Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-01-19
NEWS or THE WEEK.

United States Senator Frye was
re elected by the Maine legislature.
A tenement house collapsed in Mar.
settles, and seven persons were kill.
ed.
Three young girls lost their hives in
fire in the New York Patent Cigar
box Factory.
Sergeant Edward Howard, of the
United States army, committed sui.
eide at Wheeling.
The Republican senatorial caucus
of Illinois decided upon Senator Cnl.
lum as his own successor.
p. 0. Littlejohn, aged 20, who
helped to build the b. & o. over the
mountains, died in Michigan Jan. Is.
Wesley Barnett, a halfbreed
Greek Indian outlaw, who had muir.
dered many persons, was shot from
ambush.
James 6. Blaine, Jr., became an
apprentice IN the repair shops of the
Maine Central Railroad in Water.
vile, Me.
Daniel Reynolds, colored, of Hele
ma, Ark, was so badly whipped by
nine men that he died from the in
juries inflicted.
Two men, named Webb and Har
ris, OF PoteaD, Indian Territory, set
tied difficulty with revolvers, and
at the first fire both were killed.
Two men were killed and several
injured by the fall of freight eleva.
tor at Woods Moving Machine
Works, at Hoosick Falls, n. Y.
SINGAPORE, January 12.-The
steamer Phyapeket has been sunk
by collision with an unknown YES.
sci. Forty two persons we're drown
| ed.
White Caps terroriZed the people
of Huntington, Ind, and vicinity,
one man being strung up to tree
until the life was nearly choked ont
of HIM.
1t is a generally understood fact
that Governor Hill, of New York,
has a business eye on the Demo.
cratic nomination for President in
1892.
OF a delegation of twenty-five Re.
pnblicans who called upon General
Harrison the other day twenty one
were veterans of the Confederate
army.
The Republicans in the Delaware
Legislature nominated Anthony Hig.
gins on the forty.third ballot. and
subsequently he was elected by the
Legislature.
4 1t is rumored in Baltimore that
Ex President Spencer, Of the Balti.
more aud Ohio, is wanted to take
the management of the West Vir.
ginia Central Road.
Mrs. Eads locked her two.year.
old adopted child in her house, at
jamestown, Ohio, and returned to
find the house ablaze aud the little
one burned to death.
A boiler in the Appleton Manu-
featuring Company's works, at APP
pleton, Wis.,, exploded, killing
Watchraan Reichter aud tearing the
structure to pieces.
| Miss Mary Garrett is personally
experimenting the erection OF a
school in Baltimore to prepare girls
for the Bryn Mawr College to cost
100000, aud, in addition, she will
endow it.
The House, by vote of 100 to 81,
referred to Mr.. Randall's Appropri.
ations Committee a bill for the re-
peal of the tobacco tax, thereby sig
nifying want of confidence in Mr..
Mills Ways and Means committee.
The cOunty.seat war Between citi-
zens of the towns of Cimarron and
ingalls,, Kan, was quelled by state
troops, but the feeling is still bitter
and further bloodshed is only re.
strained by the presence of the mi
litia.
Among President.elect Harrison's
callers were John S. Wise, of Virgin.
ia, and John L. Plummer, of New
York. The latter is supposed to
have visited Indianapolis to urge
Ex-senator Warner Miller for the
Cabinet.
The brigantine Snow Bird, from
Eastport, Me-, was caught in gale
December 20 and the captain and
mate washed away, three sailors
drowned in lowering n yawl, while
seven survivors were thirty hours
at sea in an open boat without food
or drink.
In Minnesota, it is refreshing to
know, the members of the Legisla.
ture have unanimously voted to re.
turn the passes sent them by the
various railroad companies. There
are other Legislatures in session the
members OF which might follow this
example. But few of them will do
so.
The Bakers Monthly estimates
the lost of money to the country by
the last Presidential campaign at
$500, 100000, an amount equivalent
to the loss caused by q general and
total suspension Of business for
month.
Where did it go to- Was it lost
or did it only change hands.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, Jan. a.
The Presidential electors met to-day
in the Governors Office aud cass
their ballots for Grover Cleveland.
A witty one of their number remark
ed that they were DerformiDp the