Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-02-21
THE NEWS

James II. Kyle was elected United States
Senator by the South Dakota legislature.--
Three men attempted TO rob- Chicago Jew
eler. The latter resisted, and two of the
thieves were captured.-The convention OF
the Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deayor will be held in Minneapolis. Teller
Ritter, of the First National Bank of Evans
( willie, Ind, has been arrested on a charge OF
Incorporating 81 1000. Ernest j. +.
Barton, an artist, was found dead in his studio
4 in Providence, II. /. He had committed sui
eide.-At the village Of Douglass, in Texas.
I Tom Robin, q notorious negro, was lynched
Near Petersboro', Tex, S. c. Nicholas was
4 shot and fatally wounded by his cousin,
Marion Nicholas.-Judge Charles S. Hamil-
ton, Of Bidjeford, will be mpeached. -Miss
! Ava Saule Willing and John Jacob Astor
+ were married in Philadelph ia.--Isaac Fes-
+ ley prominent resident of PottstoSn. Pa,
is dead.-Wm. Massey head of the VIM.
4 Massey Brewing Company Of Philadelphia, is
dead-For stealing hens J. L. Sargent, of
/ Waltham, Mass, was sent up for fourteen
years.-The funeral of Admiral Porter was
an imposing demonstration. The President
and Cabinet attended, and the naval hero was
inferred with all the honors due his station.
Quite a number of important measures
are yet 10 be disposed of by the present Com
gress--Thc schooner John W. Glskel.
| Captain Douglass, from Philadelphia TO
Savannah, went ashore on the Caroline coast
The ammonia tank in an ice factory at
Suffolk, Va, exploded, and the building was
wrecked. -George L. Bake, sugar-sampler
| in the appraisers office. Philadelphia, has
been indicted by the grand jury for attempt.
ing to defraud the government.-Snow
thirty inches deep in Montana.
John Spellman, who was arrested at st.
Paul charged with robbing mails al Peoria.
ILL.,, Jumped from train near Chicago, aud
escaped Brown Bros, dealers in crockery
IN Duluth, failed; assets sza000, liabilities
so5,o Small poz is doing great damoge
among the Mennonites in Marion county, KS.
Several small railroad accidents occurred
IN and around Chicago owing to the dense fog.
Fire caused $4,000 damage at Mime
apolis- The strike Of weayers ut the Cornell
Mil, Fall river, Mass, has been settled The
weavers got what they asked for.-Fire
bugs posted more notices about burning barns
near Gettysburg. -Humors in relation to
the credit of the American Loan and Trust
Company, Of New York, circulated by Ii. r.
X CHI, discharged employee, caused run
on the company and an investigation by the
state examiner.-G Grounding of an electric
light wire caused fire in the warehouse of
Thompson & Coke, carpet dealers, Philadel-
phia, which did $4,000 damage. is re.
ported that close alliance has been formed
between the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago Railroad and the Richmond Terminal
Company The general postoiiice building
in New York city was damaged SO, 600 by fire
and hundreds of bags Of newspapers were
burned.
Jay Jewett, museum wonder died IN Ma.
son City, Iowa. Cashier Spaulding, of the
First National Bank Of A. yer, Mass, says that
he lost the money he took in speeulation.----
The -ha.s--p b. na=aa--o2er By Gibson. Of The
Chicago whiskey trust, who is charged ith
attempted arson, was filled with an explosive
fluid.-O Owing to strike, the work of grad.
ing in Jackson Park, Chicago, in preparation
for the Worlds Fair, 10 ct u ltand.till---
Seven workmen were hurt by the collapse OF
a platform in Jersey City.---The charges
against State Comptroller Mccall of Texas,
with misapplying State lunds have been sus-
taned-W. A. Pullman, president Of the
Seaboard National Bank Of New York, is
dead Edward Niebert, who escaped from
jail at Eason, Pa, was captured in Phillips
bury, n. C.-All the mill weayers at the
Cornell Mills in Fall River, Mass, went out
on strike.-J. i. FL it, agent Of the NORTH
western Elevator at CasseltoH, n. d., was
murdered and robbed The murderer Sc
cured about $4,000 IN money and Flett's gold
watch.
In Easton, Pa, Edward Werkheiser aud
his two horses were kiliel by cave-n on
the road over an old mine.---Two men,
giving the names Of Rogers and Heh, were
arrested in Sacramento, Cal, charged with
the murder of Captain Greenwood and wife.
w. w. WednelI, the postmaster at Sleeps.
head Bay, has decamped.-- bold, but m.
successful attempt was made to rob tile
Citizens Bank in Minneapolis Natural
gas exploded in Marietta, Ind, and fatally
Injured two men-The National Miners
Convention adopted a resolution that all
miners and n,inc workers demand the eight.
hour work-day May next--The legislative
committee appointed TO investigate the ac.
cou1ts OF the Arkansas state treasurer recon-
mend that criminal proceedings be taken.-
RUFF kitrello, noted fnoonshiner and out
law froH Tennessee, was captured at Florence,
Ala samuel Morey, of "Morey letter.
fame, died in Nashua, \. lI.-JuJge Nelson
Lewis OF Pincvil!c, Ky, was shot down by
h S son, SiIncy.-At Mount Pleasant, Pa,
Andy Gouda and Steve IToyances, Hungarian
miners, got into drunken brawl. and
Hoyanees severed Gondlas iuglsr vein with .
diggef's piek \ second blow sent the pick
through the halfdead victims sknll--.I.
samphon, a notorious character, was killed
near broUnstoHe, Boone county, W. Va, by
Everett Wiley. Thirty persons were killed,
and number injured by boiler explosion
in a factory at Quebec President and
Secretary Proctor have sustained Col For
sy!he's management at the Wounlel Knee
eng cement eontraryto the advice Of General
Miles.