Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

are Frustrated With typhoid fever in
Kingston, Ont.
A Republican marching club was
organized by over 800 Republican
students of Princetown, N. j.
Incendiaries set fire to a freight
car in Erie, Pa, and burned to death
a boy who was sleeping in it.
Four little guls who arrived at
Castle Garden in charge of Mormon
missionaries win be sent back to En-.
rope.
In a quarrel about u woman, Peter
Cider was shot and killed by William
Stevens at Petersville, Fleming coun-
ty, Va.
Mrs. Oliver Kamerer, Greenville,
Pa, was fatally poisoned by hand
ling flowers which had lain for some
time upon dead person.
Libby Prison, in Richmond, Va,
was sold Thursday for third time
to syndicate proposing to turn it
into museum where it now stands.
The yellow fever record at Jack
sonville Wednesday was one hun
dred and three new cases and seven
deaths. A more hopeful feeling pre-
walls throughout the South.
Not less than a thousand colored
pcople have had the yellow fever in
Florida. 1t is unprecedented, be-
cause negroes as rule do not catch
the contagious diseases of the South.
A passenger train on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad was thrown from the
track by a COW near Uniontown, Pa,
oyerturning the engine, killing Lee
ander Miller and injuring several
others.
"Dutch Gus' Chopaz and "Big
Charlie Wilson have been indicted
at Media, Pa, charged with the mur.
der OF Farmer John Sharpless, for
which Samuel johnson, colored, is
now under sentence of death.
The case of Express messenger
Fotheringham, who was awarded
$50, 900 damages for false imprison'
ment, was reopened on petition OF
the Southern Express Company in
st. Louis on the ground chat the
damages awarded are excessive.
Representative Dingley, of Maine
who is considered to be one Of the
best posted men in Congress on the
political situation, is confidently pre-
dieting that Harrison and Morton
will carry every Northern State and
West Virginia.
The town of Decatur, Ala, is al
most depopulated in consequence Of
the fever, and Shreveport has at
tempted an indirectt quarantine
against New Orleans in spite of thu
orders of the Louisiana Health
: Board.
The Switchmen's Union has adopt
ed the plan of federation proposed
by the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, and Knights of Labor
: identified with the railroads will bt
admitted to membership.
Aurora Division, No. 80, Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. ha'
issued a circular to the order at large
declaring the strike on the @ road
has not ended, and that numerous
wrecks occur because of the ineflic
iency of the new men.
1t is stated that six counties II
Kentucky, have not now, nor eve
have had, o single church, although
they have been organized for up
ward of seventy years. Congo II
farther away, but this Kentucky fac
is more disgracefnl to the Christian
world.
! A Mexican mob took possession o
Rio Grande City, Texas, on account
of the shooting of Mexican editor
by Seebree, an American customs
officer, and the collector of customs
at Brownsville applied to Washing
ton for the aid of government troops
The Secretary Of War has order
ed troops to Rio Grande City, Texas
John F. Murphy, formerly employ
ed by the United States Express
Company, was arrested and confess
1 ed the theft two years ago OF $40,
900 package belonging to the UnioI
National Bank, of Cincinnati, o.
while in charge of the express com
lpany. The detective who made th,
, arrest recovered S6420 of the stoleT
money in the hollow leg of table.