Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-12
THE NEWS


Ameterdam, n. Y, from cigarette smoking.
The Alabama Midland Railroad has been
sold to the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railroad ompany.-Grand Secretary More
land, of the Order of Elks, was expelled by
the Grand Lodge in session at Cleveland and
| New York Lodge had its charter revoked
Miss Geneyieve Green, of Fair Haven, VT,
an art teacher, committed suicide in Newman,
Ga.-John Stansberry was hanged at Fort
Scott, Ark, for killing his wife.-William
Rittamel a carpenter in Chicago, shot his
wife, and was in turn shot by his son. who
rushed to his mothers defense.-Cleveland
was struck by cyclone, which did consider
Bile damage to property.--At Rouse's Point,
n. Y, the steam yacht Little Nellie vent down
and three of the crew were drowned.-The
striking dock laborers in West Superior at
tempted to stop work and a riot ensued. Two
men were fatally iniured.-John Jones, a
tough character, was shot near Shenandoah
by Richard Gosghen. He will die.-John
w. Reedy, the parricide, of Lancaster, Pa, has
had his sentence committed to life-imprison-
meut.
A whale, fifteen feet long, was killed off At
lantic City.-Governor Nichols, Of Louis
lana, has vetoed the lottery bill.-A Won
derful discovery of gold has been made near
lineup, Col, the lowest assay amounting to
$40 per ton.-Fifteen thousand Knights of
Pythias has arrived in Milwaukee to attend
the encampment-Thed dam at Prices Lake
near Carson, Nevada, gave way and flood of
water thirty feet high and hundred feet wide
rushed down into the fields two miles away,
but no lives were lost.--Nanne Libsinger
was killed in aduel with Stella Cole at Knox
vile, Tenn, over man named Matt Bradley.
Clarence McKleroy a waiter at n hotel in
Columbus, Ga, in fit of Jealousy cut the
throat of Annie Read while they were walking
along the street.-While W. L. Wetherbee,
OF West Rindge, n. H., was attending church
his youngest child was burned to DEATH and a
Mrs. Huse lost her life in attempting to save
the little one.-By the wreck of Knights
of Pythias excursion train on the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad, near kankakee, H., one man
was killed and several injured. Vir-
ginia Society Sons of the Revolution was or
ganized in Richmond tornado did great
destruction at Fargo, Dakota. The Opera
House, several other large buildings and a
number of dwellings were blown down. A
dozen lives were lost. A train just leaving
for Fargo, on the Northern Pacific Railroad,
was blown from the track and number of
the passengers injured.-J. n. Stutzman, an
old tailor of Las Vegas, n. NJ, was dragged
from his house and brutally murdered by I'M
known parties.
City Marshal Pipe of San Antonio, Texas,
shot and killed Edward Young and John and
Bob Stafford in a saloon row.-Domestc
troubles caused Mrs. Siefried, of Lima, Ohio
to take dose of Rough on Rats and force
some of the poison down the throats of her
children.-P. d. Wigginton. who was the
candidate of the American party for the pres
idency i'll the last campaign, and who has
served two terms in Congress as representa-.
tive from California, died at his home in Oak
land, Cal.-The freight house of the railroad
at Milton, Utah, was blown up by tremen-
dous explosion of giant powder.-Gov. Hill
has granted requisition papers to Rhode Is
land authorities for the return to Providence
of Nettie Clark, who forged So 900 check and
fled to New York where she was apprehended.
A highbinding plot to murdera Whining
ton, Del, Chinese laundryman was exposed in
Philadelphia court, Chinaman of the lat
ter city having offered two of his countrymen
$500 to murder the Wilmington man.-The
Chicago stock yards have passed into the con.
troll of the Vanderbilts.
A daughter and a son OF Henry Henderson,
of Port Huron, Mich, were killed by being
thrown from carriage at picnic.-James
West. the young man who shot William Trit-
apoe, at dance near Berkeley Springs, W.
Va, committed suicide the next day.-John
Moody, colored, was drowned in the Susque-
hanna river, at WiIkesbarre, Pa, while try
ing to save a white child that had fallen into
the water.-Harry Marsh, miner, at Al
toona, Pa, in jealous rage cut the throat OF
Clara Jones, aged nineteen years.-George
Seals, desperate of Perry county, Ind, beat
his wife to death and Sheriff Gardner, who at
tempted to arrest him.-Mrs. John L. Wright,
the American Presbyterian missionary at Sal
mos, Western Persia was murdered by a
native school teacher-The assessed value
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Il 3os ooo ooo -,rbere woro1st hus;nos, fail
ures in the United States and iSin Canada the
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at his home in Rroollv, Nv nv phil,
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into d;sppfa with Mrs Uandr;oon abo,,t bis
board hill Professor Robert II Risbon one
of tho early nros;don.s of Miami rrniversi,v
died in oxfara n williau savhort an
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