Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-07-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

lent among the cattle IN Indiana.
Fire destroyed eight blocks OF
buildings in the town OF Suisin, Gal.
Four persons persisted in the burn
ing of a farm house near Sault ste.
Marie, Mich.
A livery stable at Buffalo was
burned, and two men and twenty
two horses persisted.
The village of Glade Run, Pa,
was destroyed By fire, and forty
houses were demolished.
Mrs. William Atwell and her SON
were killed on the railroad track
aear East Liverpool. Ohio.
G. j. Histed has disappeared from
his home in Roanoke, Va, and his
wife is nearly crazed with grief.
The training stable OF William
Rue, at Danville, KY, was burned,
and thirty three trotters were lost.
The British Steamship Tyrian felt
the shock of an earthquake on the
high seas on her way from Port An
tonia.
A mob of drunken Hungarians
pounded to death a Polander at the
Dolph Mines, in Lackawanna coun-
ty, Pa.
During election riots at Boom,
Belgium, the gendarmes fired upon
the mob, and many persons were
injured.
Henry Powell, a wealthy Cincin-
natl man, committed suicide by
jumping from the steamer Seryia in
mid ocean.
A railway train carrying Fore
paugh's Circus, was wrecked at Fall
River, Mass, and several valuable
horses killed. Vc
A dozen railway clerks on the
Louisville and Nashville Road have
been discharged because they were
Republicans.
Charles Korn, of New York, com
mitted suicide by leaping naked into
the river, and with a knife stabbing
himself to death.
Great damage is done by insects
and bugs in New Jersey, and exper
iments to protect crops and fruit
trees are making under the auspices
OF the state.
Robert Bryan, colored, aged six
teen years, stabbed Riley Hancock,
aged nineteen, near Smiths Mills,
KY. and mob promptly lynched
the young murderer.
A battle between two rival crowds
of Tennessee cutthroatS interrupted
IA church service in Whitley county,
Tenn, on Sunday, and several men
were killed in the fight.
By the explosion of boiler at the
Adelaide silk mill at Allentown, Pa.
Frank Steiner and Henry Borreo,
firemen, were killed, Hiram Sell, the
engineer, was fatally injured.
John Vaudeville, who was Viii.
liam O'Brien's fellow prisoner in Tul
lamore, is dead and Mr.. O'Brien de.
clared in the House of Commons that
his death resulted from i'll treatment
in prison.
The Kong Chu Company. of San
Francisco, has begun the work Of
gathering up the bones of China.
men who have died in this country
and shipping them back to China.
A hundred and fifty tons of rock
fell upon eight workmen at Schwo.
yer & Leach's marble quarry, about
three miles West of Norristown, Pa,
Tuesday, and three of the men were
killed and five injured.
Blind Tom is living in retirement
in an old fashioned house in st.
Marks Place, New York city. He
is suffering from nervous complaint
that renders repetition of bis stage
performance impossible.
Fred A. Forsaith, manager of the
Webster House, Portsmouth, N. H.,
went to his room, addressed, tied
one end OF a strip Of cloth to his
feet, the other to the trigger Of a
gun, placed the muzzle in his mouth
and blew his brains out.
CUMBERLAND, July S.-Martin r.
Hoffman, aged abou: fifty years, liv.
ing in West Virginia, near South
Branch, came over to church here
this morning. While crossing the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad he was
struck by the eastbound express,
and killed instantly.
Tyson L. Reynolds, of Cedar Hill,
Lancaster county, Pa, has on his
farm black heart cherry tree now
full of fruit for the sixty eighth time,
having been planted in 1916, and
producing a good crop yearly. In
the fork of the tree, abont eight feet
from the ground, is growing heal.
thy cedar, about three inches in diane
ter, and five feet high, that has been
there for the last twenty-five years.
Minnie Lewis, the slx.year-0id
daughter of William Lewis living
near Butler, Pa, went into thicket
on Friday afternoon to gather flow
ers and berries. While there she
was attacked by black snake,
which coiled itself around her neck
and choked her to death. The snake
was found in this position by a
brother of the little girl and killed.
1t was about eight feet in length.