Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK..

Trouble is feared in Ireland over
the continued Imprisonment of
priests and leaders.
Philadelphia capitalists have pur-
chased valuable coal and iron pro-
perty in Boone County, w. Va.
Don Carlos declares that unless the
present monarchy is replaced, Spain
must soon become republic.
By control being lost of two grip
cars at st. Paul, one man was killed
and seventeen persons fatally mini
ed.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Montpelier, Vt.-Vessels arriving
in Port report last weeks storm as
very severe.
The buildings of the Virginia pen
itenliary at Richmond, Va. used as
u convict shoe factory, were destroy
ed by fire.
Nearly fifty persons died in Suff.
ok county, Long Island, the last
week, each of whom was over sixty
years ofage.
A mammoth ice gorge on the Mis-.
sissippi river at st Louis, crushed
shipping and other valuable proper
ty, causing losses of over a million.
A fire in New York destroyed the
building 547 Broadway, occupied by
Appleton & Co., publishers. and 565
Broadway. Loss is estimated at ST.
100000.
John Cullen, of Buffalo, while
drunk, killed his morher with an
axe ain order that she would not
have to go to the loorhouse," he
said.
A Russian officer who shot him
self mortally confessed that he did
so to avoid shooting the Gear, he
having been awarded that duty by
lot.
The officials of Logan county, W.
Va. have called upon Governor Viii
son to lend the aid of the state mlll-
tia in suppressiDg the McCoy-Hat
field vendetta.
d. H. Mcpherson, travelling
medicine man and preaG her, hailing
from Washington, Is under arrest in
Chambersburg, Pa, on the charge OF
shooting Joseph Wiley.
One hundred and forty saloons in
Pittsburg and Allegheny City closed
Tuesday night, probably forever.
Their licences had expired and their
chances for renewal at the April
court are poor.
Hon. Thomas V. Cooper estimates
that there will be 29S votes in the
National Convention against Cleve
land, or thirty more than is needed
to prevent his denomination under
the two-thirds rule.
A lockout of three thousand en-
ployees in shoe factories occurred in
CjncinDati.-The Governor of
West Virginia issued requisition
upon the persons arrested in conuec
ton with the Mccoy Hatfield feud.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 2S.-Fort,
men in the road department of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad have
been discharged because OF lack CT
employment. 1t IS said the road will
he operated in the most economical
manner.
A large meeting in York, Pa, was
recently addressed by ministers OF
all denominations. Some of the
statements Of the vice and lmmorali
~ prevailing in the borough were
most startling, and "a committee Of
ten =" reported that licentiousne, s
was on the increase.
There has been great loss of life
i'll the mountain passes along the
Canadian Pacific Railroad by snow
>lldes.-In fight between tw,
escaped convicts and sheriff'S officer
at Tahleqnak, Indian Territory.
seven innocent lives were sacrificed.
and the outlaws are still at large.
The deadlock in the New York
Democratic State Committee and
the opposition tn Mr.. Cleveland in
Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Connec-
ticut and Massachusetts have inspir
I'd the antagonists to his renomina-
ton with renewed vigor, and it is
said that Secretary Whitney is at
the head OF this movement in New
York.