The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-08-16

Crimes and Casualties.
Mrs Elijah Dalton of Washington
county, Ind, was brutally White Capped
because she left her husband, returned to
her old home, and refused to leave when
ordered to do so.
Druggist Schoppe of Denver was fatally
shot by II burglar.
Utes are leaving their reservation in Col
orado and committing depredations. The
military may be called out.
Because Jeanette Neil rejected his adj
vances, Charles Mccormick OF Jackson,
Mich, shot her then killed himself.
William Ploughman, farmer, was
stabbed to death and his brother John
wounded by two trumps ut Birdsboro, Pa.
gang of boy burglars has been uu
ehrthed Mt Gnienn, Ills. They are 20 in
number.
A. p. Singleton and Jack Peters were
terribly injured by the explosion of soda
fountain at Kalamazoo, Mich.
w. G. Keene, well known shoe manufac-
turer of Lynn, Mass, suicided by drown.
ing. Heat affected his brain. lie was
worth S1Ga,G00.
1t is claimed that SIS, COO worth of tickets
for the West Chicago Street Railway com
pany were stolen between New York and
Chicago while being shipped.
There seems to be no doubt now that the
sealing schooner Helen Blum has been lost
were drowned. The schooners Alexander
and Helen Blum parted i'll raging snow
storm off the Zinlinoski group and the lat
ter has not been seen since. There were in
all % hands on board the Blum and most
of the white portion OF the crew were from
San Francisco.
Seven men were injured, two probably
fatally, by the fall of IA scatfold at the old
gas works in Cincinnati.
Abe Alexander terribly slaShed thre
men at u revival near Oakland, Ills.
Rose Bailey, H. of Indianapolis, suicided
by poison because her lover was out of
work.
On Barg's lake, near wauconda, Ills,
a s;ilboat capsized, resulting in a loss of
-four lives.
One hundred and eighty two lives were
lost by the burning of the San Juan off the
Chinese coast
Tennessee military officials fear the sol
diers stationed at Coal Creek will be assas
sinated by the enraged miners.
AT Pensacola, Fla, dad" Durham, a
shipsmith, cut his wife's throat and then
his own. They did not live together.
Foreign.
The grain crop of Hungary is said to be
very short.
Cholera in southern Russia is rapidly
disappearing.
"a.
capital of Syria, did great damage
The British wheat crop is now estimated
mt 100000 quarters. This leaves 81 600 OOO
quarters to be imported Deducting the
stock left over from 1892, there will be need
of 5000. coo quarters.
Dispatches from Berlin say that Eng
land, the United States and Germany have
resolved upon decisive and combined action
to end the Samoan trouble. 1t is reported
That the solution will he the exile of Ma
taafa.
Severe earthquakes along the Italian
Adriatic. A number of lives are reported
lost
The home rule bill is expected to reach
the house of lords Aug. 81.
The proposed German bill, increasing
the tax on wine and tobacco, is very unpop-
ular.
Several deaths have occurred at Bonn Y
as result of the religious riots betw IN
Hindcos and Mohamnedaas.
A cloudburst mails havoc in the Eperies
district in Hungary Sunday. Fifty persons
and many head of cattle were drowned. 10C
houses and several railway and other
bridges were demolished and much of the
harvest crops was destroyed.
The Fort Pitt tannery and the ware
house of the Consolidated Wire company.
Pittsburg, burned. Loss, S125, 600
Fire destroyed the Terre Haute car works
Thursday. Loss, $500 600; insurance, $780,
600. The plant was idle.
Minneapolis had disastrous fire Sunday
in the lumber district 1t spread. destroy
ing over 40 blocks. Over 200 families and
1.5O0 people are homeless. Several thou
sand men will have no work. Loss about
81, 5000 with about one-third that
amount insurance.
The principal square of New Richmond,
o.. burned.
Five lives were lost in Chicago by the
burning of the Senate hotel. Many people
were injured and some will die
jamestown, n. D., had a s75, coo fire.
Nelson Morris & Company's plant at
Chicago was damaged by lire. Loss, $780,
0OO
The Meadow carpet yarn mills, Ardmore,
Pa, burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
The president reached Buzzard's Bay at
1850 Saturday morning.
Commander Booth of the Salvation