Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ed by the cars Thursday, on the y.
V. II. r., near Hagerstown.
Gen. Black has employed four of
his best clerks in the Pension Off &C
writing campaign book.
Twenty.one new cases of yellow
fever and three deaths were report.
cd at Jacksonville, Monday.
Gen. l. II. Duval has been nomi
mated by the Republicans of Brooke
and Hancock for the Legislature.
The Egyptian corn crop is in a
bad way, and it will be impossible to
grow wheat in upper Egypt next
year.
The Republicans Of the Fourth
Congressional West Virginia dis.
trict nominated Charles b. Smith.
The New York Republican State
Convention at Saratoga nominated
Warner Miller by reclamation for
governor.
Charles W. Waldron, banker, of
Hillsdale, Mich, has gone to Canada
with 100000 or $4,000 of the funds
of the establishment.
Fifteen new cases of yellow fever
and two deaths occurred in Jackson
vile between Tuesday evening and
Wednesday noon.
Two men were killed and nearly
100000 damage done by a wreck
on the Pittsburg, Cleveland and To-
ledo Railroad at New Castle.
Mr.. Cleveland's contribution of
$4,000 to the Democratic campaign
fund leads to suspicion that he is
fearful Of the November result.
Seven warehouses filled with cot.
ton. sugar and rice were burned at
Steimvarde, near Hamburg, and six
people persisted in the flames.
The Changers picnic at Williams
Grove this week was attended by
thousands. Two hundred car loads
of machinery were on exhibition.
Two deaths and nine new cases of
yellow fever are reported from Jack
sonville, and the principal railway
refuses to take people away from the
city.
Several mills in Delaware County,
Pa, shut down owing to depression
in trade, caused by tariff agitation,
thereby throwing over 1900 hands
out of work.
WILLIAMS GROVE. PA, August
2S.-Fully twenty five thousand per.
sons were at the grove to day expect.
ing to see President Cleveland, but
they were disappointed.
Three laborers while clearing
away the debris from a blast at
South Bethlehem, near Albany, N.
Y, were instantly killed by one of
their shovels striking dynamite
cartridge.
The engineers, tiremen, brakemen
and switchmen on the Peoria, Deca.
tur and Evansville; Evansville and
Terra Haute; Evansville and India.
napolis, and Evansville Bell rail.
roads went out on a strike.
An investigation has been asked
by Congressman Mason of the
charge that national banks, in which
government funds are deposited
without interest, have been asked
for campaign contributions.
Ex-Congressman Hoar brings to
Republican national headquarters
encouraging reports OF the situation
in MINI esota, Wisconsin and Mlchi-
gan.
A canvass among the stalwarts of
1884 in Oneida County, N. Y, shows
that they are nearly all back in the
party and that the county will give
Harrison probably 1000 majority.
Internal Revenue Collector Fltz-
gerald, of Boston, has notified his
subordinates to disregard the assess
ment circular of the Massachusetts
Democratic Committee.
Colonel E. Piolett told his fellow
grangers at the Williams Grove In.
terstate Picnic that he could no long.
er support the Democratic party's
tariff policy, and that he intended to
vote for Harrison and Morton.
A sanitary inspection of all trains
from the South has been ordered be.
fore they are permitted to enter
Washington, and arrangements have
been made by which special train
will run between Jacksonville and
Camp Perry, the refuge station in
Florida.
There was large meeting at
Middletown, Va, Thursday, and a
barbecue, to boom that valley. Good
speeches were made, one by lawyer
Holmes Conard, of Winchester A
1000 pound steer, hogs, sheep, 200
chickens, 200 hams and shoulders
were devoured.
The government has again reject.
ed the payment of the French spolia.
tion claims after half a century OF
litigation. They are recognized to
be just claims and should have been
settled long ago. The House is
afraid of its own extravaganza and
rejects just debts. They will 60 over
now until another Congress.