South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1896-07-23
THE NEWS

reports comes from ktke county, N.Y. that
in fight between a party OF revenue men.
under the command Of Kid Greer, OF Floyd
county. and poonshiners. on Eikhorn Greek,
three OF the raiding party and two OF the
moonshiners were shot, though how badly
Is not known.-At Rockford, III, James
French, tailor. murdered his wife. and then
attempted suieide.---Three men lost their
lives In the nre at the car barns OF tho
Chicago Street Railway Company The bo-
dies were discovered in the ruins after day
light-Because her husband abused her,
Mira Henry Milihouse. Of Chicago. tiled to
drown herself and her four children---By
the explosion OF a lantern In the oiI-room, In
the basement OF the Henry A. Hale building,
a four-story brick block In Salem, Mass, n
Ere was started which caused damage
amounting to $50, 900. ~ J. Call and Net
tie Call, his daughter, were killed near Hunt
ington, W. Va Eta Robbins is IN jail, nc
cused OF the murder.-The President has
commuted the death sentences imposed on
three Texans who were convicted OF murder
to life imprisonment The gold reserve
went below the ninety million mark owing TO
Withdrawals. but no alarm is felt by treasury
officials. who regard the drain as entirely
abnormal, besides, New York banks have
agreed to furnish the government with all
the gold necessary. Park Theatre, the
Barrett House and number OF other build
ings at Henderson, Ky, were burned. Loss
about s200.0
Jealous Mrs. Rose Hslmbeck threw sui
phuric acid on Mrs Thomas Smelling. in
Butte, Mont because her husband was Mt.
ten.ive TO the woman. Mrs. Smelling will
de- Negotiations for the sale OF the Great
Chino ranch, near Los Angeles. Cal. which
contains $1,000 acres, to an English syndi-
cate. Is about complete. The purchase
price Is said to be q. 900, 0J0. ---while ON
their way from Sundusky to Lorafn. Ohio. I'm
q small sailboat, George Alexander aud John
Albeit We're drowned. --Contractor L veline
who il constructing a sewer in Melrose,
Mass was attacked by his Italian workmen.
and seriously injured. HaII.t
Davis Co. dealers IN pianos and organs in
Chicago, made an assignment in tho county
court to George G. Aldrich. statement
was filed showing assets of s2s3, 900; IabiII-
ties s1te, At Charleston, s. c.. John
Gasparri, an Italian sailor, killed John Con
salv"s, bis mate, ADD then cut hts own
throat.-Mss Fannie Howes. Of Utica.
Ind was killed by a steamer that ran down
the boat in which she was sailing. Robert
Laughlin, Of Burkville, ky., who murdered
his wife and niece was sentenced to death.
The militia on guard at the Brown Com
pany's works at Cleveland o., made a bay
ont charge upon mob of strikers and riot
ers ano dozen of the latter were wounded.
John White shot and killed Thomas Field
while resisting 1rrest at Tinsley Ridge. Ind
Charles Bell, a saloon keeper, ten miles
west Of Sullivan, Ind, was shot and killed
by young Clemmon, preachers son.
Clemmon defed arrest The sheriff is after
him. The coroner's jury In the case OF the
Logan. Iowa, railroad disaster have tender
ell verdict ho'dng Engineer Montgomery
and Conductor Reed, OF tho excursion train.
guilty of criminal negligence. Chicagoans
propose to build tower that will surpass I'm
height the famous Eiffel tower. --Three
girls werc drowned at Lake Minnetonka
while bathing An engineer and two fire.
men were killed In n col ision near Quincy.
m.-James A. Mueller, a jealous brick
layer In Toledo, o.. shot and killed his wife.
Mary Snodgrass was hung at Coeburn.
Va, for the murder OF her child. Miss
Acdie Tillman. eldest daughter OF Senator
Tillman, OF South Carolina. was killed by
lightning in Brevard, N. @. -Four of Buff
falo Bits musicians were friebtfully injured,
and two will probably die. They were
scraped from the band wagon while driving
Under a railroad bridge in Toledo, o.
Joseph Mcdonald aud Joseph NJ. Bennett
sustained probably fatal injuries by being
thrown from a team at Manchester, N II.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union Con-
yePtion was opened in Milwaukee.
Charles Stark has confessed that he muir.
dered Avis Luderman, a Chicago barkeeper
whom he accused OF intimacy with Mrs.
Stark The Kansas Court OF App ais has
declared Illegal all the divorces that have
been granted In the state for twenty-five
years.--It Is believed that the Yanderbits
Will control the recognized Northern Paci-
hc Railroad.---Janes Cliff, while intoxl-
ceted, was killed by train ia tunnel in
Alexandria, Va Three men were injured
ami two locomotives demolished In a COLI
sion on the Recalling Railroad, near Phila-
delPhia --Terrinc rnInstorms did great
damage in Pittsburg and parts OF West vir-
ginia.--Mrs. l. Is. White, aged seventy-ono
years, dropped over dead while tanning her
daughter at her home In Marysyllle, Ohio
The latter has been an invalid for some time.
Mrs. White %as talking to her daughter just
few minutes before she expired. Physi-
clans pronounced 1t heart disease----Dr.
Alfred g. Carpente-, late professor in the
New York City Medical School, and prOmi-
nently known in the East has brought suit
10 Perry, Okla, for divorce from his wife,
Caroline, charging gross neglect, cruelty and
abandonment, Carpenter also charges his
wife with attempting to Kill lin while he
was asleep
MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.