Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-25
THE NEWS

Mrs. Margaret Mehlin, whom he mistook for
his wife, at San Antonio, Texas, and then
killed himself-A remarkable cave has
been discovered near Pilot Knob, Ill.--David
Grub, a farmer living near Granville, III i,
was shot and killed by Arch Wick his step,
son. Grub was maltreaing his wife when
shot.-Fires are reported on the Sioux
ervation.-Gold-bearin quartz has been
discovered in Indian Territory
gas has been discovered near Florence, Ala.
Thomas Bowers, of Wichita, Kansas, tried
to take his life by shooting himself in the left
breast. His physicians say he will de. He
had been Tilted twice. Sweet was
found guilty of numbering his wife at Provi-
dence, r. l., and sentenced to prison for life.
Fire damaged the Davis. Chambers White
Lead Works, at Pittsburg, $4,000. Two fire.
men were hurt. Property insured.-M. c.
Beardsley was arrested at Troy, Pa, charged
with operating for Dun's Commercial Agency
and obtaining money under false pretenses.
Fire destroyed the Mission Soap and
Candle Works, the Pacific Mattress Factory
and other houses in San Francisco. Loss
$S0,000.-Two men were killed and num-
Der wounded by a railroad collision on the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Road,
two miles from Birmingham, Aha Rock
Island train ran into Pullman sleeper near
Kansas City, and eight people were injured,
two or three supposed fatally.-It has been
decided to fill in sixty acres of the Lake front
at Chicago for the Worlds Fair-Four
Chinese who had been struggled across the
Northern border were arrested at Fort Benton,
Montana, and sent back to British Columbia.
The rapidly increasing influence of the
Chicago Lodge, Brotherhood of Telegraphers,
has led the Western Union Company to dis
charge several OF the leaders, in the hope of
discouraging the moyement--J. H. Wither-
spoon, in a quarrel over shares in cotton
crop, shot and killed his uncle, ]. G. Rainier,
at Charleston, S. C.-Albert Lulemyer, of
Kewaunee county, Wis, quarreled with his
bride about the quantity of potatoes to be laid
in for the winter and shot her dead, and then
committed suicide.
Every window glass factory in Find ley, o.
went into the new trust-George johnson
Court House, Va.-The proposition of
federation with the trainmen's organization
was rejected by the locomotive engineers
The Farmers Review, of Chicago, says that
careful examination of estimates shows that
the corn crop is turning out somewhat better
than was expected The grand jury of
Camden, n j., found a true bill against
Francis Lingo for the murder of Mrs. Annie
Miller.-Major H. C. Seymour, U. S. A..
died in Galveston, Texas, aged ftty-eight
years.-George Hall, who had been suspected
Of the murder of Able Hawkins, in Dor
chester, Mass was cleared after twenty-eight
years by the death-bed confession of the
murderer.-At the funeral of Willie Sprague,
at Narragansett Pier his mother was pre-
vented by his father, the ex-governor, from
taking last look at the remains.-Peter
McCortney, one of the most notorious counter
feiters in the country, died in the penitentiary
at Columbus, O.-Officer James Doran was
fatally wounded at the Lake Shore Depot, at
Ashtabula, Ohio, by men whom he caught
robbing a store.-In Butler, ILL.,, Florence
Tyler severally wounded Eugene +. Mease
who had promised to wed her, but married
another woman.-Two children of Nicholas
Brandt, in Dubuque, Iowa, were sealded to
death with hot water-In Rolfe, Iowa. a
house was struck by lightning, and, though
the beds were torn to atoms their occupants
escaped injury.--It is stated that the Adams
and United States Express Companies have
consolidated.-S. P. Quinn, an ex-gambler
of Chicago, was assaulted and then tarred by
some unknown parties.-G. Blank shot and
killed his paramour in Ell Paso Texas and
then committed suieide-Charlcs Arm
strong, of Harvard, ILL.,, robbed his clients of
81 ,1O0.-Mayor Gleason, Of Long Island
City, l.. L., was sentenced to FIVE days i'm.
prisonment and to pay a fine of $3.50 for
assauiting reporter.
Henry Kron, of Blairsville, Ind, shot his
wife and committed suicide.-The wife of
Juh Miller, st. Louis saloon keeper, killed
herself while insane.-Charles Adams, who
disappeared from Vandalia, Mo-, forty-seven
years ago, has returned e. K Peterson, of
Memphis Tenn. killed his wife when he
found her in compromising situation.-I.
5. Emory, Labor candidate for Congress,
committed suicide in Rochester, n. "a
man named Terraen dropped dead in church
in Quebec.-A young son of George Rhine
field, living near West Point n. Y, charged
his sister with shooting him in the head
BY the explosion of the boiler Of shifting
engine in Pittsburg, John Flebly was blown
into the riyer.-Elder Oliver killed Miss
futile, of Freedom, la, because she refused
to marry him, and then killed himself In
Ransom, Mich, Mrs. John Barber was stabbed
to the heart by big Sadie, " her husbands
mistress. -. F. Smith, of Urbana, o. has
been arrested on the charge of robbing, near
Tifin, O.-Wm. Addison Kelam, of Acco-
mac county, Nd, dubbed and shot in the
hand Nat burlington, another farmer
Isaac Bremen, wife and son were killed at
crossing near Centreville, Ia-Wm. Nye
and his sons, Harry and Grant Nye, all prom
inent business men of Ada, o., was arrested
for passing twenty-dollar counterfeit bills.
"A meeting of representatives, of trades
unions was held at Harrisburg, Pa, to organize
state branch of the American Federation of
Labor.-The steamer Annie Young was
burned near Huron, Mich, and eight of the
crew, who took refuge in the yawlboat, were
drowned.-The extensive retail dry goods
establishment of Frank Bros St. Louis, was
damaged $4,000 on stock and $4,000 on
building
Firemen rescued seven women and children
from the fifth story of burning house in New
York city.-Larry T. Culan, who had carved
his own tombstone, died at Harper's Ferry,
aged seyeuty-seven years.-Samuel W.
Lewis, broker, was arrested in New York on
seharge of swindling his wife out of fortune.
Mrs Harrison has accepted the presidency
Of the Society of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revelution.-Mollie Feeny, aged three
years, daughter of Thomas Feeny, Of Clarks-
burg, VIVA, was burned to death.-William
Singleton, colored, was lynched at Macon, Ga,
for an outrageous assault upon young
wOman.-Miss Ida Dusenbury aged nine
teen years, a stenographer, was killed by an
elevator in Philadelphia Louise Almondt,
aged twenty years, committed suicide at
Maintown, Wis, because her parents tried to
force her to marry man she did not love.
The skeleton of Earnest Schluter, who
disappeared mysteriously with bis two chill
jreu three years ago, was found in the cellar,
OF his former home.-Felix Young was
instantly killed, James Turney fatally hurt