Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-11-02

NEWS OF THE WEEK..

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Nearly 100000 people in North
Dakota are reported to be in state
of actual destitution.
The engineer, fireman and driver
boy of coal train belonging to the
Pierce Coal Company, at Archibald,
Pa, were killed by the explosion OF
the boiler of the engine.
Reliable news from Lincoln Coun-
| ty, w. Va, confirms the statement
that Green Mccoy and Milton Ha-
ley were riddled with bullets by a
mob of sixty men last week.
While five men we're playing
cards under a car on siding, at
Irwin, Pa, shifter pushed train
back, killing four of the men and
slightly iniIring the other.
Unless immediate aid is given to
the 5000 victims of the famine in
Labrador it is feared they will all
die of starvation before spring, as
it will be impossible to reach them
when cold weather sets in.
While the funeral bells are tolling
in Lisbon for Portugal's deal King,
wedding chimes are ringing in
Athens for the marriage of Greece's
Grown Prince and a daughter of the
Hohenzollerns.
A Treasury warrant for 1898 was
issued to Honore Severnier, Com
pany B, First Wisconsin Cavalry,
now living in Chicago, for his por.
ton of the reward offered for the
capture of JEFF. Davis.
The marriage of Miss Caldwell to
Prince Joachim Murat, which was to
have taken place in Paris on Mon
day, has been postponed, and
among the causes given for the delay
is the statement that hitch has oc-
Cured relative to the settlements.
The marriage of Princes Sophie of
Prussia and the Grown Prince OF
Greece took place at Athens, Sun
day. Two ceremonies were perform
ed, one in the Cathedral and a Sec
ond in the private chapel of the pal
ace, according to the Lutheran rite.
The Galena arrived in Baltimore
with nine Navassa rioters. Their
ringleader is Albert Jones, of Fitz-
water Street, Philadelphia. One OF
the colored men is from Greenbrier,
this State. They claim to have been
brutally treated and acted in selfde.
tense.
A freight train on the Lake Erie
and Western Railroad was wrecked
at Kokomo, Ind, causing the ex-
plosion of twelve tanks of oil. En-.
gineer Mehl, Fireman Edward Bur-
nett. and Brakeman John Speelman,
were thrown beneath the oil cars
and roasted alive.
GRAFTON. W. Va, October 3D.
Silas Bolyard, aged sixteen, and a
companion named Arkie, of Fulton.
vile, Preston county, found half.
gallon jug of whiskey, which had
been secreted by some young men
attending an apple-cutting. The
boys drank the liquor and both died
in few hours.
All honor to the young men,
students of the North western Uni.
verslty of Illinois, who make up the
life.saving crew at Evanston. On
Tuesday night of last week they res.
cued % seamen and one woman
from lake vessels driven ashore by
a gale.
Philadelphia detectives arrested
| in Reading young man named ga.
Sunderland" for forgery, and on ex-
aiming him found marks and scars
which convinced them that they had
caught Tascott, the murderer fugi.
tive of Chicago, for whose arrest
q reward of $4,000 has been offer.
ed.
A heavy storm along the coast
flooded part of Norfolk last week
and caused many wrecks at sea in
the locality of the Virginia Capes.
The schooner Marcus Edwards, of
Philadelphia, was waterlogged the
schooner Frank Dame went ashore
and the schooner Rover foundered.
The crews of both vessels were res
cued from the rigging except one
man on the Rover, who died of ex.
haustion.