Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
THE NEWS

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from ST. Clair county, H., leaped from train,
bound from Philadelphia to New York. and
was killed, and his little daughter jumped off
the train after him, receiving fatal injuries.
The couple were on their way to Hamburg
John Meehan, who four years ago robbed
the Bank of England of s4s 600, has been cap.
tured in Chicago. Henry DufiicId. aged
seventeen years. died at Bridgeton, n. j., from
injuries inflicted by Harry Pierte with whip.
General Milledge l.. Bonham, railroad
eommissio ier of South Carolii a, was found
deal in his bed at HAYWOOD, White Sulphur
| Springs, n C.-Ace Madison, a farmer of
Edmondson county, KY, shot and killed his
sixte n.year-old daughter. trial trip of
the United States cruiser San Francisco was
snccessfhl, making an average speed of 1ol
| knots.-C. II. Nichols, C. Tideman and
| Charles Warmer, officials of the Nichols
| Banking Company, of Kansas City, were ar
rested on the charge of fraud.-Wilson n
Jones was elected governor of the Choctaw
| Nation.-A fire in an electric fixtures fac
tory, West Thirty-fourth street, New York,
caused damage of SIS, O00.-A fourteen
year-old boy killed his father at Nebo, ILL.,
Fire damaged the Eastern Manufacturing
| Company's plant at South Brewer, Me-, $780,
| 000-S Seven aldermen of Bidd!eford, Me-,
were arrested for irregularities in Election mat
ters.-By the explosion of locomotive boiler
on the New FORK, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad near Mansfield, o., Albert Graham
and Joseph Murphy were killed and the train
| (oil) set on fire.-Jacob Reed, wealthy re-
tired merchant of Philadelphia, is dead
Peter Diehl's machine shops and MeSweeny's
glove factory at Gloversville, n Y. injured
$4,000 by fire.
Mrs Mary wilson, with her infant in her
arms was sitting in cemetery at Carbonate,
Washington, on the grave of one of her chill
dren, when tree fell and killed both
Three persons were killed at Mullen, Neb., by
an accident on the Burlington and Missouri
Rairoad.-Two boys died at Knoxville,
Tenn, from an overdose of morphine, taken
by mistake for quinine. The druggist made
the mistake.-The Duluth and Winnipeg
Railroad Company has ordered to stop work
on the Winnebagoshish eservation.--Scott
Shoemaker, hotel clerk, killed himself at
Scranton, Pa.--Frank Boland, real estate
sharp of Topeka, Kansas, was arrested in In.
dianapolis.-A strange disease has appeared
among cattle in Missouri-The Changers
National Exhibition was opened at Williams
Grove, Pa.-Commodore Chubb, harbor mas
ter at Galveston, Texas, died at Post Mills, VT,
aged eighty-four- American Assooia.
tion for the Advaneamant af Sriouce in sassinti
at Chicago, passed resolutions asking Congress
TO protect forests McVicker Theatre, in
Chicago, was destroyed by fire. Loss about
$500, 000.-Emil V. Koestner was arrested in
Philadelphia, charged with embezzling 81, 900
from societies III Philadelphia. The Demo-
Gratis of the Twelfth Pennsylvania district
nominated John B. Reynolds, of Kingston, for
Congress.-The Kansas Central express was
deraiIed in the Salt Creek Valley, near Leav-
enworth, Kansas, and several passengers badly
hart.--The first Democratic state conyen-
ton Of Idaho, held at Boise City, nominated
Benjamin Wilson for governor.-Major Nc
Kinley was renominated for Congress with a
tremen Gus demonstration at Massllon. Ohio.
The steamer Letnan1a, from Philadelphia
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sunk, the crew being rescued and taken to
Yarmouth The Mountain House on Orange
Mountain, near South Orange, N. j., was
burned. Loss 600O0.--Ex- Congressman
Horace F. Page, Of California, died in San
Francisco. Hundreds of negroes in Missis-
sippi are preparing to emigrate to Oklahoma
The Knoxville Southern Railroad from
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twenty miles, has been completed The coun.
Gil Of the Federation of Railway Employees or
CARNATIONS is still considering the appeal OF
the Knights of Labor to support them in their
strike on the New York Central Railroad,
Chief Sargent, of the Firemen's Union, COM
pires the utterances of President Depew in
favor of organized labor with the action Of
Vice President Webb.-Andrew Bolton, a
young sailor, of the man-of-war Boston, lying
in New York harbor, was stabbed to death,
and John Parkinton, painter, was arrested
charged with the crime.-H. A. Smith, a
farmer, of Kansas, was killed by an Infatuated
horse.--An incendiary fire at Ness City,
Kansas, destroyed the big sugar mill at that
place.-A ranchman named Quinn, near
Livingston, Montana, while insane, murdered
his wife and FIVE children, chopping them to
death with broakaxe.-The steamer Rich
mond Hill arrived at New York from London
with several cattlemen who had been robbing
the cargo locked up as prisonefs.--Duting
a performance of the Sunny South Theatrical
Company in West Virginia riot was started,
in which pistols and clubs were freely used in
the theatre. Some of the actors were thrown
into the river.
| Admiral Brown, who has just returned In
the Charleston from Honolulu, says he ex-
poets shortly an outbreak in Samoa.-Pas-
sengers from Alaska say that Mt. Bogosiod, in
that country, is in state of eruption
Wilson, a negro, killed Mrs Mathers at
Goshen, Ind, because she wouldn't marry
him and then killed himself.-Five at
tempts were made to burn up Fall River,
Mass-Forty bales of cotton were burned
in Montgomery, Ala; loss $1,000; insured
! G. r. Burnett, government engineer, was
| killed in a bar-room at Louisville, Ky
Fire in Thrift & Sons planning mills, at Pater-
son. n. J., did $4,000 damage.-The bust
ness section of the town of Pembroke, KY, was
| destroyed by fire. Loss SID, 000.-The license
of Captain David Wetherin, who commanded
| the steamer Sea Wing, which was wrecked n
Lake Pepin in July, has been revoked. The
case has been reported to Inspector Dumont
for prosecution.-In awreek on the Norfolk
| and Western Railroad near Roanoke, Va,
| Engineer VIM. Cook and two Italian laborers
were killed Tobacco dealers Of Peters
burg, Va, organized the Merchants Tobacco
| Company. - Two thousand hicyelists at
/ tended the opening of the annual meeting Of
| the National League of American Wheelmen
at Niagara Falls.-English and Canadian
capitalists are organizing company to con-
struet a railway from Quebec, $50 miles 70 St
| Charles Bay, on the Labrador coast, fro;r
| which point steamers will run across to Ill
! ford Haven, in Wales, in three or four days
The great tunnel under the St. ClaiI
River, between Port Huron, Michigan, and
Sarins. Ont. has been completed.
FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE.