Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-22
THE NEWS

held. lila heavy hail storm swept over
the Wyoming Valley, Pa, being particularly
severe at Plymouth, where the wind blew
down the steeple of the Lithuanian Catholic
Church William Robinson, western pas
senger agent of the Grand Trunk Railroad,
was killed at the Michigan Central Depot in
Lopeer, Mich, by falling under moving
train.-The American Harvester Company
has been recognized in Chicago with capi-
val stock of $35, 900, 000--The military have
surrounded the Pine Ridge Agency, and
troops are rapidly hemming in the other In
dian agencies in the Northwest, but General
Miles does not think the Indians will now at
tempt an outbreak.-H. E. Thorp was shot
and killed in Chicago by Edward Weinder.
Both worked as book binders. - A new
school-house was burned at Hamburg, Iowa.
Loss $4,000; insurance $l2, 500.-Drivers in
the block coal mines near BrPzil, Ind. have
struck for an advance of wages to 50 day.
A mortgage for s75000,o00 filed by the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and 81. Louis Railroad
Company to the New York Trust Company
was recorded at Peru, Ind.-Fire in Tur-
ner's livery stable at Evanston, Ind. caused
a loss of 0,000.-Ex-P Postmaster Thomas
Jones, brother of United States Senator Jones,
died at Cleveland, Ohio.-John Dunn was
killed by the explosion of boiler at Marble
i'll the Memphis Postoffiee, was arrested
charged with mbezzlement.-The Indian
scare seems to be subsiding.
Wneeirug's grand jury turned down the
Law and Order League of that city, rejecting
sixty-nine out of seventy bills pr, scented by
the league for Sunday selling.
officers think the reports ofan Indian uprising
in the Northwest greatly exaggerated AT
Lima, O., new building fell, and two work.
men were killed outright, and dozen or
moreiuj ured.-Francis Z. Warren, governor
of Wyoming, was elected to the United States
Senate.--A. w. Hassell and John Robinson,
two young white men, stonecutters of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, working side by side and long
time friends, got into dispute about trivial
matter. The lie was passed, and Hassell
struck Robinson with wooden mallet from
the effects of which he died.-An unknown
depot in Hartford, CT, for several days de-
Hberately laid his neck on track in front of
switch engine, and was decapitated.-A
heavy log fell rpon the head of William
Hackett, a road supervisor of the Reading
Company, at Mahanoy City, Pa, breaking his
necL.-The general missionary Methodist
committee in session in Boston appropriated
funds for the various conferences, and decided
to hold he next annual meeting in Cleveland,
O.-Adam Huron was dragged to death by a
horse near Windsor Township, York county,
Ps.-Phlander Brown and wife, Sprtua-
lists, of Susquehanna, Pa, We're convicted of
securing control over an old man named Paul
Hill, and obtaining 5000 from him.
Michael O'Neil attempted to rob Mrs. Harriet
Dunn in the streets Of New York in broad
daylight He was arrested.-During a re-
lisious revival in birmingham, Ala, Roda
Wright was killed by another enthusiast
crushing thu life out of her.-Rear Admiral
Charles Steedman was buried in Boston,
The United States armored cruiser Maine was
launched from the Brooklyn navy Yard
The Italians in New Orleans charge the
authorities with brutally treating the prison.
ers.--Emma Clemens killer Max Sueskind,
her recreaat lover in Chicago. - Green glass
workers threaten to secede from the Knights
Of Labor-An accident on the Ferney
Mountain Railway resulted in the killing of
two men and the iniurng of four others
John Wutzell returned from business trip
to his home in Akralon. KS, to find his wife
gone, and 81 LOCO in cash and 5000 in notes
Daniel Runkle, aged sixty-seveu years, of
Asbury, Warren county, N Y, died leaving a
fortune estimated at 5,000,000.-A report
on the new religious craze among the Chey-
ennes, submitted to General Miles, shows that
the Indian figuring as the new Messiah is a
Pah- Ute named John Johnson.-Henry
Smith, colored, was lynched near Bessemer,
Ala, for outragng an old white woman
At Darlington, S. c., W. Calvin Rhodes struck
his brother-in-law, John Floyd. Floyd shot
Rhodes in the forehead, and Rhodes is dying.
An old quarrel is at the bottom of the tragedy.
Robert Ray Hamilton's will was probated
in New York He ignores his alleged wife.
---Gcneral George C. Mckee, receiver of
public money, died al Jackson, Miss.-Rev.
Simeon P. Dompieri, prominent German
Catholic theologian, died in Boston.-Her-
man Oer his, a baker Of Roanoke, Va, tried
to shoot Peter Connolly, another baker,
charging him with making improper proposals
to Oelrich's wife Colonel B. J. Hickman,
a manufacturer OF Martinsburg, w. Va, died.
The North River Bank of New York will
not resume.-There were several small
failures in New York, bnt the financial situa-
ton is much more promising. Census
Bureau has issued bulletin showing the
debts and resources of the cities in the United
Statcs.-Secretary Window has determined
to fill out no more blanks for the Fish Com
mission.-The State Department has been
notified that Mousa Bey has been banished.
The O'Shea divorce case was concluded
by verdict in favor of the husband, the plea
for divorce being granted and the custody of
the younger children being given him. The
jury condemned the conduct of Mrs. O'Shea
and Parnell
By the explosion of can Of dynamite
placed too near stove in dwelling at
Duluth, Mimi, man named Morland was
killed and his wife and four children injured.
a west-bound express, on the Baltimore
and Ohio, jumped the track, near Clarksburg,
w. Va, and ran into work train. Several
trainmen were injured Louise Lochot, a
French maid, was arrested in New York,
charged with stealing diamond necklace
from her employer, the wife of Commodore
Bateman.-The story comes from Tacoma
Of the formation of syndicate with capital
of Sl5O,000,000 to eonstl uct railroad rom
Puget Sound to Alasks.-Indians have
murdered man and woman in Ravenna,
CaL-Harrison H. Wentworth, bookkeeper
ofthe Line Rock National Bank, Providence,
T. l., has been arrest.l on charge Of EN-
bezzlement, shortage Of So, 900 having been
found.--J. NJ. Carey, Republican, was elected
United States Senator from Wyoming
Julius E. Smith, assistant cashier of the
Farmers National Bank, of Amsterdam, n.
Y, is q defaulter to the amount of 50, 000-
The Kankakee ul.) VALLEY and Belt Railroad
Company, with Offices at Chicago, has been
incorporated. The capital stock is seven
million dollars.-Prominent people in HeIe.
ma, Mont, were arrested for assauiting a
Salvation army eaptain--In collision on
the Chicago, ST. Paul and Kansas City Rail-
road, near Elkton, MINI, conductor, fireman
and brakeman were kilied.-A threatened
strike of coal miners in the fourth poal il
Pennsylvania has been settled.-A tailor
shop and grocery store were burned At the
University Of Virginia, AMI Edward O'Hara,