Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-11
THE NEWS.

politician of Savannah, Ga. was found dead
from heart disease in his office-Jano Ks.
Jahdo' hungarian, was arrested in Perth
Amooy, n. j., charged with completely in the
murder of Josepn Hepuer, boarding house
ooss In Bucks county, Pa.-The finding of
gold IN Northern Ontario has caused great
excitement among the Canadans.-Nathan
Wlilet, farmer near Norfolk, Cal, has been
arrested charged with numbering Fl. B. Wood
WARD, IN Anderson county, Texas, seventeen
years ago.-Wm. Sprague. Jr., the only son
oil Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island,
committed suicide at Seattle, Washington.
The books of ex-City Treasurer Fitz-
patrick, of Terre Hautc, Ind, show shortage
OF Slo,5Z2 for his two terms in office, most of
che money having been lost in politics.
! Attorney General Hunt, of Illinois, has de-
eided that the law does not permit tie express
companies to act as agents for the lotteries in
that State. y. C. Forsythe, secretary of the
Normandale Lumber Company, ut Macon,
ia, was shot and killed by an unknown
! essassin.-The eighth annual Indian con-
/ terence opened at Lake Mohonk.-The
slghty-frst annual meeting of the American
/ Board OF Commissioners OF Foreign Missions
| opened at Minneapolis. w. Norton
/ Of Skowhesan, Ne, was sentenced to state
prison for life for thu murder of Mrs Anna
Cooley, his housekeeper, by the explosion
Of boilers in a sawmill in Muskcgon, Mich,
The mill was demolished and six men hurt
"A three-y ear-old son of Mrs. James Duffin,
Df South Bethlehem, Pa, was chok ed to death
on grain of coflee.--H. b. Oliver, news
agent, in quarrel with j. R. Blanton over
seat on train between Roanoke and Lynch
burg, shot the latter.-C. S. Ball and Bros
wire mattress factory, in IIarrsbu. g, Pa, was
destroyed by fire. Loss, S6,000.-Pauline
Hall, tie actress, hides her diamonds in her
stockings and other garments over night in
her dressing room. Tuesday night the dress,
in the sleeve of which was secreted her jewels,
was stolen from the theatre but was found in
a pawn shop in Philadelphia.
Changes were made in the White House
arrangements to secure more room for the
conduct Of executive busness.-The gov
! ernor of Alaska in his annual report dwells
upon the impossibilty Of enforcing the liquor
laws with the present machinery, and recon-
| mends number of legislative and sanitary
improvements Arthur Day was convicted
at WellaHd, Ont of numbering his wife, and
sentenced to death.-A mail transfer wagon
I IN Louisville, KY, was robbed.--Mrs Jehial
Tryon was burned TO death in Mildletown.
Conn.-Wiiliam P. Salt, Vicar General Of
Newark, N. j., is dead.-John c. Newton,
n l,cl sfpp ..
College. Walter Hams, of ithaca, n. y,
killed his mother-in-law, whom he mistooli
for burglar.-Dupont' powder mill on the
banks of the Brandywine was blown up and
twelve persons are known to have been killed.
| Quite number were injured.-John Ker-
rigan died in Centrnlia, Pa, from the effects
of beating from Mertell MeManamen and
John McEIugh.-Rube Burrows is reported
to have been captured in Linden Ala.-Ten
persons were badly hurt by an explosion in a
ST. Louis grocery store, two of them fatally.
City Collector George Foster, OF Tucson,
is missing, His accounts are short. A
meeting of the Supreme Council OF the Fed
Grafton of Railway Employees has been called
1 to consider the employment Of colored switch
/ men OH the Huntington system of railroads
in Texas---At New Pendleton, Ore, pas
/ senger train was wrecked, and Fireman How.
ard fatally hurt,--All the underground en-
I ployees Of the Lake Angeline mine, in Mehi-
/ gan, have struek.-R. NJ. Hobbs, founder of
the Aurora, III cotton mills, is dead.-A
robber entered the store Of William Mann, in
the suburbs Of Kansas City, and got away
with S250.-Mrs. Mary Shessler died from
I the effects Of tie burns received in Philadel-
phia by Peter Clark hurting kerosene lamp
at her
| Diphtheria is doing its terrible work in
several Delaware familes.-Mr n. Atkins
and his wife, at Aulander, N. c., were muir
dered by tn Ground was broken in
/ Chicago for the Newfierry Library Building.
Mrs. Ada Richardson obtained verdict
of $4,000 damages from New York jury
for the alienation of her husbands affections
Religious conventions will be held at
Washington. The Maryland Synod of the
Lutheran Church will be in session. the Ma
/ tional Catholic Young Mems Societies will
I meet in convention and the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society will also assemble The
/ harbor of Oswego, N. Y, is full Of barley
Z laden vessels from Canada.-Ed Stacy.
/ desperate was shot and killed by f. A.
! Davidson in Mullen Idaho-Gold in large
/ quantities was found in the ArJuckle Noun
tainS.-At farm near Csndor, Pa, Mrs.
\ Landshaw used ro-glycerine for Carbon.
oil, and blew up the house.--Burchall, the
murderer of Benwell, has partly admitted his
Standardization have been issued by
/ creditors against the Eureka Silk Manufac-
[ turing Company, of Chicago.-Anos Bills,
/ the murderer of George Boots, has been cap
4 tured near Lancaster, Pa.-Catte thieves
have been working the Cherokee strip
I John W. Foster was arrested at Leavenworth,
/ Kansas, on a charge of eounterfeitng Ed
| ward T. Martin, business man of Birming-
/ ham, Ala, was 81 OF and sefi unded y
/ woman calling herself Mrs. Clarence O.
! Martin. Cadet MeConnico of the Virginia
/ Military Institute, who struck Cadet ITALIA
| ferro fatal blow in istic encounter. was
| discharged, the grand jury failing to find a
/ true bill against him.-Captain Cannon, of
the famous Flambeau Club of Kansas City,
has been arrested on the charge of cutting
| down with his sword a spectator at one Of
/ the parades of the club.
! The Mississippi river commission finished
its work after apportioning 100000 for i'm
I provements on the Lower Mississippi and its
tribuiaries-The wife of John Melee and
| two of his children were burned to death in
| their home at Dubuque, Ia.-Malignant
| dysentery is epidemic in Hamburg, y. J.. and
for while the people were panic stricken,
believing the di ease was cholera.-It is
I reported that the New York Central Rail-
road management was asked by Engineers
and Firemens' Brotherhoods to drive the
Knights of Labor from the service of the
compatibility citizens of Trenton were
made violently sick at barn party by eating
lobster salid,-The Prohibitionists Of the
Sixth Virginia congressional district nomi-
mated Farmer William ]. Shelburn, of Mont
gomery county, servant girl in the en-
ploy of Mrs Tosh, at York, Pa, confessed 10
setting fire to the house.-The Democrats
ofthe Fifth congressional district of Massa-
chusetts nominated Dr. VIM Everett. the
youngest soa of Edward Everett, in oppose
lion to the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge.-There
sconsiderable excitement in Rome, Ca, over
The discovery that Mrs. NJ. A. Wimple had
been poisoned by her friend aud next-door
/ neighbor, Mrs. Ross Mex ee.--Louis Fisher,
sgrd twelve years, of Columbus, Ohio, died a