Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A couple OF freight trains smashed
into each other on the Baltimore and
Ohio at CAROLS switch, causing a.
bad wreck.
Peter Clansen, an electric lineman
in New York, was killed while re-
pairing a wire. His body fell across
the wires and badly roasted.
There are $500 people in Minor
County, South Dakota, who are de-
pending upon outside aid to enable
them to survive the Winter.
Charles Bryson, the custodian OF
the proceeds of a fair given at a
Presbyterian church in Wheeling,
w. Va, was robbed of the whole
amount, $500.
CINCINNATI, December 9.-Col.
j. FL. Rathbone, founder of the Or
der of the Knights Of Pythias, who
has been lying i'll for several weeks
at Lima, o., died there this after
noon.
Eleven members OF "Kettie
Jacks" gang of desperadoes have
been lynched in johnson County,
Wyo., and the rest of the gang
driven out of the county.
The Farmers aud Laborers'
Union, the Farmers National
Alliance and the Knights of Labor
have formed a confederation for the
purpose of obtaining legislation by
Congress.
Ten people were killed by panic
in the Opera House at Johnstown,
Pa. A cry of fire was raised during
performance of Uncle Toms
Cabin" Seventy.five people were
injured.
The Russian epidemic OF influenza
has spread over Germany, Austria
and Hungary, and two cases are re-
ported in London. Business in
many places on the continent is al
most suspended.
The prevalent idea in Washington
is that the members who had en-
trusted the drawing of the salaries
to the Sergeantat-arms will have to
lose what Cashier Silcott took, ex-
cept, possibly, the last months pay.
George Early, colored, of Franklin
county, Va, confessed to the burn
ing Of twenty -four buildings at
Rocky Mount, because Malone was
not allowed to speak in the public
warehouse. and was sentenced to
death.
Boston, Dec. g. Local passenger
train No. 50 on the Vermont Central,
which left st. Adams at 40 P. M,
run into an extra freight near this
place at 7.30 tonight. Seven per
sons were killed and many injured.
Cashier Charles S. Ostman, who
stole $4,000 from the st. Paul Pho
neer Press, has been accused of hav-
ing started the recent fire in the
Minneapolis Tribune building, in
which seven men we're killed.
Jefferson Davis lived and died the
monument of unexampled clemency.
The Union had no higher proof of
its majesty than his peaceful pres
ence within the limits of the nation
he had sought to destroy.-Press.
A papal decision was received by
Bishop Phelan, who deposed Mother
Alphouse, of the Ursuline Convent,
near Pittsburg, that the diocese of
Pittsburg shall pay to Mother Alp.
house and her adherents 100000 or
reinstate her as the head of the in.
stitutiOn.
The National wool growers
association, which was in session
here last week, sent Committee to
Secretary Window to protest
against certain practices relating to
the admission of certain classes of
wool. The Secretary informed the
committee that he was now engaged
in making an investigation of this
subject, and assured them that full
Justice would be done to the wool
interests of the United States
Washington Letter.
A dispatch from Parkersburg, w.
Va, says that railroad enterprise
involving the construction of 500
miles ofrailroad and cutting through
the heart of West Virginia. has been
put on foot here. Senator Camden
and Eastern capitalists are interest.
ed in it. The route is from the Ohio
river at Marietta, up the Little
Kanawba Valley and down the val
ley OF Elk river to Clifton Forge in
Virginia, where the road will con
meet with the G. & o. Engineers
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