Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1884-12-20
GENERAL NEWS.

The smallpox is raging al Trieste.
Italy.
Seventy five men have been killed
by an explosion IN II colliery IN the
South oil Hungary.
1t is reported that two hundred
Chinese prisoners have been targets
for French riflrman.
Two of herd OF go cattle have
been killed in Frederick county on
account of lleuro pneumonia.
Senator Bavard has informed
Cleveland that he viii accept the
secrrtaryship OF the Treasury.
Nellie Koran is held at White
water, Wis.,, ON the charge of ;,ois
oning her sister, ANNE Koran.
A ST. Paul court gave verdict of
500. 900 damages against railroad
for injuries TO a boy of 8 years.
Ten thousand dollars for hats have
been taken in by four firms IN Pitts
burg for sales to pay election bets.
One thousand two hundred Bona
pariists held a meeting in Paris
Sunday in the interest of Prince
Napoleon.
John Mason, an insane convict in
the Missouri Prnitentiary, fatally in
jurrd two fellow convicts aud wound
ed u third.
During storm at Buffalo, n. Y,
Monday, the wind reached a veloci-
ty OF sixty four miles an hour. Much
damage was done.
There are 5000 children in Charles
ton, s. c.. who are not attending
school, chiefly through lack OF
proper accommodations.
BY the blowing down of a bridge
during terrific gale at st. Hya-
cinth, Ont, three men were killed
and fifteen others seriously injured.
The London Times thinks that the
recent London Bridge outrage can
lie traced to America. No clue tu
the perpetrators has been obtained.
Mr.. Cox's bill to appropriate 800,
600 to bnild the Barthol,li statue
pedestal meets with opposition on
the ground that it is demonstrations
al.
The opposition to the confirmation
Of Secretary McCulloch is increasing,
and Senator Riddleberger may not
he left to make solitary fight
against him.
The sentence Of Capt. Dudley and
Mate Stephens, of the yacht Migno-
nette, convicted of murder, has been
committed from hanging 10 six
months in prison.
Minister Morton denies that he
was pledged not to enter the sena
torial contest against President Ar
thur, and the movement in his be
half is gaining strength.
Charles Knoche has been convict
ed at Hagerstown of murder in the
second degree fer killing Henry San
ders in a fight at Cumberland last
September over dog.
The National Democratic Commit
tee has appointed a committee OF
fifty, with ex Mayer Berret, of Wash
ington, as chairman, to arrange for
the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleveland.
Commander Schley was given a
reception by his fellow townsmen at
Frederick, Md, on Saturday. The
rescurer of the Gieely survivors now
Outranks Barbara Frltchie as a
Frederick celebrity.
A terrible double tragedy occur
red in South Baltimore Monday
evening, AlphOnse Micheaux, a Bel
gian glass. blower, numbering his
paramour, Maltine Segar, and then
blowing out his brains.
A woman. whose son had been
ruined by dissipation, was fined SO
in Hamilton, Ont, the other day,
with the alternative OF ten days in
Jail, because she knelt before n
saloon and asked God to curse the
liquor traffic.
The Edgar Thompson Steel
Works, at Braddock, Pa, shut down
for AN indefinite period. About six
teen hundred men and boys are
thrown out OF employment. A num-
her of other factories Monday an
nounced reduction in wages.
The Philadelphia Press SAYS that
Richard Broken, u saloon keeper OF
that city, who has recently become a
millionaire l,y the death of "a Cuban
uncle, has promised O'Donovan ROs
sa 500, 900. to be used Tin scientific
warfare against England
An explosion under London bridge
on Saturday startled the people of
the city and broke a good many
windows ON both banks of the
Thames. The police have failed to
discover the cause, motive and per
r,etrators OF the explosion. The
bridge was not injured.
When the drill struck the granite
in boring an arteslan well near Al
lanta, Ga, the thud of the ponder
Gus instrument could he heard ut
Charleston, ten miles away. A ledge
of rocks of the same formation crcps
ont in the town, which transmits the
sound Of the fallen drill.
The Michigan, Pullman and Pen
insillar car manufacturing companies
at Detroit, employ respectivel, 9,