Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-02-07
GENERAL NEWS.

The town Of Burlington. Ohio, was
nearly destroyed by fire.
Another blizzard and heavy snow
storms prevail in the North.
The decrease of the public debt
during January was %, 420, 056.
Females constitute over a quarter
of Germany's agricultural laborers.
An eagle has just died in Vienna
which has been kept in confinement
la years.
The National Board Of Health
urges Congress to appropriate $780,
600 to prevent the spread of cholera.
Senator Malone feels assured that
the Republicans will carry Virginia
at the State election in November
next.
A thief without legs and having
only one arm has been sentenced to
one years hard labor in the Illinois
Penitentiary.
"On to Albany at present the
popular Democratic cry, will shortly
be succeeded by the chorus, Son to
Washington the means to the end,
as it were.-Press.
Cunningham, the dynamiter sns-
pected of completely in the Tower of
London explosion, was arraigned in
the Bow Street Police Court Monday
and remanded for week.
A bogus count spends a brief
honeymoon in Baltimore in company
with York, Pa, girl and runs up a
bill with the landlord Of Guys Hotel.
Then he departs and the girl returns
to her father.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune reports that the Indian Ter
ritory is covered with five inches of
snow and that over third OF a mil
lion cattle on the Cherokee strip
have died from exposure and hun
ger.
Mrs. Grant has signified her de-
sire to turn over to the government
at once the swords, medals and other
relics of Gen. Grant, which by the
terms of the agreement with Mr..
Vanderbilt she is to present to the
United States.
In Newark, n. j., Monday, Mary
MCGEE, who threw vitriol upon VIM.
Clark, superintendent of the Clark
Thread Works, was sentenced TO ten
years Imprisonment. The Judge
said those who throw vitriol are as
dangerous as those who throw dyna-
mite.
A mail driver was recently robbed
of the mail bags, containing $1,000,
near Lake Providence. Miss. The
thieves threatened to shoot him un-
less he delivered the mail to them.
1t is now charged that the robbery
was committed by Postmaster Jones,
of Lake Providence, and others.
The Pittsburg (Pa.) Chronicle
Telegraph says it has come to the
knowledge of some secret agents
there that socialists have stored
arms and dynamite in that city and
are ready for an outbreak on capital
lists. Men from Hooking Valley and
elsewhere are said to be ready for
business.
A resolution was introduced in the
New York State assembly request
ing the President of the United
States to intercede with the authori-
ties Of the British government for a
more extended application of the
Extraditioa treaty with Canada, so
that fleeing criminals from the States
may be brought back.
Luke Doyle, of Jersey City, went
home intoxicated Saturday and threw
himself on the floor. His wife tried
to get him up but he would not move.
She then procured a kettle of boil
ing water and poured it over him.
He was severely scalded and was
sent to the hospital. Mrs. Doyle was
arrested.
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa, the
Irish agltator, was shot on Chambers
street, New York, Monday afternoon,
by young English woman named
Yseult Dudley. She made a desper-
ate attempt to kill him, firing five
shots at him, only one of which, how
ever, took effect. He is not danger
ously wounded.
Judge Morris, in the United States
District Court, Monday rendered an
opinion in favor of the colored peo-
pie in their suit against the steamer
Sue. He decided that while the
company might separate colored
first-class passengers from white,
yet the accommodations given the
colored people must be fully as good
as those given the white.
The shooting of Jeremiah O'Dono-
van Rosa in New York has caused
great excitement in London, where
Mrs. Dudley is known, and where
she once was arrested for attempting
suicide in arailway carriage. There
has been talk in London of attempts
to rescue James Cunningham, now
in Jail, charged with causing the
London Tower explosion. An alleg-
ed accomplish Of Cunningham has
been arrested.
Fire at Marquette, Mich, destroy
ed the First National Bank building,
three valuable law libraries and other
property. Total loss about 1900, 600.