Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-16
THE NEW1

| for hydrophobia, caused by the bite of skunk.
Rockwell & Co. tannery at North Claren-
don, Pa, was burned. Loss 800, 0O.-Maine
has population of 65S, i54. Vermont's popu-
lation is 49,, 900, which is 2s6 less than in $780,
Joseph A. Jargent, aged seventy five, and
his four year-old son were killed near Orange
Mass, by a train.-Samuel II. Beard, a law.
yer, sixty years old, Of Leesburg, o., threw
himself in front of a train at that place and
was killed. His mind was unsettled. THE
first annual convention of letter carriers ofthe
United States met in Boston, one hundred
delegates, representing sixty branches Of the
organization, attending Horton, Of
Chicago, has issued an injunction restraining
the city authorities from interfering with the
selling of pools on the West Side race track
Albert Beaumont, chief advertising agent
of the Chicago Opera House. has been arrested
"ii tue onafSv VI uelruuuiug TIE pIo.'iIv
The Westinghouse Company of Pittsburg
refused to concede to the striking maehinists
and 2, 500 of its men are now out.-The Ohio
farmers convention refused to place a TEN.
perance plank in its platform or to make any
expression on the tariff issue.-Hume Clay,
Of Winchester, KY, charged with forgery, is
still missing His liabilities will amount to
one hundred thousand dallars.-Professor
Alphonse Feyre, an eminent Swiss geologist,
died at Ottawa, Ontario. Congressman John
A. Buchanan, of the Ninth Virginia district,
was nominated for Congress.--A young man
with letters in his pocket addressed to w. c.
l.. L:
Nine-tenths of the original package saloon
in Iowa have closed up business. Chic
Justice Dighton Cors N, of the United States
Supreme Court ofSouth Dakota, has rendered
a decision which does away with the sale OF
intoxicating liquors in that state.-John
Long, alias 10 Tye, an embezzling Chinaman
was captured in Council Bluffs, Ia.-De
putty Marshals Morrison and Woolsey, of San
Francisco, were arrested, charged with being
bribed to let Chinese prisoners escape.-W
Hume Clay, a young lumber merchant Of
Paris, KY, has mysteriously disappeared. d.
The parade of the Grand Army ofthe National
Encampment, in Boston, was one of the lar
gest and grandest displays ever made by the
veterans, and the biggest affair of the kind
seen in the Hub City.-The bursting forth
of wells of natural gas on the farm of Thoma,
Halson, near indianapolis, has caused a curl.
Gus phenomenon, the course of a creek beins
turned up stream-The State Farmers Al
lance of North Carolina five hundred strong
met at Asheville, and it was stated that the
Alliance as body would not oppose the re
election of Senator Vanee.-A. A. Meredith
committed suicide at Newburg, W. Va, by al
lowing train to cut off his head.--In 6
quarrel over game of cards in Clarksburg
w. Va, James White, Scotehman, was shot
through the head by Wilson Norris colored
Although several ofthe Pittsburg machin,
shops have granted the demands of the ma
ehinists, several thousand men are on strikes
The passenger conductors on the Louis
Wills, St. Louis and Texas road have been dis
missed, and their places filled by freight con.
ductors.-Careful estimates of the growing
orange crop places it at two million boxes, Of
about the same as last year.
At dance in Giasco, N. Y, an Itauan was
murdered, and another fatally wounded
The chooner Fannie L. Jones and the Two
Farnics sunk in Lake Erie. Both crews, with
the exception Of Capt. E. C. Cummings, ofths
Fannie L. Jones, were sayed.-A man named
Oxenham, of Wyoming, Ont, was tarred and
feathered for taking advantage of an imbe-
cile woman-Mrs. Louisa Wilbarn, aged
thirty-one years, who had been picking ber
ries, was killed on the railroad track near
Scranton, Pa.--A cloudburst, accompanied
by violent electric storm, played havoc al
Rapid City s. D., Sanford Clark being killed
by lightning,-A tavern at Heckert's camp
near Deadwood, , s. D., was blown up by drunker
tramps-Thc flint glass factories In thu
West resumed.-Henr, Collins, aged nine.
teen, of Newark, N. j., attempted suicide
upon discovering that his sweetheart was his
half-sister.-Judge jackson, of Cincinnati,
dismissed the action of the Interstate Com.
merce Commission against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company for selling round-trip
tickets to theatrical companies without post
ing the rates.-In collision between pas
senger train and freight train on the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad William John
ston and J. G. Kennedy, postal clerks, were
injured. Meter, a PROMINENT Re-
publican of kanawha county, w. Va, was
shot and seriously wounded while returning
home from primary election.-The work
of counting the population of the United
States will be finished within ten days
The Auti-lottery bill has been favorably re-
ported to the Senate--BS the bursting of a
waterspout over the Rockies the cabin of W..
j. King and wife, at Boulder, Col was swept
away, and both drowned. E. F. G. Hall,
representing himself as contractor for the
Nicaragua Canal, travelling in the West for
his health is wanted in Denver for passing
forged drafts on New York banks for nearly
S., 000.-William Beaver, colored, aged
twenty years, was lynched at Warren, Ark,
for an attempted assaultup young woman.
News was received of the death of Warren
]. Harris and Frank Gates, missionaries, at
Sierra Leone, Africa, of fever, July &c.
W. B. Canning, the widely known educator
and writer of prose and poetry, died suddenly
at Stockbridge, Mass, aged seyenty-fve.
The first prize in the trienn1ai eantonmen
of the Patriarch Militant, |. o. o. F., wa.
awarded to Marion, Indiana.--John Boyl,
O'Reilly, the poet and editor of the Boston
! Pilot died at his summon home, in Hull, Mass.
from an overdose Of ehlorsl, taken for in
somina. strikers Of the New York
Central Railroad are disappointed at bein.
unable to stop the business of the road, many
passenger trains being run. Powderly say
the support of the entire order of the Knight
of Labor will be given the strikers.-Ths
York Match Company's works, at York, Pa.
were burned Loss Harry II
Byram, editor Pittsburg CRront
cie- Telegraph, died hoid-pneumonia.-
4 The accounts Of G. Austin, treasurer of SaT
1 Jose county, Cal, who died last May, wa
found short 81, 000.-Jephtha H. Warde
! one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens o
Cleveland, o., died at the age of seventy-ninr
I years.-A passenger train eollided with
work train at Dallas, Texas Engineer Georg'
I Blake and Fireman Lee Hughes were fatal,
| injured. Frank Alonza, an Italian, and tn
leader of coanterfeiting gang in New York
has been arrested -Three New York "greeI
| goods swindlers we're captured through
| letter they wrote Russell B. Harrison, the sol
4 of President Harrison, at Helens, Mont
/ The authorities seized number of original
/ package liquor places in Dies Moines unde
/ the new Wilson law.-By the explosion Of
boiler in Montana, one man was killed ans
two others fatally injured. the origina
package houses in Topeka, Kansas, have beer
I closed. Carpenters National Conven
( ion decided to mert the next time IN St Loui.