The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-05-11
NEWS ITEMS.
FIre destrored the town of Elmir

hlre destroyed the town OF Ilmira,
Cal
Fremont, o., voted $1,000 to two new
manufactures
The lIayti cattle plague is now said
TO be OF mild form
A gang Of eounterfeiters is believed
TO be located near Fremont, O.
The evening news is recent Journal
istc venture at Newcastle. Ind.
Tramps kidnapped Johnny Burns and
Willie Welch from Ashtabula o.
The Viking ship is to be brought
back from New Orleans TO Chicago
The strike Of miners in Carter eoun-
ty, Ky, threatens to become general
Fire destroyed part Of Kenwood,
suburb Of Albany, N. Y. Loss, $780,.
OOG
Mrs. Jane Dennis, Of Oberlin, o., is
under arrest at Cleveland, for attempt
ed pension fraud
Thirty industrials under the leader.
ship Of Capt. Duff. left Ashland, Neb,
Thursday for Omaha
In New York 8, $50 Chinese have reg.
istered out of 5000, in Boston 9, 100 out
of 5000, in Baltimore'695 out OF 900.
j. 5. MeCaskey, deputy county clerk,
is missing from Wheeling, w. Va, with
several thousand Of the county funds
The fourth annual congress of the
military surgeons completed its ses-
sions at Washington, Thursday, and
adjourned.
The tramp at Mansfield, o., who is
slowly dying from knife wound re-
fuses to tell who stabbed him or what
his own name is
Bishop korum has published docu-
ments presenting evidence of the per-
formance OF miracles during the last
exhibition Of the holy coat at Treves.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jacob Gould,
relative Of the late Jay Gould, was adj
judged insane He was one of the
wealthiest residents in Salem town.
ship.
The Kansas City grand jury returned
indictments against the chief partici-
pants in the Catholic and American
Protective association election day
riots.
The Iowa board of examining sur
geons has recently refunded, through
the pension bureau, 81, 14O collected for
services not rendered They may be
prosecuted.
Gottleib Knapp, a German forty
years of age, who lived alone at 221
William street, New York, was found
dead iD bed with his skull battered and
his neck cut
At Sistersville, w. Va, detectives
from St Louis arrested Thomas Lewis
well-known oil operator, on the
charge of numbering man in St Louis
ten years ago
Gen. Kelly asserts that Coxey pos
sesses no generalship, that Carl Browne
is an ass, and that the California in
dustrial army VIII surely reach Wash
ington and attain its purpose.
The men at the Franklin mine on the
Mesaba range have struck for 81 so for
surface men and by force compelled
the men working at the Oliver, Auburn
and German mines to join them.
The miners at Plymouth, WA, held
a meeting and decided to resume work.
At Queen City the operators offer 21{
cents, an increase of I cent per bushel,
but the men decline to accept it
George w. Abel, one of the proprie-
tors and editors of the Baltimore sun,
is dead OF pneumonia. He was the sec
ond son of A. s Abel, founder and for
over fifty years the proprietor of the
Sun.
The New York Mail and Express
Friday said it is an absolute certainty
now that Yale and Oxford will arrange
an eight-oared race in the near future,
if not this season, then assuredly next
year.
The striking miners of Peoria coun-
| ty, III, six hundred strong. marched to
the Collar mine and compelled the min
ers to suspend work The same sue
cess met the strikers at several OF the
mines,
II was decided Thursday to hold the
democratic congressional convention
of the Eighth Indiana district at Cow
ington, July % The district is i,2OO
democratic Broolshire will probably
be renominated.
AT Missouri Valley, Ia, an inquest
was held on the body of Reddy Wilson
mot Johnson), the burglar who was
lynched. The verdict was that death
was caused by hanging at the hands of
some unknown parties
Bob Fitzsimmons sent word Friday
that the purse of IS, 600 offered by the
Olympic club, of New Orleans, for a
fight with Choynski was not large
enough. President Scholl was wired
that probably $1,000 would be accept
able.
Dick Burge, the lightweight pugil-
list, beat Tom Nickless in fight of
twenty-eight rounds in London Friday
evening. In several rounds not sim
gle telling blow was struck. The fight
was for e4OO and the l4O-pound cham
pionship
A San Francisco evening paper prints
a statement TO the effect that sensa-
tional news may be expected by the
steamer Australia, due from Honolulu
Saturday, private letters having been
received by the last steamer indicating
trouble, owing to split in the govern
ment party.
The unorganized miners Of the dis
trict held n mass meeting at Brazil,
Ind, Thursday for the purpose Of join
ing the United Mine Workers About
four hundred members were secured.
1t is claimed that within week every
miner in the district will have Joined
the organization
Gov. Mckinley has appointed Hon.
Richard II. Hayman, of scioto county,
at one time citizen of Newport, Ky,
as one of the commission to represent
Ohio at the Antwerp exposition, under
the Hard resolution Mr. Hayman is
the only democrat ever elected to the
legislature from Scioto county
Although no official order has vet
been received from the war department
by Maj Gen, Miles, it is understood
that the Fifteenth regiment of infan-
try, Col. Crofton commanding, will be
transferred from Ft Sheridan, ILL., TO
Ft Russell, Wy, and the Seventeenth
regiment viii leave the latter post for