Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK


The Democratic organ, the New
York Star, has been seized by Tho
sheriff upon attachments secured by
paper dealer.
A storm on September 80 at Noko.
iorie demolished three Thousand
houses, and over fifty thousand peo.
pie were injured.
The Supreme Court of Utah gave
final judgement dissolving the Nor
mon Church corporation and escheat.
ing the property.
Jonathan E. Boss, of New York
aged fifty-seven years, is affected
with a disease which is slowly turn
ing him into stone.
Several collisions occurred Tues.
day between the Chicago street car
strikers and the police and many
people were seriously dubbed.
Advices from China report the
breaking of the Yellow river EN-.
bankment at Chang Chow, and the
drowning of nine hundred laborerS.
General Hovey, the Republican
candidate for governor OF Indiana.
said that he thought Harrison GER.
tain to carry the state by 10000 ma.
jority.
A livery stable was burned in
New York city, and Thomas Carr a
news.boy, eighteen years old, and
twenty.seven horses were roasted
alive.
Franked envelopes bearing the
forged name of Senator Edmuncs
have recently been used to dissent
nate Free. Trade campaign literature
in Texas.
Van Baker, who was convicted
about a year ago of the murder of
his mother-in.law, Mrs. McWha, at
Holidays Cove, Hancock Co, is
having new trial at Wellsburg.
John L. Hill, public building com.
missioner, Philadelphia, wagered
$4,000 with Mike Dwyer, New
York sportsman, THAT the Republi,
cans will win the national election.
The Grand Lodge Knights of
Pythias met in annual session in
Charleston this week. The oriental
degree was conferred upon Mr.. John
f. Smith, of Middleway, the Oldest
Knight in the State.
Sir Charles Warren made a trial
of bloodhounds in London for chaS.
ing the White chapel murderer
Scotland Yard detectives are said
to be working on the theory that the
murders are the work of a living
"Dr. Jekyil and Mr.. Hyde"
Anti.Hill Democrats say that fifty
thousand boilers from the party will
vote for Warner Miller, and Hill
Democrats say that forty or fifty
thousand Democratic boilers will
vote for Harrison unless Cleveland
comes to time in an Endorsement oil
Hill.
Gen. Golf spoke to immense
crowds at Keyser, Morgantown
Fairmont, Kingwood and Other
places this week. At Fairmont
when he left for Kingwood, Hon
Geo. M. Bowers was with him OF
the train, and three cheers we're Civ
en- for Golf and Bowers as the trar
started.
Let the minds of those young mel
whose twenty first birth day come,
on the day after election be easy
They can vote at this coming cleo
ton. The law holds that they have
completed their majority on the day
preceding their twenty first birthday
A person born on November Z, TWEEN
one years ago, can vote on November
9th, this year.
WASHINGTON, ID. O., Oct. s.
Hon. James Morrow, OF Fairmont
who is now undergoing treatment il
an asylum near Baltimore for men
tai arrangement, is reported to bC
in very bad way. A well know
gentleman of Fairmont, who lately
visited the distinguished patient
says disappointed ambition, particu
larry his failure to be nominated 'foI
Governor, has become a mania Will
him, and his utterances are pitiable
in the extreme, coming from one o
Mr.. Morrow's noble intellect ant
character.
/ WASHINGTON, d. O., Oct. s.
Hons. Alexander II. Boteler ant
Philip Pendleton, of She2herdstown
| w. Va, have started q movement
here to raise 81 900 to erect a monu
ment at Shepherdstown to James
Rumsey, the inventor OF the steam.
boat. Col. Boteler says Rumsey
operated successfully a steamboat on
the Potomac at Shepherdstown in
IVY, twenty years before Fulton's
Claremont on the Hudson, and TWEEN.
ty-seven years before the Roose-
velt's Orleans on the Mississippi,
and twenty-eight years before Bells
Comet in England. The scheme is
to get one hundred persons to give
| ten dollars each.