Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-08
THE NEWS,

electric motors-An English syndicate has
bought the business OF the four firms con-
trolling the manufacture OF soda water and
beer apparatus in the United States. $50.
900 damage ives doRs by a fire at Thomas
Maddock's sanitary ware factory in Trenton,
n. J.-Eugineer Tom Walters and Brake
man William Carleton were killed on the
railroad, near Washburn, Wis--Henry d.
Lecato is held in Philadelphia, on the charge
Of stealing diamonds and jswelry.-A
number of sha wis conc saled among macaroni
were seized by customs officers in New York.
- There are fourteen cases OF smallpox in
Meriden, Ct'-State Treasurer holland, of
Missouri, is short in his accounts over $780,
900. Senators Barlow AMI Dodds. Of the
North D4ko taegislaturs. were centurei by
their colleagues for substituting report in
which they called other Senators dead beats,
Andrew Alexander was burned to death
in his saloon in Brazil, lad. -Patrolman
Shoemaker, of Detroit, Mich, was shot and
mortally wounded by burglars, james
Leonard was fatally injured, aud Thomas
Owens crippled for life by the premature ex-
plosion of rock in Wilkesbarrs, Pa.
Oscar Evans, in his second trial at Rom
ney, w. Va, for the murder OF Jacob Kirby,
was acquittsd.-Mrs Gerard Perkins, wife
OF farmer of Amsterdam, N. Y, had
terrible struggle with tramp who attempt
ed to assault her. Leroy Jones, of Han
over county, Va, was thrown from jumper
wagon, aud his head crushed between the
spokes of the revolving wheel Three
large moonshiners' distilleries have been
ssiz ID on No Mans Land, forty miles from
Clayton, N. M.-Colonel J. Mervyn Dona-
hue, president of the San Francisco and
Northern Pacific Railroad, died in San Fran
CISCO The accounts of Town Collector
John Chalhourne, of Oxford, Ne. have been
found $4,000 short H. Pope. teller of
the Louisville National Bank, has disappeared
and so has $50, 600 from the Bank vaults
Edwin Cowlts, editor of the LEADER of Cleve-
The Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad
was sold to the Pennsylvania Company for
81, S00, 900 The switchmen of the Pitts.
burg and Lake Erie Road have determined
TO continue the strike, and the yards at Pitts
burg are blockaded with freight CARS
Thomas Bishop was arrested in Petersburg,
Va, charged with beating his wife and caus-
ing her death. - The Illinois state conven.
ton of miners, opened at Springfield, and P.
q. McBryde, of Pennsylvania, president OF
the national executive board, advised the
miners to stand by the scale adopted by the
Ohio convention. Vice President Morton
and party arrived at ST. Augustine, Fla
The West Jersey Presbytery decided for re.
vision of th.-United States Ssn1tor
Allison was rec ected by thu Iowa legisla-
ture.--Judge Daniel r TIldeu. who was
member of Congress during the Mexican
war, died at Cleveland Ohio, aged eighty
tour years. A big building on Broadway,
New York City occupied by Nj & c. Mayer,
importers of hosiery and gloves, and Bacon
& Eaton, umbrella manufacturers. was
burned. Losses $4,000.
The dead bodies of man naIsed holmeA
his wife and two children, were found near
Shawnee, L T., and it is supposed the whole
family were murdered by the outlaws that
infest that locality. Frank MCGOWAN,
who risked his life in the interest OF science
to find rare fiber OF bamboo in South
America for Edison, has disappeared from
his home in Orange, N. J.-Whiteclps
whipped three women and two men near
Rockingham, N. C.--President Chauncey
Depew, OF the New York Central Railroad,
denies the report that he will resign his po-
sition, in view of his possible nomination by
the Republicans for the presidency.-The
Whittier memorial building, on the Hamp-
ton Normal School grounds, Fort Monroe.
Va, was burned. The rubber shoe manu-
lecturers combine propose to advance the
price fifteen per cent. THE loss OF life by
the breaking Of the big dam near Prescott,
Arizona, is not so great as first reported. In
ali thirty nine bodies have been recovered.
Frank Formenicb, manager. and w. s.
Smith, superintendent Of the Formenich
Glucose Works, near Marsha!ltown, Iowa,
have been indicted for po.uting the Iowa
river and maintaining a nu.sance.-Firea at
Keusington, H., destroyed the hotel and
number of buildin g. Loss, SIG 000.--The
Kanawha and Western Railroad Company
has been incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, to
ronduct a line ninety miles from London, O.,
on the little Miami, into the Hooking Val
ley coll fields, connecting with the Kanawha
and Ohio near Athens. Mayor Carter
H4rrison, OF Chicago, has distinguished
himself by capturing burgiar.-JamesJ
Broichair, of Schenectady. N. Y, was sufYo.
Gated in trying to save some property in his
a
metal roofing and smelling companies Of the
United States has ben formed, with head
quarters at Denver. James
Edward Eaglish, OF Connecticut, died at
New Haven, aged seventy eight years-
Sam Mason, notorious Pittsburg gambler,
attempted suicide on railroad train.
Gill & Forests roller mills at Hillsboro,
MINI. were burned. Loss, $50o, 600 First
heavy frost Of the season in Southern Florida
a ID freezing weather in Savannah. A man
supposed to be Rev. Peter Herbert Feron,
of baltimore, died in Philadelphia hospital
under suspicious circumstances August
Groth, Of Saltwater, MINI murdered his
wife and then committed suicide, having q
note stating that bis wife had confessed to
him that she had been seduced by a police
man in Germany in 1SS3-Miss Lii.
Ian Moore was shot three times In the street
in Washington by Harry Franklin, who, it
is ST u, was q rejected lover.
The Exchange Hotel, at Miidetown, n.
Y. was burned, and young woman fatally
injured by leaping from q xindow.-
Chalkley Leconey was acquitted at Camden
n. j., of the murder OF his niece.-The
fIu;t prospects in Lancaster, Pa, are said 10
bave been ruined by the recent frosts-
EK Postmaster William H. Bennett, OF Long
Branch, was held for the action Of the United
States grand jury, charged with being 81, 600
snort IN his aecOunts.-Charles A. Wise,
of South Greenfield, n. Y, committed sui
eide on railroad train, at Roanoke, va
Mayor Eiyson, Of Richmond. Va, reports
that the accounts OF a. r Woodson, late
city collector, show deficit OF s3S, $50 -
Mt joy. Lutheran Church, near Gettysburg,
Pa, was burned.-Three young Catholic
women of Daybrook, H., have become in
sane upon the question Of Christian science.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church OK
Keithsburg, ILL.,, was burned. L1ss s15. 600.
in the wreck OF a freight train near
Msssiiion, Ohio, several train men were
killed, an oil tank exploding Colonel z.
E. Briants stock barn Eear Huntingdon, Ind /,
was burned, and thirty i've Thoroughbred
polied Angus cattle persisted.
atternut to mass a ioefery hill throuzh the