Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-05-26


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Two men were killed and Others
hurt by an explosion in S. III. Hack
ett's chair factory, Philadelphia.
4 { Archbishop Walsh has sent "a tele
gram announcing that the Pope will
not interfere in the Irish question.
A Kansas wife.murderer was par
doned ON condition that he abstain
from intoxicating liquor for life.
Two freight trains crashed through
bridges near Randolph Point, Pa,
and two engineers and two tramps
were killed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis and her
three grandchildren were smother
ed in burning house in Cleveland,
Ohio. sH @s $3.50 @ @t. 80
Fire in a Chicago stable suffocat.
ed seventy horses, and two families
living over the stable were nearly
asphyxiated. M r. as4
Elder James Quinter, of Hunting
don, Pa, died of apoplexy while lead
ing the, great meeting in prayer at
the German Baptist Convention.
Three persons are reported drown
ed by the Mississippi floods above
Quincy, ILL.,, but several families in
the shy levee district are unaceount
ed for. 2q.Sa7t7F+a l!'als
. Rev. Isaac w. Joyce, d, d., Of
Cincinnati, was elected bishop by
the Methodist Episcopal General
Conference, but several ballots fail.
ed to fill the fourth vacancy.
Horace Ellis, aged eighteen years,
/ fell under a saw in mill 10 st. Law.
renee county, N. Y, aud his head
was severed from his body and drop.
ped through a hole into the river.
During rain storm few days
ago bolt Of lightning killed thir
teen calves for Allen Gibs, who lives
near Ty-Ty, Ga. The calves were
standing under a tree when struck.
Simon Hamburg, of San Francis.
co, for swindling a man out of 80,
600, has been sentenced to fine OF
S19, 600, and In default to serve a
day tor every. dollar of the amount.
f. One hundred and six cars were
built for the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company at the Piedmont
shops during April larger num-
Der than In any one mouth known
there before. 4.,'a = .'-I r. Z. =
The Illinois Democrats endorsed
President Cleveland < and elected
William Morrison, William G. Gou.
dy, N. E. Worthington and James
s. Ewing delegates-at-large to- the
st. Louis Convention. o.,l
Rev. John Fl, Vincent, D. D., and
Rev. James n. Fitsgerald, d. D.,
were elected bishops BY the General
Conference of the Methodist Episco.
pal Church, which also extended the
time limit for the service of a minis.
ter at one church from three to FIVE
years, $50 81 5s,;s., yj..ssa 4a
Miss Mary Ingel; while standing
on bridge over< Fishing. Greek, w.
Ya- playfully dropped a. small stone,
intending it to splash the water over
her companion, Elmer Friend, who
was bending over, washing his
hand in the stream; but. the stone,
striking him on the head, caused
instant death. s 7Fa ret =
President and Mrs. Cleveland met
the members of the Northern and
Southern Presbyterian Assemblies
at Overlook, Phila., Wednesday af-
terhoon, and in the evening a recep-
ton was held at the Academy of
Fine Arts, where many thousands
passed through and shook the Pres
ident's hand.
Uncle Jake Zeigler, the veteran
of the Herald, published at Butler,
Pa. died on Saturday, aged seventy
five. He was the designer of the
famous Credit Mobilier bill, a mem
Der of the state legislature, and pre-
siding officer of the state convention
that nominated Judge Turnkey for
supreme judge and gave the casting
vote that nominated him. I slf3
!. The swollen waters ofthe Missis.
ssippi have been increased within
the last few days by heavy rains fall
ing in the flooded district, convert
ing the river in the vicinity of
Quincy, H., into vast lake and
changing many square miles of fruit
ful farm lands into temporary
wastes, The source of the food in
the Upper Missouri has been check
ed apparently by the cold wave sus-
pending the melting OF the snow,
but the Arkansas has taken It's turn
at high water, so the outlook for
the Lower Mississippi when all
these flood waters come together is
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