Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-14
THE NEWS.


instantly killed. Burglars got away with
$4,000 worth of jewelry from W. D. Nortone,
OF Gloversville, \. Judge Wallace has
dismissed the writ of habeas corpus in Kemm.
ler's case.-E Edward F. Costello, brakeman
living in Palmer, Mass, shot and killed his
infant child and then attempted his wife, life
An explosion of natural gas caused the
death of Mrs. Kepp and her daughter Lizzie,
In Allegheny City, Pair. W. W. Dicker-
son has been nominated for Congress by the
Democrats, to succeed Carlisle Roberts S.
Wallace aud J. B, Lowitz charged with rob
bling the editor of IFchacc's Monthly of $50.
600 were brought to New York from Havana
james Bannon fatally shot his brother-in-
law, Daniel McNichols, in New York.-De.
Witt county, ILL.,. was visited by a cyclone
which did great damage. Henry Capwell
OF Mill City, Pa, was seriously wounded by
Harry Post, a baker. Cause jealously.-
Morgan Lewis was killed by lightning near
olyphant, Pa.-Lightnings set fire to and de-
stroyed the plant of the Manhattan Electric
Light Company in New York.-The iron
steamship Hondo was burned to the waters
edge in New York.
In a collision between a construction and
freight train, near Hannibal Mo-, Firemen
Arthur Taylor and Berry Nelson were scalded
to death, and both engineers were injured
james Pierson, one of New York ex- Doodle"
aldermen, was fatally injured by railroad
at Jersey City.-Harris A. Smiler, Saliva
ton rmv 1icutepont ,-a a. cauv;rtcd in New
York of numbering his third wife,-Four
hundred Sons of Veterans, from all parts of
Pennsylvania, are attending the tenth annual
convention of the order at Wilkesbarre.-
Fifty weavers employed in the Bethlehem, Pa,
silk mill struck against ten per cent. reduc-
ton in wages.-During the four weeks end
ing June7, sixty new assemblies ofthe knights
of Labor were organized Bids for over five
million dollars worth of new naval vessels
were opened at the Navy Department.
Thomas Sutton died after existing ninety-six
days without solid food-O. H. Stevens, of
Kansas City, was buncoed out of 81 800 by a
young women.-Black' Opera House at St
Johns, Quebec, was destroyed by fire
Michael Conlon, soap manufacturer of San
Francisco, shot aud fatally wounded his wife
-Atreasury agent tracked number ofChi-
nese who landed in Mexico month ago TO
Arizona and arrested them ON the desert when
they had nearly persisted for want of water
BY the breaking of a bin in a Chicago ele-
vator 10000 pounds of wheat poured down
upon Simon Burman and Timothy Lynch, in
stantly killing them.-The Union Pacific
Railroad Company has granted the demands
OF ITS men for an increase of wsges,-Msg-
gle Baker, aged ten, Lola, Al red and Chas
seib, aged respectfully 9, I and years, were
drowned at Rapids City, H., their boat strik-
ing the shaft Of an old water-wheel belonging
to mill and capsized.- Bell Mitchell
was fatally, and Mrs. Edward " Mitchell
seriously, injured in runaway accident at
Oswego, n. Y.
a runaway horse dashed through the center
of an open street car at Fall River, Mass, kill
ing Miss Jennie Burke.-W htecapsin Har-
rison county, Ind, inflicted seventy-fve lashes
on the back of Walter Rowe, farmer, whom
they charged with stealing chickens.-A new
elevator just completed for the Kentucky Cen
The monument to the Confederate dead in
Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Va was un-
yelled in the presence of ten thousand people.
One hundred iron workers employed in
Thomas Marfel'sshipyard at Newburg, N. Y,
went on strike.-The business portion ofthe
Total losses SS0,000--B Broker Pell, who
wrecked the Lenox Hill Bank of New York
city, was sentenced to seven and a-half years
in state prison.-In a collision of Freight
trains at Warrenton, Mo-, seven men were
killed, FIVE injured and fifteen race horses also
killed.-A mortgage for s, 100000, given by
the Reading and Chesapeake Coal and Rail
road Company to the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, was recorded at Reading, Pa. the
line to run from Reading to Havrc-de-Grace,
Md.--There are ninety-seven candidates for
the congressional seat vacated by Carlisle.
The thirty-eigbth annual session of the
international Typographical Union openedin
Atlanta, Ga--Sympathy with the striking
street-men in Columbus, o. led to riotous
seenes.-Joseph Montag, a carpenter ofChi-
cago, aged ifty-seven years, shot and killed
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