Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
THE NEWS

explosion of coal oil lamp,-The Phoebe
consolidated Mining and Reduction Company
capital S2e,000000 has been organized at Salt
Lake City.-F ina large tannery at Lewis,
Quebec. threatened the town. The loss is $780,
o00.-The case of Mrs. Elma C. Whitehead,
charged with the murder of W. E. Petit, was
mol pressed at Lafayette, Ind.--Hixie &
Miller, lumber dealers near Oshkosh, Wis,
have failed.-The strikeat the Westinghouse
works, Pittsburg, is over the strikers having
yielded Peter Pearson was stripped of his
clothing and killed by lightning bolt while
working on threshing machine at Doland,
5. D.-Worry and overwork caused Adam
Amlung, prominent manufacturer Of Gin
cinnati, to commit suicide.-August john
son, while talking to his sweetheart in the
parlor of her home at Guthrie, /. t was fatally
| shot through the window by an unknown
| party.-A short, sharp shock of earthquake
was felt at Gilroy, California. Kansas
Republicans renominated Governor Humph-
| rey and other state offieers-The Chicago
carpenters strike is Workmen
made narrow escapes from burning build
| ing in New York, and one of them, Daniel
lillian, aged seventeen years, persisted in the
| flames.
] The department encampment &. A. 7. Of
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg decided to hold
the next encampment at Williamsport.-
| The Virginia Funeral Directors Association
is holding its third annual session at Staun-
ton.-During Labor Day celebration in
IL l.,r 4 l.
Franz Maschatz was fatally stabbed.-The
! New York State Board of Arbitration began
an investigation of the strike on the New
| York Central road, and heard the evidence
of Vice President Webb of the Company,
| Master Workman Powderly, of Knights of
Labor, and several of the discharged en-
ployes.-Mrs. Adam Kruehter of White
Hall, Pa, has tasted 154 days-Thc little
town of Cocoa, on the Indian river, Florida
was destroyed by fre.-Sixty glass manu-.
| facturers met in Chicago to form an organiza-
| ton, the character of which is not yet known.
| Ballard Bronston, who was divorced from his
wife year ago and recently remarked her,
was shot and killed at Richmond, Ky, by
| Gilbert Maupin.-The Louisville and Nash
vile north bound train was held up north of
! Pensacola Junction and robbed.-The sloop
Petrol capsized just outside of the harbor San
Diego, Col, and six persons were drowned.
by the wrecking of train near Tacoma,
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, two persons
were killed, and twelve other injured 1t is
feared that the bark Henry Rusk and her
crew are lost.-In Joliet, ILL.,, an electric car
became uncoupled and ran down hill A
number of passengers were severely hut
The broom cutters in Coles and Douglass coun
ties, Ill. struck for a raise oftwenty.fve cents.
Theodore Bruins and Herman Matthes,
painters, were killed in Newark, n. j., by the
giving way of the seaffolding.
Owing to the failure of the apple crop, the
apple jack distileries in New York State will
not produce much liquor this season.
Frederick Kimbal, the ascending pa, ing
teller Of the Peoples Saving Banla. of War
cester, Mass, was arrested as he stepped off y
steamer at New York from Liverpool. 49,
Samuel Frances bricklayer of Altoona, Pa,
was assaulted by footpads, robbed of his
money and his tongue nearly torn out.-A
mob at little Rock, Ark, attacked J, b. Nc.
Laughlin, Union Labor speaker, and Geo,
Small, Republican politician and beat tho
latter into nsensibiiity.-By the explosion
of balloon about to ascend at Lincoln, Neb.,
F. +. Knapp was fatally burned.-John
Germ, aged seventy years, tollgate keeper,
near Wilmington, Del, was nearly beaten
to death by men who had refused to pay their
f,1I T..
was shot while stealing apples near Pbiadel.
phia,--Mrs. Susan L. Barr, wife of DR.. d.
Miller Barr, proprietor of the Hygenia Hotel,
Ocean Grove, died of Lockjaw e. w. Ben
nett and David Williams, while at work in
the Lexington tunnel at Durango, Col, were
blown to atoms by premature explosion.
An English syndicate, headed by Z. c. Morgan
is reported to have secured an option on all
the leading silver mines near Aspen, Col. al
the enormous sum Of S27 600 000.-Finan.
cial troubles led John Britain, general mana
ger of the Butler pa Salt and Chemical
Works, to commit suicide. Thomas Dew,
aged twenty-years, a ineman Of the Brush
hold of live electric light wire.-James
ii. McWilliams, aged ffty-five years, a bach
| elor retired merchant of Cincinnati, commit
ted suicide.-A thiefattackeG the paymaster
| Of the Addystone Company's Iron Works,
near Cincinnati, as he alighted from the train,
| but the former was armed, and sent several
| shots after the thief.-Edgar NJ. Mayer aged
! seventeen years, representing himself as the
son of DR.. d. Mayer, of Charleston, W. Va,
/ got a draft cashed in Mobile, Alabama, to
/ which he had forged the name of the mayor
OF the city.-Five pool-room proprietors, Of
| Covington, KY, were indicted by the grand
| jury for maintaininga public nuisance, and
fined $3.50 each.-Fiye dealers in "original
packages" at Washington, Pa, have been
fined heavily and sentenced TO the workkouse
George Gilbert, miser, who died al
Youngstown, Ohio, boosted that it did not
cost him three cents day to liye.-A tor
nado swept the town of Coldwater, Mich. do
ing considerable damage but causing no los:
of life-The wheat crop of Manitoba is one
of the largest ever known.-Prairie fires
along the little Missouri river in North Da-
kota. did great damage, twelve hundred
!
Nichols, presi ient of the Nichols Bank d
Kansas City, has been arrested IN the charge
of receiving money on deposit when he knew
the bank was in failing condition.-An
attempt was made to wreck the Chicago ex
press near Albany, n. y on the New York
| Central, and the strikers say it was the wori
of the Pinkerton men.-A baby slipped
from its little coach in Camden, n. j., and
falling into the street was crushed to dealt
beneath horses hoofs.
Ohio G.. Keane, prominent lawyer of Rich
mond, Va, died aft long illness. Henri
George arrived in New York from his tour o
the world, and was given a big reception b.
the followers Of his single tax theory, who ar,
holding national convention to advance tbs
idea.- Bill Gallagher, of Calayeras county
Cal, killed his wife and ten-year-o old son anC
then committed suicide.-In a family quar-
rel at Salina, Ks, John Sinks, a farmer, at
tempted to kill his wife and succeeded il
! killing himself-The Traut Run House, on
the mountains near Williamsport, Pa, wa
| destroyed by FIRE. Loss 5000. David Smith
aged ten years, in quarrel with Peter Han
SON. aged twelve years, at Coburg, Ontario
was fatally stsbbed.-The Wolford Hous,
at Como, Col, was burned, three person
perishing in the flames Samuel Lutz,
veteran of the war of 1872, died Circleyille
Ohio, aged 100 years.--Etta Simpson, ages
seventeen years, has been asleep whole week
The total cotton crop % the United State,
I 81 = e34Nf,I