Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-10
THE NEWS.

at Redwood City.-In New York, Andrew
J. Murray, Jr., and Patrick Fitzgerald, two
riggers, fell from the fifth to the first floor
Murray was killed and Fitzgerald severely
lnJured.-John H. Inman, of New York was
awarded the entire issue of Georgia state bonds
amounting to 100000, at 81 per cent
A. Elwood Lancaster, Philadelphia real es-
tate agent has disappeared and ii is charged
hehas embezzled about SO GOETHE Ameri-
can Tract Society held its annual meeting in
New York.--The officers of the suspended
Bank of America, in Philadelphia, were ar
rested on warrants sworn out by a director.
john D. Davis and William Morgan were
found dead in the mine at Mahoney Plane.
Fire-damp was the eause.--John Terify, a
Hungarian, was arrested in Wilkesbarre, Pa,
charged with numbering Michael Frizlar.-
The United States cruiser Philadelphia made
a satisfactor; trial trip.-The great can't
lever bridge between Arizona and California
was completed. Stokes, of Phila-
delphis, who came to San Francisco TO take
the place OFFS striking iron moulder, was al
most killed by strikers.-James Rogers, a
young farmer of Humboldt, H.. was set upon
and killed by two companions. New
Jersey Central express train ran into the Le-
high Valley passenger train at Allentown, Pa
One lady was killed and six others were in
iured.-Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son states he will retire by July Eddie
Scribner, aged thirteen, of Hillsboro n. H.,
killed himself-The crew of the barge
Joseph Baker were rescued by the steam tug
Taurus.-Fifty Thousand sewing machines
were destroyed by fire at the Singer factory
at Elizabeth, n. DIR. Joseph R. Cum
mings, president of the Northwestern Univer-
sity, at Evanston H., is dead--The car
penters' strike in New York is a thing of the
past. Nearly all have returned to work
The three-year-old child of Nelson Hatch was
burned to death near Douglassville. Pa.
Joshua Lear, ofMoscow, Idaho, shot his wife
and blew out his own brains because his wife
urged him to work.-Dr. Ryland T. Brown,
prominent minister and scientist of Indiana,
died at indianapolis, aged eighty-two years
Extensive election registration frauds have
been discovered in Chicsgo.-In view of re.
cent charges ofmismanagemento of the Soldiers
Home, at Leavenworth, Kan, a committee Of
the Grand Army has been appointed to make
an investigation.-A number of buildings in
the suburban Boston town of Morgan Park
was burned.-Mrs. Kate Harper the wife Of
William Harper, of the book publishing firm
died suddenly at her home in Yonkev -
Arthur TackSon co1orad Of Prie+ol ronn -
mad fit of jealousy, chopped his wife nearly
in pieces witha Ratchet, and was about to burn
the house when captured. -Three sharp
shocks of earthquake occurred at Nevada, Cal
A tornado demolished churches, school.
and residences at Wills Point Texas, and sew.
eral persons were killed and many injured by
falling walls.-An investigation shows that
the support of tramps in the almhouse and Jail
ofFranklin county, Pa, during the last twenty
years cost the taxpayers over 10000
Jacob Reutscher, q quarryman aged forty.
sexen years, was killed at Wheeling, w. Va.
by DERRICK falling upon his head.--M. ].
Goldman, of Memphis, fatally shot ]. W. How,
ard, of st. Louis, at the European Hotel, AT.
lanta, Ga.-Margaret KATE, of Petersburg
Va, locked her child alone in the house while
she went on an Grand and returned to find the
little one burned to death.--Lewis E. Pfeif.
fer, president, and Teller Pancoast, of the
Bank of America, Philadelphia, were arrested,
the former on the charge of embezzlement.
Five hundred hands were thrown out by
the failure of Wall & Co., worsted manutac-
turers of Springfield, Mass.-The st. Louis
Merchants bridge was formally opened with
grand ceremonies.
The private bank of Charles A. Mather &
Co., at Berlin, Wis, suspended. James NJ. Haw-
ley, the Junior member Of the concern, having
disappeared Steps were taken in Phila-
delphia towards organizing the American Gas
Investment Company, which is to be CAPT
talized at S50,00000o.- dispute over a
ANAL account, John NJ. Bradley, grocer, of
Atlanta, Ga, was shot and killed by Charles
Nj. Ozburn, a commission merchant-An
investigation into the management Of the
Rhode Island State House shows that num-
Der of the children were cruelty treated
Mrs Betsy Averill, the oldest inhabitant of
Connecticut, and the oldest pensioner of the
United States, celebrated the one hundred and
third anniversary of her birth.-Governor
Hill has advised the New York legislature to
make a change in the methods of determining
contest elections, advocating the courts as the
proper ribunals.--Joseph sSheetz, aged
eighty years, of Philadelphia, prominent
member of the Dunkards, who was married re-
Gently TO a young woman, committed suicide.
The II. D. Clafin Company has been or
ganized in New York, with the capital stock
fixed at 5000 00.-General Master Work
man Powderly was before the New Jersey leg
islature urging the passage of the ballot re-
form bill. Monroe Snellenberger, the
Doylestown (Pa.) lawyer who ran away after
swindling clients and farmers out of $50, 600,
returned and gave himselfup, weary of hiding
from the officers of the law.-The Montgom-
cry Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany of Norristown, Pa, suspended payment,
due to the unauthorized loans made BY Treas
urer William F. slingluf.-Snow storms
checked the progress of the flames on the Red
Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, but not until
millions of feet of pine had been destroyed.
The Esher faction of the Evangelical
Church, at Naperville, ILL.,, nailed down the
windows and doors, Sunday, to keep out the
opposing faction.
VIM. P. Campbell, of Illinois, has been ap-
pointed assistant general superintendent Of
the Railway Mail service.-Ex- President
Cleveland was admitted TO practice in the
Supreme Court of the United States.-The
meeting of the DUmblane House Club, the
fashionable hunting organization of Wash
ington, opened at Ivy City.-W B. Lindsay.
deputy postmaster at Helena, Arkansas, is
short $500 in his accounts, and has disap-
peared.-fn fight between union and non.
union fishermen Oh the Columbia river, thres
were killed and two Through
the neglect ofthe engineer, natural gas filed
the SHELTON cracker factory, at Fort Wayne,
Ind, and caused an explosion that demolished
nearly the entire front of the building
James Palmer was hanged at Concord, n. H.
for the murder of Henry T. Whitehouse.--
An explosion occurred in BOWS soap factory
in Boston, burning the building. George
Weber, a farmer, was killed, and his wife
fatally injured, by their carriage being strpck
by railroad train at Attica, n. Y.-Henry
C. Raymond, Of Sing Sing, n. Y, committed
suicide at bis home while an officer waited tC