The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-09-28

by an electric wire at St Joseph, Mo.
Horace Porter had both arms cu-
off by circular saw at Bloomington
Ind.
Byron F. Richie was renominated
for congress in the Ninth Ohio dis.
trict
Hon. 0. V. Coffin was nominated for
governor by the republicans Of Connec.
ticut.
DIR. Eugene Talbot, professor Of liter.
ature, rhetoric, etc, died at Poyliguen,
France.
Democratic conferces nominated
Thomas J, Rurk, of Altoona, Pa, for
congress.
Thomas Moses, of Mcdowell county,
W. Va, shot and killed his wife and
her lover.
The city Of Parkersburg. W. Va, is
to have new democratic Sunday
morning paper.
Rev. VIM. Mossbarger, aged ninety,
fell from roof at Nevada, Mo-, and
was fatally injured.
The Commercial bank of Weeping
Water, Neb., is in the hands of the
state banking board.
At Gallipolis. o., George Durr was
thrown from an express in runaway,
and almost instantly killed.
Officer Peter Dillon, of the Allegheny
police force, was instantly killed by
catching hold of live wire.
Dr. Henry Hoffman Donner, the emf
nent physician, humorist. writer and
poet, died at Frankfort, Germany.
The British ship Senegal, from San
Diego to Tacoma, is supposed to have
foundered with her crew Of twenty
seven.
The story that Miss Catherine Drexel
would renounce her vows and marry
her brother-in-law is denied at Pitts
burgh
Col. Morton C. Hunter and sixty sur.
vivors of the Eighty-second Indiana in.
fantry held a reunion and camp fire at
Madison.
The eighth semi-annual convention
of the Christian Endeayor societies of
Indiana will meet at Elwood, Sep
tembcr %
Anthony Joseph, who has served the
people of New Mexico as delegate in
congress tSr ten years, has been re-
nominated.
Jacob Levy, aged so, supposed to be
mining speculator, committed sui
eide in st. Louis lodging house
Wednesday.
Dennis Davis, tenant on the farm
of solomon blackwell, three miles east
of Eufaula, !. T., shot and killed the
latter while at work.
At St Louis Judge Valiant granted
an omnibus injunction against inter-
ference by striking employees of the
Hamilton-Brow Shoe Co.
William Doolin, who carries the mail
between Telluride, Col, and the Silver
Pick mine, was knocked down by two
men on the road and robbed of $3.50.
Perry Cook, the notorious crook. was
captured near Lincoln, o. T., with sew
eral stolen horses in his possession and
was lynched by committee of farm
ers.
John Wailan, of Ladd, Ill. was found
guilty, and Elizabeth, his wife, not
guilty, in connection with the recent
looting at Ladd by Spring Valley
mob.
The question of the establishment of
a direct steamship service between
Canada and Cape Colony is being care
fully considered by the Canadian gov
ernment
Among the democrats mentioned for
Tor governor of New York
are John Boyd Thatcher, Judge Rufus
PeclSham, Frederick Cook, Daniel l..
Lockwood, Judge Robert Earl and
Smith Weed.
King Blue, ruler of the Negro In
dians in the neighborhood of Stone
wall, Chickasaw Nation, is out on
tour at the head of band
Of his people, and is tcrrorizing the
whole country.
James Darcy, a merchant at White
top Mountain, Va, was called to his
door and shot by unknown parties.
Darcey was suspected Of giving infor-
nation to revenue officers in regard to
Illicit distilleries.
At Springfield, ILL.,, three prisoners
coufined in the county jail made their
escape by knocking the jailor down
when he came in with their noon meal.
One Of them, John Goeden, was await
ing trial for murder.
Early Friday Annie Romani, 90 years
old, was shot and killed by her hus-
brnd, Vitro, in the tenement at 200
Mott street New York, next to the
rear entronce Of police headquarters
The murderer escaped.
Formal announcement is made of a
unique gathering, the first of the kind
held in America, national convoea-
tion Of mothers. 1t will be held in
Chicago under the auspices of the Chi
cago kindergarten college, beginning
e5.
The ques.ion of the date upon which
the new tariff law went into effect, in
volving the question Of rebates on
goods imported before August /, the
date fixed in the enacting clause, and
August 20, the date when the bill be-
came a law, has been decided by Solic-
itor Of the Treasury Reeve. lie holds
that the law went into effect August
"a.
A prisoner named Smith was fatally
shot at the Riverside pa.) peniten-
tiary by Keeper Dean. Smith was
committed for burglary In Wilkins
burg. and was serving out a term of
twenty-one years. lie attacked Keeper
ncan.
Joseph Murroy, fish commissioner for
Alaska, who has just returned from a
trip 10 that county with Assistant Soc
rstiry llumlin. Of the treasury depart.
nicnl, suys that unless some stops arc
tlkcn there win shortly be no fur
bcarhlg nnlmuls In Alaska. and that
l1c companies that ar1 canning salmon
Ne no better