Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-19
THE NEWS.

dld Tanner, died at Galena, ILL.,, after abstain
ing from food sixty days.-The saw mill men
employed at Ashland, Wis, threaten to strike
~ VIM. Pescheck, xteen-year-old boy,
was arrested in Green Bay, Wis, for robbing
freight cars. Walker w. Harris, of Buffalo,
and William GALAXY, of Iiinsdale n. Y, en-
gineer and fireman ola West Shore freight
train, were killed in a collision at Rochester.
BY the cave-in ofan embankmentin Pitts
burg, Michael Esan was fatally injured
The iron workers at the New Jersey Steel and
Iron Company's work in Trenton have struck.
Alexander Horning. aged ten years, was
accidentally shot and killed at Fultonvile, \.
T., by Aurie Dunlap. aged twelve years.
The United States Cricket team defeated the
Canadians in Philadelphia. Maltby
Colliery, owned by the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company in Wilkesbarre, Pa, resumed work.
Oscar Nicholson, Wilkesbarre, Pa, at
forney, was arrested on charge of securing
fraudulent pension aaidavits.-The steam
tug Pearl capsized on Fairlee Pond at Fairlee,
VT, and Captain Frank Brown was drowned
The hotel men formed national organi-
cation at Saratoga, n. Y.-Dr. John Edwin
Eusell New York physicien, inflicted fatal
wounds on himself The government test
of the strength of aluminium bronze at Water
town Arsenal was very satsfactory.-A riot
in Barnwell county, S. c., resulted in the kill
ing of a negro.-Moses Berger, an aged her.
nit, has disappeared from his cabin, near Port
Clinton, Pa.-The seven-story warehouse of
the Security Warehouse Company, in Min
neapolis, was destroyed by fire.-Thirteen
hundred kegs of powder exploded near Gin
cinnati, killing six people and iniuring about
twenty more
passenger train on the James river divi-
sion of the Cincinnati and Ohio Railroad. at
Gladstone, Va, ran into q freight train. and a
negro tramp was killed, and Engineer VIM.
Glove and Fireman W. Miller injured
The general offices of the Northern Pacific
Express Company, at Chicago, were entered
by masked thieves, who, at the point of re-
volyers, compelled two clerks to hand over
$loOo0.-0ne hundred and fifty people were
Frustrated by drinking contaminated water
from an old well at picnic near Scion, la.
The town of Sherman, N. Y, was partially
destroyed by fire. Loss, SO, 000-John d.
Henley, of Lake Village, n. H., in fit of
dependency, cut his throat. lie was prom.
inent member of the Grand Army.-An ac-
commodation train on the Monon Railroad
near Smithville, Ind, collded with freight
train and ten lives were lost-Joseph r.
Huntley, d lawyer of Long Island, was sen.
fenced to nine years in the State prison for
embezzling S21 900 belonging to clients
Bernard Clifford, farmer near La Grange,
KY, was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. He was just going into his stable with
his step-son, Willie Smith, when The lightning
was seen to enyelop him and the crash was
heard.-AIrs. FlorOta Russell, of Ottawa.
Kansas, was robbed of $4,000 in cash, which
she was carrying in hand-satchel on the
streets of Omaha.-Miss Nancy Goodrich,
10 years old died in Bloomfield, Ct, her
birthplace. She had been in good health
A monument is being made at Rutland, VT,
to be erected at Annapolis in memory of the
ill-iated Jeanette and Commander De Long.
-Thomas Martin, John McNulty and John
Mcdonald, miners, employed by the Pennsyl-
yania Coal Company at Pitston Pa, were
arrested for the murder of James Hughes, of
Oregon.-The Gould headquarters, Mer-
chants Exchange and Henderson Buildings,
at Dallas, Texas, were destroyed by fire; loss
$4,000.
Annie Estella Murphy, aged twenty-three
years, was fatally cut by her husband on the
street in Philadelphia Clinton Shuneck,
aged thirty-five years, shot and killed Mary
Brunot, aged fourteen years, and then shot
himself, in Montgomery county, Pa.-John
Cruise, of Westboro, Mass, confesses that he
tried TO kill Frank Martin, to obtain money
to pay his wedding expenses.-A cyclone in
Minnesota destroyed a number of houses, and
many persons were killed and injured-As-
bury Hurley, aged twenty years, at Asbury
Park, n. j., attempted to shoot Miss Adeia
Nackner, who rejected his attentions, and also
tried to commit suicide. Perry Comstock, a
wealthy farmer of Owosso, Mich, aged sixty
years, shot and killed his wife, and then shot
himself. A few years ago he married his sec
ond wife young woman of twenty, and it is
reported that he was very jealous of her,
Fire at Arunswick, Ga, destroyed several
warehouses and other property to the value
of 00o.-Robert Carey, prominent
sugar aud rice broker of New Orleans, died in
Chicago aged seventy years.-Mrs. Ernest
Prentice died in indianapolis, and in accord
ance with her last wish, brass band played
at the funeral. The wheat harvest in South
ern Indiana has been completed, and the yield
will be better than expected.-A father in
Iapecr Mich, sues druggistfor selling alco-
hol to his little boys, who became intoxicated,
and were run over by locomotive.-Mrs
l.. w. Hatfield, of Winamac Ind, gave birth
to double boy baby.-The Blake manu-
featuring Company of Boston, builders of
steam pumps under the Blake and Knowles
patent has been sold to an English syndicate
at a price said to be $3,0o0,000.-A new
counterfeit g silver certificate is in circula-
ton in the West.
Captain Walter Campbell, ofthe ship Hoag,
ley, arrived in New York, and tells terrible
story of how he rescued the crew Of the mis-.
sing schooner Carmelite, which was burned
at sea. The two crews nearly famished on
board the Hoagley by the food and water Civ
ing out-The refinery of the Southern Cot
tonseed Oil Mills, near Atlanta, Ga, was
burned. Loss Sl00000.-Cowboys at sgd
ney, Neb., amused themselves by shooting al
and clipping telegraph wires and insulators,
and thereby cutting of all communication be-
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast by the
Western Unions main William G.
Morehead, banker of Philadelphia, became
suddenly demented at Asbury Park, n. j., and
wandered off.-A so-called wild man, with
a shaggy beard and only covered by red
blanket, has been alarming the women and
children of the vicinity of Palmyra, Mo-
John G. Nottinger, one Of the oldest settlers
of Illinois died at La Salla, aged eighty two
years.-The home of Hiram Stanton, at
Mooresville, Ind, was struck by lightning and
all the familystunned.-- Threehundred brake
men and switchman Of the Louisville and
Nashville dsailroad went on strike.-Both
branches of the legislature Of Louisiana have
denied the right Of the Governor to veto the
Lottery bill.--The Clothing Manufacturer
Association, of New York, intend locking out
their one thousand Delaware Re
publieans fixed upon Dover as the place, and
| September 9th as the date, for the state con-
vention.-The new hotel ut Buena Vista,
Va. was burned. Loss, o000-Thomas
Willett, young man of Aecomsc county, Va,
in jealous frenzy stabbedand nearly hacked
to pieces two disreputabIe women.-by the
premature explosion ola blast in quarry at
Huntingdon Pa, G. L. Secrist was killed and