Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-07-03
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The striking switchmen in Chicago
ditched a train of empty stock cars
on the Lake Shore Railroad, Tues
day.
Five persons were killed by rail-
road accident near Dublin.-Mr.
Gladstone is suffering from hoarse-
eness.
Heavy hail storms last week in
Lancaster and Berks counties,
Pennsylvania. Great damage was
done to the tobacco plants.
Queen Victoria dissolved Parlia-
ment Saturday, and in her speech ex-
pressed satisfaction at the friendly
relations existing with foreign
powers.
The striking switchmen in Chicago
detached several trains Wednesday
and, together with three thousand
of the packing house employees,
nearly caused riot
Two MORE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
June 28.-Two men sailed for New
York from the Clyde today in
boat nineteen feet long. They took
provisions for two months.
Six cows suffering with pleuro-
pneumonia near Lancaster, Pa, and
owned by Henry Bender, were
slaughtered by order Of the Pensyl
vania Board of Agriculture.
A despatch from Rome announces
that Rev. A. A. Curtis, of the
Baltimore Cathedral, has been APP
pointed by the Pope as bishop of
Wilmington, to succeed Bishop
Becker.
1t is said that there are over a
million people out of employment
in the United States. Nine-tenths of
them are in the cities and large
towns. They were looking for the
"change,"-more work and higher
wages.
PHILADELPHIA, June 20. The
long-pending troubles between the
proprietors of the Philadelphia roll
ing-mills and their employees have
come to a crisis, and to morrow there
will be general shutdown, which
will result in banking the fires of the
Philadelphia Rolling-mill Associa.
ton, which will directly affect 1900
men.
| The cerem onies attending the in
vestiture of Archbishop Gibbons, of
Baltimore, with the red beretta of
the cardinalate at the Cathedral
Wednesday were of the most im-
posing character The mass was
sung by Archbishop Williams, of
Boston, and the sermon preached by
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia.
The beretta was presented by Mgr.
Straniero, the Papal messenger, and
conferred by Archbishop Kenrick,
of st. Louis. There was a dinner at
st. Mary's in the afternoon and a
general jubilee at night.
The Roanoke Machine Works,
Roanoke, Va, paid ou! to employ.
ees, on Friday of last week, the
enormous sum of S35,S21, So, wages
for one month only. This money is
paid out by only one establishment.
The aggregate Of wages paid by the
manufacturers of Roanoke city
reaches at least 500, 100000 a month
paid to men who are bound to spend
it here, thus putting into circulation
in Roanoke city, the large sum of
nearly one and one quarter millions
of dollars annually.
The Iowa Democratic Convention
pronounced in favor of tariff for
revenue only. The Greenbackers
voted for fusion with the Democrats.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL, June 60
Judge David Davis died at six O'Clock
this morning. He sank into a coma
tose state twelve hours before the
end, and passed painlessly away sur
rounded by his family.
David Davis was born in Cecil
county, Maryland, March 9th, 1916.
He graduated at Kenyon College,
Ohio, in 1882, studied law in Mass.
achuserts, and went through legal
course at the law school in New
Haven, Ct. In 1886 he removed to
Illinois, and was Immediately admit
ted to the bar, and soon afterwards
settled in Bloomington. In 1914 he
was elected to the state legislature,
and in 1S47 was a member OF the
convention which formed the present
constitution of Illinois. He was
thrice elected by the people Judge of
the Eighth Judicial District Court of
the state, but before completing the
last term was appointed by President
Lincoln, in 1861, justice of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
He was for many years the intimate
friend of Abraham Lincoln, with
whom he rode the curcuit every year
while the latter was member of the
bar. 1t was this feeling of friendship
that prompted President Lincoln to
appoint him as a justice of the United
States Supreme Court. at the for
nation of the Republican party
Judge Davis cspoused the cause
warmly, and was one of the dele
gates to the National Republican
Convention in Chicago in 1860.
Afterwards, however, he became an
Independent, and had very little to
do wife active politics. He remained
on the Supreme Bench until March
5, 1877, when he resigned to take his
seat it the United Staes Senate, to
which Office he had been elected by
the Democrats and Independents in
the Illinois legislature. In this con-
test he was opposed by General John