Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1884-11-15
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Chinese mobs have recently been
committing outrages on Christians.
The cholera still RACES in Paris,
about fifty deaths a day being re-
ported.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad has discharged
1000 employees to reduce running
expenses.
The brig Julia E. Haskell, Captain
Paine, from Nevassa for Baltimore,
foundered in hurricane. The
eight members OF the crew took 10
the boats. All but two were drown
ed.
The delivery freight depot Of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad at
Louisville, KY, was burned, Sunday.
Seventy five car loads OF general
freight were destroyed. Loss $780,
900.
BRIDGEPORT, w. VA, Nov. o.
Last night as John Davis, of Middle
Island, Doddridge county, was COM
ing to this place, he was attacked
BY footpads, who fatally wounded
him and stole from his pockets $3.50
and notes for twice that amount.
There were forty-three deaths
from cholera in Paris during the
eighteen hours ended at 6 O'Clock
Wednesday night, against fifty-six
on the previous day. Several cases
Of the disease are reported in Bel
GUM. Portugal has quarantined
against France.
LONDON, Nov. 9.-An explosion
occurred today in the Tredegar
Coal and Iron Company's colliery at
Hockin, near the town of Tredegar.
Fifteen lives were lost.
Fire damp caused an explosion in
a colliery at Wasones, in Belgium,
to-day, by which twenty persons
were killed.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Nov. 9.-This
morning Mrs. Thomas Shine, living
on Green street, Lockport, went out
and left her seven months old baby
in charge of its eight.year old BROTH
er. When she returned she found
the baby had been shot by the boy
through the head with a revolver.
The baby died this evening.
Letters from trappers in Alaska
and Hudson Bay report that the fur
on the seals and other animals is
longer and thicker than it has been
for many years. The trappers say
that this is a sure indication of a
cold winter, for nature provides the
animals in the fall with coating suit.
able for their protection in the fol-
lowing winter.
Not long ago gang of Italian
railroad laborers were cut down 10
cents day. Did they strike Oh,
no; they simply cut an inch off their
shovels at night. And when the
boss asked what it meant, one of
the men replied: "Not so much pay
not so much dirt lift. All right, the
job last the more long. Italian no
fool; he no STRIKE"
Carl Summers, aged thirteen years,
went chestnutting near TOwanda,
Pa, on Tuesday. On the same day
Charles Benjamin went squirrel
hunting in the same woods. As the
latter was walking quietly along he
saw the branch of a chestnut tree
shake, and noticed something black
move along it. He fired at the spot.
A loud shrek followed thu report,
and Carl Summers came tumbling
to the ground. His face was pep
pered with shot, and both eyes put
out.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. lO.-On
Saturday night the employees of the
Gloucester Iron Works were inform
ed that their wages would be reduced
IL per cent, and that they could
take the reduction or
leave.n This morning the men went
to work as usual, having accepted
the reduction. The Washington
Cotton Mills were to have started
this morning, but failed to do SO,
aud the cause was given out that
trade as yet was too unsettled on
account of the presidential election.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN RoA-
NoKE.-A horrible outrage and
murder was committed in Roanoke,
Va, Tuesday night of last week.
Miss Lizzie Wilson, OH going to her
home in the suburbs of the city, was
acc0sted by negro man, who out
ragged her, and after accomplishing
his diabolical deed, cut her throat
from ear to ear. The greatest ex-
element prevails there, and fifty
extra police and a large number Of
citizens are searching the surround
ing country for the fiend. The
mayer offered a reward of $3.50 and
a citizens meeting offered an ad-
ditional reward Of 81 900.
READING, Pa, Nov. Tt now
rranspires that the three men,
Charles s. Knapp, Franklin Spatz
and Joseph Krauss, who were blown
to pieces by the dynamite explosion
near Stouchsburg, were engaged in
making on their own account lot
of Jumbo dynamite cartridges to eel
citrate the result of the presidential
election as soon as it should be de-
termined. The proprietor of the