Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-03-14
MARCH "A, 1885.
GENERAL NEWS.

OEN EMAIL NEW %
The expenses Of the Inauguration
will be about $40, 900.
By the explosion of powder mills
ct Newbergh, N. Y, two men were
killed.
Of the 776 deaths in New York
during the past week 142 were from
pneumonia.
Rev. DIR. Bnrchard, of Rum, Ro-
manism and rebellion fame, has
been retired.
The severe winter caused great
mortality among the cattle on the
far western ranges.
VIM. M. Clements, master of trans
portation of the Baltimore and Ohio
Road, has resigned.
General WalthaIl has been APP
pointed Mr.. Lamar's successor in the
United States Senate.
Thousands of applications for
federal positions are pouring in to
the new Cabinet officers.
A nitroglycerine factory at Brad
ford, Pa, was blown up Tuesday and
two men were torn to pieces.
The observatory used by Gen.
Grant during the siege of Peters
burg has been destroyed by fire.
The Mossgrove Hotel building,
Steubenville, O., was destroyed Mon
day night with a loss of S145, 000.
Another great strike of coal
miners begun in the Pittsburg dis
trict. About 10000 miners will go
out.
A man at Actonvale, Quebec,
while disappearing was stricken with
paralysis, and rooted to the spot
where he stood, SO the story goes.
Mrs. Charles Henton and her hus-
band, of Wise County, Va, were as
sassinated, it is supposed, by /" Bub !"
Mitchell, the woman's Tilted lover.
Planters and merchants are offer
ing work and assistance to the strik-
ers on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
The strike now affects $4,000 EN-.
ployees.
The Holstein heifer Constance s.,
two years old, belonging to VIM. M.
Singerly, of Philadelphia, gave 70
pounds of milk. This record has
only been beaten once, by Angie
Constance I'd, who gave 76s pounds
in one day.
The railroad strikers on the Mis-.
souri, Pacific still refuse to allow
freight trains to run. st. Louis
militia have been ordered to Sedalia,
Mo-, as trouble is anticipated at that
point. The strikers on the Wabash
road are not interfering now with
the running of trains.
/ The young wife of Harry Inman,
the famous rife shot and exhibitor
of fancy shooting, has eloped from
Tarrytown, N. Y, with Daniel Cox,
a clog dancer. She carried off with
her a baby only five months old.
The runaway couple " met by chance
at the skating rink.
1 EAsToN, Nd, March 1S.-James
Miller made tremendous haul of
rock fish in Skipton Creek, branch
of Miles river, Monday. Mr.. MIXERS
seine got between two cakes of float
ing ice, to escape which he had to
haul the seine zigzag course.
When the seine was landed it had in
it about 5000 pounds of rock fish,
which will net more than $500.
Two great strikes are now in pro-
gress-one being ON the part of the
employees of Gould's Missouri Pacific
system, involving about $4,000 men,
and the other on the part of the
Pittsburg coal miners, numbering
$4,000 men. Both movements are
among the most extensive of the
sort ever inaugnrated in this coun-
try, and must involve disastrous
losses to employers and employees
alike.
The woods around the TINKER
church on Antietam battle field, Nd,
lave been cut down and the trees
sawed into timber. Mr.. Cornelius
Smith, Of Pleasant Valley, had the
contract for the saving of this tim
Der, and he says it was dangerous
work. The saw was broken by strik-
ing into a fragment of shell. In
another tree it cut through an iron
grape shot, leaving a polished sur.
face to the missile. Many leaden
bullets, which offered but little OBJ
structi0n, we're revealed. During
the course of the summer over two
pounds of shell and canister and as
much more of leaden bullets were
taken out Of the lumber.