Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-04-26
THE NEWS.


in York, Pa, by the falling of hosting ma
chine--Thomas Trowbridee, of Rome, n.
j. was arrested for raping his thirteen-year-
olddaughter Thieves robbed Hugh Carey's
tailor-shop, in Boston, of three thousand dol
lars worth of goods.-T The Chicago police are
to boys.-New York brieklayers demand the
same pay for the men employed by the city as
is received by outside men.-The coke work
ers in Pittsburg threaten to strike-J. Med.
Cromar, the agent of the Peoples Bank, at
Halifax, who absconded, has been captured.
Rev W. A. Harrison, pastor ofthe Third
Presbyterian Church, in Knoxville, Tenn, has
been suspended.-Ane effort is being made by
British syndicate TO purchase the flint glass
industries this country. men were
killed and six badly injured by an explosion
at the Etna Mills, in New Castle, Pa
Samuel F. Pierson, president ofthe Lehigh and
Western Railroad, died in Philadelphia
Wilkes Smith, of Parkersburg, Iowa. was ar
rested, charged with forgery.-Dr. Hagen
dorm and his companions, Hageman and Kauss,
have been convicted of stealing chickens in
Racine, Wis, and sent up for two years.
Holzhay, the lone highwayman, imprisoned in
Marquette, Mich, is trying to starve himself.
-Egbert Williamson, a coachman, and three
horses were burned to death in Ithaca, N. Y.
john G. Wagner's five-story block, on
South st. Paul street, Rochester, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire.-Three Cinnamon were
arrested in Buffalo, N. Y, for smuggling opium.
Officer Peterson, of st, Paul, Mimi, was
terribly beaten by gang of tramps. He shot
Neil Cushman. one of his assailants.
William ]. Lord, bookkeeper for Fresh &
Nook, painters of ST. Louis Systematically
robbed the firm since 1888 and then turned a
book-maker for the races. He was arrested
and attributed his downfall to horse.racing.
Two men were killed and FIVE injured. by
the falling of rock in a shaft of the Great
Eastern mine near Norway, Mich.-Malig-
nant diphtheria is epidemic among the Scan
dinayians in the village of Vining, MINI
The King and Hamilton Implement Works
at Ottawa, ILL.,. were burned. Loss $4,000
The city treasurers of Chicago for years
past have been pocketing the interest on city
funds as personal emolument, and they are
now called upon to refund.-An iron fence
is to be put around the,Lincoln monument at
Springfield, ILL.,, to keep off the relic-humters.
The dead body of Frank R. HARRISON was
found on a farm near Rockford, H., with a
revolver, razor, and bottle of laudanum be-
side it.-The court martial of Commander
7 Ma(Tu1Ia 80 E,Eo @
N, began at the Brooklyn Navy Yard-J.
w. Craddoek was committed TO Jail in Henrieo
county, Va, for attempting to wreck train
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. By
the explosion Of one of the Colebrook furnaces
at Lebanon, Pa, buildings were shaken, VIM
P. Wright, the engineer, severely burned, and
the roof of the works blown off.-Joseph
Kearney was shot by his mistress, Lizzie
Dear, at Syracuse, N. Y-Joseph C. Hitch
ner's cracker bakery and warehouse at West
Pittston, Pa, we're burned. Loss 5000
Rabbi Cohn, of Mount Carmel, Pa, was bru-
tally assaulted by two thieves Nicholas
c. Miller, of Philadelphia who sold the Lake
Gas Company to the Chicago Gas Trust, is
now suing the latter for the cash value of
$213,000 trust certificates of stock, charging
false representation.-Ch Chicago carpenters
resorted to rioting and assaulting non-union
men. A foreman and police sergeant were
injured, and fifty rioters were arrested.-The
indianapolis carpenters have been granted
the eight-hour day.--Mayor Cregier ordered
all the pool-rooms in Chicago closed-Heavy
rains and high tides have increased the Mis-
sissippi rivers overflow in Louisiana, and the
crevasses are widening and inundating towns
and large sections of country.
The Pan-American delegates have aban.
doned their trip to the South, majority being
anxious to return home.--A desperate fight
is being waged against the Butterworth bill
by boards of trade throughout the country.
Fred Mckee, of Prince Georges, has been
appointed cadet to West Point.-Charles
E. Kincaid, the slayer of William Taulbee,
has been admitted to bail Rev. John yetter
was seized and forced out of a Chicago Church
Sunday, the exercise of the bouncing process
being the outcome of the trouble in the ILL
nois Conference of the Evangelical Associa-
tion.-Nathan Doll, a German shoemaker
of Chicago, tried to beat his eleven year-old
son to death.-Henry Byle, life convict in
the prison at Joliet, Illinois, committed sui.
eide by hanging himself with towel in his
eell--The Moline Buggy Company's works
at Moline, Illinois, were damaged $4,000 by
hre.-Small boys set fire to the opera house
at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and property to
the value ofS150,000 was destroyed. Bishop
Wadhaws, of Waterfowl, n. Y, has silenced
Priest Peter Ryan for extorting money from
members of his congregation.-The indict-
ment against Frank Woodruff, alias Black,
charging him with completely in the murder
of the late Dr. P. II. Cronjn, was dismissed by
consent of the state in the Chicago court. but
an indictment for horse stealing still stands
against him.-James Morgan, an operator
in the Erie Signal Tower at Howells, n. Y,
was examining pistol, when it was acciden.
tally discharged, the bullet entering the head
of Frank Grierr aged twelve years, killing
him. Edward Hall and Leopold Alexander.
private detectives, pleaded guilty in Philadel-
phia to conspiracy to defrapd Mrs. Emily B..
Hooper out of S1s000.-President Gompers.
of the American Federation of Labor, says
that the eight-hou movement is at present
the sole idea of the labor world, and that the
Federation is determined to secure 1t.
Rev, Wood, of Buffalo, n. Y, married two
women and now figures in divorce suit, hav-
ing been locked up on a charge Of bigamy.
An epidemic of typhoid fever, caused by
defective sewerage, has broken out in Augusta
College, Rock Island, Ill.-A family named
Grupp ate poisoned sweet cakes, at Vandalia.
Ill, and the father, mother and one son nearly
died-Frank Watson's piggery, at Ran
dolph, Mass, was burned, and 300pigs roasted
alive.-Forest fires in Connecticut burned
over three thousand acres of fine timber
W. II. Rope, teller Of the city national bank,
of Louisville KY, who absconded with So.
goo of the banks funds, has been arrested in
New Mexico,--A supposed crazy man, at
Elizabeth, n. j., attempted to shoot several
young women by firing through The windows
of their bedrooms. Andrew Dung s house,
at Pennsville, Pa, was burned, and mis- two
children perished.-The ,oprietor of the
great Chicago fair, E. J. Lehman, who since
the great fire has amassed fortune of s., 500
900, is declared to be distracted, his mind hav.
ing become unsettled by the business strain
ex-governor James Pollock, Of Pennsylvania,
died at Lock Haven.-Fifteen thousand
Havana cigars were seized in saloon at Key