Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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wheat.
By boiler explosion in the Perry
Stove Works, at South Pittsburg.
Tenn, five men were killed.
Four men were killed in a train
wreck on the Bonneville Branch of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Jay Gould is going to construct
new union depot in st. Louis, to
cost over half a million dollars.
The chairman of congress of Eng
lish workmen at Bradford. Eng.
land, bitterly denounced Free Trade.
Labor Day was celebrated by pro.
cessious in New York, where 10000
men marched in line, and in many
other cities.
The Republicans made tremen-
dous sweep in Vermont, increasing
their plurality from $4,000 in 1884 to
probably $4,000.
A flood destroyed one hundred
and eighty houses and drowned for.
ty.six persons in the town of May
osagori, Japan.
There were five shocks OF earth
quake in New Zealand, church spires
and buildings being shaken from
their foundations.
Three persons were killed and sew.
eral priests and others injured by
the collapsing of platform in a
church at Brussels.
John Baker, Guide Rock, Neb., in
a fit of rage ran q boy through
threshing machine, and was lynch.
cd by his comrades on the spot.
| Five cowboys, sleeping beside
stream in Pueblo county, COL, not
far from Pixies Peak, were destroy.
ed by a cloud burst that swept the
valley.
A fearful cloud burst occurred at
Arkansas Hot Springs last week.
The principal streets Of the place
we're flooded and several persons
lost their lives.
The body of Miss Cecilia Simpson,
a beautiful and popular lady, was
found in the Ohio River, near Park.
ersburg, under circumstances point
ing to murder.
A hundred Indians are reported
to have been killed IN a battle be.
tween renegade Utes and Piutes on
the Lascal Mountains, across the
Colorado line.
The colossal statue of William
Penn, which is to surmount the tall
tower of new city hall Philadelphia,
will be the largest bronze figure ever
cast, standing thirty seven feet in
height.
! While Mrs. Maggie Collins was at.
tending her daughter, who had just
given birth to child, at Circleville,
o., she was shot dead, the ball enter
ing the window. 1t is not definitely
known who fired the fatal shot.
The administration is said to have
privately informed the British Gov.
eminent that it would not employ
the retaliatory measures requested
in the Presidents message if they
should be granted by Congress.
| A Jersey COW, belonging to q. l..
Mlssleg, in Donegal township, Pa,
had calf which at birth weighed
only six pounds. The little midget
is doing well, and is as pretty as q
picture. 1t IS the smallest calf on
record.
s. Morris Wales, of Philadelphia,
and Charles Livingstone Strong, of
New York, prominent and wealthy
young men, were found murdered
on the plains in Wyoming Territory,
where they had been on hunting
trip.
A bill has been introduced in the
House by Representative Buchanan,
of New Jersey, to reduce letter.pos-
tage to l cent an ounce. This bill
may not pass at the present session,
but it has got to come, sooner or lat
er, and the sooner the better.
Charles Chester, of Antwerp, o.,
was attacked by highwaymen, near
Fort Wayne, Ind, robbed of fifteen
hundred dollars, his mouth filed
with sand, and in an unconscious
condition he was laid on a railroad,
narrowly escaping terrible death.
Sarah Althea Hill, of Sharon d.
vorce notoriety, was sent to Jail for
three days for insulting judge on
the bench In San Francisco. Her
husband, Judge Terry, was also i'm.
prisoned for six months for drawing
dirk in the courtroom.