Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-02-22
THE NEWS,

road IN the cities OF st faul ana Minneap-
o!is.-Davij Alexander, Bishop Whitta-
ker's assailant, has been declared insane
Jake Staples, negro ravished the wife OF
Farmer Rufe Lewis, who lives about twelve
mile from Knoxville, Tenn.-John Wallis
body was found in fiume at Hoosic Falls,
n. j. He had been missing four days.
The nineteen-year old son of Henry Moore,
OF Dover, Del, was burnt to death while
suffering with an epileptic fit.-Willis T.
Case of the firm of n. C. Case & Sons, of
Syracuse, N. Y, was arrested on the charge
Of forgery. American Cottonseed Oil
Trust has increased its capital stock from
twenty to thirty million dollars Mrs
Giles Collins and daughter were arrestei in
McKeesport, Pa. for shoplifting. The Vir-
GINA bill for the inspection of fresh meat
slaughtered over one hundred miles from the
State has become a law.-Mrs. Ida Walker,
a passenger on the steamer British Princess,
committed suicide at sea.-William Tay-
Ior's house at Phillipsburz, n J., was wreck
ed, and Mr.. Taylors wife aud children seri-
ouslY injured, by the explosion of dynamite
cartridges in a stove.-Thomas Kavanagh,
accused Of being implicated in attempts to
bride Cronin jurors, has been acquitted. -
Grant L. Davis, commercial traveller, was
drowned in the Owasco Outlet, N. Y
The labor trouble in Woburn, Mass, has
been settled. Charles Vail, of ST. Charles,
Mo-, is charged with the murder of bis wife,
Fannie john Wylie, who was charged by
murderer Halves, with killing Mrs. Emma
HAYES, was, after hearing, discharged. -
The Iowa deadlock has finally ended, both
sides agreeing to the compromise. The
President was given a hearty welcome In
Pittsburs.
At q bail at Hardman, Oregon, Zeb Dick
ems. in a fit of jealous rage, because his
brother took his wife to supper, shot and
killed him. -Christopher Latham Shotss
one of the early settlers of Wisconsin, and
the inventor of the typewriter died in Mil
waukee. Marcus Marx, member of a
wholesale clothing firm in Chicago, was ia
tally injured by falling down an elevator
shaft six srories.-Owing to paralysis of
the throat, Samuel L. Bayless of Fort Waye,
Ind, is slowly starving to death. The
Chicago police captured a couple OF spiritual
lists, on the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses. The National Starch Man
ufacturing Company, comprising starch
manufacturers in all parts of the country,
has been incorporated in Covington, KY
The Manufacturers Association at Woburn,
Mass, has decided to close every leather
factory represented in the association, en-
forcing the idieness Of 800 men, unless the
strikers at Besgs g. Cobbs' factory return to
work-The biennial convention Of the Sons
of Benjamin is being held in Cleveland. -
In the burning of Henry Fri,zs confection-
cry store and residence at Newark, N j..
Mrs. Mary Brown, aged TWENTY-FIVE years,
lost her life.-Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, the
mother of the late Bayard Taylor, the author,
died at her home in Kenneth Square, Pa -
Black Brothers tobacco factory at Wheeling,
Va, was seized by United States revenue
officers, tho firm boing charged with issuing
overweight packages. DIR. w. G.. Thomas,
prominent North Carolina physician, aged
SEVENTY two years, died OF diphtheria In Viii
mington, N. ca man giving the name
OF j. B. Kelly, but supposed to be Smith, the
friend of Dan Coughlin, who drove the
buggy in which Dr. Cronin was conveyed to
the Carlson cottage, in Chicago, to be MUIR
dered, has been arrested in st. Louis. A
nineteen year-old youth named Booth killed
Rev Michael Whisman at Compton. KY.
for Furnishing him when at school. A shot
through a window at prayer meeting near
Lebanon, Ind, fatally wounded Mrs. Ed
ward RandallS The President issued
proclamation saying that cattle or live stock
brought on ths Cherokee Strip or Outlet in
Indian Territory must b. removed by Oc-
tober l, and that no more shall be brought
there for grazing or herding.
The great ice houses In Chicago and other
large Western cities are still empty. In
cendiary fires in Marceine. Mo-, are causing
reign Of terror among the citizens.
Clarence Page, of Medford. Mass, and the
wife Of Huntley Clark were arrested, charged
with attempting to poison the wife OF Page.
Michael CiauS former br very en-
ploye, has been arrested in st. Joseph, Mo-,
charged with stealing S.. COZ worth Of rev.
enue stamps and using them on beer SNUG
gled out of the brewery.--The accounts OF
City Treasurer John A. D wis, of Rochester,
N. Y, are short about So, 900, due to ad-
vances to city employees and contractors
Mrs Emily B. Hooper, of Phiade phia, has
had two detectives arrested on the charge of
fraudulently obtaining over 500, 900 from her
in cash. twenty-ssventh National
See lgerfest will be held ia Cleveland, O., in
1e93.-By a collision, between yard engine
nnd handcar at s aun on, Va, two men
were killed and several seriously injured.
- At the eighty-fifth anniversary celebra-
ton OF the Economic Soc ETY., at Economy,
Pa, sixteen new members were taken into
this peculiar society for cslibacy. Con
gresham Anderson, Of Kansas, has intro
duced a bill providing for a summer residence
for the President Congressional Com
mittee on Militia will report favorably the
bill to promote the efficiency OF Militia
Captain Alpheus 7. Palmer, aged sixty nine
years, who hal served with distinction in
the Mexican war, died at Bangor. Maine.
William Miller was acquitted of the MUIR
der of Walker at BrownsburZ, Va.-Several
parties were arrested in Chicago for using
the mails for fraudulent purposes in advsr-
Using gold watches for IS, and sending the
victims brass dummies.-Russsll Harrison.
in speech before the Piedmont Ciuo of
Atlanta, Ga, declared bis intentions Of do
ing oil in his power TO foster feelings o.
friendship between the North and the South
a misunderstanding OF orders caused
collision between two freight trains O. the
B & o. at Bairdstown, o., AMI two persons
we're killsd-Miss Susan B. Anthony, the
champion of woman's rights, celebrated the
SEVENTEEN anniversary OF her birthday by
bar au,t in Washington.
HIS FATHERS SLAYER.
A Southern SheriH's Trying Ordeal