South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1896-08-06
THE NEWS.

The two negroes who attempted 20 assassi-
nate Col c. d. Hunter nesr s~lma. Ala.
vess iynchsd ---viesor Nottingham and
Edward Wilson wers sentenced In Norfolk TO
ave years In the penitsntiary for the murder
OF Allen Jones Guy Smith, a boy, was ar
rested IN Huntington, ". Va, for horse
stealing II small boardwalk ct Atlantic
City collapsed, and several young people
were badly hurt--Two passenger train.
on the Illinois Central, while running at full
speed, collided- Two were killed and q
number injured Columbus Buggy
Company. OF Columbus. o., made an assign
ment THE death list at tho Atlantic City
disaster is now placed at forty-sour, OF whom
foity have been identified has been
found that Frank Donnelll, who was sup
posed to have leaped from the stramer Poca-
hontas into the James River, was murdered.
William Hawkins, bartender, was
killed In Chicago by J. q. Englieh and his
sister Nellie. He had deceived the girl. -
John Webster shot his mother in Laport.
Ind, because she refused to give him money.
j. George Smith, manufacturer OF spring
and iron bedsteads, At Chicago, made an as
hrm- Assets are given at e55,0o0 and La
bilties $500
An unknown woman riding a bike ran
down and killed VIM Klink In Chicago
Frank Owens, a brickmason, OF Brooklyn, N.
Y, who had been working In Kent. o re-
ceiyed his pay and went on spree. He was
arrested In Akron, o., while intoxicated, and
attempted TO hang himself In his cell at the
city prison with his suspender. He was dis
covered and cut down before harm was
done. Two men robbed faro bank AT
Newport, Ky.-The East Chicago Iron and
Steel Company, OF Hammond, Ind, has made
an assignment Bert Green. colored. con-
victed OF the murder OF Miles p Mitchell,
near Whiteville. Hardeman county, in De-
cember last, was hanged at jackson, Tenn.
Henry Lyons. who killed his wife near
Mt Pleasant, w. Va, went to the homo OF
his mother and committed rnIcIde--
Charles De Heart, a farmer in Patrick coun-
ty, Va, who had given information to rev.
enue officers about moonshlners. was found
dead In field shot through the head
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has de-
cided to stop all work on its lines wherever
possible, In order to reduce expenses.
The Dennison Deposit Bank Mt Dennison, o.
made an ASSIGNMENT. Liabilities over sl0O.-
600; assets $4,000 Joseph Greidler, OF
Minnesota, a crack bicycle racer, vas tillsd
on the track at Lima, o.
Edward Burt AJAX, ons OF the robbers OF the
Cripple Greek stage coach, has been caught.
The Civic Federation of Chicago, claims
to haze wholesale evidence OF police cor
ruption in that city. Two masked men
robbed the Illinois Central Station al Walker.
station between Springfield and Clinton In
Illinois. Agent Campbell was ehot and
probably fatally wounded by the robbers.
Colonel John Hallam, an Arkansas at
torney, shot and fatally wounded Rev. w.
o. Forbes, prominent Baptist minister 10
Texarkana, Ark.-Ephraim Glover, a
prominent citizen of HaddonHeld, n j., was
instantly killed by being struck by the At
antic City express on the Camden and At
lantic road.-Edward Johnson struck John
Heidelberg, of Perth Amboy, N. j, a blow in
the jaw that killed him.-James Casherega,
alias George Wilson, was hanged In the fed
eral jail at Fort Smith, Ark for numbering
man named Thack for the purpose OF rob
berry. He protested his innocence on the gal
lows.--Andrew Todd, OF North AdaIs,
Mass, was arranged before United States
Commissioner Fiske in Boston on a charge
of robbing postal car at Newport, VT, aud
was held for court.-W. @. Burt OF Aus
tin, Tex, murdered his wife and two little
children, and placed their deaf. bodies In a
cistern---A number Of persons were killed
and injured IA a railroad wreck at the cross
Ing OF the West Jersey and Atlantic Cityr
roads on the meadows just outside Of Allan
tic City.
Fifty people were overcome by the heat In
st. Louis. or these ten died WIN. Flax,
OF Carlisle, Pa, has been arrested in Chi
cago on n charge OF forgery. masked
men shot George Hetzler, saloonkeeper in
Cincinnati, who refused 10 give up his money
One Of the robbers was arrested.-The An
eient and Honorable Company Of Artillery
reached Boston, from their excursion to
England and France. When the steamer
had reached her berth, letter f;om Mayor
Quincy was handed TO Colonel Walker, ir
which the company was congratulated on its
safe return.-Reyised lists Of the dead and
injured by the railroad wreck on tho mead
ows near Atlantic City show that forty seven
persons were killed and forty-three injured
George +. Hauser, who had charge OF the
signal tower near where the accident occur
ed, was arrested pending the investigation
by the coroner's jury.