South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-06-17

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The storm at Wellington, Kan,
which destroyed twenty lives and
wrecked half million dollars
worth Of property, lasted less than
two minutes.
There is man in Manchester,
N. H., named Will Knot. When
IN a hurry he signs his name
Wont"
George +. Creen, the inventor,
died at Kalamazoo, Mich, of in
termittent fever, aged sixty years.
lie invented the first self binder,
first electric street car and the
pneumatic shutter for photograph
ers. lie was working on an cleo
trio car to take the place OF the
trolley cars ut the time Of his death.
Charles Lyon, q veteran Of three
wars, died at his homo, in Trer ton,
n. j. He was ninety years of age,
and fought in the Mexican, Florida
and civil wars. He accompanied
Commodore Perry to Japan when
Perry made the treaty with the
JapaLese Tor port OF entry for the
United States.
The trucking industry ia assu m
ing largo proportions in Eastern
North Carolina. One firm In New
beruc has recently shipped to the
Eastern cities 10000 worth of
eabbages. Ten years ago tho in
dustry was in its infancy in that
section now it gives employment
to thousands Of laborers, and at
tracts for circulation hundreds of
thousands Of dollars annually from
the great business ccntres Of the
North.
1t ia stated that the food in Oil
creek, Pa, that destroyed so many
lives, was due, not to particular
ly heavy rain storm, but to the
breaking OF "a dam. The dam was
stocked with bass and nets were
stretched across it to prevent their
escape. These nets stopped logs,
brush and trash and caused jam
which broke down the dam. Such
10 the story. If true it suggests
the necessity of dam inspector in
the thickly SETTLED Pennsylvania
valleys. The Johnstown horror
was due to a broken dam.
A young man in Newcastle, Del. ,
having inherited IS, 900 or $40, goo,
astonishcd his mel ghbors by spend
ing 81, 100 in three weeks and start
ing off with another 81, 900 in his
pocket. lie bought among other
things two bicycles at $3.50 each, a
diamond ring for 1915, eight suits
Of clothes and several 1000 mile
tickets on various railway lines.
The Southern California orange
crop is total failure owing to frost
and heavy winds.
The delegates from Virginia t.
the Chicago convention will leave
on Thursday for the convention
city.
AT a late hour Friday night OF
! electric car between Bellaire enc
Wheeling, was struck at crossin.
by a Baltimore & Ohio engine a
Benwood. 1t was crowded will
| Passengers. Miss Kate Fitzpatrick
and Mrs. Charles Miller were kill
ell, and Joseph Emsheimer fatally
! injured. All were of Wheeling.
The car was comp ctoly demolished
The high water in the vicinity OF
Murphysboro, III has left 1000
families with nothing to keep want
from the door.
Probably tie largest mountain
trout ever caught in the United
States was caught at Twin Lakes,
{ COL, recently. 1t measured 261
inches long and z inches thick.
Mrs. Hiram Kelly, OF Chicago,
has given $4,000 for one of the
proposed buildings for women at
tho Chicago university.
A>process for making -four from
bananas has been discoveries. A
banana plantation after once being
started lasts for twenty-five years
without breaking or blowing.
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson, who was
offered the presidency OF Richmond
College some months ago, has an
noGnccd that he cannot accept.
The Hon. Eppa Hunton, of
Fauquicr county, Virginia, has
boon appointed by Gov. Mckinney
to be the successor Of the late Hon
j. 3 Barbour in the Senate Of the
United States.
The Rome (Ga.) Tribune Gays
Zone OF the happiest editors in
Georgia is Henry q. Storor, of Fort
Valley. Every day he gets a bushel
OF ripe peaches on subscription and
big Tat watermelon for every per-
sonal that goes into his paper"
A log dam in the St. Cro'x river,
at Eagle Island, is said to have been
ovor five miles long and contained
over $50, 900, 900 feet of lumber.
Irish republicans are greatly dis