Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-01
NEWS OF THE wEEK.

Juug0 thurman wrote to q friend
that he will never again be a candi-
date for Office.
The official canvass shows that
Harrison's plurality in New York
State is 1882.
"D0cn Hag gerty, while driving a
wagon loaded with 1850 pounds of
glycerine, was blown to atoms near
Pleasantville, Pa.
All the stores and several resi-
dences in Pocomoke City, Nd, were
destroyed by. fire Thursday of last
week. Loss 100000.
Aaron Turner, aged Is, fatally shot
his sister at Batavia, o., by deliver
ing tie contents of a double barreled
shotgun into her brain.
James E. Bedell, who forged mort
cages amounting to S295,000 while
in the employ of a New York firm,
was sentenced to twenty five years
and four months in Sing Sing.
What appears to be a subterran.
can river has been puzzling railroad
workmen near Duluth, Mimi, on
the st. Paul road, who have been try
ing in vain to fill up the sink hole
leading to it.
The jury in the Hibbard- Fry
breach of promise case, Beaver, Pa.
brought in a verdict for the defend
l,ant, Henry c. Fry, thus making
Mrs. Hubbard responsible for the
costs.
Hon. S. j. Randall has recovered
from his recent illness, and will re.
sumo his seat in Congress when 1t
convenes in December. He voted
at the recent election, running some
risk of backset by the exposure
and exertion.
By the explosion of a powder keg
in the store of Geo. Farmer, Scruff.
town, on the Welsh Mountain, Pa.
the building was wrecked, Farmer
probably fatally injured, one of his
children killed and other members oil
the family injured.
LONDON, November, 25.-Mackie
& Co.'s steamer Newburgh, of Leith
while on a voyage from Grange
mouth to Aarhuns with coal. found
cred in the North Sea. Sixteen per
sons were drowned, and one was res
cued and landed in Norway.
PIT. Barnum, the Snowman, an
Dounced Saturday that he had retir
ed from the circus business. He ha.
given up his handsome residence
Waldemere, and will spend the re
naming days of his life in a modes
cottage overlooking Long ISLAND
Sound.
Kansas gave $4,000 Republican
majority on the 9th. Yet it wal
claimed as doubtful State by tn
Democrats, they alleging that star
iff reform had taken hold of tn
farmers in that state, and conse
quently they would vote for Cleve
land.
| A tragic story comes from Gilbert
station, Albemarle county, Va. POI
terfield Brock and family reside OH
farm which belongs to the old gentle
man, widower who had become en-
gagged to Miss Norford. His son or
posed the match, and on Monda,
shot and killed his father, afte
which he blew his own brains out.
/ The election judges of Norfolk an,
| Portsmouth charged by the fedora
supervisors with obstructing tn
election have been examined befor
Commissioner Charles T. Barry an,
sent on to the December term O
the United States court and bale,
in the penalty of $500 each for ap
pearance.
/ Mr.. BlackweIl'S bank AT Durham
| n. C, collapsed last week, and tool
with it half dozen of the largest bus
mess firms in the place. Mr.. Black
we'll made big fortune out of tobac
co, and went into the banking bust
ness. His bank was considered yer,
strong, and its patrons were numer
GUS and wealthy. The loss is est
mated at 100000.
| Connecticut official vote: Cleve
land 74,920. Harrison, 1854, Fisk
1924. For Governor Morris dem. J
1904; Bulkeley (Rep.). 1869
Camp (Pro.), 4,631; Andrews LA
bor), 1858, Scattering, 81. No ont
has majority of the total vote ant
the legislature will elect Bulkeley
and the others on the Republican
state ticket. The congressional del
egation is: Simmonds, Russell and
Miles (Rep.): Wilcox DEM. Miles
plurality is 26.
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