Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK

The first snowstorm of the season
prevailed in England this week.
Six deaths and 70 new cases Of
yellow fever at Jacksonville Wednes.
day.
Robert Garrett manifested violent
dementia while III care Of lis at.
PENDANTS, Monday.
A man named Hildebrand shot his
wife dead at Wheeling payday
night. He was drunk and they had
a quarrel.
James O'CoHnor's livery stable, in
New York city, was burned out, six
horses being roasted alive and sew.
enteen fine vehicles destroyed.
Peter Straubb, of NATION, H..
while insane, imagined that spirits
commanded him to torture himself,
so he gonged his eyes out.
A fire at the Ohio Valley Foundry
and Glass Works, Bellaire, Ohio,
Saturday, did damage to the amount
of fifty or sixty thousand dollars.
Minnie Katzenberger, aged thir.
teen years, of Chicago, confessed to
attempting to kill her mother.
brothers and sisters, by putting poiS.
on in their food.
A ruffian threw rotten eggs at
Senator Blair of New Hampshire,
while he was speaking on the tariff
to Republican meeting in Char
lottesville, Va.
Mondays town elections in Councc.
Uicut show such substantial RepuDl
can gains as to Indicate that Harri
son will carry the state next month.
Isaac Litter, q Harrisburg peddler,
was attacked in farmers yard near
Shippensburg by a pair of ferocious
bulldogs, and was so terribly mangled
that he will probably die.
Clerks in the Government depart.
ments have all received circular let.
tiers from the Democratic National
Committee, asking them to contrib
ute to the campaign fund
| Two abandoned women were muir.
dered in Whitechapel, London, Sat,
urday night, making the the fifth
and sixth victims of the mysterious
butcher, of whose identity there is
still no trace.
The House has not had quorum
for week past, and little business
of public Importance has been trans
acted. 1t is not thought that the
House will again have quorum
present until after the election.
Hattie Flack, white girl, of Jack
sonville, ILL.,, who married her faith
er's negro coachman, who was al
ready married, has been returned
home and the bigamist has probably
been lynched.
Fifteen hundred miners of the
Belleville, Illinois district, have qui
work because the companies refused
to give them two and one fourth
cents a bushel top weight.
: The body of a woman with thu
head, legs and arms missing wai
found on the Thames river in Lon
don, buG it Is not known whether
this was another of the Whitechape
murderer's victims.
On account OF the uncertainty
caused by the passage Of the Mills
bill by the House of Representative
the firm of Painter & sons, of Pitts
burg, has discontinued the making
of cotton ties and abandoned tina
branch of its business.
Never was happier argument more
felicitously stated than when Gen
Harrison said that Free Trader
we're studying maxims instead o
markets. In single phrase he ex
: hibited the fallacy and the weakness
of their whole argument.
WHEELING, w. VA, October D.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
authorities to-day summarily dis
charged eighteen passenger conduc
tors. The cause is unknown, the au
; thorities refusing to talk, and th,
men being in ignorance.
Marshal Bazaine, who surrenderet
the French Army at Metz durinI
; the Franco Prussian war, died las
week, an exile, at Madrid. He wa
condemned to be shot, but on &C
count Of his military services wa
sentenced for life and confined il
, some French fort, but escaped and liv