Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-20
THE NEWS

Company, were sent to prison in default Of
$4,000 bail each by police magistrate.--
Ex-tongressman Henry ID. MeIIenry died in
Hartford, Ky.-The Illinois Central's new
hotel at Mounds junction, ILL.,, was burned
loss $l0,000-Frank Vinscn, rough char
acter, killed man named Agent at Haddock.
KY, with an axe.-John Henry 0rrick was
sentenced at Ironton, No, TO be hanged In
February.-The snow->torm was heavy at
Pittsbarg, through New Jersey, New York
and elsewhere; at Staunton, Va. the snow
was % inches deep The storm was severe at
Asheville, n. C.-The Southern Interstate
immigration Convention met at Asheyille, n.
ca blacksmith's shop at Roanoke, Va,
was wrecked by the snow and Edward Lin.
kenboker was killed. several others were
wounded.-From Rapid City, OAK, comes
the report Of fight between a command Of
cavalry and the Indians, in which two officers
and fifty soldiers we're killed. The Indians
we're routed aud many of them were killed.
1t now appears that Sitting Bull was shot by
Red Tomahawk, one Of the Indian police.
The Indians have fired number Of ranches
and more trouble is feared.-John Mcmahon
shot and fatally wounded his mistress in
Philadelphia p. Dudley and Maggie
Thompson, expert telegraph operators left
Chicago for Washington in charge of officers,
to answer an indictment for defrauding pool
rooms and bookmakers.
United States Minister Whitc'a Reid and
Mrs. Reid were grlndly entertained by the
Sultan at Constantinople.
August Dillman, OF Terre IIaute, Ind, made
his will and then shot imself-C.J.Wash-
ington, religious enthusiast, tore two rents
in picture on exhibition in naha.-As-
sistant Surgeon General Perrin, y. 5. A., died
in st. Paul.--Leading Knights Of Labor and
Farmers Alliance people are opposed TO the
proposed national convention in Cincinnati.
Robert Robinson, an aged widower, killed
Miss Mary Wall, of Morriston, ILL.,, and then
shot himself --The Pillstown Iron Company
has posted notices of reduction Of twenty
five cents per ton in the wages of puddlers'
While performing on the trapeze in Buff
falo. Lee Howard fell and hurt himself badly
An oil couple named Higgins, of Char
iottetown, p. f. l., was caught in snowstorm
and so badly frozen that death ensued. A
genuine case ofleprosy has been discovered in
Defiance, lathe Hume National Bank, of
Huron, S. D., has suspended payment.-An
explosion at the works of the Ohio Powder
Company, at Youngstown, o., caused the
death of two employes-The Clearfeld
County Bank of Clearfeld, Pa, has closed its
doors.-Jsmes Gurkins, a lineman employed
by the Newark Electric Light Company, of
Newark, N. j., while fixing wire, fell from
aseventy- foot pole. He was picked up in a
dying condition and taken to st. Michael's
Hospital.
Major General Alfred II. Terry died in New
Haven.---The United States steamer Enter
prise has been ordered to the republic Of
Colombia to protect an American citizen.
A number of inns were burned out at Potts.
own, Pa,-Fire did 5000 damage in the
Carlisle (Ps.) Manufacturing Company's
works.-A heavy flow of natural gas was
'ound at P.tlsburg. Seth Evans died at
Cincinnati, aged seventy-fo of heart dis
ease.-The Briggs Iron and Tool Company
and Rolling Mill, OF Findlay Ohio, shut down.
The j. 5, liarnaby Company's cl thing
house nj Providence, Il. T., was burned, and
hundred workmen ma narrow escapes.
Two firemen were hur, by falling wall
The Iowa. Minnesota and Dakota Elevator
Company, operating nine warehouses on the
Burlington. Cellar Rapidsand Northern Rail.
way, has assigned. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets unknown Special trains were run on
the Burlington Road, and all the grain taken
from the elevators TO Chicago and disposed Of.
The Metropolitan and German American
Banks Of Minneapolis are losers. Two men
wearing diamonds robbed Elijah West, an old
man, in a street car in Chicago.---Ex-C Con.
gresham John A. IIiestand died at Lancas-
ter, Pa.-The slaughter houses OF John Dake
at Brunswick, N. Y, were burned. Loss St5-
Co., Freight wrecks occurred on the Pan
Handle Road. near Pittsburg, and on the
Allegheny Valley at West Penn Junction.
The house Of Robert Lindblom, Of Chic
ago, was robbed OF 5000 worth OF diamonds.
Ezra Mead, aged sixty five years, was frozen
10 death near Danbury, Ct.--James Haw-
kins, a retired New York butcher, who had
been missing from his home for several days,
is believed to have been murdered and robbed,
as he had 81 700 in his pocket when last seen
by his family.-Asa Wallace and his wife,
an aged couple, we're fatally beaten in their
home at Newcastle, Ind, by an unknown rob
Der, who got away with one thousand dollars.
In an attempt to cross q railroad track in
front Of an approaching train at Bristol, Pa,
four persons in wagon were killed.---The
American Federation Of Labor, at its closing
session in Detroit, determined that the coal
miners should lead the eighthour fight next
May, and be followed by the carpenters.
Funds for the strikers will be raised by an as.
sessment Of two cents per week per member
ofthe unions.
A call has been issued for convention in
Cincinnati in February for the purpose Of
forming a national union party.--In Hous-
ton, Texas Emil p soulnir was fatally shot
by Henry Galway during a dispute.--In
South Bend, Ind, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Schafer
were killed by train at crossing.
farmers in North Dakota were nearly killed
by wildeats-Marion Irwin, a carpenter Of
Kirksyille, Iowa, is in jail, suspected of hav-
ing killed his wife.-EInil Siruser, young
Dane who had TO leave his home to avoid ar
rest, became insane in Chicago and attempted
suieide.-Joseph Marshall, his son Charles,
and Herbert Cooner, Of Harper Springs,
Mich, were drowned.-The body Of petri-
ied man was found near Fresno, Cal
Hancock, Italians & Co, of Clarksville,
Tenn, made an assignment. trainmen
were fatally and two other seriously hurt by
trains co'liding near Pittsbur2 - Sarah
Hunter, aged thirteen years, tried to poison
her employers family, and afterward killed
herself-T c. Kentzing, president Of the
First National Bank OF Lock Haven, Pa, is
dead engineers and fremen
on the st. Paul Road have asked for an in
crease Of wages.--Miss Gertrude Neil vas
given verdict of 5000 against the Boston
GasIight Company 10 her suit for damages for
personal injuries received by falling through
a trapdoor left open by the company's EN-
ployees.