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

destroying the crops in Minnesota.
Fire at Norfolk, Va, destroyed a
block Of unfinished buildings. Loss
$4,000.
Ole Olestead and his wife were
killed by lightning in their home at
Casselton. Oak.
Chicago is practically cut off from
telegraphic communication West
owing to storm.
Asbury Park, N. j., was visited
by a brief but vigorous snowstorm'
on Saturday night.
Robert Kelly was shot and killed
at Navosota, Texas, while trying to
escape deputy sheriff.
Claudius Danner, aged four years,
of Harrisburg, Pa, while playing
with a revolver killed himself.
By the fall of "a stand at a Fourth
of July celebration at Water Valley,
Miss, fifty persons were injured.
Mrs. John G. Snider, aged forty
five years, fell from cherry tree in
Cham bersburg, Pa. and was killed.
All the flint glass factories banked
their fires Monday, and six thous-
and workers take IA six months rest.
Twenty-Five business houses and
residences in the town of Parag0uld,
| Ark, burned. Losses aggregate
So, 900.
| Charles Whitehead shot and in
stantly killed Minnie Hill, near Den.
yer, Col, and then blew his own
brains out.
John johnson, farmer near Ro-
chester, n. Y, accidentally killed
his son on the Fourth, and then
committed suicide.
JEFF. Carp, school teacher, and a
young farmer named Heard, quarrel
ed at Carrollton, Mo-, and fatally
shot each other. r ;am
Rev. Charles Ell. Wheeler and wife,
of Winchendon, Mass, were instant.
ly killed by their carriage being
struck by locomotive.
Policeman Thomas Woods was
shot and almost instantly killed, in
New York city, by Frank Brouty,
whom he was sent to arrest.
A terrific electrical storm passed
through the Northwest Sunday, and
half a dozen lives were lost and
many buildings struck by lightning.
In Dayton, o., Tuesday fire.
cracker caused loss of S25, 900. In
Harrisburg, Pa, an explosion of
fire. works caused n damage of &c..
900. - .s
Two French officers crossed into
Alsace and told the people to whom
they spoke that the French were
soon coming to recover their terri.
tory.
Thomas Loder, who wrote a letter
stating that be intended committing
suicide at Niagara Falls, which
drove his mother insane, turned up
alive and well in Buffalo.
Numerous monuments were dedi-
Gated at the Gettysburg celebration,
ank at the reunion of the Blue and
Gray speeches were made by Cover.
nor Beaver, General Gordon and
General Sickles.
Mrs. Eva Harsch, sixty.twO years
old, of Williamsport, Pa, fell from a
box on which she was standing in a
loft of barn, and her head was
caught in such way that she was
choked to death.
1t required twenty closely. filled
cars of the Western Maryland Rail-
road Company--making a train OF
two sections--to convey the Depart
ment of Maryland, G. A. r. and its
friends to Gettysburg Tuesday.
During a fight between two des-
peradoes and two United States
marshals who were trying to arrest
them, near Eufaula, Indian Terri
tory, both officers and one OF the
criminals were killed.
Sally Hamrlc, of Braxton county,
W. Va, was taken to jail Oh a
charge of lunacy in, "a frightful desti.
tute and wretched condition. She
burned her house few days ago
and was almost naked; but a few
shreds stuck to her burned and LAGER.
ated back.
1t is stated that a plot has been
discovered to assassinate the Emper.
or of Germany and Prince Bis.
marck. Extraordinary precautions
were taken to protect them and q
number Of suspects have been ar.
rested.
Robert w. Flack, of Syracuse, N.
Y, was drowned in an attempt to
60 through the Niagara rapids in a
life-boat of bis own invention. The
10000 people who watched him
should support his widow and chill
dren.
John Zacher, a Young farmer, of
Racine. Wis, who has been trying
to break the fasting record, has been
broken by it. He kept about until
Monday, the forty. fourth day Of his
fast, when he was seized with cramps
that were thought likely to prove
fatal.
Thursday the Lackawanna Valley
was flooded by tremendous down.
pour of rain, accompanied by thun.
der and lightning. Two men and
two horses were killed by lightning
in the streets OF Scranton and great
damage was done to property. In
some parts of Pa. hail stones as
large as walnnts fell during the
storm.
A cyclone passed oyer Iowa and
a terrific wind and rainstorm did
great damage in Illinois on Tnasdav