Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-04
THE NEWS


the stage coach near loss Alamos-Chiei
Arthur Of the Engineers Brotherhood had q
conference with officials of the Southern
Pacific TO settle the grievances of the engi.
neers on the Atlantic system, and it was de-
cided to resort to rbitration.--Georce Mar.
tin, bookkeeper and cashier and James
Dunn, collector of the Santa Fe Railroad
Company, have disappeared after robbinp
the company.-Thc grip has broken out
again in Carthage, ILL.,, and there have been
several fatal cases.-In quarrel over a
girl named Alice Eberly Thomas Evans IA.
tally stabbed John Kinston, at Hennessey
Okla homa-United States Marshal Dick.
erson has arrested several farmers in Min.
cola, Texas, charged with passing counterfeit
money.-Thc National Prison Congress ad.
journed in Cincinnati TO meet next year in
Pittsburg -Andrew Carnegie welcomed the
foreign iron and steel manufacturers at the
opening session of the on and Steel Insti.
tute in New York The will of Lewis NJ
Griffin, who committed suicide at Richmond.
leaves a third of his estate to Miss Nellie
McCaull, the young woman to whom he was
engaged to be married.-Emmett PYLE. OF
Petersburg, Va, died from exposure to rain
and cold in hunting xpedition.-Walter
Williams committed suicide by the laudanum
method, at Petersburg, Na.-Washington
Ritter, an Ascending New York clerk, who
also deserted his family and took a young
woman to Texas, was captured at Galveston.
A six months old babe was killed by a
eat sucking its breath in Chicago. Heavy
rains are desng serious damage TO the raisin
crop in California; Brussels carpet
trust is being formed which will raise the
prices.
James Devins, of Des Moines, Iowa. drop
ped revolver which exploded and killed his
brothers young wife. Charles Deed was
blown to pieces by a boiler exploding in
Deedsyille, Ind.-Forest fires are doing
great damage in South Dakota. The Ronau
Brothers. Boiler Manufacturing, Company, of
St Louis has made an assignment.-Th
PhiladelphiaGrocers and importers Exchange
adopted resolutions protesting against the
passage of the Conger Lard bill.-Michael
II. Brown, travelling salesman representing
Lord q Taylor, of New York, committed sui
eide IN Reading, Pa.-John 0. Nichols, of
Lowell, Mass, fatally wounded his sister-in-
law, and then committed suicide. - Com
mander Francis G. Dallas, U. S. n, retired,
lied in Philadelp hia.-Frank Closer day
operator at Leighton, Pa, was arrested on
the charge of having caused by his negli-
sence The death of three men.-Frederick
Billings, ex-presdent of the Northern Pacific
Railway, died at Woodstock, Vt--Congress
man Frank Lawler received the Democratic
nomination for sheriff of Chieago.-W. F.
LangOn and Charles McGarr while working
IN deep shaft on Aspin Mountain, were in
itantly killed by a premature explosion
Two thieves were captured by United States
officers for breaking into postoffices at Outlet,
Carbondale and Plymouth Pa.-Two Cath
Ollie priests from Europe were detained in
New York under the contract labor law, they
admitted that they had been hired to teach in
Minnesota.-Dr. w. Johnston, of Camden,
No, was shot and killed by John Tucker, who
had married Johnstons daughter and de-
serted ber.--Alexander Campbell, formerly
Of Baltimore, shot and killed Miss Mamie
Josephs, to whom he had been paying atten-
ton,at st. Augustine, Fla.-An eleyen.year-
old boy was shot and killed in mistake for
burglar by Boston policeman.-The en-
tire mail edition of the Daily States, published
at New Orleans, was seized for Violation Of
the new lottery law.-General Jubal A.
Early narrowly escaped being crushed to
death by a falling wall at Lynchburg, Va.
An appeal has been issued for the relief
OF the starving people in Ireland, the Ameri-
can committee including ex- Presidents Hayes
and CleYe and.-The little town of Oneonta,
Blount county, Ala, has been nearly wiped
out by FIRE.
The new steamship FL Sol, built for the
Pacific Improvement Company by William
Cramp & Sons, was launched Mt Philadelphia.
Ruth Ann Hilton, u colored woman who
was born in 1880 in Richmond Va, died iE
Chicago One man was killed and four in
iured by the eaving-in of the Standard Manu-
featuring Company's building at Pittsburg.
- Medical investigation discloses the fact
that robbery was not the only motive for the
murder of Mrs. Annie Miller in Camden
county, n. j. Fire at GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
did damage amounting to 1000 to the stock
of MeGhee's Bros large grocery establish
ment.-Two notorious female shoplifters
were arrested in Cincinnati.-Col. f. C
Boudinot, q noted Cherokee died at Fort
Smith, Ark.-John Sowders, reputed to be the
Oldest Grany Army veteran in the United
States, died at Riegelsvil,e, N. j., aged ninety
years.--W. B. Emerson was found dead and
Ross T. Fishbaugh seriously wounded in a
freight car on Union Pacific train at Chey.
enne, Wyo. They were both shot through the
head.-C 7. Lesley, notary public, and
II. d. Sapp, OF Bradford, Fla, were shot and
killed.-H. c. Kemp, the rear brakeman Of
the coal train which caused the disastrous
wreck on the Reading road near Shoemakers-
vile, in which twenty lone persons were killed
and thirty wounded, has been arrested. Kemp
was found working on farm, and he was held
in 81 600 bail for court. The charge against
him is manslaughter in failing TO perform his
duty by prompt signalling of the approaching
train which caused the wreck.-Hiram
Grubbs was arrested near Union, Ind, on the
charge of numbering bis nephew, whose body
was found near his barn.-An express train
ran into herd Of deer in Minnesota, killing
number of them.
The Redding and Cedarville stage was held
up near Redding and robbed of sS00.--Suii
for 81 o,O00 damages was brought by the
United States againstthe Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railway Company.-The price
OF aluminium has been cut down by the Cow.
les Company to 81 per pound.--Mrs. Eliza.
beth Drevel Smith died at her country home,
In Torresdale, Pa.-Mrs. John Miller was
murdered near her home, IN Delaware town.
ship n. J.-Andrew T. Moonert, of Chicago
has sued William Forbes, of Cincinnati, for
s2,l0O, which he had agreed to pay him for
voting on certain b ll.-Joseph Keener
was arrested in Pittsburg for passing counter
felt money.--Edward Tryon, aged eighteen