Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-27
THE NEWS

Iowa, iell INTO Wagiia-haN and broke his
neek.---The Casino skating rink in Chicago
was destroyed by FIRE. Erastus Cartwell,
Of Monroe, La, was killed by his friend, F.
FL Frost. who thought the pistol was not
ioaded.--Spotted fever is raging in Mexia,
rex.-Tn the Lamont murder trial the jury
found verdict Of murder in the second de-
gree, and he was sentenced 10 Imprisonment
for lile.--Brakeman Beaubien, Of Lewis
who was injured in the Canadian railway dis.
aster, is dead, making the eighth victim
The steam barge Missouri, Of Detroit, was
burnded to the waters edge, at Windsor, Dat
Charles Lobetz, Of New York, shot his
wife, his children and b mseIf
Congressman Blanchard introduced in the
House resolutions for the appointment of a
committee to investigate the killing of the In.
dian Chief Sitting Bull.--The Tenth annual
banquet of the New England Society OF PENN
sylvania took place in Philadelphia, promin-
ent among the guests being Bishop Potter aud
Hon. William Neutrality-suspicious. lab
orers at brick works in Melville, n j. at.
tackled the time-keeper. Ii. W. Lamb and in
the fight that followed two laborers were bad.
ly injured, but Lamb escaped.--N. f. Burn
ham, inventor and manufacturer, and prom
inent citizen of York, Pa, is dead.-The
cruiser Newark's official trial trip was sue
cessfu!.
VIM. Duvall, of Baltimore, worked United
States senators by representing himself as the
father of children named after the Solons.
He made pretty good haul.
The Interstate navigation Convention con.
tinues at Asheville N. C, General Manager
F. B. Chiffon made his annual address. An
executive committee was ppointed.-The
Belt Lie Railroad bill passed the Philadel-
phia Common Council Boston officers ar
rested Andrew Hanson for the larceny of a
yacht from Andrew Hanson, of Slater Island.
The vessel was sold in Eastern
dealers are trying to corner the tobacco mar
ket in Wieonsin.--The steamboat Lake
Washington was burned at New Orleans, to-
gether with her cargo of cotton-A china
man who resisted an inspection at Port Town
send, WASH was shot dead.-A Canadian
train was wrecked at st. Joseph's and five lives
lost.-Ilarry B. Seybold convicted of rob-
bling the Bank of Wheeling of $4,000, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for two years.
Arthur Hoyt Day, who pushed his wife over
the cliff at Niaraga Falls, was hanged at Well
land, Ontario.-S. A. Kean & Co., bankers
of Chicago, have fai!ed.--The shot factory
of 7. Currier & Son, Haverhill, Massachusetts,,
was destroyed by fre.-The steamer Fern
dale burned to the waters edge off the South
shore of Lopez island, in Puget Sound
Martin Dillon, track foreman, of Susque-
hanna, Pennsylvania, was killed by train.
--McGehrs & Co., of Rome, Georgia, whole
sale grocers, have fsiled.-Antonio Guerrero
the Jack the Ripper" of Mexico. has been
convicted Of murder, and sentenced to death
During quarrel at Antago, Wisconsin,
Walter Moshcr, killed his brother-in-law, Phil
Ma!oney. Mosher was sent to the peniten.
tiary for lifa,-Au epidemic has broken out
among horses in Kansas.--The Seattle,
Spokane Falls, Boise City and Salt Lake
Railroad was incorporated capital twenty
million dolIars--Durng a quarrel, at
dane John Kinney fatally shot Ella Leveck
at Washington Court House, Ohio. -Appli.
cation has been made at Chattanooga for
receiver for the South Trede gar Iron Com
pany.-Rev. N. B. Flor Methodist
preacher, has been suspended by the White
River Charlottesville New York Baeter-
Illogical Institute has been Incorporated
The Long Island Railroad Company's round
house, at White Stone Landing, was burned;
loss 0,0O0.-Charles Reed and Charles
Hendrickson, youths, were skating at Chey-
enne Lake, Colorado, and were drowned.
A heater in Grand Trunk railway car ex.
pIoded near Battle Creek, Michigan, and
injured several people.-Burglars got six
teen thousand dollars in Cincinnati-James
Shoemaker, alias Stone, was arrested in
Nyack, n. j., charged with theft of 5000
committed in Brooklyn john Manchester
OF Fort Cadwallader shot and killed Jasper
Lazure, and then committed suieide-
Matthew Thomas LETT $4,000 to the city of
CINCINNATI in trust for the benefit of MeMicken
University. berlin, of the Executive
Committee Knights of Labor, is very i'll in
Florida.-The body of c. F. Robinson, of
Haz,eton, Ks, wes found dead in his wagon
near his home In fight among ''roustersD
on the steamboat Big Sandy, on the Ohio river.
two men were Killed and one fatally injured
Succi, the Italian, successfully completed his
forty-fye days fast in New York
In the strangers case, in Paris, the doctors
testimony was taken. A suggestion to have
Gabrielle Bompard hypnotzed in court was
denied.-Mrs. Willie Bell, of Hot Springs,
Ark, committed suicide.-Mrs. Jessie Hig-
bee, of Brandenburr, KY, poisoned her four
chidren.-May and Maria Morrison were
killed at SomerviIle, Boston, by train
Thomas & Jones, Of Brockton, Mass, have
assigned new Willard block in
Churclville, n. J., was destroyed by fire
Remi Lamontagne, was hanged at Sherbrooke,
Ont--Hon. H. NJ. Phelan, of S.. Louis,
dropped dead in the sire 1.-THE Standard
Oil Company has gobbled the Delaware Oil
Company, OF Lima, OF. !. Orr, of Brooklyn
and Wilkesbarre, faled.-Four Indian muir
derers were hung at the court house in Mis-.
soula, Mont.-Gen. Terry was buried at
New Haven.-Mrs. Anne Mcclure and her
grandehild were burned to death in DWELL
ing-house ia Newark, n. Prank NJ
Harris and Harry Edwards, trainmen, were
killed near Poughkeepsie, n. Y-C. W.
Sly, an extensive mill dealer at Belvidere, n.
j., has fai'ed-Fire did $4,000 damage at
Rushvillc, Ind.