The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-10-11
Grimes and casua1tLer.

J. VIII Burton, 10, Tell from the top of q
tall hickory nut tree near Madison, Wis,
| and was instantly killed
Arson G. Porter and his bride were
killed in runaway at Des Moines They
/ were married week ago.
AT Paducah, KY, Murray Gilbert, prom
inent and quiet young man, while on his
first drunk, shot and killed Policeman
Smith. The murderer escaped.
Six people were killed and several in
| jured by storm at Hogan, Ga. Consider
/ able damage was done to property
One of the lifeboats of the missing steam
er Alvo was picked up at sea. The indica-
tons were that the Alvo had sunk and
that possibly those who manned the boat
| were rescued by passing vessel
Senator Stockbridge was seriously, IL not
fatally injured, by being struck by cable
car in Chicago.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, was
brought to trial in New York. The dis
| drict attorney will only ask for conviction
in the present trial for her speech at the
Union Square meeting on Aug. 81, last.
At Pelhamville, N. Y, George Mcdonald
Croft deserted Kate McGalliard at the
altar, and the girl is insane as a result.
Croff's whereabouts is unknown.
In Pittsburg Ed d. King and Thomas
| Dickson, printers, were convicted of vol
untary manslaughter for having recently
drunken row. All printers
White Caps in the Pearl River valley,
in Mississippi, threaten to burn the cotton
\ gins which turn out any bales before the
| price reaches 10 cents pound The gin
owners will not operate their gins until
given protection by the authorities
Young Given Lamar fatally shot his
father at Louisville because he wouldn't
| give him money to continue his spree.
4 Tn1f lie Tnk,, ka1- \
Big Four policeman, emptied his revolver
into a crowd which was stoning a passen-
| gercar containing nonunion boilermakers
| James Pitts, big Four fireman on his
way home, WAS hit and fatally wounded
Division Superintendent Riley of the Big
Four was hit with stone and seriously
injured.
An electric car on the Carthage pike was
struck by Big Four train near Cincin-
matt. Lewis Case, the motorman, was
killed and fivs passengers injured. The
| approaching telts had been hidden from
View by freight ana TIC conductor had
signaled Case to come ahead. John Hay.
erty, the 6agman at the crossing was
drunk at the time When arrested he said
it was not his duty to look out for electric
cars-only vehicles drawn by horses
A severe storm visited Union and Faulk.
ner counties, Ark, doing great damage.
Several people were killed.
Near Selma, Ala, White Caps burned
George Moran's ginhouse and Is bales OF
cotton because he sold for less than 1O
cents pound, as they threatened to do.
Insurance companies are canceling all cot
ton warehouse risks in the threatened sec
ton.
Damaging frosts in Mercer county, o.
The paid admissions at the worlds fair
Sunday were So 045
Heavy floods along the Pecos river in
Texas. Great damage
Treasurer McCurtin of the Choctaw ma
ton is said to be $751; 900 short.
At PEBBLES, o., Miss Allie Elsemere fell
from a horse while fording creek and was
drowned.
and four men, were drowned Sunday from
a fishing boat near Deer Park, Mich.
Vandals demolished the headstones and
monuments in the little Catholic cemetery
near Schererville, Ind. No cause known.
Foreign.
Prince Bismarck will not be removed
from Kissengen to Friedrichruhe, his
home near Hamburg, as his condition is
not now considered serious.
King Lobenguela of Mashonaland, South
Africa, was marching to attack British
fort at last accounts.
The Ashantees of West Africa have dee
British protectorate. John Bull will get
after them.
Germany's naval estimate has been in.
creased SIS, 100000.
The infantry barracks, sheltering about
500 men at Roslavl, Smolensk, Russia,
burned. Sixty were driven to the roof and
forced to jump, resulting in IL being killed
and eight receiving severe injuries. Tween
ty-eight were overcome in the rooms and
hll IG md lNrrv-I 80 a
the fire Is unknown.
Personal.
Joseph Chamberlain, member of parlia.
ment OF England, Is now in America. He
refused to talk politics.
New York Republicans named John
Palmer for governor.
Massachusetts, Republicans nominated
Frederick Greenhalge for governor.
Judge Gary, who sentenced the an.
archists to death, was nominated for Judge
by reclamation by the Republican conyen-
ton at Chicago.
Black smallpox has made its appearance
in several towns in Sonora, Mex.
Fires.
Fire at Laporte, Ind, destroyed the Sum-
init refrigerator factory. Loss, SO, 200; in
surance, $4,000
Edward and Adams grain elevator.
with about 5000 bushels of wheat, burned
at Wabash, Ind. 1t also contained 1000
bushels of cloverseed The wheat was
owned by the farmers, and but little of it
was insured The losses ON grain and
building will approximate SIS, 900. The
fire originated in the engineroom.
Deaths.
Charles d. Melville, who for many years
was the champion bareback rider of the
world, died at the West Penn hospital.
Pittsburg.
Lake Vessel Wrecked.
SANDUsKY, o., Oct. 9.-The steamer
Norma, owned by ohlemacher Lime
company and. bound for Lorain with
stone, WIS caught by the severe
weather off Huron Friday. The load
was lost, and James Cooper of Marble
head and John Fahn OF Sandusky
were washed overheard and drowned.
The boat was severely damaged.
Pension Information wanted.
WASHINGTON, Oct. "a resolution