Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-12-03
THE NEWS.

} as caused mucn damAEs, certous deisy 20 1
.raric, many losses a. sea aud deaths from
exposure 10 New England and the Middle
states.
Three negroes are reported to have been
J. ynched near Meridian, Miss. for attacking
a young white man.
Prairie fires have recently done much
damage 10 Oklahoma and Indian Territory. |
BY boiler explosion on the steamboat I. /
G. Walker. near Stockton. Cal. six persons |
were killed and many others seriously hurt !
or s0slded
The big battleship Wisconsin was success
fully launched from the Union Iron Works
az San Francisco.
Edward Austin, a Boston millionaire, who
died recently. left $500. 900 TO Harvard and
$500. 600 more to other schools and ehari-
iie.
Col. {. Y. Hard. OF the Eighth Ohio. re-
fused TO resign when asked 10 DO 20 by a
"ronnd robin" from the officers OF his
regiment.
Charles 5. Cross. who wrecked the First
National Bank Of Emporia. Kan. and then
CON n it,ed suicide. left n letter saying that
iu-success in speculation had made him use
the banks funds.
The Texas supreme Court has dissolved
an Injunction preventing the completion OF
a channel 10 deep water from the Cult ter
miusls al Port Arthur. Tex
4 dfspaich from Eddyville. Ky. says thai
William Cato. who killed Charles Askew on
septemb.r 10. 1897. was hanged Friday.
! Col. Henry Lee, for many years head OF
the weli-known banking arm OF Lee. hig-
I elnson 4 Co. Boston. Is dead, aged eighty
one years Colonel Lee was Tor more than
thirty years ono Of the overseers OF Harvard
/ University
Former state Grain Inspector Dwight W.
Andrews former Chief Cashier j. +.
/ jenkins. Of the Illinois railroad and ware
house commission. were acquitted Of th'
charge Of embezzloment Of state funds.
Acting Governor Watkins OF New Jersey,
is.ued a warrant for the execution OF Ed'
ward clifford on Friday. January g. CHI
ford was convicted in tho Hudson County
Court for killing Superintsntent Watson
I of the West shore Railroad. The case wa
recently carried 70 tne United States Su
preme Court where a decision against CHI
ford was rendered.
California highbinders showed contemp
, for the PROCLAMATION Of the Chinese consul
general bidding them desist In their murder
r Gus frud by tearing II from the buueu
board In front OF the consulate and postin
there placard referring to the consul
unc0mplim mentary terms
o A dispatch from Elkhart. Ind. says that
r party oitw~lve people returning from ba
5 / AT Otis on two hand cArs were struck ty
{ fast mail train east Of ChestertoD, Willis'
Q zabinski and william Kempler being kilse'
> while Zabinskrs two daughters, aged thi
O teen and fifteen, respectively, were fatal
. injured.
o County Treasurer +. +. Smith, OF Miller
Z burg. Ohio. upon reaching his ONCE disco
.
bis ofaee had been blown OF by ourgia
+ some time during the night. Two handr'
% dollars was stolen. The robbers gained a
l. cess 20 the ofics by breaking IN a door
p Nr. L. NJ. Davis. division freight agent
IA the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad al ClArS
es burg. W. Va. will be transferred 20 Cui
IS berland Md. vice W. r. McIntOsh, resigns
~ Mr. r. Fowler. travelling agent ot the Bal
s" more and Ohio Railroad 10 West Virgin
DO will succeed Mr.. Davis ss division ireig
o agent. with headquarters ~ Clarksoui
W. Va
., The regiments a. Augusta. ia. W.
u given holiday Thanksgiving Day, aud
% ioyed the day with big dinners, cavs
-oi sports. football, basketball and band C
"a ceris.
-, Thesix thousand cotton mill operatives
- Augusta. Ga.. are likely 10 lose their III
az against a reduction Ia wages because oi
he lack Of organization aud OF money
InAcourt case az Anderson, Ind, the
.at ,orney for the defendant insisted upon
en- guing the case In rhyme and the Judge
RS jourued the trial.
nd william shaw was convicted IN ~. LS
pa OF sweating gold coin" upon the evide
the Of cornrade. James wilcox. who serve'
oa> term In Baltimore for the same oflense.
the The body OF Pcrser Leighthead OF
steamer CITY OF sydney. WAS found In
ruins OF the burned Baldwin Hotel,
the FrancseO. Other persons are stu u
tes. ing.
the Boys have been substituted for men
,da. Nashville street cars The boys earn 20
aod ,,aat. men were paid Sl0.