Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-20
THE NEWS.

| dent Palmer anpointed the expcnftve com.
| mite Of the Worlds Fair-twenty-six mem
! beers equally divided between the two politi
cal parties.-lIiram A. futile was nomi
| mated for Governor of New Hampshire and
Samuel +. Merwin for Governor of Connecti
| cut. Steel was cast at Chattanooga. Tenn.
from Southern Iron by the basic process
| Thieves tuppeled under the bank at DalIes
Ogden, blew the vault open and stole about
! s1OOO0-- window.class manufacturer,
will petition Congress for an increased duty
| on elass-'The Society of the Army of the
Cumberland held lis animal Reunion AT To.
ledo, Ohio-V Virginia Vaecarino. superin.
tendent of the silk worm division Of the Aeri.
cultural Denartment nj Wasbinqfon has been
swindled out of s300o0-F IT. ]. Helm. a
cooper AGED fortv-fve years Of Portsmouth
N. II murdered his three d,uobters and n
man whose name has been connected with
that of Helms wife and then committed sui.
cide-New York Ifnion veterans win erect
a $4,000 memorial monument in the National
Cemetery Mt Gettys'urr.- s Beach,
ell rk of the Superior Court of GIynn county.
VA, was shot and SERIOUSLY. but not fatally,
wounded bv Major John ]. Spears in quar-
rel over A land sale.
Nort,IL Va no,r on;ovs tho ro,,,.a.;o, q,
heinz ~. greotes, ,aon,t ,,ortot ~ 10
countyv---Tba scboonor Ron Rr;nt with a
crew of 6,a mon wos Last y, tho roeks .,
Eaole Harbor Lake Samaritan and oil hands
perished --Geor,a {, Yoppgar PhiI.daI.
mia clerk who filled nm mis- emplover,s blank
check and drew q 600 an If and skinned 10
Cbicago was orrested there after be had Teen
robbed nv = courtesan --Govarpor McKin.
new of yirpinia has commuted the sentence
of Mamie Woods 70 imnrisonment for life.
Thu Chief of n,lioo Of Cinc;nn.t; ba, is.
sued in order tn arrest all children caupbt
smoking cigarettes DIR + NJ. Ferris a
wealthy resident Of Brooklipe Mass com
mitted. src;do prasidc,t uarri on and
fimlly had delightful excursion over the
Bells Gap Railroad to Rhodendron Park, IN
the Alleghames. Secretary Blaine has
written letter to editor W. w. Clapp of the
Boston Journal, on reciprocal trade with
Latin America. L. Larmer, a hand
s'me French Canadian girl,of Grafton, Ont
jealous over her sisters success in love, has
been arrested for causing the death of the
sister and her mother.-George Deistel.
deceived husband, shot and fatally
wounded Francis Birk, the man who had
ruined his home in New York.-During a
row among cranberry pickers near Mount
Holly, N. j., Thomas n. Price stabbed John
Bower in the breast, killing him.-Charles
Whalley, aged forty-fve years, of Portland,
Ore, shot his wife andcommitted suicide
II is proposed in Chicago to establish a trust
among cattle men throughout the Uni ed
States.-A female maniac in the Southern
Illinois Hospital attacked three attendants
with a knife, and wounded them severely
Sol Stanley and Capt. Ralph Atwood were
instantly killed by lightning in Province
town. Mass.
The Kniohts If T.abor strikers IN The New
York Central Railroad are disous,ed with
the ala tbav arc rocaiv;n,, fran, tho ordsr.--
Annie Tborne NJ Now vort attannted TO
commit suicide IN Philadelnbia nv taking
Iaudanum Mrs simon Obcrmaver of Gin.
cinnati, has sued for divorce alleging that
her husband eIopcd with sister Sophia of The
Red Cross Society.-Nrs. Frances Constan.
tine died in philaleInbia oaed Io5 YEARS.
Electric LIGHT Lineman KoG was killed ON a
pole in front Of Tho p,rk Theater New York
in The presence Of hundreds If neonle inst
leaving the theater Forest fires are rag.
ing in the state of WASHINGTON. -Dnrine a
William Eacan killed Patrick O'Couuor.-
An Erie pusber engine at Susouebanpa Pa,
struck four Italians killing two and severely
jniurinp the others-Jappie Hanlev was
fatally injured while attempting TO escape
from burning building in Daubury CT
The schooner Comrade has been lost. with her
crew of eight men. on Lake superior.-A
bill has been filed to forfeit the charters of
the Chicago gas companies.-V. w. Hunt,
the New York Central station master at Jor-
dan village, near Syracuse, N. Y, was found
drowned.-The Western Union Telegraph
Office and other buildings at Lynchburg, Va,
were destroyed by tire.-Eva Hamilton, re-
ceiyed the news in prison at Trenton N j.,
of the death of her husband, Robert Ray Ham
ilton, and she will insist ON her legal rights
TO the estate of the dcceased-The Sugar
Planters Association of New Orleans will pc
tition Congress not to put The sugar tariff
schedule into effect until next July, so as to
permit the present crop 10 be marketed with
out.a decline.-The three masted American
ship Challenger, from lIartlepool for New
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