Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-22
THE NEWS.

OF Olio crude oil has been advanced TO
twenty five cents per barrel. Rev. J. Car
michael, OF Lathrop, NO, accuses his wi
OF iultery and will apply for a divorce
The cruiser Newark was launched in Phiia-
delphia in a binding snowstorm.-A col
lision occurred on the Northwestern road a.
Lavalls Station, near Barbaboo, Wis, AMI
SIX persons were more or less mi Ired.-
Conductor Houtling, OF the Lake Shore train
wrecked near Bay View, N. Y /, was arraign-
ed at Buffalo, charged with being RESPONSE
be for the accident.-The Florida South
crn railroad has been placed in the hands Of
receiver.-M j. Chatham was hanged
at Grenada, Miss, for the murder of a col
ored mani. Frank Armstrong, alias
Tcmpkns, the embezz'iu, Philadelphia book
keeptr, is hell in $4,000 bail for COURT
Ia Br.,idwool, H., Joseph Nodak shot and
killed the fourteen-year-ol daughter OF his
brcther-in law.-Assistqnt Naval Con
struc or Charles Hewes died at Norfolk. -
Five miners penned in the burning mine, at
Hurley. Mo, persisted, and six others were
seriously injurel---Lu all Nickerson widow
of the lats Captain N.ckerson, was awarded
81, 500 damages for libel agains. the Central
Safe DEPOSIT Com; any OF New York
Jacob Arnold ami his son Charles, and
Jos ph Schmitt, were arrested in New York,
charged with smuggling.
George D. Ro engarten, founder OF the
Rosengartan Chemical Works, died in Phila
delphia,aged eighty-ons years. Wv. D.
B4rck g Cos carriage works at Lancaster,
Pa, were burned Loss 9,00a-Henry
Leggett, his wife and daughter were arrested
at Bedford, Iowa, for killing his father four
years ago for So, gold watch AMI span
of mules. Arthur Henry, station agent at
Harris urg, Ohio, on the N.ckls Plate Roai,
was murdered by thief, whom be refused
the key OF the safe.-The extensive dry
goods establishment of Pardee, Mills s. Co.,
Peoria. ILL.,, was destroyed by fire Loss
100000 ---George Phillips, the son of WIN,
Phillips, accidentally shot and instantly
killed Charles Blitwich, the ten. ye1r. old
son of T. F. Baitwich, at the latter's resi-
d4nce in Weston, CT Veronica Smith,
aged seventy five, fell down a flight OF stairs
at st. Francis Convent, at Beverly, N. j.,
AMI was kiiled.--The Supreme Court o.
Wisconsin has d. cded that the Bible has no
place in the public schools. --The New
Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference de-
cded against equal representation. --Se-
bastian Miller, champion CT sc o. Roman
wrestler of Germany, was arres.eI in Colum-
bus, Ohio, on the charge OF crimiually as
saulting Alicia Lertz, girl of fiftesn vars.
Two miners, Frederick Foltz and Charles
Link, were killed by an explosion of gas in
the Philadelphia Coal Company's colliery at
Shenandoah, Pa.-Ths coroneI's jury in
vestigating the recent wreck on thu Like
Shore Railroad, near Buffalo, N, Y, rend-
cred verdict charging the railroad man
agement with gross negligence, declaring
the conductor of the train culpably negli-
gent, and centuring the brakeman. Thu
financial committee of the City Council OF
Chattanooga, Tenn. reporte discrepancy
of S6SS, $50 between. the accounts Of CITY Au
ditor Vernon Whiteside and the city. White
sides whereabouts are unknown.
The sheriff OF Montevista, Col, shot and
killed three prisoners who had escaped from
the county jiiI.-The recent freezing
weather has injured the growing wheat in
Illinois. Young Scammon, the
founder of the Chicago Inter Ocean, and for
many years prominently identified with the
growth and prosperity of Chicago, died at
h S home in Hyde Park, aged seventy eight
years.-Fire at Whitall. Tatum & Cos
glass works, at Melville, N. J. communicated
with the satpeter watts, which were trans
formed into roaring furnaces, which, when
water was thrown upon them, exploded with
terrific forced. ID. Spencer, to whose
bad management was attributed the failure
of the Cook County National Bank of Chi
cago, in 1877, has returned to that city after
an absence of thirteen years. --Despond-
ency, caused by ill-healtb, led Miss Katie,
DIT, Cincinnati teacher to commit suicide.
bernard +. Martin, deputy commissioner
of public works, New York city, was arrest
ed on sn indictment charging him with re-
ceiving brides while in the sheriff's office.
Deputy Sheriff Patrick Fitz ;erad was also
arrested.-Tne Iowa legislature passed
bill reducing the maximum rate of interest
on negotiable paper from ten to eight per
cent-The widows of the victims Of the
Nottingham mine disaster have entered suits
against the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company for damages nggregating Sl00, 900.
MANY tobacco plants in North Carolina
have been blightei by frost. A twelve
year-old son of S. ID. Chambers, near Hot
Springs, Madison county, N. c., accidentally
shot and killed his mother Two Yale Col
loge students were drowned near New Haven
Ct, by their boat running against the break
water and lpsizing.-John A. Davis, de-
fauiting ex-city treasurer of Rochester, N.
Y. was arrested on a charge Of grand lar
csny.-An Indian known as "Od Gabriel
AMI believed to be $50 years old, dieI in
San Francisco. Miss Regina RothschilI,
Of Port Townsend, Washington, has started
on RAGS around the world against George
Francis Train. Ten firemen were killed
an a large number injured at Indianapolis
by the caving-in OF the roof of u burning
building.
B shop STANLEY, Of North Dakota, appealed
to large congregation in the Philadelphia
Cathedral for aid for the Chippawa Indians,
whose condition he described as most de
plorabIe, hundreds Of them on the govern
ment reservation having neither sufficient
food nor shelter. I'll w. King, project OF
the Pennsylvania institution for the instruc-
ton Of the Blind. In Philadelphia, was ar
rested on the charge of immoral conduct
made by the pupils A quarrel over
pew in St. Mary's Catholic Church, at
Pougbkeepsie, N. Y caused a q zht, in which
the priest and several of the congregation
participa' ei.--Fire caused panic among
the inmates of the House OF Good Shepherd,
Chicago. - fight between English and
Irish girls in a mill at Fall River, Mass. led
to strike OF the latter. A post OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic Is to be formed
in Montreal of Canadians who served the
Unioa. Frank Grottner, Of Allegheny
City, Pa, murdered his ten-year old step
daughter. Williams. an Englishman
owner Of large cattle ranch in Montana,
while on his way to New York to sail for
Liverpool, stopped in Milwaukee, where he
met Emil Constants, who showed him the
sights and relieved his pocketpook Of 81 100.
--Governor Thayer, OF Nebraska, is again
after the railroad managers for lower
freight rate on corn for the benefit OF the
farmers-Henry Boes and bis wife were
fatally injured at Holland. Mich. by fast
train on the Chicago and West Michigan