Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-13
THE NEWS


In quarrel concerning a keg of beer, was con
victed of murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary-
Madame Leroy was caught under bal
loon which fell into the river at Wheeling, W.
Va. and was nearly drowned.-An English
syndicate is buying up boot and shoe manu-
factories in 81. Louis Rochester, New York,
lineage and Cincinnati.-F Frank A. Dickin-
'on and his wife were found dead in their
home in Cincinnati from an overdose of chloro-
form, which they had taken for neura gia and
reproduce sleep.--At a conference of miners
and operators at Altoona, Pa, scale of wages
for the workers in the Clearfie.d district was
arranged, and strike ayerted.-J. Alexan-
der tombstone, the Western mnd-reader, per-
formed remarkable feat in Chicago finding
name on hotel register previously selected
by committce-M Mrs. +. II. Bissel, young
widow of New Orleans, cowhided Hypolite
fachaux, hotel proprietor, for making re-
marks about her character. Massachu-
| sets Prohbitonists held state convention
and nominated ticket, headed by George
kempton for lieutenan: governor.-Citizen,
IN the Bear Tree Creek section of North Car
Dina are alarmed over seeing smoke issuing
from seven peaks of the Blue Ridge Noun
tains.-Five buildings, owned by Jos. NJ.
MCCALL Son, and three other buildings at
| Duncannon, Pc. were burned, and eight fam
lies rendered homeless. Loss $1,000
Isaac X. Knoll, ex-clerk of the Orphans,
Court of Reading, Pa, aged sixty-fve years,
committed suicide by drowning himself in
fish pond.-A convention of delegates from
six Southern states was held in Atlanta to
take steps to secure direct trade with Euro
peau ports.
Warming has been sent from New York to
all the transatlantic companies not to bring
passengers suffering from contagious diseases
to that port-The Republicans of Delaware
IN convention nominated Harry A. Richard
son for governor and H. P. Cannon for Con-
gress-The Worlds Fair directors selected
the dual site of the Lake front and Jackson
Park, Chicago.--Josiah NJ Fletcher, of
New Hampshire Prohibi ionists.--The of
/ icias Of the New York Central are alarmed
at the numerous attempts at t-ain-wrecking,
there having beena visible decline in the pas
senger business.--William F. Slingluff,
treasurer OF the Pennsylvania Rolled Steel
Car Wheel Company, was arrested at Norris
town, Pa. and it is alleged that his deficit
amounts to Sl5,0O0.-A stage was held upby
highman near Greenwood, Cal, and robbed
OF the express b0S.-An eighty ear-old son
of A. s. Highlands, in Manchester, n H., is
suffering with hydrophobia.- Hiler
shot two of his brothers-in-law during hear
ing in court at Hammers1ille, O.-John
Russell shot and seriously wounded Benedict
Dewitt in Bangor Me.--The ship laborers
on the steamers of the Allen Line in Montreal
have struck.--The brakemen and switch
men on the Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati
Railroad have struck for more wages.-The
Wheeling street earmen's strike has been set
tled.-George W. Moss, who brutally muir
dered his wife on October 10, 1889 at Wilkes
barre, Pa, was sentenced TO be hung
California celebrates the fortieth anniver-
sary of its admission into the Union.--John
Parker, young farmer, was instantly killed.
and Oliver Hughes was MORALLY wounded,
in fight in dsreputable house at Pleasant
Hill, Mo,--Ethel Curtis nineteen years old,
while smoking cigarette in bed in New
York, set fire to her clothing and was fatally
burned.-Mrs Edward Reiniger, of Milwau-
kee, was shot and mortally wounded by her
husband, from whom she had separated be-
cause of his brutality. Gleason of
Long Island City, brutality assaulted George
r. Crowley, well-known newspaper man.
The Lynn Morocco Manufacturers Asso-
citation has locked out 1900 workmen.--
Two bold thieves cleaned out gambling den
in Chamberlain, S. D., terrorizing forty gam
blers and pocketing all the stakes.-Indus-
trial Art Hall in Philadelphia was destroyed
by fre.-The farmers of New York have
organized state league for political action.
james Currey, farmer of Conoserogo,
N. Y, was fatally injured by the explosion
of dynamite cartridges. High Hughes,
aged thirty-fv years, longshoreman of New
York, cut his throat in the presence of his
wife and three children.--TheCh Chicago pack
ers talk of removing their establishments
across the Indiana line.-The London and
Chicago Contract Corporation has been formed
carriage fell five stories from the roof house
IN New York and escaped injury, the carriage
landing on a bale of rags.-In the wreck of
a work-train, near Canon City, Col anumber
of workmen were killed and forty injured.
Lightning struck an burned the Pennsyl
vania Railroad offices at Altoona.--Fre has
again broken out in the Dunbar mine, in
u. Al. A.
killed in the explosion still lay.-The city
of Springfield, Mass, is infested with black
flea Jerome A. Brown, conductor on the
Salem and Lowell division Of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, was arrested, charged with
larceny of tickets.--Emil Schultz & Co., i'm
porters of win and liquors, New York, made
an assignment Customs officials in New
York seized about $1,000 worth of diamonds
concealed in the baggage of w. II. Medhurst,
9 wealthy young EnglIshman, who arrived
from Liverpoo.--A number of the leading
business meE of Belvidere, n. j., have formed
asyndicdte and are buying and shipping thou
sands OF bushels Of potatoes to the West. The
f'rmers all through that section are selling
their potato crops. They get Fifty cents cash
bushel, and the crop is an immense one.
Fire in the Charlotte mines at Seottdale, Pa.
has caused suspension Of all work---John
Markell was arrested in York, Pa, on charges
of forgery, alleged to have been committed at
Clarinda, Iowa, six years ago.--An attempt
was made to wreck the st. Louis and Chicago
express on the New York Central Road near
Poughkeepsie.- Herman and John
Cordial, striking Knights OF Labor, were ar
rested at Albany on suspicion Of being con-
neeted with train wrecking on the New York
Central.-The police raided the Philadel-
phia gambling houses and captured two hun
bred players Of fan-tan The wife and child
of Abel Hughes were drowned while trying to
ford Buffalo creek, in West yirginia.-John
Riley was murdered in Chicago. VIM. Dris.
coll is suspected of the erime.-Two trains
collided near Lockport, n. Y. A baggage
master was killed and two other trainmen
badly hurt.--C. F. Wakefield, crazy far
mer in d marsville, KY, set FIRE to his house
and shot his daughter, who Was trying to
save some Of her eloihing.-Two sons 81
john Murray we're blown to atoms at Pinos
Alios New.