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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
EXPLODING POWDER.
Two Men and the Mil Blown to Atoms
at DObbs Ferry.

DoBBs FERRY, N. Y, March 27.-A So
we're explosion was felt throughout West
chester county this morning between $40
and 20 o'clock Doors and windows and
houses were ratified, and the people thought
they had experienced an earthquake.
Stckney's powder factory. near Ashford
had blown up, and two men, the only per-
soDs near the works, were blown TO atoms.
The spot where the mill stood is now hole
in the ground large enough TO contain the
building which recently occu pied it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
MOURNING OF THE BAR.
The Senate and House Accept Funeral
Invitations.

The Senate and House Accept Funeral
Invitations.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-In the House
to day the Speaker laid before the House
the following communication from the Mar
shall of the United States Supreme Court:
am directed by the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States to inform you that
in accordance with the resolution of the House
of Representatives, adopted March 26, 1888, the
funeral ceremonies of the, late Chief Justice
Waite will be held in the hall of the House of
Representatives March 2S, at 12 O'Clock noon.
The members of the House are respectfully in
vited to attend on that occasion.
The communication was laid upon the
table,
The presiding officer laid before the Sen
ate to-day a communication from the Mar
shal of the Supreme Court inviting the
Senate (by direction of the Justices) to at
tend the funeral ceremonies of the late
Chief Justice in the Hall of the House of
Representatives at noon tomorrow. On
motion of Mr.. Hoar the invitation was ac-
cepted, and it was ordered that the Senate
meet tomorrow at II As o'clock
ON THE FLOOR.
At the funeral services seats on the floor
of the House will be assigned to the family
and mourners, to the President and his
wife, to the United States Supreme Court
Justices and their families, to the men,
bers of the several committees,
the members of the Cabinet and their fami-
lies to the Diplomatic corps, the General of
the army and his staff, and other leading
officials. The reserved galleries will be held
for the families of Senators and Represent
atives. The remains will not be
in state, as the family desires
the funeral ceremonies to be as
simple as possible The body will be ac
companied to the House of Representatives
by the Supreme Court Justices, who will
be honorary pall-bearers, and about twenty
five intimate friends of the family. The
Supreme Court Messengers will act as the
body bearers.
THE FUNERAL TRAIN.
At the close of the funeral ceremonies,
which will be conducted by Bishop Paret,
the remains will be conveyed to the Balti-
more and Potomac railroad station, and
will leave at 2 o'clock p. IN. by special train
on the Pennsylvania railroad for Toledo
All the Justices of the Supreme Court,
except Justices Bradley and Matthews, and
the committees of the Senate and House,
will accompany the remains to Toledo,
where they are expected to arrive Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock. The remains will
be conveyed to Trinity church, Toledo,
and will remain there for several hours to
allow the people of his old home and those
who may come from the surrounding coun-
try to see his face before the body is in
TERED. The funeral services, which will be
simple, will be held at the church at 3
o'clock in the afternoon.
The executive departments, district
offices, Smithsonian Institution and the Ma
tional Museum will be closed during the
day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
TATE's SUCCESSOR.
The Senate Confirms the Governors
Temporary Appointed.

temporary Appointoo.
LOUISVILLE, March 27.-Judge S. G.
Sharp, Chairman Of the Democratic State
Executive Committee, was to-day nomi-
mated and confirmed as Treasurer pro tenn.
Of the state Of Kentucky by the Senate at
Frankfort.
Two hundred barrels Of whisky have been
attached as the property Of the absconding
Treasurer, and II is thought more will be
found. The investigating committee Is pro-
ceeding slowly, and Mr.. Tate's private
papers have not yet been examined The
objections OF the bondsmen retard the work
of the committee.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
Mississippi Courtins immigration.

JACKSON, MISS, March 27-At the re-
quest OF many citizens Gov. Lowry has is
sued call for convention of the people of
Misssssippi interested in the subject of i'm
migration 20 and the development Of the
resources of the State, 10 meet in jackson
Thursday, May "a, for the purpose of Or
ganizing State immigration association.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
Editors of the South.

NEW ORLEANS, March 27.--The Southern
Press Association will meet in this city
Wednesday, April A. at the st. Charles
Hotel, where special arrangements have
been made for the accommodation Of the
members and their families.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
ROAR oF THE FLAMES.
Four Men Blown Out a Building by q
Benzine Tank.

BenZlne Iupk.
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 2z-Fire at
Union City. twenty-six miles south of here,
this morning, destroyed property to the
amount of $50 1000. During the fire tank
Of benzine in a drug store exploded and
blew four men out Of the building. All were
badly burned and one will die.
CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.
ORILLIA, ONT, March 27.-A house oc-
cupied by Thomas. Bull, storekeeper and
postmaster, was burned last night. His
three children, aged l, 3 and years, were
burned 10 death.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
HARBOR APPROPRIATION
The following are the more important
harbor items in the South:
THE TOPIC OF THE DAY,

The bill was the topic of the day at the
capitol. Representatives who, under the
system of secrecy adopted by the River and
Harbor Committee, have been unable to as
certain how much their districts were TO
get in the general distribution, read the bill
with the greatest interest. They were
pleased generally to find that the bill made
larger appropriations than ever for their
States, but they regretted that the total
should be 50 large. When river and har-
Dor bill comes into the House appropriating
nearly $4,000, 900 it is not likely to go to
the President appropriating less than S25,
900, 900 and that is q a large sum to ask the
President not to veto.
CAN BE KEPT IN THE LIMITS.
The members of the committee declare
that they will be able by their majority in
the House to keep it within the limits set by
the committee. OF course they cannot
control the action of the Senate, but they
insist that inasmuch as they have made
provision for every real need in the scheme
of river and harbor Improvement that it
will not be necessary for the Senate to add
to their bill at all, even if they do not think
that more than 81 100000 more will be
placed in the bill by the Senate.
NOT IN THE TARIFF BILLS INTEREST.
The COMMITTEES had only the needs of these
public works in view. Its members laugh
at the suggestion that the appropriations
which were voted for in committee by the
Republicans as well as the Democrats were
intended to influence votes in favor of the
Mills tariff bill. They will call the bill up
early next week in order 30 get it out of the
way before the tariff bill comes along. The
opponents of the river and harbor bill will
do all that they can to delay it so that it
may run foul of the tariff bill
Representative Barnes succeeded by hard
and skillful work in getting tue clause
making the Savannah river appropriation
so worded in the bill as TO commit Con
gress to the new $500 project recon-
mended in the last report OF the engineers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
HIS IDEA OF THE MEASURE.


He thought it safe to say that no sucl
Proposition had ever before been made il
any legislative body, and probably no sucl
Proposition would ever again be made. i
destroyed all distinction between patriotism
and the reverse Nobody objected to Con
tederate soldiers or Confederate citi
zsns sitting in the House of Con
gress. They did not occupy sucl
seats because they had been Confederates
hut because (the period of hostility having
PASSED away they stood just like every
other citizen-no better, and no worse. A
70 the appointment of Gen. Mosby anC
other ex-Confederates by Gen. Grant, h
said that Gen. Grant had appointed them
not because they had been Confederates
out because they were useful and patriotic
citizens. He hoped the Senate would TAXI
no further step with the bill. The Senate
Old not dispose Of the question
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28

WASHINGTON, March 27-The Comp
troller of the Currency received informa-
tion this morning that the President and
Cashier of the State National Bank of
Raleigh, N. c., have absconded to Canada
with large amount of the banks funds.
He at once issued instructions TO Bank Ex-
aminer Tate to proceed to Raleigh and take
charge of the bank
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
LEONE" ON A KANSAS CYCLONE


"Leoneu gives us such
graphic description Of a cyclone near
her Kansas home, that we publish
it for the benefit of Berkeley people
who have an eye to the West.
By the way, / saw a Cyclone a
week ago; it struck about 4 or 5
miles from here and carried away
three houses and ruined couple Of
barns. You Eastern people think the
sight of Il Cyclone would scare you
to death, but it wouldn't. You'd
look on with interested curiosity Just
as | did. Two black clouds that look
ed for all the world like an inverted
Ocean of pillows met together and
began to churn and toss around and
wrestle together like giants, while
oddly enough, in the West the glory
of the sunset shone as heaven must
have beamed with light when the
hosts of darkness were thrust out and
in the East the cyclone growled and
painted and it opened its big black
jaws and dropped down mouths
full of destruction and where it fell
the ashes Of ruins rose like a cloud
for all the world like some one pour
lug water on fire and the white cloud
of ashes and smoke was rising from
it. Then it would spread its wings
and carry away its novel load of
house and furniture and poultry and
cattle and grain; and then as sud-
denly drop Them and dip down to
earth again like diver. l saw where
it spanked house on the gable end
and demoralzed it for days to come;
where it picked up barn and set
it down again in the same place SO
hard that it fell apart like a toy
house, | saw straws driven straight
through the bark Of trees and the
straw never bent in protest.
saw hammock swinging seren.
ly-the only thing left to tell that
the side Of home had once been
beside it. The tornado slapped a
row of grain stacks and sent them
threshed and spinning over three
miles of space and at another place
it took oats and wheat and made
such hash of them that they had
to be threshed together. No lives
were lost.
This is the first tornado ever.
known in this country.
They follow the rivers generally :
1t is simply grand to see a storm
here. The lightning often plays hide
and seek behind the clouds, but Of
tener when it "lightnings" it gath
ers itself together in a heap and
then it will break with crack and
sizz and throw its long gagged
arms in a dozen ways, whipping
through the air.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

The Republican State Convention
met in Charleston on Wednesday
Hon. Geo. G. Sturgis was made TEN.
porary, and Hon. John A. Ell utchison
permanent chairman. The platform
is long, and will be given later on,
The convention proceeded to work
promptly.
The ticket was nominated as fol.
lows: For Governor, Hon. Nathan
Goff, of Harrison county; for Audi.
tor, George M. Bowers, of Berkeley
county; for Treasurer, Hiram Lewis,
of Clay county; for Attorney.gener.
al, VIM. p. Hubbard, of Ohio coun-
ty; for superintendent of public
schools, T. B. Mcclure, of Wayne
county; for Judges of the Supreme
Court, John W. Mason, of Taylor
county, and Henry G. McWhorter,
of Kanawha county; for presiden.
tlal electors at large, 7. B. Davis, OF
Fayette county, and Augustus Pol.
lock, of Ohio county.
The ticket is strong one and if
every Republican in the State will
do his duty from now until cleo
ton day, Victory is sure.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
GREAT LOSS AT WHEELING.
THE STORM THE WORST EVER
KNOWN-FEARS OF SACRIFICE OF

THE STORM THE WORST EVER
KNOWN-FEARS OF SACRIFICE OF
LIFE.
WHEELING, Aug. 21.-The dam.
age done by the great cloud burst at
this place onJuly 10 was surpassed to.
day. 1t commenced raining this
morning at l o'clock and at 8 p. M.
it is still raining steadily. All the
streams for miles around are swoll-
en- into raging torrents and the
scenes of death and disaster chron-
icled last mouth may be repeated be.
fore morning. Many railroad bridges
between here and Pittsburg have
been washed away and telegraphic
and telephone communication is cut
off. 1t will be fully week before
railroad traffic in any direction can
be resumed. 1t Is impossible to give
the particulars of damage done in
the country at present owing to
communication being shut off.
In the city the damage is immense.
The water and gas supply in the
greater portion of the city is cut off
entirely and the electric light wires
are down, leaving part of the town
in total darkness. The Baltimore
aud Ohio bridge just completed in
the place of the one that went out in
the other storm was swept away
this afternoon. On Market Street
an immense stone bridge crossed
Wheeling Creek. 1t was supported
in the centre by a great stone pier,
which was weakened by the last
food. At 5'o'clock this evening
about 300 people where gathered on
this bridge watching the flood. Sud-
denly a cry that the pier underneath
was giving way was heard and the
panic.stricken crowd made "a break
for either end. The last man had
scarcely lett the bridge before the
entire structure sank and in an in.
slant was swallowed up in the seeth.
ing flood below. Had the warning
cry came five seconds later the 300
would have persisted, as it would
have been impossible to save them
IN that raging torrent. 1t is not
known that any lives are lost.
Word from all directions shows
the storm was general. The Ohio
River is rising rapidly and an un.
prececented flood from here to Gin
ciLnati is almost certain. Fears
are entertained that the great Balti
more and Ohio Railroad bridge at
Bellaire will be swept away. To.
night it is full OF loaded freight cars
to hold it steady. A rumor has
reached here that Broad Tree Tnn
mel, between here and Grafton, has
caved in, and the fact that no East.
ern trains have arrived seems to con-
firm it. All crafts have been ordered
off the river and preparations are be.
ing made between here and Cincin.
natl for disastrous flood. The
river IS still rising at a rapid rate,
and people on low ground in this
city are preparing to move out.
Delegates to the Republican State
Convention, which meets at Charles. |
ton tomorrow, are water-bound at |
SIstersville and can not reach |
their destination. 1t is feared that
the damage to life and property is
very great.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.

AT Special meeting of Lincoln
Post No. l, G. A. r. Dept, w. Va,
held in their Post room, Martinsburg,
w. Va, Aug. Goth, 1888, the follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, The Almighty in his
infinite wisdom seen fit to remove
our comrade, Col. Patrick Egan, from
the cares and troubles of this transit
tory existence, therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death Of Com
rade p. Egan, the G. A. r. has lost a
jealous and worthy member, Society
an upright and honest man, the wife
an affectionate husband the daughter
a kind and indulgent parent.
ResOlued, That while we deplore
his loss, we bow in humble submits
sion to the will Of our Maker.
ResOlred. That we tender our heart
felt sympathy to the family in their
sad bereavement.
RESOLVED, That the above resolu-
tions be entered on the minutes of the
Post, copy sent to the family of the
deceased, the county papers and that
the Post room be draped and the
members wear the usual Badge of
morning for thirty drys.
80. w. ARMSTRONG,
c. Fl. WAYBLE, Com.
j. GROZINGER,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS
OPENS THE CAMPAIGN IN BERKE
LEY COUNTY. GRAND RE.
PUBLICAN MEETING.

MARTINSBURG. w. VA, August
19.-The Republican campaign was
opened in Berkeley county on Sat-
urday night last at tho Central Op.
era House in Martinsburg. The
meeting was addressed by Hon. VIM.
Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, and
Hon. w. e. Fuller, of Iowa. The
speakers stand was beautifully drap.
ed with flags and flowers. Two live
raccOOns were chained facing each
other, in the rear of the speakers.
Among the Vice Presidents was w.
f. Legg, of Bunker Hill, this county,
who will, for the first time, vote for
the Republican ticket. Mr.. Legg has
heretofore always voted the Demo.
cratic ticket. and has been an active
worker for this party. He says, as a
farmer, he cannot stand free wool.
The meeting WIS called to order
promptly at s O'Clock by U. s. Grant
Pitzer, who introduced the first
speaker, Mr.. Fuller, who for more
than an hour held the vast audience
of more than thousand persons. It
would be useless in so brief a space
to attempt description of his speech
Suffice it to say that it was apprecia.
ted by his audience, which applaud.
ed repeatedly during its delivery.
After music by the band, Hon. VIM.
Walter Phelps was introduced, 90.
ing Immediately into his subject,
which was the tariff, dwelling princi.
pally upon the similarity of the needs
of his own state and those of West
Virginia, showing how they we're
held in line for the Democracy by
having men like Randall construe
the principles of their party to mean
Protection, and thereby misleading
men to vote the Democratic ticket.
This could not be done in this cam.
paign, as the party is com United to
free trade.-Inteligeacer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25

One Of the most worthy charities
Of the great cities is the sending Of
companies Of young children of poor
parents to the country for couple
of weeks airing. "Fresh Air Funds"
are provided 10 pay car fares and
in some cases the board of the child
rem incountry homes. The chilren are
collected IN the tenement house dist.
tricts, washed and provided with
clothing by the charitable ladies in
charge OF the work and then sent of
to the country in companies ofseveral
hundred. Such party of25O arrIv.
ed at Chambersburg from New York
city, two weeks ago, and were dis
tributed throughout the country,
forty going to Waynesboro' and
vicinity. most of them were of deli
cate appearance, but few weeks Of
fresh: country air and plenty Of
wholesome food, will make a won.
derful change in this respect
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

One bolt of lightning killed eigh.
teen blooded horses at Cheyenne.
Richard c. Harris, manufacturer
of paper, New York, made an as.
signment.
Rev. Edward III. Camp, a Presby.
terrain clergyman of Newark, com.
mitted suicide while insane.
Fx-Secretary Robert Lincoln was
in conference with Mr.. New at the
Republican National headquarters.
A Cincinn att Southern train was
derailed at Oakdale, Tenn, and bad.
ly wrecked, but no one was killed.
Great damage was done by a
fierce storm in the South, and fifty
coal barges are known to DO lost at
New Orleans.
A man who had forged a check
for $4,000 on the Spanish Bank OF
Havana, Cuba, has been arrested.
Harriet Burrow attempted to
murder her husband and them at.
tempted suicide at her home in
Philadelphia.
Five people were killed, many in.
jured and at least 100000 worth of
property destroyed by cyclone
which swept over Delaware.
Fred Ward, notorious counter
felter, on his release from Pittsburg
penitentiary was rearrested for
crimes committed in Michigan.
Mrs. G. d. Harland, of Philadel.
phia. was struck by base ball on
the beach of Atlantic City and ser.
iously injured.
William Hilton and Miss. Nellie
Archibald, of Montreal, were drown.
ed by their canoe capsizing in Sar.
gents Bay.
James OConnor, cowboy horse
thief, while in irons, being taken to
Joliet prison in Illinois, leaped from
car window and escaped injury.
Emanuel Baker shot and killed
Frederick Blake in Franklin county
Pa- in a quarrel over a woman
whom each man claimed as his wife.
A humber of wholesale liquor
dealers OF st. Louis have formed a
corporation to bald an enormous
distiliery, and fight the whiskey
trust.
A large malt house containing
thirty thousand bushels of malt own.
ed by Neidlinger, Schmidt & Co., at
Roundout, N. Y, was DESTROYED by
fire; loss, 100000.
In a quarrel between G.. Higqen.
botham and Rufus Kessler. bows
about eighteen years of age. at
Charleston, w. Va, the former fat.
ally stabbed the latter.
New YORK, Aug. 21.-The Coro.
nor today decided that the man
!ound dead in a doorway near the
Brooklyn bridge entrance yesterday
was not murdered, but committed |
suicide.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
AMERICAN CATHOLICS AND THE
RESCRIPT

LINCOLN, NEB., May 1S.-Presi.
dent Fitzgerald, of the Irish Nation.
al League, has sent the following
cable to the Dublin FreemGn's Jour.
nal. The assertion made by Vatican
journals that American Catholic
newspapers unanimously approve OF
papal rescript is absolutely untrue.
The vast majority of American
Catholic newspapers and Catholic
public believe that the plan of cam.
paign and boycorting were condemn
ed on false evidence supplied by Eng
lish agents. and Irish. Americans
especially resent as unwarrantable
any Roman interference IN the politi.
cal affairs of Ireland.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-08-25
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

On Sunday, the 9th instant, eight
workmen in the employ of the Wash
ington county water company, while
engaged in putting pump in the res
ervoir, near Cavetown, were arrested
for Sabbath breaking. On Monday
last they were giving hearing be-
fore Justice Oswald, at Smithsburg,
and fined SIS and costs. An appeal
was taken, and result are awaited.
We have learned that the ordinan-
ces relating to throwing filth of any
kind in the alleys are not being OBJ
served by some of our residents. 1t
is the duty of the board to see into
this matter and impose a penalty, no
matter Oh whom it may fall. The
season of the year is here now when
too much precaution cannot be
made. A stitch in time saves
nine"
An unknown man deposited on the
door steps of the Orphans Home in
Hagerstown, on Friday night of last
week. basket containing female
infant, but few days old. and then
hastily took his departure without
making his identity known. A note
accompanied the child signed, Ame-
liza Darling" asking the matron of
the Home to care for the child for
three years, at the end ofwhich time,
the mother, if her health got better,
would call for it. The police of that
city are endeavoring to unravel the
mystery, and suspicion points to
man from the Clearspring district, this
county.
MULES YRS. STEAM.-On Tuesday
an exciting race took place in the
"Big Pool" on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, between the canal boats
Lutte and Monte. drown by five first
class mules, and the canal steamboat
Ruby. The race was two mile " go
as you please" with the Ruby in the
lead. At the end of one mile and a
half the Lutte and Monte, drawn by
mules, and under the command of
Captain William Shupp, passed the
steamboat and won the race coming
out several hundred yards ahead at
the end of the two miles. Both boats
hail from this place, and were loaded
with COAL WfQianssport Leader.