Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-06-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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William Bogges, of Boone county,
w. Va, playfally pointed a gun at
his mother. She died from the
wound in o few hours.
The Lehigh Valley Road has con-
tracted to carry million bushels OF
wheat from Chicago to New York at
81 cents bushel, a cut of Ii cents.
Seventeen thousand houses in the
poor districts of Naples will be de-
molished, the streets repayed and
new buildings erected to improve
the sanitary condition of the city.
Hambleton's circular says IA rail
road from Cumberland to Washing
ton, using the bed of the Chesapeake
Canal, is inevitable, as the canal has
been for years lamentable failure
as waterway.
The students of st. Charles College
have requested the faculty OF the col
lege to devote the money usually
spent in premiums, amounting to
$3.50, to the Johnstown sufferers, and
q check for that amount has been
sent on.
Lightning on Saturday struck the
spires of the South Park Presbyter-
ian Church and st. Patrick's Catho-
lie Cathedral in Newark, n. 1.-THE
cupola and roof of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, in New
York city, were shattered by bolt
of lightning.
1t is understood that the Civil Ser
vice Commission will shortly request
the President to issue an order bring
ing within the cival service law the
force necessary for the taking of the
eleventh census. Should the Presi-
dent grant the request it will give
the Commission control OF about 1900
appointments.
Edward Mayhue, of Emmittsburg,
Frederick county, lost six children in
the food at Johnstown, Pa. John
Coal, student at st. Mary's College,
lost 90 relatives in the same disaster.
The Y. M. G. A., of Johnstown, has
appealed to the Y. M. e. A., of
Frederick, for funds for the relief Of
the food sufferers.
General James q. Clarke, formerly
OF Maryland, now OF Mobile, Ala,
has sent 800 for distribution among
the sufferers by the flood at Point of
Rocks, Berlin, Knoxville and other
points along the Potomac river. Sew.
eral Frederick families have made
application for children who were
made orphans by the Johnstown dis
aSter.
The various religious denomina.
tions have taken the proper course
with regard to aiding the homeless
of their own sects in Johnstown.
The United Presbyterian, Baptist
and Presbyterian churches of the
country viii not only undertake to
rebuild the destroyed edifices of
their respective denominations in the
Conemaugh region, but will also
raise fund to pay the pastors
salaries for year to come. In adj
dition, money will be raised to aid in
restoring the ruined homes and
otherwise to provide for the sufferers.
These efforts should be warmly en-
couraged. They show the broadcast
kind OF Christian charity.
Secretary Tracy has ordered the
commandant of the Mare Island
Navy Yard to build a magnificent
whale boat, which is to be presented
to King Mataafa, of the Samoan
Islands, as token of the apprecia-
ton by the American republic for his
timely aid to our shipwrecked sailors
on his coast. The boat will he finish
ed in about six weeks, and will be
sent to Samoa in charge of three
of the Naval officers survivors of
the recent disaster, who will also
carry an autograph letter of thanks
and gratitude from the President to
the King.