Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-04-03
GENERAL NEWS.

Strikers made attemps to wreck
trains in Missouri.
Cholera is making its appearance
in the min ng regions about Bilboa.
E. M. Titus hennery, with 1900
fowls, at Ithaca, N. Y, were burn
ed.
A fire in timber yard at Peter
borough, England, destroyed $780,
600 worth of stock.
A composite tariff bill is to be in
troduced into the House, with the
reductions based on cheap food and
cheap clothes.
Serious floods throughout Tennes-
see and Alabama, washing away the
railroad tracks and causing suspen-
sion of travel.
The total value of the exports of
the United States during the fiscal
year ending February %, was $685.
1854; imports, 1907. Ill, 701.
A fire at Key West, Fla, destroy
ed the greater portion of the town,
entailing loss of 81, 800. 600, with
very little insurance, aud injuring
fifteen persons.
Henry w. Jaehne, under bail on
the charge of bribery, sent in his
resignation as vice president of the
New York Board of Alderman. and
it was accepted.
The Law and Order Association of
Louisville, KY, has ordered the pool
rooms to be closed up, or the proprie-
tors will be prosecuted as gamblers
under the new law.
Shipham Myers, alias Gen.
Gruenthal, though seventy-two years
old, one of the most expert pick
pockets in the county, was senten.
ced to five years in the New York
state prison.
Two colOred men named Weakly
Ridley and lobe Williams murder.
ed Daniel Gutterie, of Crockett coun-
ty, Tennessee. A mob took the
murderers out of Jail and hanged
them both to one tree.
The conference between Grand
Master Workman Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, and Jay Gould
ended in the Missouri Pacific Com
pany expressing, through Vice Pres
ident Hoxie, willingness to arbi
trate, and a committee of the ST.
Louis strikers will confer with him.
PIEDMONT, w. VA, March 90
The miners strike in the surround
ing bituminous coal fields is assum
ing a very serious aspect, and the
experience of 1882, when the strike
lasted six months, will, it is feared
be repeated. All the mines are be
ing boarded up, and tomorrow the
men will be paid off and discharged
Besides the thousands of miners now
idle, several hundred railroad men
here are idle. The loss in this i'm
mediate vicinity is $4,000 per day
Foreign labor will probably be intro
duced by the mine owners.
The following gentlemen, says the
Parkersburg Sentinel, are mentioned
in connection with the Democratic
nomination for Congress in this
Second District: W. L. Wilson, E
Boyd Faulkner, Col. Duckwall. Jos
eph Sprigg Dyer of Graft county
Pennybaker of Pendleton, Daily Of
Mineral, Gllkerson, of Hampshire
Raymond and Morrow of Marion
Martin, Woods and McGIaw of Tay
lor, Brown of Preston. Judge Ice
and Tom Bradford OF Barbour, Par
sons and Lipscomb of Tucker, Gre
sap, Strader, Harding ana Scott o.
Randolph. And the Keyser Tri
bune suggests that Joe Moreland be
added to the list so as to give Mon
ongalia chance.
WASHINGTON, March 29th.-Tht
Attorney General has written al
opinion in regard to the warehousins
of whiskey reimported to this coun
try, which is of the greatest impor
lance to distillers. Under the ruling
of the Treasury Department since
1883 whiskey exported to avoid the
payment of taxes has not been af
forded warehouse privileges. The
Attorney General holds that the
past ruling of the Treasury is not il
strict accordance with the law, which
intended no discrimination against
domestic wares, merchandise or man
ufacturer. He holds that when ar
ticles are exported in good faith
they are entitled to the warehouse
privilege on their return to this coun
try. The effect of this decision is
practically to grant years delay in
the payment of internal revenue tax
on whiskey which has been export
ed. There were over ten million
gallons sent out of the country last
year, most OF which will now be re
turned. The Treasury Department
leaves the question of good faith Of
the exporters to the Judgment Of
the collector of the port. The fact
that the letter of the Secretary of the
Treasury and the opinion of the At
torney General, together with the
instructions of the Treasury Depart
ment to collectors, makes no mention
of whiskey, is believed to indicate a
desire on the part of this administra
ton to keep the full significance 81
the opinion dark.
RICHMOND, March 31.-The no
tOrious case of Cluverius. charged