Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-11-12
THE NEWS.


Mrs. George Bear. daughter OF Forms,
City Engineer veiix. % Kansas City. NO.,
com mittsd suicide. nr!ng bullet into her
brain She was married one week ago 70
George Bear. an Insurance man.
benjamin Wheeler, . hsndcuyed prisoner.
jumped from the vindew OF . Panhandis
train running ss the rate OF sixty miies an
hour and made good bis escape unip3ured
from a Colun bus detective.
A Telegram from Colorado Springs. Col. !
says that Thomas n. Cobb. OF Atlantis. Ca.
died there OF consumption. Mr.. Cobb was
an eloquent lawyer and member OF the
prominent Cobb family Of Georgia
A petition In bankruptcy was nied in the
United States District Court Ht rittsburS
against A. Grostzingsr 4 Sons, the tanners.
by creditors from Philadelphia. Chicago
and West Virginia. whose claims aggregate
clos. COO on notes OF the irm-
On Shrewsbury avenue. Middlesooro.
Ky, thirteen houses wero burned and SIX
teen families were rendered homeless. The
houses we're owned by the Town Company
and the Manchester Building Company. OF
Manchester. England. They are covered By
insurance IN London companies.
The collapse OF the Dewey arch during the
Peace jubilee at Chicago. has caused n suit
Tor $50. 600 damages against the city OF Chi
cago and the jubilee committee on deeora-
tons by John W. smith, an attorney. who
asserts that he was standing near the arch
when Il fell. and sustained numerous IL
iuries.
Complaints are being received by the
board OF railroad commissioners regarding
a scarcity OF grain cars az many Kansas
points. plant from Ave grain firms
AZ Cladin. Kan. says 80 600 bushels Of wheat
ara waiting 10 be moved at that point. 1000
bushels lying on the ground.
Antonio Giuseppe BaroDe, accused ot
numbering Felipe Forestino. whose mutt
lated and dismsmbered body was found In a
trunk floating In the canal at Buffalo. \. Y.
was refused a new trial and was sentenced
TO be eiectrocuted AZ Auburn state prison
during the week Of December 10.
An attempt 10 deiraud a gas company re-
suited 10 the death OF James Lyons, sa-
| loon-keeper. Of Jersey City. y. j., who Wa
| found dead Ia his room from asphy xiation.
rubber tube had been used 70 carry gas
around the meter and IL had fallen. per
mitting gas 20 escape into the cellar and
thence up into the saloon.
Tho war Investigating commission. setting
In sections AZ Lexington and Washington
heard vigorous denunciations OF Chica
mauga conditions aud the Santiago cam
palgn.
Members OF the sixth Virginia Regiment
colored. mutinied NJ Knoxville. Tenn. be
cause Governor Tyler recently appoints
nine while men as company officers.
Members OF Forrest Camp. Confedetat
Veterans. az Chattanooga. became involve
ia wrangle over resolution 10 ask th
! President not 20 appoint colored commits
stoned officers.
Senator Kyle. OF south Dakota. issued
statement that be had left the Populi'
party be ,Ause Of its course at WAshingto
and In his State.
The transport Panama. fears for who's
safety had been entertained. arrived
Havana.
Work Is difficult 20 get in Havana. OWN
a 10 the business uncertainty. and there
much suffering among tho poor.
l. spanish soldiers will % put 10 work IN n
= mines near Santiago. Cubans having refusS
4 the vacant places.
:; Surgeon Apple charges that when
4 asked Miss Clara Barton 10 aid wounded
!. Siboney last June with clothing, docto
J. and nurses be was refused.
The city iailer OF Augusta. Ga. aided
d policemen. prevented mob from seiziI
% and lynching a colored man accused Of q
? tempted assault upon young VII.
Is woman.
3 Admiral Miller. in an interview In Ci
10 cago. says that the Nicaragua canal is nee
N ed by this country 10 aid in protecting
long stretch OF coast on two oceans.
40 General Bacon IN an Interview gave hi
y praise 10 the raw recruits who fought und
20 him In the recent Bear Lake Indian OF
" break. lie says the Indians seem gu
pacihed.
Eugene weidman, OF East Hebron. Z
was found dead near his home. half imbs
50 ed IN quicksand. lie had been mtssi
i've days Beside him was found a hast
- written note. which said he bad been unal
Is to extricAte himself that no was suffer-
terribly from hunger and thirst, and that