Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1884-12-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The steamer Durango has been
sunk at sea. Twenty lives were lost.
A wide spread Socialistic conspi-
racy has been discovered in Austria.
The Georgia Legislature adjourn
ed to hear speech from Hon.
Samuel j. Randall.
George Briscoe, a colored thief,
was lynched near Annapolis, Md,
Wednesday night of last week.
| Three hundred workmen in the
Standard Cooper Works at Pitts
burg are thrown out of employment.
The annual report of the United
States Treasurer shows that the
Treasury is in satisfactory condi-
ton.
The Illinois State Canvassing
Board has decided that Leman,
Democrat, is not entitled to seat
in the State Senate.
DR.. John B. Hicks was found
guilty at Hagerstown, Md, Tues
day of attempted ielonious assault
on Cora Spielman, aged IL.
Fourteen persons have been kill
ed By the explosion of the boiler of
the French man of-war Rigault Ge-
nouilly. off the coast of Formosa.
It is thought the missing paint
ing by Rembrandt, 1.-THE slaughter
of the Innocents," has been discov-
cred at Louisville, KY. 1t is not
correct.
Levi Maxwell, ESQ.,, father of the
Hon. Edwin Maxwell, of Clarksburg,
died at his home near Weston, on
Thursday morning, Nov. 18th, in the
9th year of his age.
The Irish-American Independents
held "A meeting Tuesday afternoon at
the AstOr House. in New York, and
they issued an address on the evils
of Free Trade to the Irish American
voters OF this country.
| NEW YORK, Nov. Matthew
McCarron is under arrest for putting
his wife's eyes out with a shoemak-
er's awl on Thanksgiving night, be-
cause she unbranded him for getting
drunk and leaving her on sick bed
alone all day. The woman may die,
and is made blind by her husbands
brutality.
Joseph Butler, colOred, who died
on the farm of Mr.. i. B. Green, near
Pomfret Church, Charles county, Md,
recently, is said TO have been con
siderably over 100 years of age.
He was for number of years slave
in the family Of Mr.. Charles Wills,
and at one time carriage driver for
Rev. Father Neale, at st. Thomas's
Manor.
Mason Paxton, of Piedmont, a
lad of fifteen, was buried on We'd
nesday. His death is attributed to
disease contracted from exposure
while acting as marker to one of the
campaign marching clubs. His
funeral was attended by two of the
clubs, and his fellow marker carried
his own banner draped and young
Paxton's at trail.
SALEM, N. j., Dec. 2.-The legal
execution OF Howard Sullivan, color
ell, took place in the county Jail this
morning. The story of the crime is
as follows: Ella Watson, on the
night of the 18th of last August,
while proceeding to her home over a
lonely road, near Yorktown, was
waylaid, robbed and murdered, and
her body concealed in the bushes
near by, where it was discovered a
few days after,
/ In the Senate Tuesday the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs was direct
ed to investigate leases made by
tribes of lands i'm the Indian Terri
tory. In the House of Representa-
tives an investigation, with a view
to impeachment, was ordered to be
made into the official actions of Lot
Wright, United States Marshal for
the Southern District of Ohio. Mr..
Reagan presented and explained q
substitute for the bill already report
ed to regular inter state commerce.
1t was discovered Friday night
that Howard Sullivan, colored. who
is TO be banged on Tuesday, at
Salem, N. j., for the murder of Ella
Watson, had removed the irons from
hls legs and the yentilator from the
roof Of his cell. He confessed that
he had gotten out on the roof We'd
nesday and Thursday nights, but
had returned to his cell, postponing
his escape until Friday night. He
said he could get all the religion he
wanted in half an hour.
HAGERsTowN, Nd, Nov. 3d.
Several hundred persons. including
Judges Alvey, Syester and Hoffman,
Of the Circuit Court, ex Gov. Hamil-
ton, the judges of the Orphans
Court, Mayor Gloom and the cit,
council, members of the bar, mer-
chants and business men generally
paid their respects tonight to Com
modore w. s. Scbley. of the Greedy
relief expedition, and wife, who ar
rived here last night az the guests
of Col. Geo. Schley. The Comman-
der leaves for Washington to-mor.
row morning. Had his stay been
longer the citizens of Hagerst0wn
would have testified in some more
public manner their appreciation of
his achievement.