Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-18
THE NEWS


/, scented, and all the electrical manufacturing
companies. Braxton county, w. Va,
the floods swept away thousands Of rails, and
ruined the crops.-Will Walton was found
murdered al Beaver Brook, near Danbury,
Comm a wreck on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, at Centralia, Pa, both locomotives
and a number of freight ears were destroyed.
conductor, an engineer and two brakemen
were injured. -The one hundred and forty
fourth annual session of the Eastern Synod o.
the Reformed Church in the United States
convened at Reading twenty-sixth
annual meeting of the Loyal Legion opened
in st. Louis.-Charles II. Teom and George
II. ShinD, notorious de peradoes, who had
recently escaped from San Quentin prison,
California were captured in Chicago.
postofice at Chicago has been eondemued.
During fight among Poles, at wedding,
near Iron Mountain, Mich, one man was
killed.-In a dispute about religion, in Chi
cage, one policeman shot and killed another.
The American Brewing Association was
incorporated at san Francisco, with capital
of three million dollars.-An explosion of
chemicals in the establishment of H. X. Null.
ford & Co, of Philadelphia, caused loss of
5000 There was small panic for while.
4'ear st. Paul, Mimi, a collision occurred,
which resulted in the killing of one man and
the fatal injury of another.-A coal passer
named Mccormick and cook named Rich
ardson, were brought to San Francisco in
Irons on the steamer San Juan, for attempted
murder on the high seas-St John, the
Frenchman who was shot through the brain
In Chicago mystifes his physicians by living
daniel f. Beatty, an organ manufacturer,
was indicted in Washington, N. j., for
fraudulent use of the mails-The New
, foundland fishing schooner Lizzie Bennett
lost three of her crew in the recent storm off
Sydney, C. B.-The congregation of the
United Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg
decided to disband and sell the church pro-
perty.-Houses were washed away and con-
siderable damage done in the valley of the
Little Kanawha, and every small stream emp
tying in the Ohio was over its bauks.-The
English and German iron and steel manufac-
turers were entertained in Cacago.-Dr.
Francis B. Mickle of Baltimore, committed
suicide in hospital at Norfolk, Va.-Frank
Larue was acquitted in San Francisco of
charge of murder of Harry Mcbride, who
died in prize fight at the Golden Gate Club,
June 9th.-President Harrison was given
enthusiastic receptions and made some fifteen
or sixteen speeches at cities and towns at
which he stopped en- route from indianapolis
to Pittsburg. War Department has
completed the specifications for the manufac-
ture of the large guns.-General Belknap,
secretary of war under Grants administra-
ton, was found dead in his bed in his Wash
ington office.-The Spanish government
threatens to exclude American products I'M
less the United States admit sugar aid tobacco
from the West Indies without the recently
imposed tariff restriction.
The corning mills of the Dupont works
near Wilkesbarre Pa, exploded, but no one
was hurt.-The Board of Indian Commits
sioners at Mohawk elected DR.. Merrill E.
Gates, president of Amherst College, to the
presidency of the conference to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of General Clinton
b, Fisk, -Corneia Miller and Priscilla
Field, wives of London bankers who failed
warrant of extradition, charged with receiv-
ing stolen property amounting to f500oo.--
In collision in the bridge tunnel in st. Louis,
Benjamin Ingram and John Livingston were
crushed to death.-Burglars blew open the
safe in John Siler's store and stole govern
ment bonds TO the value of $1,000. -Theo-
dore Sweigert, an employe ofthe Mount Holly
Paper Company's mill at Carlisle, Pa, was
instantly killed by being crushed in fly
wheel.-Hon. J. l.. Dewitt, judge of the
Common Pleas Court at Sandusky, Ohio, was
instantly killed by train while hunting
mortgage of four and half million dollars
was filed for record in Erie, Pa, by the Erie
and Pittsburg Railroad Company.-Justice
Grogan, Of West Troy, N. Y, discharged John
Herman, charged with train-wrecking, there
being no evidence against him-Fire de-
stroyed the Pillow and Hersey Manufacturing
Company's mills, in Montreal. Loss, $4,000
William III. Schrieber, the Columbus
Ind, bank embezzer, has been sentenced to
two years Imprisonment and to pay fine of
S500.-Four men robbed train near ScheE
City, Mo-At Pacific Junction, Ia, two
engines collided and Engineer Clark was
killed.-The Michigan Supreme Court has
declared the Local Option Liquor law of that
State William West colored,
was convicted in Washington, Pa, of murder
in the first degree.-Wm. Peters, of Lukin
Township, H.. is dead. He weighed four
hundred pounds.-A drunken Indian shot
and killed L. B. Hager and VIM. Rice, near
Oklahoma, [. T.-Thomas Greening,
Cameron, Mo-, farmer, killed Bill LOpman,
while the latter was firing his barn.-Remi
La Montague has been convicted in Sher-
brooke, Que, of the murder Of Napoleon
Michael. his brother-in-aw.
Patrick German, foreman o the gas depart
ment of a steel company in Cleveland, Ohio,
was roasted to death.-Lowenthal & Son,
wine merchants of Louisville, Ky, have won
a test case against them for selling original
packsges-A hoy robber stole 800 from
mail sacks near Ukiat, Cal, and was after
wards captured Congressman Wilson, Of
Washington lost his pocketbook, containing
$4,000 in securities and other vausblos.-
Jose Castro was arrested at StonewaIl Cal,
on the charge of murdering>a Mexican judge
ferdinand Hesse and James Kelly were
drowned in Eau Claire river.-Dynamite is
being used in Martinsville, Ind, to blow away
liquor saloons.-The American Christian
Convention at Marion, Ind, adopted plans for
the building of distinetively Christian uni
versity.-The committee appointed by the
Presbyterian General Assembly to revise the
Confession of Faith closed its first session in
! Pittsburg, and will meet again in Washington,
February Fire in Fairport, Ohio, de-
stroyed the business section of the town, doing
$4,000 damage. -The first sod in the con-
struetion of the Roanoke and Southern Rail-
road, was turned at Roanoke.-Charles
Queen, an actor was sentenced to eighteen
months imprisonment at Trenton \. j., for
counterfeiting.-I 1t is now learned that the
engagement between Miss Winnie Davis and
Alfred Wilkinson, of Syracuse, n. y, was
broken because Of the i'll health of the former.
Col. Herbert A. Harroll, of the U. 5. A.,
retired, died in Chicago-Sparks from a
threshing machine caused fire that destroyed
the big barn of Kinzer Bender, Jr., near
Heller's Church, Lancaster county, Pa Loss
5000 Edward Balbaeh, one Of the leading
sme.ters and refners, eied in Newark. n. J.
a. NJ. McRae, secretary and treasurer Of
the Security Loan and Savings Company Of
St Catlarine o t. is defaulfer 10 the extent