Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-31
THE NEWS.

| walking On the railroad track near Galitzin.
Pa. were struck by a train and ground to
| pieces. - Judge Warder has been indicted
for murder in the first degree at Chattanooga,
Tenn, for killing Banker Fugetfe Not.
| withsianding reports TO the contrary the
! friends and relatives in New York Of Robert
Ray Hamilton declare their belitf in his
de;th.----A number Of Indians were deyoured
| by eolves in Manitoba. The Chippewa In
| dians on the Red Lake reservation have be.
/ gun dancing, and the settlers are greatly
| alarmed. - In a canvass of the farmers made
| by agricultural journals show Cleveland to
be the Democrats fayoTiies-T The Connect.
cut House Of Delegates accepted the report of
the canvassing committee recommending a
| recount Of the vote Of the state ticket
Charles Miller was sentenced to be hanged at
Cheyenne March 20, for the murder of two
boys.-The Kansas legislature in joint ses-
sion, elected PETER United States sepatorover
Ingalls,. The vote was i0I to IS. -The State
National Bank at Atchison, Ks. closed its
doors. The bank was organized in June, 1867.
with capital stock of $4,000.
The spinners in the Wamsutta mills at New
Bedford, Mass refused to work overtime. and
went out on strike--The annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad was held at Martinsburg, w. Va
The sheep butchers in the Chicago Packing.
house have gone on strike.-The schooner
Jennie E. Simmons, OF Philadelphia, had a
terrible experience in the storm. The lib
boom broke, and striking J. f. Kelliher, the
mate, killed him INSTANTLY special train
containing four hundred soldiers, en- route
from Pine Ridge to Fort Riley, was wrecked
near Irving KS, and two of the soldiers killed
and a number hurt.-In the New York
State Assembly resolution was offered that
in the event Of the passage of the Election
bill; the Assembly refuse to make any appro-
priation for the States representation at the
Worlds Fair. The New Jersey Assembly |
adopted similar resolutions The Bennett |
Compulsory Education law in Wisconsin was
repealed. -The thirty ballot for
Senator was taken in the Illinois Legislature
without change.-Four of the crew of the
Baltimore schooner Maggie 4. Gray were
brought to New York The vessel was
wrecked. - VIM. Boil, a truckman, was
fatally stabbed in New York.
bill has been introduced in the New York |
Legislature providing Tor 4; reduction in the |
cost OF textbooks used in the schools-The /
coke WORKERS III the Council Vile region vii. |
seek 10 have their wages nereaSed.-Frank |
}. Gertin, purser of the San Francisco steamer |
omatilia, committed suieide.-George Fl. |
Snyder, one of the weaithiest citizens of Dan |
Marco. Texas and agent for the Southern /
Agricultural Works Of Atlanta, Ga, shot and |
killed his wife.-H H. Lord of Devils I
Lake, N. D., was killed and eight other per.
sons were badly injured in collision between |
two trains on the Northern Pacific Railway. |
"A heavy fall Of snow, hiding the signals (
near Peekskill, N. T., caused a collision on |
the New York Central Road, but no lives
were lost-Thcys were fifteen inches of
snow in hew Hampshire, and throughout
New England the storm was very severe
1t is roughly estimated that 500 Western |
Union wires running oEs ef New York were /
rendered useless. --The effects of the storm |
in New York city and Brooklyn were almost |
as bad as those OF the blizzard in March. 1855.
The greater part Of the city was in darkness
and owing to the wretehed condition of the /
bre a'arm telegraph, several fires gained con
siderable headway.-In New Jersey the de.
struction to the telegraph wires was worse
than during the memorable blizzard; not
wire and scarcely pole was left standing
Along the Pennsylvania and the Jersey Cen
tral Railwaysth the block system Of signalling
had to be temporarily abandoned Adam
johnson, clerk in Washington committed 4
suicide. - In the Silver Pool investigation
Senator Cameron testified that he bought |
silver on margin in the early part of June +
before the Silver bill had been passed BY the
Senate, and disposed of it before the bin be
came a law.
The lockout of stone.cutters 1T Chicago,
has been settled. 1t Is now known that
Henry L. BRENNAN. a hank presi lent, OF
Litchfeld Mimi, killed himself because he
couldn't meet his creditors-JameS A
Woods was sent to the pen tertiary at Rich.
nond. Indiana, for kicking an insane patient
10 deaih.-W William Foalks, of laurel
Station, PENNSYLVANIA, while insane, shot and
killed his wife. a big oil.fnd has been
made in Mountain Valley Aabania.--
Joseph Shearer shot George Miller through |
the heart, near Portland, Indiana - Fire,
caused loss of 100000, at Buffalo. A4s=At
susquebanna, PeDnsylvaaia, Isaac J. Levene
jeweler, having stores in Susquehanna and
Birmingham, New York, made an assign.
menr.--Dr. J.W. Mcclure, Of York, Pennsyl
vania, is dead - Gov, Mckinley, of Virginia,
pardoned William Andrew who was serving
a term In the enitentiary.--Rev. Abraham
Harris, rabbi Of Beth Ahaha Synagogue, in
Richmond, died at the aitnr of heart disease.
-Ex-United States Senat Bainbridge
Wadle;gh died in Bo,ton--There were sew.
eral ice gorges along the Mohawk river
The meeting of the iudustr al organizations
at Washington adjourned TO meet next year
The kanksnka paper mill at Appleton .
Wis, owned BIS Van Norterick Bros, was
destroyed by ere. Loss $4,000; insurance
$j,o0o.--John Doyle, aged thirty years
was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, oii the
charge of numbering his mother --G General
Miles will take fifty Brute Indians to Fort
sheridan to be instructed in military tactics
Antonio Cairo, a barber in Jersey City /
was arrested charged, by relative, With
killing a man in his barber shop by cuttias I
histhroat while shaving him and subsequent, |
hiding his body in a ceIlar.-4Countiesa
small fish fell from the clouds during snov
storm in Nashville, Teun.-A lamp explode
In Jersey City tenement, and man wai
burned to death By an explosion Of tur
peniine IN the cellar of burning building in /
Jersey City Chief Engineer Henry 4. Fsrrit
and Daniel Dipran, stoler, we're killed and
several other firemen hurt