After the wife had
made three unsuccessful attempts she went
to the morgue, and there lay her husbands
body ON slab. She then told her story
and disappeared. 1t is believed she has
succeeded in taking her own life.
Personal.
| Miss Alice Palmer, of Franklin. Ind,
state organizer of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. will go to South Africa
to work in behalf of the cause
| Justice Harlan and Senator Morgan have
been decided upon as the two arbitrators for
the United States in the controversy be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
over the Behring sea fisheries
Deaths.
James Goudie, ST., who built the first
boat that crossed the Atlantic by steam
alone, died in Chicago, aged eighty-three.
The trip was made by the Royal William
in 1898.
Senator John S. Barbour, of Virginia,
died very suddenly of heart failure in
Washington Saturday morning.
Foreign.
| A Zanzibar dispatch states that Emin
Pasha has become totally blind. The re-
port is believed to be not Improbable, as
Emin's sight has never been strong.
Near Brody in Galicia, Austria, raft
with about a hundred min, women
and children ON board, went to pieces.
Sixty persisted. The raft was defectiveis
constructed, and the owners will be prose.
| cuted.
1t is expected that the British parliament
viii dissolve about June 24.
Political Notes.
Indiana Prohibitionists will meet at
Indianapolis May % and g.
Montana Republicans did not instruct
their delegates, except that they support a
free coinage man. They Endorsed Har-
rison's administration and passed a reso-
luton landing Blaine
Il. " Powderly still thinks presidential
lightning may strike him.
There is secret movement on foot in In
diana to boom Minister TO Italy Porter for
Republican candidate for governor.
| The state of Iowa will send solid dele
/ CATION to the national Democratic conyen-
ton to vote unit for Horace Boies for
! president
The Democratic state convention of Mis-
souri, passed resolutions fayoring the re-
nomination of Cleveland, but no instruc-
tions were given
fairyille, N. b, had a fire which de
stroyed forty buildings. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
THEY FORGOT.