South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-04-22
ITEMS OF NEWS.

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May to November 23d to 25th.
Two hundred and fifty lives is
the reported loss by recent foods
In the Mississippi valley.
Portions Of Virginia were visited
by destructive tornado last Thurs
day night, the wind tore up houses
and trees while the hail cut to
pieces vegetation and fruit trees.
The loss of property by the recent
Mississippi floods has been esti-
mated at two millions OF dollars,
but it is beyond any present esti-
mate.
The receipts into the city trcasu-
~ of Chicago from saloon license
alone amounts to $4,000, 900 an
nually.
The Massachusetts, State Demo-
cratic Convention adopted resolu-
tions demanding tie nomination
Of ex- President Clevrlipd for Pres
ident.
Heirs OF Mrs. Cecilia Leslie. OF
Piedmont, claim property in Phil
adelphia worth S35 100000.
The grand jury OF Taylor county,
broke the record last week by re-
turning over six hundred indict-
ments as true bills. With few ex-
captions they were all for the illicit
selling OF liquor. One or two
were found to be selling without
U nited States license.
The proposition made by Hon.
s. ID. Eikins to give $4,000 and
rs acres of land to found Baptist
college at Elkins Randolph coun-
ty. was accepted Wednesday ut a
full meeting of the board of col
lege trustees at Clarksburg.
The Pocahontas Coal Company
shipments during the month of
march amounted to 1856, 5G4 tons.
Every county in Wisconsin that
has chosen delegates to the Demo-
cratic State Convention has select
ed m2n known to be followers of
ex-President Cleveland, and the
party leaders now say it is practl-
cally certain he will have a SOLID
delegation from that State in the
national convention.
New Orleans three million d ,l-
lar fire was caused by a vile little
cigarette.
A man in Pittsbarg found live
coon III the middle of q bale of
hay a few days ago. 1t is believed
the animal had been imprisoned
there at least a month and had
been brought from Ohio.
A man named Roberts, q mem
Der of the Hatfield Mccoy gang,
was shot and killed in Logan
county, by Deputy Sheriff Buskirk,
whilst resisting arrest.
A sensation has been caused at
Wheeling by the disappearance
from Mont De Chantal. the famous
Catholic school for girls, of Mary
McKeeVer and Maud Granger. two
young ladies who were students at
the school.
The board of regents for the
West Virginia Colored Institute
has chosen as principal of that es-
Enlistment James Il. Campbell, of
1T. Pleasant, and Byrd Prillman,
Of Charleston, teacher. The
school will open in May.
A New York company will grind
coal and mix 1t with water and
force it through pipe direct from
the coal fields to the city, where it
will be dried in trucks.
Ex-Governor Campbell, who is
certainly pretty we'll informed in
regard to Democratic sentiment in
Ohio, says tho masses of the party
in that State are for Cleveland.
lie is further OF the opinion that
IL any Democratic nominee can win
at the presidential election, Cleve-
land is the man.
A clergyman was dismissed in
indianapolis for wearing a mus
tache.
The annual income of tho Roths-
child family is said to be $35, 900, :
600.
The widow of the famous Indian
chief Black Squirrel, who was one
OF the Seneca tribe loyal to the
American cause during the war of
1912 and did valuable service, died
a few days ago on the Tonawanda
reservation, in Niagara county, N.
7. She was 102 years old and
drew a pension from the govern
ment.
The Sultan of Turkey has con-
sented to the erection of a mosque
at the exposition grounds, Chicogo,
for the religious services of Mo-
hammadans who attend the fair.
1t is reported that 50, 900 will be
expended in its erection.
Paper quilts are said to be com
ing into extensive use abroad for
poorer people. They are composed
Of sheets of white paper sewed to-
gether and perforated all over at q
distance OF an inch or two apart.
President Eliot. Of Harvard Col,