Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-21
THE NEWS.

| cisco Will endeay0r to stop prize nights IN that
| city.-James Whitman farmer,was killed
while moving in his field in Auburn, Neb
! His brother-in-law is suspected of the crime.
Indians attacked cowboys on ranch in
New Mexico and are thought to have killed
| all, with one exception. women in OS-
| ceola, Pa, were drowned by the rising of the
waters of brook swollen during a Storm
| Harris A. Smiier, convicted in New York Of
| killing his wife, was sentenced TO death by
| electricity Wealthy citizens of New Haven
Fus Benjamin Hongass, Of
| London, has offered amillion and a quarter for
| the New Orleans lottery privilege.-A peti.
| ton was made to the United States Court in
| Philadelphia asking for the extradition OF
Thomas Fred. Stevenson, of England, charged
| with embezzlement.-The wholesale liquor
dealers of New York have decided to raise q
fund of half million dollars with which to
build distilleries.-On the West North Car.
Dina Railroad, on the Saluda Mountains, near
| asheville, n. c., coal train ran wild and was
wrecked. Two engineers and fireman were
killed and five other trainmen were injured
Peter F. Rafferty,, New York Custom.
| house employe, was indicted on a charge of il.
legally soliciting campaign contributions
| Aaron NJ. Jones, of Denver, Col, shot his wife
and then committed suicide.
Oliver Perry fell on a saw at a mill in Au.
gusta county, Va. His body was cut in two.
! Captain Darby was killed near Norfolk,
Va, by the explosion of steampipe on the tug
Lightning. Miss Mary Wilson, daughter of
eIMarshal Wilson, of the District of Column
bia, was married to Lieutenant George b.
Davis, of the army at the residence of the
BRIDES parents in Washington.-Th Ma
sonic Temple Association, of Chicago will
erectan eighteen-story building, to cost g, 000-
000.-The steel cruiser Yorktown arrived at
New York from Cape de Verde Islands after
remarkably short run,-Three Italians
were arrested in New York for passing coun-
| terfeit Italian money among the Storage pas
sengers on the steamer Bugia and others
| Jones Loyelace, in a fit of dependency be-
cause his wife had left him, threw himself
under a railroad train at Atlanta, Ga, and was
instantly killed. Mayor McQuaid, of Jack
sonville, Fla. was brutally assaulted by City
Marshal Higgins, who was under investiga-
| ton upon a charge of official misconduct
The new Chronicle newspaper building in San
| Francisco, which cost VI. II. de Young 81, 0oa,-
| 900, was formally opened. Thirteen miles
of grain fields in Southern California were
burned over.--The building laborers of Bos-
ton and adjacent towns, numbering three thou
sand, went on strike.-Guy Turner of Au-
gusta, Me-, who i'll January last attempted sui
eide while insane, died from starvation
Lightning set fire to the big tannery of the
| Oak Leather Company at Cincinnati and it
was destroyed. Loss 0,O00.-John Mer-
chant went home drunk and abused his wife
at Green, Chendngo county, n. y, whcreupon
the woman shot and fatally wounded him.
| Henry Smith was hanged at London, Ont
for wife murder.--John T. Forrest, aged
eighty-eHe years, who imagined himself a bur
| den to his family, committed suicide by hang
| ing in New York.-Unusually heavy rain
| fall at Rockford and Joliet, H., the former
| demolished Six thousand cutters and CLOAK
! makers of New York were locked out because
| of the refusal Of union cutters to turn theil
| work over TO non-union workers.-A mai
| train on the Richmond and Danville Railroad
| was derailed near Marshal, n. c., and mum
Der of persons hurt-John II. Thomm,
| member of the Select Council, Of Reading. Pa.
charged with sounding false alarms of fir,
| and ringing up the whole town at unreason
| able hours.-C asterline & Co.'s nitro-glyeer
inc works near Findlay, O., was blown Zane
the people for miles around thought the con
cussion was caused by an earthquake.-F
c. Caughman and Pearce G.. Taylor, indicted
for the Lynehing of William Leophardt fol
| committing an outrage upon Rosa Cannon ,wer,
4 acquitted by the Lexington IS. C.) court
! d. Kennedy boarding at Osceola June
| ton, Mich. was destroyed by fire, and hi,
| twelve-year-old son persisted, the mother beine
! badly burned in trying to rescue him.-Firt
destroyed the grain building of the Garter
/ White Lead Works at Omaha Neb. Los
! $1,000 memorial in favor of free WOO
has been sent to the Senate Finance Commit
tee by the Wool Consumers Association o
Boston.-A freight train on the Philadel
| phia division of the B. & O., struck two boy,
at Gray's Ferry, killing one and seriously in
| Turing the otber-Two brothers, Otto ant
| Herman Bert, aged twelve and fifteen years
terrorized by an approaching train on tn,
Chicago lake front, were struck and both in
stantly killed. -Captain Clarence n. Clarke
a prominent civil engineer of Washington
committed suicide William Walton, o
| Louisville, KY, struck Ben II. Kerrick blow
| in the stomach with his fist, killing him al
most instantly.-An oil well on the premise.
| of the little Forest Grove Presbyterian Church
| at CHARTERS, Pa, enabled the church to sci
out to the Standard Oil Company for 1920
cash.
At picnic at Elmwood, Ohio where the
beer flowed too freely, general fight resulted
il which four persons were dangerously
! wounded.-A freight and passenger train
| c)llided at Chippewa Falls, Wis, demolishine
both locomotives, seriously injuring one of tn,
/ firemen and several passengers.-A terrific
storm caused damage in Cincinnati and viein
ity estimated at s200o0o.-Lizzie Murphy
Nellie Mahoney and her young brother Johr
Mahoney were drowned while bathing al
Anoka, Miss.-Failure to obtain employ
ment caused Emily Fowler, handsome young
woman of New York, 10 commit suicide
| -Four persons in Mrs. Dundas' boarding house
at Detroit were made violently i'll by eating
canned rn-beef.-William Campbell wa,
killed on the railroad at Luray, Va.-Thad
deus F. Mccarthy, aged thirty We years, fell
from the third-story window of his home in
| New York city, and fractured his SKULL
| John O'Neill, an ex-alderman of New York
| who was sentenced to four and a-half years il
Sing Sing for bribery, was released after serv
| ing three years.--Postmaste General Wanna
maker retires as an active partner in the firm
of Hood, Bonbright & Co, but still retains
| special interest worth 100000, in the grea
dry goods frm.-By an explosion Of fire
damp in the Hill Farm mines, in Fayett,
county, Pa, thirty four miners were killed.
/ RIDDIED WITH RITCKSU0T