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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
CABLE SPARKS.

THE novelist Charles Gibbons Is dead.
SEVERAL cases Of cholera are reported In
the vicinity Of Berlin.
THERE Gre II 500 miners on a strike in the
Poerinage district of Belgium
AT Conway in Wales, boat was swamped
in the river aud eight persons we're drowned.
AT Gratz, in the Duciy Of Syria, Austria,
a hurricane wrecked the national exhibition
hall.
IT is reported thar $50 pcfsons were killed
by the cyclone in the cannon Of Naud, swift
erland.
A CASE of Asiatic cholera j. reported in
London, the victim being a fireman on board
q vessel
BRITISH shipowners representing oapiau
Of f50O00,000 have decided to unite IN nght
against labor unions
The German Miners Congress will meet At
Halle on September IS ard the sessions will
continue to September ~.
DAVIS DALToS, an American. swan across
the English channel from Gisnez ia fakstone
on his back in 23i hours
THg English Papermnkers Association
will start a chemical works Of he own II a
chemical union IL formed iu Paris
Two men we're blown to fragments aud sew
eral others injured IN mn explosion A. the
British governments powder house, Maitham,
England
THE Argentine government has introduced
into the Congress Of that country proposal
looking to an adjustment Of the hnanefs ot
the country.
MEssRs. Gates and Jaderquest and Mrs.
Kingman, American missionaries, on their
way TO the Soudan, died al Sierra leone from
African fever.
THE President OF San Salvador has been
informed by an agent of his government that
peace has been arranged between Guatemala
and San Salvador.
THE progressisi journals Of Lisbon declare
that the Anglo. Portuguese agreement relative
TO the territory 10 Fast Africa is not satisfac-
tory 10 the honor aud interest of Portugal.
THE Berlin Post states that Emperor VIII.
lam has written a letter Of thirtysiE pages
10 Emperor Francis Joseph eKpiaining the
cause Of the dismissal Of Prince bismarck
The members Of the sefvian progressist
committee who attended the banquet NJ To-
pola were taken III and from their symptoms,
il IL suspected arsenic was placed Ia their
food Intentionally by political opponents Tor
the purpose u poisoning them.
SPEECH by the burgo master d Nurem.
burg AZ the close 0f a concert in the choral
festival hall at Vienna, proclaiming the union
Of all German-speakingr races in peace or on
the battlefield. made the audience 10 enthu-
siaStie the Austrian and German conductors
embraced and the audience kissed and hug
ged one another.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
DROWNING OF SEvENTY-Slx MEN.
Horrible Scenes ut the Sinking Of the
Oneida I'm Alaskan Waters.

Oneida in Alaskan Waters.
The first detailed story Of the loss Of the ship
Oneida and TIM drowning of seyenty-six Chi
nese in Cooks's Inlet, Alaska, are given by
John Ericsson, one of the crew of the wrecked
vessel, who has just arrived in San Francisco
on the schooner CAMPER.
eve sailed from here" said be- March %
On-April rs fog came down and about nine
O'Clock at night, when we thought we we're
well out from land, the shock came
THE water was flowing into the ship at
furious rate aud the order was given 70 get out
the boats. The scene that followed that order
was simply terribly. Two hundred Chinese
fishermen. who were in the hold, came swarm.
ing up on deck, and it was as If the imps of
hell were let loose. They cursed and swore
and cried and kicked and charged on the boats,
and had TO be driven off the deck by the crew.
Some ranup into the rigging then down 10 the
deck again. They attempted to take posses
sion OF the boats, which BY this time were man
ned
at was necessary 70 push out from the side
of the ship. To attempt to hold them in check
was impossible They were like demons. Many
of them leaped into the water and were
drowned. None of the white men were lost
Twenty minutes after We struck there was
nothing to be seen on the ship She landed
fairly on top Of the rock and was broken in
two. As the ship was settling three dories
were washed out Of the dayits. There was
scramble for them by the panic stricken Chi
nese, but only four Of them got into the boats.
"It was terrible 10 listen 10 the walls Of the
doomed creatures. We could give them no
help. number Of them we're caught like
rats 10 cage and went to the bottom on the
Oneida. Thirty minutes after the ship struck
we were all in the boats aud not a sound could
be heard except the oars int the row locks. We
reached land safely. and when day broke went
out to see if We could find any survivors We
found twelve Cinnamon floating on the wheel
house two days later.
Three Of the Chinese had managed TO reach
the rock, but these were not found until seven
days later, and two of them in the meantime
had persisted from exposure. The third had
found a key Of spirits and had kept himself
alive on its contents"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
WORK AND WORKERS.

CALL has been issued for a convent ~ In
New York city. on October 9th, to organize
National Association of the marble cutters OF
the United States
THE stone masons' unions Of Pittsburg,
Mckeesport Baltimore and Syranuse have
united in a call for convention at Baltimore,
on September Sth, TO organize u national
union.
THE long strike at the works Of the New
jersey Steel and Iron Company, at Trenton,
has been ended 10y the submission Of the men,
they returning to work without the firm sign
ing the scale.
STRIKE Of the joutueymen plumbers Of
Milwaukee Is threatened unless the Master
Plumbers Association gives an answer to the
demand of the men for eight hours work and
ten hours pay.
THE strike at the axle works at Wilkes
barre, Pa, has been declared of by the Mas
ter Workman of the local assembly of Knights
of Labor. The old men will be reinststed as
soon MS places are open for them.
EIGHT Italians were detained at New York,
Antonio Caprilli Of Hammonton, New Jer-
sey having admitted to the inspectors that he
had imported them to work on his fruit farm.
They will probably be sent back to Italy.
GENERAL Manager St John, Of the Rock
Island Railroad al Chicago, has decided that
George Murphy, whose discharge caused the
strike of the switchmen on that road lew
days ago. should be reinstated.
THE 800 furnace woi kers of Boston and
vicinity have decided to inaGgurate the nine
hour day on September Sth, with eight hours
Saturday The manufacturers have not as
yet agreed to the proposition.
THE Westinghouse shops, at Pittsburg,
made an attempt to start up with non-unlon
machinists, but were unable to secure enough
10 run the plants The men are confident
that their demand for nine hours will be con-
ceded
ONE thousand men are out of employment
at Lynn, Mass, owing to the morocco finish
ers strike, although the men Of one factory
are alone directly concerned. IL is feared that
the tanners and beamsters will also be called
out by their union
A DESPATCH from the Spring Hill Nova
Scotia) coal mine, where strike has been in
progress for eight weeks past, says that the
engineers and tremen were ordered ont.
Should they quit work and the pumps be
stopped the mine would be flooded and much
property destroyed
THE Federation OF Labor, at Washington,
I d. c., have endorsed the action of local as
semby Of the Knights Of Labor composed
largely of the women employees of the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving, demanding the
removal OF Civil Service Commissioner Ly-
man, because of his alleged attack upon their
characters.
A SECRET meeting Of engineers conduc-
tors, brakemen and switchnien connected with
the Nickel Plate Road was held at Toledo,
Ohio. The men say they have no thought Of
striking, and that the object OF the meeting
was to discuss the different phases Of work in
their several departments. and to form some
sort of amalgamatipn whereby they Won y
better understand each other.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
A CONGRESSMAN DEAD.
Representative Watson Attacked with
Heart Disease.

Heart Disease.
Representative Lewis +. Watson, of Penn
sylyania, died suddenly in Washington. He
was about to enter his carriage at the Shore
ham Hotel to drive to the Capitol at about
eleven o'clock, when he was suddenly over
come by an attack Of heart disease, and died
soon after being carried into the hotel Mr..
Watson represented the Tweuty-sevepth Penn
yanHdistrict, aud his death makes the third
which has taken place in the ranks of the
pennsylvania delegation this season. lie was
an elderly man. and had been in feeble health
tor some time. lie WAS from Warren. and was
born IN Crawford county. With an academic
education as basis, he engaged in mercantile
pursuits, and for the past twenty years was an
extensive operator in lumber and petroleum.
besides organizing railroad and acting as n
nahk president. lie was a member OF the
forty-brst aud Forty-seyenth Congresses, and
was elected to the present Congress as Re
publican by large majority.
Immediately after the adjournment of the
House the Pennsylvania representatives met
IN the House lobby. Representatives O'Neill
presided, and Representative Kerr acted as
secretary. The following resolutions we're
adopted:
ReSotred, That we, the members Of the Penn
sylFania delegation in Congress having been
informed ofthe sudden demise of our esteemed
colleague, Lewis +. Watson. of the Twenty
seventh Pennsylvania district, it is hereby
HfS0fced, That IN making this public an
houhecineht OF ms death, We desire to express
our extreme sorrow and regret at the loss sus-
tanned by the state Of Pennsylvania and par
llcularly by the congressional district which
he so faithfully and ably represented; also, as
further mark OF respect and esteem, we, the
members of the Pennsylvania delegation at
tend the funeral in body
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The truest joy we have in life is in
making Others glad.
Laughing helps US through the world /;
crying keeps us back
Our memories are the echoes of joys
and griefs forever gone.
Life is not so short but there is always
time enough for courtesy.
About the most difficult effort we can
make is to realize our own ideals.
The flower that opens first to the sun
shine keenest suffers from the frost.
To give praise sincerely is only just
expression of our recognition of true
worth
We love ourselves notwithstanding our
faults, and we ought to love our friends
in like manner.
That is a brave little soul, indeed, that
has the power to turn its .double-pains
to doubIe-praise. "
1t would seem to be preferable to wear
out, rather than to be saved from rust
by an applied polish.
Character does not usually sustain sud.
den changes; age is most generally tho
development of youth.
Getting into a passion is good deal
like getting into briar bush. The bush
comes out all right, but you don't.
IT'S not always what we have accom-
plished, but what we had hoped to, that
has afforded us the most satisfaction.
Happiness lies concealed in our duties,
which, when fulfilled, give it forth as
the opening rose gives forth fragrance.
Whenever you find a man who is
failure you will also find patient little
woman who makes his excuses in the
world.
Wise men may be convinced that ma.
ture is controlled by higher power, but
he is fool who tries to show how he can
control her.
When people can read they have no
more need for an interpreter than blind
man for light before he can understand
what he hears.
Education, influence and growth are
identical terms, and when person dis.
covers that he develops from the expan.
sive powers from within, he will break
the shell that influence weaves around
him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
A Burglars Finger-nail.

Rimmefs perfume factory at Nouilly,
was broken into the other night. The
affair would be of little interest were it
not that finger nail led to the discovery
of the thief. The police found the
finger-nall on the window-sill. It had
pevidently been torn off the robbers
finger while he was scrambling in. 1t
happened that young man employed as
messenger in the establishment was
found to have hurt his finger, which was
minus it's nail Understanding that his
misdeed was discovered, he took to
fight The police, however, discovered
that he was in hiding at his mothers
house in Paris, and proceeded thither
with the intention of arresting him, but
at the moment they entered the apart
ment the young man opened the window
and jumped from the sixth floor into the
street. He was killed on the spot--Pali
Nau Gazette.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
TORTURING CoNvICTs.
Brutal Methods Of Furnishing Inmat .
of the Colorado Pentfomtiary.


A startling story Of the horrible cruelties to
which the conyictsin the Colorado State Peni.
tertiary at Canon City are subjected to has
just come to light A convict several days sgo
managed to smuggle letter through yisi.
tor and a private investigation has resulted
in corrOboration Of all the charges made
therein.
At the least oiiense a convict is subjected 10
a punishment known as the drowning pro-
cess" He is strapped To post so tlIat he can
not move a muscle. With the nozzle Of hose
within six inches Of the oonvicts face, a stream
Of water with sixty pounds pressure is turned
on. The unfortunate convict cannot breathe,
and when he opens his mouth he is strangled
The water is forced down bis throat and all
through his head. The punishment IL con
tinued until the convict becomes unconscious
and then the prison physicians are called to
resuscitate. Many are to-day physical wrecks
through this torture.
worse means Of torture even than this is
frequently used. A convict is strapped 10 a
bench with head between two boards, bucket
Of water is placed over him with a small fau.
Get, so arranged that a drop Of water will drop
on his forehead every i've seconds. The victim
- generally kept in this position for an hour.
10 many cases his mind becomes 80 weakened
that he never reeOvers
Another engine Of torture consists Of pair
Of hundcufs and rope. The prisoner is taken
TO the warehouse and Obliged 10 ascend a plat.
form where ropes are twisted 80 that when the
offender is swung from the platform he is
whirled in the nir ut the rate Of 100 revolutions
a minutes The maH is left until Bon-cireuIa.
ton causes inseBsibility.
There are nearly sixty eases Of fever in the
hospital at present caused BY eating putrid
meat
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
DOWN TO THEIR DEATH.
A Fearful and Fatal Ride on a Gravity
Road near Reading, Pa
A Car breaks Away at the Top of .
Mountain and Dashes Down at
Frightfal Velocity.

horrible accident occurred shortly before
eleven o'clock A. H., on the Mount Penn GRAY.
ity Railroad, mountain route eneircling
Mouht Penn, eight hundred feet above the
city of Reading, Penn. car running at
frightful velocity jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment. Four persons were
killed and sixteen injured.
The road was opened five months ago and
has been doing good business ever since.
The ears were taken from point on the out
skirts of the city to the top of mountain, a
distance of FIVE miles. On returning the ears
were allowed to 60 down the mountain by
gravity by way OF another route to the point
of starting. At about 1890 o'clock car con-
tanning about eighteen passengers was taken
from the station TO the top of the mountain.
This consumed about thirty minutes. On top
OF the mountain there is high stone tower
where the passengers are allowed TO alight TO
enjoy the scenery for thirty miles around.
There are different stories as to the cause of
the aecident, butitappesrs that when the tower
was reached, the point where the gravity por-
ticn OF the road commences, the engine was
detached, when the ear ran away while the
passengers were still on board.
The distance TO the point Of starting is five
miles, and it is estimated that this was covered
by the runaway ear in about two minutes the
cur attaining a fearful speed, estimated at
eighty miles an hour. 1t remained on the track
to the foot of the plane going around all the
curves, while the passengers shrieked in their
fright and several jumped of. When the ear
reached the station at the foot of the plane it
jumped the track and rolled down fifty-foot
embankment where il landed, upside down,
with the passengers imprisoned inside. The
greatest excitement prevsiled, and soon large
crowd gathered. Doctors and the ambulance
were sent for, and the dead and injured re
moved.
The road was built at cost of $50 900, ard
has been in operation since May II is owned
by stock company, most ofthe stockholders
being residents of Reading
Superintendent c, NJ. Dechart gives as the
cause of the accident the refusal Of the brake
TO work properly. 1t was new brake and was
being experimental with. Thecar was spIiu-
tered into kindling wood, and the escape of a
single passenger is miraculous.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
PATHS.

The paths that lead to Loaf of Rreal
winds through the Swamp of Toll,
And the path that leads to a Suit of Clothes
Goes through flowerless soil,
And the paths that lead to the Loaf OF
Bread
And the Suit of Clothes are hard to tread.
And the path that leads to House of Your
Own
Climbs over the powdered hills,
And the path that leads to a Bank Account
Is swept by tie blast that kills;
But the men who start in the paths to-day
In the Lazy Hills may go astray,
In the Lazy Hills are trees of shade
BY the dreamy Brooks of Sleep,
And the rollicking River of Pleasure laughs,
And gambols down the steep;
But when the blasts Of the winter come.
The brooks and the river are frozen dumb.
Then woe to those in the Lazy Hills
When the blasts of the winter moan
Who strayed from the path to Bank Ao-
count,
And the path to House of Their Own:
These paths are hard in the summer beat
But in winter they lead TO a snug retreat.
S ". Foss, il, Yankee Blade.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
MARKETS.

BALTIMORE-FlouY- City Mills. extra f5.25
C9$5.50 Wheat Southern Fnliz, lO23f.05
GOrn-Southern White, 6Sog5ac., yellow,
57iGy5sc. Oais-SOuthern aud Pennsyiyania
l2Ca45e. Rye Maryland aud Pennsylvania
S6fa6sc. Bsy-Mary.and and Pennsyl vania
1i.01Casi2.00. Strzw = Wheat, 7016sf600
Butter-EssterB Creamery, 3aa BE, nearby
receipts l2faf3e. Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, sG99le., Western, sagic Fggs-2Df
Gle. Tobacco, interior, iGJsit0 Good
Common, 4e,$501, Niddiing. ga 500. Good
TO fine red, gfaSi0O0. Fancy, t0et $500.
NEW YORK Flour Southern Good 10
choice extra, 2.606q S3.25 Wheat-No. White
l0746g107zc. Rye State ieGtgc. Corn South
ern yellow, 554e156c. White, Stale
43O84c Buiter-State, ia l9c. Cheese
State, Sldssc. Eggs-2Ofd2lc
PHfLADELPHIA - Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 435fq s3.55 Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, f04i(diOJIe. Rye Pennsylya-
mia ,j6(qg57c. CorB--southern Yellow, 43d. 43lc.
Oats-42zGt4 3ie. Butter State, 2Ofq 2ie.
Cheese--Sew York Factory, i0fgi01c. Eggs-
State, 1s1e2oc.
CATTLE.
BALTIMORE Beef-4256 $f37l. Sheep
3-JO(G$4.75. Hogs. 25f15il0.
NEW YoRK-Beef - COCOA 500. Sheep
41OfGS5.25. iOC9SL40.
EAST LIBERTY Beef-4.40(gS4.70. Sheep
5.0O9$5.20 Hogs -420GLS4,55.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
The Land of Ducks.

There are more ducks in the Chinese
Empire, says an authority, than in all
the world outside of it. They are kept
by the Celestials on every farm, on the
private roads, on the public roads, on
streets of cities, and on all the lakes,
ponds, rivers, streams and brooks in the
country. Every Chinese boat also con
tains batch of them. There are innu-
merable Matching establishments all
through the Empire, many of which are
said to turn out about $4,000 young
ducks every year. Sailed and smoked
ducks and ducks eggs constitute two Of
the most common and important articles
OF diet in China.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
THREE MEN KILLED.

A Peculiar Wreck ON soathsrn Rail-
road-The Loss Heavy.
A3isagtfous wreck occurred on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad. An extra freight train
eolIided with a car thirty miles west Of Roam
oke, and the engine and even ears. loaded
with dry goods, we're thrown from the trsek
and down an embankmeBt. William Cook Of
Corning. n. " the -ngiueman, was caught
under the boiler and crushed to death. A ear
dashed into shanty flled with Italian labor
ers, killing tx and xounding three Thecom-
pany's loss is heavy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
TWO DEATHS IN A DUEL.
Robert Ferguson Kills the Man who SLAM
dsred His WIFE and Dies Himself

Robert Ferguson Kills the Man who SLAM
dsrrd His wife and Dies Himself
A desperate duel to the death took place at
Rowland, KY, the junction Of the Louisville
AMI Nashville Railroad with the Kentucky
Central, at nine O'Clock the other morning.
Bobert Ferguson, fireman on the Louis
vile and Nashville road, was recently mar
ried - n pretty young woman, and Boss"
Hamilton, another fireman, " a. reported 20
have told tales about her.
The trains ~ the two men met al Rowland
Ferguson %aiked up to Hamilton and in an
excited nsHner e1eiaimed:-"Y0u have been
talking about my wife, 20 understand"
No haven't, says Hamilton, "and the man
who says 80 tells lie"
Il say So" replied Ferguson, and ct the
same ins'snt both men drew pistols.
They fired almost simultaneously, and in
les than fifteen seconds each man had fred
four times. Then both reeled and fell, their
heads almost touching as they dropped The
train men rushed 10 them. only 10 find both
dead. Each had three bullet holes in his
body.
An eye witness said il was the gamest fight
he ever saw. Neither man Hinehed nor ut
tered a sand afier the shooting commenced,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
MURDERED HIS FAMILY.


A Crazy Man Chops Up HIS wife and
Five Children.
A man who gave his name as Arlington re-
ports TO Sheriff TeBpleton about FIVE o'clock,
p. NJ. that raneher namei Quinn, living
twelve miles west Of Livingston, Mont, had
killed bis wife and five children with broad
axe The man was crazy, and when discov-
cred wa sitting in corner Of the room eat
ing from The arm Of one Of the children. The
bodies Of all were horribly mutilated, the
arms and legs being severed from their bodies.
The eIdest-a girl Of about hfteen-was cut
almost ia two. Several men went to the house
and tried TO capture Qninn, but be would al
low no one TO approach him, and was killed
by one Of the men 10 self-defense-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
TWENTY DEATHS A DAY.

The TerrfbIs Rsvssss Of smallpox In One
Of the French Provinces.
our thousand cases Of smallpox are re-
ported in PerBambuco province.
DR.. Proust teiegraphs the hygienie commit
tee that there il an average Of 20 deathsdsily
The people are panie-stricken, and o. many
ss are able are fleeing from their homes.