Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

cut off from communication Oy tue
foods, and thousands of persons are
dying of starvation.
The Iowa Republican Convention
elected delegation to the National
Convention in favor Of Senator Al
lison for the presidency.
The schooner Ella, from Rockland,
n. Y. went ashore at Chatham, Mass,
with her cargo of lime on fire, and
it is feared the crew are lost.
Fire did $4,000 damage at Man
chester, Va.-Leopold Bizzini,of Cal
istoga, CAL, shot and killed bis wife
because she asked him for a new
dress.
1t is reported that an organization
exists in Greensburg to sell the unit
ed vote of Westmoreland county, Pa.
to the highest bidder among political
candidates
jersey Democrats are dead set
against Cleveland, and it is believed
he will not have a single vote in
that state delegation at the National
Convention.
In collision OF passenger trains
on the Erie Road, near Wampnm,
Pa. S. P. Gray, baggage master.
was killed, and several others ser
iously injured.
Two elderly sisters, who were too
proud to beg, starved to death at Mt.
Holly, n. Y, and two other sisters
who lived With them are in a prccar-
ious condition.
Owing to the clandestine bargains
made by the Mills. Breckenridge par
ty to secure support for the Mills Tar
if bill, grave fears are now enter
tanned that that measure may pass
the house.
A United States detective made a
blunder in Parkersbarg and other
sections of West Virginia. canceling
FIVE dollar silver certificates that he
thought were counterfeit, but which
proved to be genuine.
So hostile is the feeling against
the Empress Victoria in Germany
that the Berlin chief of police has adj
vised her not to show herself too
freely to her husbands subjects and
to avoid the streets, except when
properly guarded.
j. ]. Sleeper, deposed Episcopal
minister, located in Camden, n. j.,
has been briskly employed id mar
rying runaway couples from Penn
sylvania, and now several thousand
young married people are worried
over the question as to the legality
of the ceremony.
A st. Louis pork-packer told the
House Committee on Agriculture,
Friday, that hogs affected with hog
cholera were often cut up and packed
in slaughter houses. He had often
done it himself. and had no doubt
that every pork. packer in the coun-
try had done So"
A former citizen of Pinkerville,
Illinois, has the largest grave in the
world. He was down in his coal
mine one day, when in remote gal
lery the roof cayed in and waters
flooded the mine. 1t being impossi-
BILE to recover the body, his sons
closed up the shaft and placed a
maidstone over their fathers ten
acre grave.
WASHINGTON, d. c., MARCH
26.-Next Wednesday or Thursday
Chairman Blanchard will report to
the House the greatest River and
Harbor bill in the historyof Congress.
The total amount as finally agreed
on Is s19,4S2,7 1888. West Virginia
streams are allotted 1895, 800, as fol-
lows: Great Kanawha, 100000 !;
Monongahela, 100000; Big Sandy,
s31, 500; Little Kanawha, $4,000 /;
Elk and Bnckhannon, $500 each /;
Gnyandotte, $1,000.
Van b. Baker, who was convicted
at New Cumberland last July of
having murdered his wife and his
mother-in-law, Mrs. McWha, at Hol.
licay's Cove, on the ninth oflast May,
was Tuesday granted a new trial
by Judge George Z. Boyd, of the
Circuit Court, sitting at New Com
berland. The grounds of the decis-
ion we're the misbehayior of juror
Splrey and the separation OF the ju-
rors during the trial, and the Court
was pretty severe on Spiyey in the
opinion.
PARKERsBURRG, w. VA, March
26.-The farmers of Jackson county
have been troubled for more than
two weeks with hydrophobia among
cattle. A short time ago dog be-
longing to John GauIt went mad,
and was locked up. He broke out
and killed several cattle belonging
to Gault, then bit some swine be-
longing to man named Wright.
From there be went among the
sheep of a man named Burk, killing
a number and biting others. A
school in the nefghborhood was just
dismissed for the day when the dog
attacked the school children, but
was beaten off before any one was
seriously hurt. Within the past few
days more than 200 cattle and sheep
have died from the dogs attacks.
Several other dogs have gone mad,
and the farmers throughout the en-
tire neighborhood are being greatly
troubled.
Is CONSUMPTION Incurable