Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-02
GENERAL NEWS.

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1t is now thought that more than
twenty lives were lost by the fire at
Vicksburg, Miss.
Hon. A. M. Kelley, appointed
United States minister to Italy, has
declined that post.
A snow slide on the Colorado
mountains, buried eleven miners.
1t is thought that they have all per-
iShed.
The Able Ghanut was executed
by the guillotine In Paris, last week,
for the murder last fall of Nine. Ball
erich.
From the latest official reports it
was a torpedo, and not dynamite,
that exploded in the English Ad-
miralty's Office.
The Lindell Hotel, st. Louis, was
damaged $4,000 by fire. There
was panic among the guests, but
no one was injured.
A cyclone swept over the town OF
Mexico, Texas, last week, demolish-
ing the public school, and killing or
ipjuring a number of children.
A council of war in st. Petersburg
Tuesday declines to adopt concilia-
tory policy towards England. The
Russians have advanced twenty
miles south of Penjdeh. The indica-
lions are that declaration of war
cannot be much longer delayed.
A great panic was created in Lon
don, last week by an explosion in
the Admiralty building, at White
chapel, the impression being general
that another outbreak of dynamite
miscreants had taken place. Inves-
tigation showed that it was an at
tempt Of one Of the employees to blow
up the Secretary, who is excessively
unpopular.
War between Great Britain and
Russia is now considered certain.
The Gear has sent an ultimatum to
England to the effect that Great Brit
ain must accept the boundary or the
Russians will proceed to Herat.
Both powers are bending every effort
to be ready for the fight. Opinion
in both countries is that war will
soon be declared.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, April Co.
An epidemic of disease resembling
typhoid fever is raging in Ply
mouth, Pa, a small town three miles
from Wilkesbarre. There are up
wards of 600 cases of sickness. Fiji.
teen deaths occurred Saturday and
thirteen Friday. The physicians are
unable to stay the spread of the dis
ease, which is due to the bad santa
ry condition of town, there being no
sewers or cutters to carry off refuse.
FREDERICK, Md, April ga
large and handsome Switzer barn
on the home farm of Mr.. Eugene L..
Deer, prominent farmer of Fred
erick county, was destroyed by a fire
of supposed incendiary origin to.
night. About fifteen tons of hay, a
LOT of fodder and other feed, and a
quantity of machinery and farming
implements were among the contents
consumed. A beautiful Bashaw
stallion, for which 81, 900 was recent
ly refused, also persisted, and II or
10 other horses were saved only with
great difficulty.
NEW YORK, April 27.-Gen. Grant
awoke this morning, on the sixty
third anniversary OF his birth, great
ly refreshed after seven hours sound
sleep. Mrs. Grant and the other
members of the family congratulated
him at breakfast, and the General
declared that, altho ugh he was six
ty-three, he felt much younger today
than he did several weeks ago.
Flags were flying and much bright
buntings was displayed from private
residences in the neighborhood of
the Grant mansion today. When
the General, accompanied by Col.
Grant, took his usual afternoon stroll
on Madison avenue, he frequently
looked up at the flags flying, and ap-
peared much pleased at the tributes
Of respect. Many congratulatory
kilograms were received from friends
all over the country, and number
Of beautiful floral offerings adorned
the parlors and library of the Gen.
erals home.