Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-15
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arrested.-Charles Green wood s wooden mill,
Corinn. Me-, was burned Loss S20, 00O.-D.
q. Campbell, Of Merriam, Ks, prominent
temperance lecturer, was killed by train a.
Olathe, ks.-At Avon,iaIe, Ala, Nathan
Terry and Washington Brown quarreled over
girl and Brown killed Terry.-In fight
at Latrobe, Pa, policeman named Saxman
shot and killed a laborer named Frisby-
Fire destroyed the Hamilton Hotel and other
property at Biggs, Cal. Loss $4,000. John
Beck was burned TO death.-Berlram |.
Bonsall, one of the founders of the Camden
IN. ~ Post, died at Deiair, that State of con-
sumption, aged thirty-seven.-Two appren-
tices Tor the new ship San Francisco leaped
OFF an express train near Butfalo.-John
Proyer VAS convicted at Wilkesbarre, Pa, of
manslaugt.er for the murder Of Hugh Graham.
a cable despatch from Paris said that
Wilson McCahdless, president of the Ale
gheny City National Bank, had died in that
city.-Upton Amick, of Cumberland, Md,
was beaten and robbed near st. ClairsyilI. Pr
Robert Starke, of West Point, Va, COM
mlited suicide.-It was discovered in New
York that fifteen letter-carriers were in coilu-
SION with the green goods men.-The thir.
teenth Congress Of the Protestant, Episcopal
Church in the United States opened in St.
Stephens Church, Philadelphia
eleventh annual Convention of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers opened in
Richmond Vat. c. Dawson, of Chenille,
a Ia "a sho 4 nd l. 4 d.
Columbus, Ga, in the presence of thousands
OF people by the brothers of a woman whom
Dawson had married and deserted. General
Master Workman Powderly, in his address to
the knights of Labor Convention. in Denver.
COL, advocated the discussion in the various
assemblies of the tariff question, so that the
members could vote intelligeutly on the
matter.-Elmer Sharkey, the Preble county,
Ohio, matricide, who was to have been exc
cuted at the Ohio penitentiary. has been
granted another reprieve by Governor Camp.
bell, until the latter is able to examine addi-
tional evi'lence.-A conspiracy has been
unearthed on the part of the employees of the
general passenger department of the Column
bus, Hooking Valley and Toledo Railroad to
deirHud the company by placing bogus passes
ard editors books in circulation.-The
Chicago Presbytery has found the Rev. DR..
Ii. 5. Williams, pastor at Englewood guilty of
every charge brought against him, and
publicly admonished.- Herr, mayor
OF Brazil, Ind, has been deposed for inebriety.
DIR. Boswell Gorham, prominent physi.
elan living near Lexington, KY, was shot and
killed by negro named Duncan. Angus
tine Claguez, San Francisco bootblack, shot
his wife and himsef.-John Sumner, one of
Michgan's pioneers, died in Kalamazoo. -
prize herd OF Berkshire hogs was nearly
destroyed by cholera in Oskaloosa, Iowa
Superintendent Porter, in an interview, re-
flutes the statement that the eleventh census
was a partisan one Gen. David Bell Me-
Kibbn was buried in the Arlington National
Cemetery.
Alexander Hexter, of the firm of Hexter &
Bros, New York, clothing manufacturers,
was killed by his head being caught between
the elevator and ceiling.-Wm. f. New
berry, a notorious train robber, is under arrest
in Chicago,-Governo Campbell, of Ohio,
is seriously ill.-George Jackson, aged tor.
ty-fve years. was arrested near Charleston,
W. Va, charged with m assault upon his
thirteeh-year-old stepdaughter,-Ho chol-
era is prevalent in Ohio.-Charles A. Blaney
and John w. r nney, ticket brokers, of
Columbus, o., have been arrested on the
charge of circulating bogus tickets.-Five
thousand people greeted Dillon and 0'Brien
in New York, and Governor Hill and Mayor
Grant escorted them to the platform at tho
meeting in the Metropolitan opera House
Minister Lincoln denies the report that
he will resign. the weather continue
favorable, the cotton crop will be satisfactory
Referring to the restriction placed on the
importation of American cattle by the Eng
lish government, Secretary Rusk stated there
was not single case of peuro-pneumonia in
this eountry.-Ida Snyder was killed by
jealous lover, named Bert iurt, near Fort
Wayne, Ind, because she refused TO marry
him.-Two negros in Chicago nearly killed
officer O'Malley when the latter attempted to
arrest them for robbng farmer.-Five
rested on charge of conspiracy in the MUIR
der of J. C. Forsyth.-The authorities Of
Victoria, British Columbia, are retaiiatiug by
charging American drummers an increased
license fee.-Terror reigns in the Chinese
quarter in San Francisco. A feud between
two societies has caused war of extermina-
ton to be augurated.-Henry Hall was
burned 10 death in Geneva, n. J.-James
Meadows of Nashville, Tenn, who three
times has attempted suicide, has varied the
monOtony by attacking his family, He is
thought to be insane.-Dr. Delevan Blood
good was sandbagged and robbed in Brook
Ign. and is now in a bad way.
The Suffolk county grand jury, of Massa-
.chusetts has indicted 5. S. Drew, a former
5ry goods merchant, for cheating. Edward
c. Hunt, aged twenty years, medical stu
dent in Chicago, committed suicide.-A
Newfoundland dog at Lead City, South Da-
kota, killed baby because is mother had
punished him.-Ex-Governor Edward A.
O'Neal, of Tennessee, died at Nashville
Viscount Paul d'Abzac, French consul gen.
eral at New York. has asked the protection of
the police from a Grey man who has threat
ened his life.--Fire at Picton, Nova Scotia,
destroyed number of buildings along the
water front.-Judge Mcconnell, of Chicago,
has decided that the Gas Trust Of that city
cannot hold stock in any other gas or electric
light company.--The body of Ella sewall.
who died three years a, ,, and was buried near
Sunbury, Pa, has completely petriied-