Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-03-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


says there will be no clean sweep of
postmasters.
The strike in the shipbuilding
trade at Belfast, Ireland lis spreading.
About 1000 men are now idle.
The Illinois State Senate has pass.
ed a bill appropriating $4,000 for a
monument to the late John A. Lo-
gan.
Peter. Nearshaslky, the miner who
was imprisoned for fifty.fou hours
in Black Diamond colliery, died from
nervous exhaustion.
A team driven by Hon. I'll. Mott,
Allburgh Springs, VT, went through
the ice on Lake Ohamplain, his wife
and the horses drowning.
w. S. Turrell, drover from Bel.
pre-, Ohio, had both arms cut off at
ROwlesburg, West Virginia, by tall
ing under a moving stock train.
CardinalParocchi, Pope's vicar,
says that if the Pope should have to
leave Europe, he would find ref.
uge among the American bishops.
The Pardon Boa I'd has decided
not to intervene in the Ease of Sarah
s. Whiting, the Philadelphia MUIR
deress, but to let the law take it's
course.
Gold in large quantities is said to
have been discovered on the Sweet
Grass Hills, Montana, and adventur-
ers are flocking there in great mum.
bers.
In the wreck of the Spar ish steam.
er Remus among the Philippine Is
lands, forty-two lives we're lost out
of the one hundred and sixty-nine
people on board.
Boston is in very hard luck. Her
capitalists have lost nearly $40, 0OO,-
600 in the shrinkage of railroad val
ues and about S28,0O0,00O in the
copper mining stocks.
Stephen W. Morgan, OF InGianapo.
lis, brother.in.law OF the late Vice.
President Hendricks, sued for a di.
vorce from his wife on the ground
of incompatibillty of temper.
The Halifax express on the Inter.
colonial Railway collided with a
special train near REVERE du Loup,
Quebec, killing an engineer, two
firemen and conductor.
The bridge over Elk Greek, at
the west end of Clarksburg, washed
out, cutting off travel on the North
western turnpike. A bridge near
Kingwood was also wrecked.
Eddie Brennan, fifteen years of
age, accidentally shot himself with a
revolver, at Duckworth's Summit,
Doddrige county. The bullet enter
ed the right eye, killing him instant
ly.
Great excitement was caused in
Warren, West Virginia, by the dis
covery of an apparently prolific oil
field, about four miles from the town.
All the land in the vicinity is being
leased.
Mr.. Thomas NJ. King was elected
second vice president of the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad, q place he
formerly occupied. No dividend will
be declared by the company this
spring.
The Senate confirmed the nomina.
ton of John w. Mason, Of West Vir.
ginia, for Commissioner of internal
revenue, and Commissioner Miller
took leave of his officers and gave
up the Office Wednesday.
1t is reported that the Republican
members of the West Virginia leg.
islature will not attend the extra
session, claiming that Governor VIII.
son has no authority to call one, as
he is not governor.
President Harrison says be will
stand by his Cabinet in making ap-
p0intments, and the Cabinet must
see papers of recommendation and
not take the word of congressman
alone as to a candidates fitness for
Office.
Within sixty days two thousand
men win begin the work of grading
for the extension of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad from Elkhorn,
Mcdowell county, to the Ohio river,
running through Logan and Wayne
counties.
The 14year-old daughter of veal
thy parents in Louisville, KY, was
abducted and married by Joe Stultz,
one of the most notorious and dis. |
reputable characters of that city. A
warrant was issued for Stnltz's ar
rest but he escaped.
The farmers in the neighborhood
OF Martins Ferry are selling their
apples to Mr.. Spenk, of Wellsville,
Ohio, who packs them into half bar.
rels and ships them to South Amer
lea, where they are bringing good
prices.
Great syndicates often feel the
tate Of ambition that overleaps it.
self. The wheat corner of two years
ago fell and buried dozens of men
in its ruins. The great copper syn.
dictate in its collapse has destroyed
OF fortunes.
Among the nominations sent to
the Senate Tuesday were these
Whitelaw Reid, of New York, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to France; Julius
Goldsmith, OF Wisconsin, to be con-
sui general at Vienna, and Andrew
of the District OF Columbia,
to be associate justice Of the Su-
preme Court OF the District OF Col.
nmbla. A number of p0stmasters
were nominated also.