The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-04-06
NEWS ITEMS.

The Cleveland. O., rolling-mill will
resume work.
Mrs Williams two little boys beat to
death their infant brother at Reno,
Ok
The cold snap has cost truck garden
ers around Chattanooga alone fully
SlOO, 600
W. NJ. Thatcher was elected chair
man of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in
New York.
According to rumor, nuggets Of pure
gold are being dug out Of the ground
near Laveta, Col
W. II. Owens, city marshal of Paris,
Ill, shot and killed a colofed coal
miner who resisted arrest.
Edwin L. Waldo, belonging to a
wealthy Boston family, is missing and
the police are looking for him
DIR. Sheldon jackson, commissioner
Of education for Alaska, will leave on
his annual tour of inspection on April
TO-
Mrs Henry Elig attempted suicide
by throwing herself in the river at
Wheeling, W. Va. She was rescued in
time.
L. ]. Morton, merchant OF Grand
Rapids, Mich, was stricken with total
blindness on the streets at San Fran
cisco
John Birnstein, travelling man, was
arrested at Kansas City for pawning
81, 200 of his employers goods Faro
fend.
The carriage factory of w. A. Patter-
son, Flint, Mich, was burned Thurs
day morning. Loss $50, 600; insurance,
$4,000
The widow of President Garfield, who
is in Washington for few days, called
with her son, Henry, on Mrs. Cleveland
Friday.
The remains of Senator Alfred H.
Colquitt were inferred in Rose Hill
cemetery, Macon, Ca, with impressive
ceremonies
Gov Waite has refused request to
endorse the Coxey movement and issue
a call for the unemployed Of Denver to
march to Washington.
The board of commissioners of the
Kentucky Western Lunatic asylum has
advertised for bids for the SOS, 900 ad-
dition provided for by the recent legis-
lature,
Work was resumed Friday in the
mines Of the I.ykens Valley Coal Co,
where operations were suspended
week ago Nearly 5000 men are en-
ployed.
The largest log jam ever seen in the
Greenbrier river has formed just above
Warrington, w. Va. II is said 40, 900 is
conservative estimate Of the logs in
the jam.
Ex-Sheritf Leonard Tressel was found
guilty at Mansfield Of embezzling sT40
from the Urich estate, and is now
prisoner in the jail where year ago he
was iailer
The personnel of almost three-fourths
of the total number of the board of
amining surgeons of the pension bureau
has been changed since the beginning
of last May.
Moy Lee Sing, the Celestial sent to
the workhouse for running an opium
joint, at indianapolis, Ind, will get
out an injunction to prevent the cut
ting of his queue.
The Chickasaw Cotton mills of John
T. Currier and others, at Chiclasaw,
two miles from Paris Tenn, burned
Thursday morning. Loss, about 500
900; insurance, $4,000.
\ At 2:5O Wednesday afternoon the sem
ate lobbies began to fill with smoke.
Fire had broken out in a room used for
the storage of paper. No damage be-
yond that to the contents was done.
The Bavarian government has prom
ised subvention to send the manager
of the Munich Permanent exhibition to
the United States to promote the sale
of the products of Bavarian art in
dustry.
The Star Clipper newspaper office, at
Traer Ia, was destroyed by fire Fri
day morning, and also the post Office
and several mercantile houses The
loss is $4,000; partially covered by in
surance.
The statement that a mortgage for
S24 900 held by Col. Pepper on his horse
Acolyte had been foreclosed. is denied
by Coxeys attorneys. There has been
no record of any such transaction at
Canton, o.
j. 5, Brawley, of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday rendered his resignation to
the president as sixth auditor of the
treasury for the post Office department
1t is understood the resignation was
involuntary
The most brilliant display of the
aurora borealis ever seen at Nashville,
Tenn, was witnessed about o'clock
Friday evening 1t was dazzling in the
extreme, and was witnessed by thou.
sands Of people
Miss Henrietta Bruckner, an edu.
Gated young woman of Western Springs,
ILL.,, was found wandering in the woods
near Quincy, Ill She had been miss.
ing three days and is unable to give an
account of herself
The breaker of Park Colliery, No 9,
at Park Place near Mahoney City, Pa,
was burned Friday morning. The ma,
chinery aud building originally cost
s1o0, 600. Lentz, Lilly g. Co. were the
owners, and the plant employed zoo
men and boys
The Denver branch mint in March
received gold bullion to the value OF
$3.50, 1896 an increase of 200 per cent
over the corresponding month last
year The receipts for the last three
months have been $3.50, o26. IL, an in.
crease over last year OF almost 800 per
cent
King Humbert Queen Margherlta,
Aremier Crispi Sig Bacelli, minister Of
public instruction the mayor of Rome,
and a large number of other distin,
guished persons were present at the
opening Of the international hygienic
congress There were present 600
delegates