Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-11-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK


A stage coach near Pera, Tex wo.
stopped by robbers and the passan
gers were deprived of their yaIna
bleS.
Dollie Phillips was shot dead IN
the streets of Terre Haute. Ind
while watching political parada
and the assassin escaped.
A ten percent. reduction in Tho
wages of all employees of the Atebi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
receiving more than $50 a month
has been ordered.
Abner Miller, an old soldier NJ
Kokomo, was beaten to death lor
shouting for Harrison at a Demo.
cratic rally.
Thomas Sayers, one of the colored
highwaymen who murdered aud rob.
bed two pedlers in Mercer county
w. Va, has been lynched.
Daniel. Hand, Guilford, Ct. has
given to the American missionary
Association one million dollars, ia
be held in trust, and the interest ia
be devoted to educating the colored
people.
J. A. Closer Il Co., one of the
largest grain firms in Indianapolis
went into the hands of receiver
The failure was caused blythe Chica.
go wheat deal.
Three boys, while testing a fire.
escape, fell from the Monongahela
House, in Pittsbnrg. Two were
killed instantly, and the other will
probably die.
A bomb mysteriously thrown into
the yard of the Academy Of Vista.
ton in Washington exploded with
sufficient force to rattle the window
frames of the building.
While Mrs. Sale Siedle was burn
ing brush near her home at Wichita
Kan, she and her little daughter
were burned to death by their cloth
ing catching the flame.
1t is thought that the defalcation,
of Axworthy, the absconding city
treasurer of Cleveland, may reach
100000. The city has less than
$50 in money Immediately available
Hermann Boad's wife and two
children were instantly killed before
his eyes, by the hand car upon which
they were riding being run down by
fast train on the Burlington road.
Mrs. Emma Joerger was married
over her fathers corpse in East
Brooklyn, in accordance with his
oft expressed wish that the ceremony
should be performed in his presence.
The Anarchists of st. Louis con.
tinue making elaborate preparations
for the celebration Of the "FeStiyal
of Sorrow" as they term it, on The
anniversary of the execution of The
Chicago Anarchists.
The Navy Department is trying
to reach the United States steamer,
Thetis, which is cruising in Alaskan
, waters, so that she may be sent to
the relief Of the twelve American
whalers reported wrecked in the
, Arctic ocean.
General Adam Badeau having
withdrawn his claim that he was
Joint author with General Grant in
the latter's Memoirs, Mrs. Grant
paid him the sum agreed upon by
her late husband for his assistance.
The boiler of the ting A. w. Law.
renee exploded near Milwaukee, kill
ing Captain John Sullivan, Engineer
! John Sullivan, cousin Of the captain;
Fireman Edward Sullivan, and
Thomas Handley, and the boat was
blown to atoms.
Harry Stickler, living at Boiling
Springs, near Carlisle, on Saturday,
Of last week, forced a red hot iron
through six pound bomb shell
which had been found on the Gettys
burg battlefield. 1t exploded, and
it is thought fatally injured the old
man.
WELLsBURG, w. VA, Nov. B.
The jury in the Van Il. Baker mar.
der trial, which has been in progress
for the last four weeks, this evening
brought in verdict OF murder IN
the first degree, and fixed the penal
ty at an imprisonment for life. Bak'
er murdered his wife and motherln.
law on the 9th day of May, 1887, at
Holiday Cove, Hancock county.
An evidence that marriage ~ not
a failure was exemplified in Mari.
boro, Prince Georges Co., Nd, the
other day. David Crack, 107 years
old, was married to Susanna Oaks, a
buxom widow of seventy five years
by Rev. Joseph Cunnane, of the St.
Maryis Catholic Church. Crack owns
a place near Cheltenham, and says
ha footy nare in the xpar ~ 1910