Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-02-01
THE NEWS.


Adelbert L Brown, insurance and real estate
agent of La Porte, Iud., has skipped, leay-
ing creditors to the amount Of S30,0Oa--
Stephen holland, who claimed to have had
divine vistat.ons, died at Nicholasville, Ky.
Kenny Graham, near London, Ohio,
shot William Woodhouse, a neighboring
farmer, and his wife, the trouble growing
out oil law suit. The double funeral of
II. Allston Shnckelford, United States consul
to Nantes, France and bis wife, who died
within four days of each other, took place at
the New York Church of the Redeemer.-
NJ. Mestenheffer, foreman of the stone quar-
ries at Chckies. near Lancaster, Pa, was
killed by blast prematurely exploding. -
DIR. William II. Bradley, manager of the
weekly edition of the Philadelphia Press,
pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement,
and was sentenced to five years in the peni-
tsntiary.-Max F. Eler, Brooklyn law
yer, attempted TO commit suicide when ar
rested for swindling dry goods merchant
by means of forged mortgages. Mrs.
Warnecke shot Edwin Firth, married man
at Troy, N. Y, whom she accused Of wrong
ing her.-Lucia Zaretta, the Mexican
midget, died on snow-bound train in the
Sierras. A swiniler and forger has done
I'D the banks and business men of Knoxville,
Tenn, for about Il, 600 The colonial ball
given in Richmond, was grand affair, the
ladies impersonating their ancestors in hand
some antique gowns.-The National Build
ers' Association adjourned at st. Paul to
meet next year in New York, and recon-
mended to all local bodies the system OF pay
ing by the hour, though not committing the
national association to the eight-hour ques-
ton.
Ten sailors accused Of firing the bark
Mamie Hardness were dismissed by thu
United States Commissioner in Philadelphia
whereupon Captain Amesbury,of the burned
vessel swore that he would never again sail
under the American flag il that was Ameri
can justice. Physicians in Philadelphia
made an examination of David Alexander.
who attempted to assassinate Bishop Whit
nker, and pronounced him suffering from
religious monomania with homicidal tend
encies, Henry Greuter, of York, Pa, was
the Virginia House of Delegates to increase
the rental of oyster beds from rs cents to 81
per acre. Mrs. Cora Scales Mortis, OF
Reidsville, N. c., was acquitted of the ter
rible charge of numbering her husband
A load of einders thrown into the Cone
maush river caused an explosion that gave
the nervous citizens of Johnstown terrible
scare Fletcher Pltzinger, aged nineteen
years, of Indianapolis, student at Yale
College, was killed by his buggy being struck
by a railroad train.-The Union Bridge
Company, the largest concern of the kind III
the world, will remove from Buffalo, n y,
to Athens, Pa.,-The postofiice, the Crested
Butte Bank and eleven business houses at
Crested Butte, Col, wers burned. Loss $780,
oe0.-A party of religious cranks on the
Blue river, near Kansas City, suck one an
others blood for the relief Of all ailments
Edward Azman was convicted and SEN
fenced to be hanged at indianapolis for the
murder of Bertha E Fl, his sweetheart.--
Fire at the Kittery navy yard, Portsmouth.
N H., did 100000 damage to the machine
shops.-A passenger train was wrecked
near Carmel, Ind, and the cars took fire.
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r,inutes -Tbe accounts of the dafaultar
ond suicida c,shier T,onnsbarrv Of the Nav
York Postoffice are more than $40 600 short
.Tvo little s,ns of Patrick Nolan wsra
drowned at Yariley. Pa. in four feet Of
water. --Steyens' block in Gardner Mass