Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-06
THE NEWS

its doors for the time being-The steamship
Kansas City made the trip from New York TO
savannah in forty-four and half hours
Shakespeare Reeves, mu alto was sentenced
to tc hanged in Wilmington, Del, for felo,
niously asslu'ting a young white girl
Work has been suspended in the Cameron
colhery, in Shamokin, Pa.-The Pennsyl-
vania and Cumberland Valley Railroad will
build line for the Cumberland Valley to the
Broad Top soft coal region.-The manufsc-
turing establishment of the A. Campbell
Manufacturing Company, in Philadelphia,
was damaged to the extent of 100000. One
fireman wa, kil ed and three others seriously
hurt.--The Woman's National Industrial
League, il Washington, adopted resolutions
paying high tribute to the social and political
lite of Nj. Charlottesville collections at
the Irish m lettings in Chicago footed up nearly
s2o,O00.---tieneral Mills fears no outbreak of
the Sioux. The secretary of the interior has
directed that the Sioux be supplied with adj
dicional rations.-Alred Junior a lineman
WAS killed by touching live wire in st.
Louis.-Elis Miller was hanged in the Ohio
Penitentary, at Columbus for the murder of
his sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma Johnson
Fire at New Albany, Miss, destroyed ten
business houses. Thomas G. Jones was in
augurated Governor of Alabama.
The threshing machine men of the United
States are forming combine like that re-
Gently organized by the binder companies
Jay Gould has bought the Hutchinson Salt
Company's extensive works at Hutchinson,
Ks.-Frederick T. Weed, a prominent lum.
herman of Williamsport, Pa, has confessed
judgment for 500, u00-The Queens county
oil works, on Long Island were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000 -Behring & Son, piano
manufacturers of New York, made an assign.
ment.--William Hatch, of Prince Georges
county, Va, respondent over financial trou.
bles, committed sucide.-At a meeting of
the college presidents in Princeton, DR.. Gill
man read paper in which he spoke favor
ably of shortening the college Course
Mrs. Margaret S. Schms ltlaff, of Cincinnati
has rendered to that city $4,000, the interest
of which is to be applied to giving free con-
corts on Sunday in public park.-Joseph
and David Nicely, under sentence of death
in Somerset, Pa. Jail, tor the murder of Her.
man Amberger, made their escape.-Collec.
tor Bradshaw, of the Puget Sound custom
district, thinks from fifty to sixty Chinese are
smuggled across the Canadian border each
month.-MiSs f. J. Lap,ley was killed by
train near Sioux City.-The body of r.
McKittrick, once Catholic priest, was found
near Seattle, Washington He committed
suicide.-Johnston, Buck & Co, bankers at
Ebensburg Pa, fililed.-Bishop Potter has
granted Father Ignatius, the Anglican monk,
the freedom of his Secretary of
State Charles w. Stone. Of Pennsylvania, hav.
ing been elected to Congress, has resigned,
and Deputy Secretary Longnecker has been
made secretary.-The private bank of Hall
& Co.. at Duluth, MINI, closed its doors
The crew of the British bark Claudine were
rescued at sea by the crew of the German
steamer Stsndard-The barrel and stave
works of B. T. Horn & Co., East st. Louis,
were burned. Loss, SIS, 900; insurance, S25, 600
Preparations for the eectrocution of Jos
Wood, at Sing Sing are being conducted Sc
cretly.--The new Mount Joy Lutheran
Church, near Gettysburg Pa, was dedicated
Joseph Novak, convicted murderer in
Chicago has become insane over his escape
from the gallows. -Easton & Clark, carriage
manufacturers of Cincinnati, made an as.
Segment Liabilities, $4,000; assets, $780,
000-Hon Henry Miller Watts, ex-minister
to Austria, and noted Pennsylvania, died
in Philadelphia military are sur.
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trouble is likely to occur.--Gideon Powell.
son of Thomas Powell, of Flint Doddridge
county, w. Va, was found dead on the road
with bullet hole near his heart and re-
volver lying beside him.
James Milton Smith, Ex-Governor of
Georgia, died in Columbus, Ga.--Dulness in
the coal trade has caused a number Of mines
In the Shamokin region to stop work,---The
Brazilian fleet OF three vessels arrived at New
York, and will emain there some time
Benjamin Penhalow Shi laber, widely known
as Mrs. Partington died in Boston, aged
seventy-six years,-Judge Gordan, Of Phila-
delphia, refused the application of the Rich
mon Retail Coal Company for incorporation
on the ground that it was trust.-Peter
Mueller, reputed to be worth three-q quarters of
million, WAS sent 10 prison by Il Chicago
Judge for begging in the streets.-Tod Pryor,
night Waterman, has been arrested, charged
with the murder of Banker H. c. Mead, of
Waupaca, visa firebug VINO escaped
from the officer who caught him in the act
came near roasting four families in Chicago,
Conductor John C. Stakely was arrested
in Chicago, charged with intimidating men
employee by the railroad npany.-Lizzie
Hall was shot and probably fatally wounded
by her husband in Chicago. Thomas
Thompson, o Bordentown n. j., is charged
with beating his ive-months-old child while
he was Observation-Disclosures Councilman
prominent member of the Chicago Board Of
Trade, for refusing to answer questions put by
the Interstate Commerce Cumnlssion. was
ordered TO the custody of the Unite States
MsFshal.-Lyman q. Clark, of North River
junction, has been arrested charged with the
murder OF Mrs. Miriam Marston.
General Miles states that the treacherous
Chief Short Bull and 900 of his followers are
coming toward the Pine Ridge Agency but
mat Gen Brooke and his command are pro
pared to receive them.--The boiler in John
Ii. Akcrs Il Co.'s steam sawmll in Worth
county Ga, exploded, killing three men and
lnJuring four others. Prof Charles i.
uateheii, Of Ann Arbor, Mich, declares that
the so-cai!ed mind. reading is a trick, and in
the presence of a committee he performed the
same teats for which Alexander tombstone has
become famous,-Rev Samuel Salisbury
Tappan prominent Congregational clergy
man, died in Philadelphia members
of the Butler Foot-b bali team, while celebrat.
ing q victory in Indianapolis by riding on
tally-ho coach, met with FERROUS accident,
the coach breaking down and six young men
badly InJured.-Willie and Willard Faltz
and Fred lIawley, boys about six years OF
age, we're crushed to death under sand bag
IN Atlantic, Ia.-lieo. Weston killed his
wheat Atchison, kansas.-Near Snohomish,
Washington, an Indian named Beaver was
shot dead by Jerry Gou,d.-Elber Rappelgo
arrived III Astoria, Ore, having made the
voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
IN u canoe.--Iohn G. Morse, travelling
saltsnlan OF ST Louis, is short in his accounts.
Prank Lancaster was found dead near
Wells, Nevada, with bullet in his brain.
Ben Morris is under arrest charged with the
Killing. The steamer 7. P. feathers was
burned to the waters edge on the Mississippi
river. Five lives were iost.-The crew of
the steamer Falcon was saved by the steam