Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-15
THE NEWS,

struck. -Jacob Fuller, librarian OF tho
Washington and Lee University, is dead. -
George w. Tarryford, who was shot at Leo
mont, Va, is dead. A passenger and q
freight train collided on the Chicago, Rock
brakeman. was killed, and some of the pas.
sengers severely bruisei.-Mrs. Cynthia
Hathaway, of Seyoy, Mass. is dead, aged
one hundred and one years. Clarence J
! Too', the missing United States Express
/ Compauy's cashier, at Grand Rapids, Mich.
who ran away with the company's money.
has been heard fron He is coming home
The Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy
railroad has bought n controlling interest
in the Chicago, Burlington and Northern
road.-Deputy Sheriff David McGorigls
and Warden James T. Keating, of Ludlow
street. jail, New York, have been indicted
and arrested on the charge of bribery.
A trial OF the dynamite guns of the cruiser
/ Vesuvius took place on the Delaware river.
James Hamilton Howells Jones, a young
man who had tried in vain to obtain posi-
/ ton in New York, committed suicide on
CHURCH steps.-Henry S. Hebard, aged
sixty three years, the newly appointed post
master at R CHESTER. N Y, dieI of pneu-
monia Now it is reported that an E1-
G ish syndicate is trying 10 buy the Column
/ bia river salmon canneries involving 81, 900.
! 000. The United States steamer Iroqu bis
arrived at Port Townsend, Washington,
4 from Honolulu, in distress. the large
| clothing house of Stern, Mayer & Co, Gin
cinnati, was destroyed by fire. Loss on
! LuildinZ S2D0,000; on s.ocS $3.50, 000.-Fire
in Jersey City, N j., destroyed several bust
ness buildings, entailing losses aggregatiny
/ $4,000 Eighty per cent of over nine
/ hundred immig rants Landed in one day at
4 Castle Garden were Huns aud Silesians,
4 going to work in the Pennsylvania mines.
J At the annual meeting of the Pennsyl-
! vanin k1ilroli stockhol lers the directors
( were authorized to issue from time to tina
/ ADO, geo additional shares of capital stock.
! The Central Pennsylvania Evangelical
4 Church Conference adjourned at York to
/ inset next year at Berwick. Pa The in
vestigation of the charges aga nst Comman-
! der Bowman H. McCalla, of the soop of
: war Enterprise, begun by naval court
OF inquiry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, eleven
men appearing against the commander
/ Nora Wooten, who had been a1judged iu-
sane, shot Dr. H. A. Sims, OF Roanoke. Va,
ip the face. u. B. Pettibone, aged thirty
two years, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the head.
Miss Jeunie Paul, of Chicago, has sued Louis
c. Wachmuth, ST., prominent merchant
of tha6 city, for 100000 damages. for al
ledgel breach Of promise to marry.
The late Rev. Christian Beard, of Waynes-
boro, Va, bequeathed $1,000 to Roanoke
Co lege. -The B. c. Clark Crockery Com
pauy's warehouse at Kansas City was burned.
Loss about s1O0, 600 Frank Hanson. of
Norristowu, Pa has been sentenced to eight
Years in the penitentary for outraging the
saven year old daughter of Philip Simons.
The will of A.C. Havemeyer, the wealthy
sugar refiner of New York, gives $3.50, 900 to
charitable institutions. Fire in a Ludlow
street tenem ant, New York city, caused
panic. and many persons made narrow es'
capes Two thousand shirtmakers, mostly
women of New York have struck ogainst
working fourteen hours day.-Two thou
sand miners aul their families attended re-
QUEEN services in the Catholic church at
Wilkesbarre. Pa. in memory OF the entombed
miners in the South Wllkesbarre sbaft-
/ Ono of the Mississippi river levees broke at
Arkansas City, flooding the Tensas basin OF
Louisiana, consisting of four or five parishes.
Franz Jobusch, who had long been
mourned as dead by his relatives, astonshed
them by his appearance at his old home, 0sh'
kosh, Wis, after an absence OF thirty years.
Charles Williams and his twelve-year-
old son of Kansas City, were found murdered
in their bed The body of Bernhard Jung
haus, a German horse buyer, of Peoria, ILL.,.
who is Supposed to have been robbed and
murdered, was found lodged against snag
in the Illinois river FRANK Mingus, of
Z Lagrange, lad, murdered his mother-in-law
for refusing him permission TO sea his child,
which had been placed In the care Of his d.
vorced wife An overheatsl furnace set
fire to the second reformed Church, at Grand
Haven, Mich, causing a loss OF ss,0W-
Three hundred men rode into Spartanburg,
S. c.. with a small cannon, md determined
to attack the Jail and lynch George s. Tur-
ner, who shot and killed his brother-in-law,
Edward Finger, but the mob was repulsed
and the cannon spiked.
Fire in Detroit destroyed Gray Il Bafr,'s
furniture factory, Carroll & Hunts chair
mandatory, the Carroll Cigar Works and
the Osiler Printing House. Aggregate loss
4 $4,000. Old Fellows Hall at Birminz-
ham, Ala, and other buildings were burned.
the Old Fellows losing all their records aud
regalia.-Rowland Leach, New York
commercial traveller, was murdered in Chi.
cago, Al Graham, former Auditor Of
! Warren county, Ohio, was sentenced to
| eighteen years in prison and to pay fine Of
sl26 422 fer embe zz.ing SOS, 600 Of the county's
| funds. the magician, ia hi, de-
cspitation act, inflicted cash upon his wife,s
throat by slip Of the sword. Hundreds
| Of prairie schooners are moving on to the
Cherokee strip Spotted fever or malig.
nant meningitis is epidemic in Summer
county, Tenn.-The discovery Of several
/ soft coal veins in the nei, hborbeod OF Cham
berlain, South Dakota,is ciusing much ex
element in that section The Trinitarian
NhuA Sh az w" DSiAotu, adsS was burned.
Loss, $9,S0.-A detachment OF United
States troops pursued party of renegade
Apaches on the Salt river, Arizona. and in
fight with them. killed two and captured
three.-In quarrel about family scan
dial George s. Turner, a wealthy mill owner
Of Valley Falls, s. c., shot and killed his
brother-in-laW. Edward Finger -. P.
Mitchell was blown into pieces by a nitro
glycerine explosion in Franklin, Pa.-Fire
ct Joliet, Ill, destroyed block Of buildings
owned by J. E. Bush. Loss $50, 900 PROF.
Edwin o. Bangs. aged seventy-four years, a
former teacher at Princeton, died at Gales.
burg, 1ll-Eighr persons we're injured in
runaway sleighing accident In Baldwin.
WA Zig mass meeting was held in
Topeka, Kas, in the interest of abolishir.
the prohibition Law, which was declared to
be failure.
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