Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
THE NEWS.

tenee had been committed. Mayor James
G. Wyman, of Allegheny City, Pa, has been
arrested on a charge Of periury-F w Hill
was nominated for governor by the Maine
Democrats in uonvention.---At the instance
of his creditors, Douglass Green. the absent
New York stock broker was suspended by
the New York Stock Exehange.-The EN-.
ployes of the Consolidated Street Railway.
in Columbus, O., went on strike.-Dr.
Antonio Ia Gloria, will, in two weeks, open
an institute in Chicago to treat rabies by the
PHstenr method.-C Congressman Springer. OF
Illinois was fenominated.- w. G..
Comstock, assistant in chemistry at Yale,
burned his hand so severely that II may have
TO be mputated.-The Hydraulic Pressed
Brick Company of st. Louis has bought all
the brickmaking plants in Chicago save one.
During a heavy thunder storm, Rambo,
a 5000 trotter was killed in Plainfeld. n.
"A iadle of molten steele was overturned
in Duquesnc, Pa, and five workmen seriously
burned.--Father Hennessy, the Catholic
priest who assaulted Miss Ella McGraw with
a club at Dungannon, Ohio on May 80, was
bound over to court in $500 bonds for trial.
He is charged with assault with intent to
kill.-W. 5. Underwood, a prominent mer.
chant of Trinidad, Col, was found dead in
his store. He was murdered.
The United States gunboat Bennington was
launched at Chester, Pa.---The jury that in.
vestigated the Oakland, CAL drawbridge rail.
road disaster found Engineer Dunn, of the
wrecked train guilty of manslaughter.-A
lot of st. Louis boys in dueking "a crazy col.
ored man in the Mississippi river drowned
him-In fight between tramps and negroes
at Centralia, ILL.,, three men were seriously
wounded.-The Pueblo and Duluth Railroad
Company, Of Nebraska, has been incorporated
with capital stock of 96000o0.-Anuie
Berry and Laura May, young girls, of Lead
vile, Col, were drowned at a fishing party on
the Arkansas river.-Part of the ruins of an
old church at Freeport, Ill., near which a new
one was being erected, fell and badly injured
five workmen.- The annual convention of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers opened in Pittsburg with an
attendance of elegates.-Deputy United
States Marshal Lindsay shot and killed an
illicit distiller in Campbell county, TENN
James Fogerty's six-year.olG son set their
barn, near Ashland, Pa, on fire, and the child
persisted in the f1ames.-D. Webster Stod.
dard, convicted of forgery at Utica, n, Y,
attempted suicide,-The printers in the two
newspaper offices of Chattanooga, Tenn. went
on strike.-The marriage of Herman Del.
rinke Of Natr Nopl- t..
daughter of ex-senator Fair In San Fran.
cisco, was brilliant social EVENT. Major
A. c. Oliphant, of Trenton, n. j., and Miss
Sarah Elkins, the eldest daughter of stephen
B. Elkins, were married at the lstter's resi-
dence in New York city.-Lightning struck
a powder house near Mansfield, Ohio, con-
tanning five thousand pounds of powder, and
the explosion demolished dwelling across
the road, killing Henry Roost's two children.
Herman (Rep.) was elected in Oregon by
eight thousand majority. The Legislature is
republican White, head of the ex
tensive lumber firm of White, Lentz & White,
and president of the Williamsport, Pa, Water
Company, died, aged eighty-one years.
Theodore Weidemuller was murdered at
Corpus Christi, Texas, by companions who
were jealous of his popularity with the
women at adance.-Seven school children
were bitten by mad dog at ST. Joseph, Ill.
Two years ago Enoch Link, of Quindere,
Kansas shot Frederic Sorter's COW, and last
Saturday Sorter shot and killed tink.-The
hrst anniversary of the Johnstown disaster
was observed in the Conemaugh town with
ieiigious services. Col. Thomas q. Jones
was nominated forgovernor by the Democrats
OF Alabama. Wells House at Bolton
Landing Lake George, n. Y, was destroyed
by fire. Lose, $4,000 Beers
restaurant keeper, of Burlington, ~ j., was
charged by Miss Maggie Rogers with obtain
ing $1,000 from her while they were lovers
ana then DESERVING her.-The h. & O. Com
gany has purchased land at Benwoud, near
Wheeling, w. Va, and viii there locate shops
and yards for the Pittsburg division. Din.
wlddie county, Va, was swept by storm
which destroyed number of barns ard
ruined the growing crops.--fhe VIE Of
Daniel Lockwood, farmer of Vineland, n
j., has been arrested on charge of attempt
ing to poison him Rev. David Utter. Of
chicago, proposes mammoth tabernacle for
the Worlds Fair, IN which all sects are to be
invited to hold scrvces-Frank Tener,
aged twenty-one years was drowned in the
susquehanna river near Harrisburg
Barrett, an ex-conviet, saved boy from drown
ing at the risk of his own life in New York
harbor.-The body Of an acrobat named
Murdoch was found in the Chicago river and
as his money and watch are missing, it is sup
posed he was murdered. Mrs. Parsons. the
Anarchist in speech in Chicago declared that
dynamite was to be the Iiberator of the hui
man rqce.-Two children of Charles John
son were killed by lightning, near Chilliccthe,
ohio.-The Reading Railroad Company has
ordered its conductors to withdraw from the
Brotherhood or leave the road --Francis G
Lowehorp aged eighty.one years, a noted civil
engineer and the inventor of a railroad turn
table, lied at Trenton. n. J.
Lewis J, Ham, bank cashier. threw his
wife down stairs and broke her back at their
home in Washington, n. 1.-THE silk ribbon
weayers in the factories at Patterson, \. J. 4,
are striking against reduction in Wages
The second annual convention Of the Inter
national Boot and Shoe Workers Union opened
In Rochester y. Y.-Mrs. Robert Morrow at
Durango, Col, set fire to her clothing with a
Kerosene lamp, and the woman and her two
children were burned to tleath-Will jack
son shot and killed Ida Dean, at Fort Smith,
Ark, because she would not live with him
again, the couple having separated some time
sgo-The village Of Loveland, in Iowa, was
partially destroyed by waterspout
jackson Lockwood, Of yinelsnd, n. j.. adj.
niitted in court that he had accused his wife
Of attempting to Kill him al the request Of her
stePehildren, and the court dismissed the
woman.-George P. Stephenson, colored
WIS lynehed at Harrisburg, Miss, for an
attempted outrage upon widow.-Dav
Gink has been arrested in Harrisburg, Pa, on
suspicion Of having murdered young woman
whose body was found in the water at Newark.
n. J.-It Is reported that the louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company will issue a
S5o,0o0,oo0 mortgage to take up underlying
bonds ETC. Frank Mangue, a census enuine-
rator in New York City, committed suicide.
and another ehumerator was assaulted with a
beer glass in saloon.
Jacob Fisher, who had been ,lrinker, and
smoker since boy, died near Reading. Pa.
aged one hundred years.-The priilc..ral
breweries Of San Francisco has been sold to the
English syndicate for S7..JOoad0.- George
Schloihman his father his Wifi and children