Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.
Cholera is spreading in Ital,

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A number of workmen were killed
is the destruction by fire Of the New
England Institute Fire building at
Boston.
By a cyclone that passed over the
vicinity of Denton, Texas, Thursday
night, several houses we're demolish-
ed. Mrs. Prigmore was fatally ir1ur-
ed.
John d. Hopper was arrested in
Philadelphia Saturday, charged with
the embezzlement of S27, 900 belong
ing to his employers, Joel J. Bailey
81 Co.
CREsToN, ILL.,, June 20.-Jacob
Swingley, forty-fye years of age,
last night cut the threats Of his two
small children with razor and
then committed suicide.
A movement is on foot among the
postal clerks of the main lines OF
the Western railroads to boycott the
postal system, and demand for every
removal the cause. under threats of
general resignation.
In the United States courts at
Parkersburg, w. Va, Judge Bond
rendered decision favorable to the
Ameraican Bell Telephone Com
pany in the suit against the Long
Telephone Company.
| DANvILLE, VA, June 22.-Judge
Paul convened the United States
District Court here today, but had
to adjourn till August oath, on ac-
count of lack of funds to pay court
expenses.
Captain Lawton has been driving
the hostile Indians in Sonora toward
their stronghold in the Sierra Madres.
The Indians have been killing and
eating their horses on the way.
Mr.. Gladstone made great
speech to the Midlothians in
Edinburg last week. He has promis-
ed the dissenters to disestablish the
English Church if they will support
home rule.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 21.-
The bill increasing the appropriation
for the government building at
Clarksburg to $4,000 has passed
the House of Representatives
through the efforts of General Golf.
The original appropriation was $780,
900, which was not deemed suffici.
ent.
| Mons Straneiro and count Muc.
ciola, the papal messengers, arrived
in New York on the Servia Monday
morning, and reached Baltimore in
the afternoon. The Count in full
uniform went to the archiepiscopal
residence and presented to Archbis-
hop Gibbons the official notification
of his civ cation tothe cardinalate, and
the zucchetta or scarlet cap. After
brief addresses by the count and the
Cardinal, a banquet was served.
The first Colored Priest of the
United States, Rev. Augustus Tolton
was ordained in Rome in Holy Week
and said his first Mass in St. Peters
Basillca on Easter Monday. Several
years ago, the late Bishop Baltes of
the diocese of Alton Illinois, sent
the colored aspirant to Rome. lie
will shortly fill mission among his
people i'll Quincy, Ill. Another col
ored youth is now in Rhetoric in a
Canadian College, bent on the same
vocation.
A pitiful case occurred in the Sixth
Auditors Office Washington. Satur-
day. A one,legged soldier was dis
charged. He had no intimation OF
the fact before the dismissal was
banded him. When he read it, the
shock was SO great that he fell in a
fit. In falling, he struck his head and
seriously injured himself, and had
to be taken home. The man is a
very faithful officer, and nothing
was charged against him but that he
was Republican.
The man who committed the great
forgeryoft the olumbus( G. )tally-sheet
after the election last fall, has been
discovered. Singulary enough, he is
an inmate of the penitentiary. 1t
seems that the tally-sheet was stolen
by the Democrats and carried into
the penitentiary, then under Demo
cratic control, and that the figures
POS were changed to sos by the most
expert forger in the institution;
and so well was it done that had not
a lighter ink been used, discovery
would have been almost impossible.
1t certainly gratifying that the
perpetrators of the outrage are at
last to be brought to justice.