Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-05-12
THE MARTINSBURG HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY IL, rs
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

by his nephew near Parkersburg,
being mistaken for burglar.
Two million and halt copies of
BonlanGer's books on "The French
Invasion " were distributed in one
day.
The Greenbrier Presbytery of
West Virginia adopted resolutions
against the right of women to speak
in public assembly.
Nathaniel Reeves, aged twenty,
shot and killed his uncle, Reeves
Simmons, at Bardstown, KY, for at
tempting to chastise his sisters.
The Methodist General Confer
ence by a vote of 249 to 173, excluded
women from seats in the present
convention, and postponed further
consideration of the matter to future
conferences.
The British steamship Bennison
collided, during fog, with the Nor
gan Line steamer Eureka about
100 miles off Cape Henlopen, and it
is believed the Eureka went down
with all hands.
WESTON, ". Va, May 4.-P. j.
Dyer was arraigned before Mayor
w. W. Brannon and fined one hun
dred and eighteen dollars and costs
for selling whisky to a man in the
habit of getting drunk.
The New York Sun thinks the
Connecticut Democracy, which en-
dorced Cleveland in one resolution
and condemned his taxation policy
in another, 'sstood up to their prin-
ciples like men and faced the music
without whimper."
Adam Gets, a dissipated farmer
of ShicksbinDy, Pa, on Sunday tied
a heavy stone to his neck, and wad-
ing into the Susquehanna river, laid
down in three feet of water and de-
liberately drowned himself. He was
eighty eight years of age.
At the Democratic caucus of the
House more than a hundred amend
ments to the Mills bill were submit
ted. Mr.. Randall refused to offer
his anywhere but in the House, and
it is confidently stated that at least
twelve Democrats have decided to
oppose the bill, a number more than
sufficient to defeat it.
ELIZABETH, N. j., May O.
Rose Minick, aged Is, a servant en-
ployed by Francis B. Hetzman at
243 Catherine Street, committed
suicide this afternoon by poisoning.
On the bureau was found the follow.
ing letter: "Dear father and moth
err: | am tired of living like a dog.
Let my funeral take place from
Christ Church. Please forgive me
for what have DONE"
WHEELING. w. VA, May TO-
Mrs. Robert Milligan, of Bridgeport,
gave birth to her twenty-fifth child
to day. The mother is forty-eight
years old, and was married at the
age of fourteen. Her children in
clude five sets of twins. OF the
twenty-five, twenty. one are living.
The oldest is thirty-three, and there
are nine grandchildren. The fami.
ly are in poor circumstances.
Ell. j. Spencer, who killed Scott
Dawson at Rawlings station, near
Cumberland, last July, because of
intimacy with his wife, has been
sentenced to be hung. There are
|juries in exceptionally aggravating
cases, that have acquitted men OF
killing the seducers of their wives,
but it is generally when the killing
was done in the act of discovery,
and not after time for better refec.
ton.
Mrs. Kate Christian, wife of Mr.
r. d. Christian, cashier of the Hy.
geia Hotel, at Old Point, jumped
from the boat as it was passing from
Norfolk to Old Point on Saturday
last and was drowned. 1t seems
that she was married some years
ago to Mr.. Small, at Macon, Ga
Shortly afterwards he deserted her
She got employment in Washington,
and then instituted suit for divorce
After the suit had been pending for
some months, information was re-
ceived that her husband was dead
She then married Mr.. Christian.
Recent facts developed, intimated
that Small was still living. This
worried her great deal, and is sup.
posed to have been the cause OF her
suicide. She was a beautiful lady
and only % years of age.