Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-10-23
GENERAL NEWS.
A heavy snow storm is reporte'
west of Ogden, Utah.

A heavy snow storm is reported
west of Ogden, Utah.
Charity begins at home. The
President has just paid $4,000 for a
piano. but he sent only 800 to Char
lesion.
Since Sept. /, 1886, twenty six
vessels belonging to the Gloucester
fishing fleet and the lives of1O4 men
have been lost.
A line of fire fully five miles long
is sweeping over Copley swamps
near Akron, Ohio, and large herds
of cattle have persisted.
w. P. Black, attorney for the Chi
cago Anarchists, is confident that
the Supreme Court will reverse the
death sentence of his clients.
"Jake" Sharp, ex-President Rich
mond and ex-President James w.
Fosham, of the New York Broadway
Surface Railroad, were arrested in
connection with the Doodle scandal.
David Evans and William, his
son, of Carbon county, Pa, we're
buried under mountain of earth,
and it will take months to recover
their bodies. They were crossing
tunnel when it caved in.
The Pinkerton men while leaving
the packers yard near Chicago in a
railroad train were stoned by the
crowd of strikers, and several of the
special policemen retaliated by firing
into the crowd, fatally wounding
two men.
PARIS, Oct. 1S.-A panther
escaped from menagerie in Cham
berry, the capital of Savoy, to-day
and ran through the streets, Great
ing great panic. The beast bit
many persons and scalped and killed
a policeman before he was captured.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, Oct. 10.
AT noon to day Mr.. A. A. Correll,
deaf mute, who is connected with
the Buchanan Banner, was united
in marriage to Miss Fanny Thomp
son, who is also deaf. Miss Thomp.
son is a daughter of L. F. Thompson,
an old official of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad.
LONDON, Oct. 16.-Mrs. Leader,
wife of a butcher doing business in
Camberwell, a suburb of London,
after quarrel with her husband,
left her home, taking her five little
children with her. She went to the
Thames River, at Fulham, and threw
herself and the five children into the
water. All were drowned but one
of the children, which was rescued
alive.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, Oct. 10.
Henry Arkwright, farmer of a
neighboring county, was literally
blown to pieces yesterday while
using dynamite to destroy stumps.
He had arranged charge when ac-
cidentally, one Of the cartridges
exploded, and connected with others
which also exploded, blowing his
body several rods and tearing it to
pieces. His remains we're found
some time after by neighbor.
A Washington diplomat just re-
turned from abroad states that, in
his opinion, the European nations
are now resting on powder maya
zine, which may be exploded at any
moment. He recalls Napoleon's
prophecy that in a hundred years
Europe would be all Cossack or all
republican. just now it looks as il
the Cossack was about to make an
effort to fulfil the prophecy with
advantage to himself. Fortunately
for the world, though, there is a
decade or two yet before the time
allowed is exhausted.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, Oct. IS.
"A terrible tradgdy occurred in
Raleigh county, West Virginia. 1t
seems that George Mckinney and
Hugh Rinehart, two wealthy farm.
ers, have long been enemies. Each
selected every opportunity to annoy
the other. On Saturday Rinehart
had Mckinney arrested upon some
trivial charge, and while they were
at the Justices Office the quarrel was
renewed. After some words, Nc.
Kinney drew revolver and warned
Rinehart away, saying that he
would kill him. Rinehart replied,
with an oath, ITO shoot" when
Mckinney fired several times, two
of the bullets entering Rinehart's
breast. just before he fell, Rine.