Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-16
THE NEWS


was whipped by whitecaps, has since died -
The residence of Mrs. Joseph II. Burleigh,
widow OF ex-Congressman Burlei2h, at South
Berwick, N. H., was destroyed by fire: loss
$60, 0o0.-Epaminonda Wilson, of Boston,
manufacturer of pianos, under the name ofthe
| Boston Piano Company, has failed; liabilities
| $10Oe0.-St. Louis has subscribed $50, 000
and will raise as much more, to entertain
| visitors at the autumnal festivals in the next
three years.---J. Moore White, secretary Of
the Cooperative Beneficial Society, OF CAM
| den, Nj, has been arrested for violating the
| insurance laws.--An attempt to kill the
| CEarewitch, who is travelling ia Japan, was
snede by fanatical japanese who stabbed
| and cut him with sword. Edward Pinter,
alias ''sheeny AL" an American swindler,
was given hearing in London police court
On The charge of obtaining $4,000 from a
| Jeweler by the philosophers stone trick
The total returns from the Spanish municipal
eiectiehs show that 2753 Monarchists S44
Republicans, 1853 Independents, 81 Carlists,
and Socialists were chosen.--A cloudburst
struck a party of campers at Liberty, n. NJ,
Lnck, special agent of the Treasury Depart
ment, has found that since the operation of the
Mckinley law, Cuban cigars are made loosef
e,ad smaller, saving from tive to three pounds
IN every thousand cigars.-L. +. Burgess
shot and fatally wounded s. G.. W. Atwood at
Pleasant Valley Church, while service was
In progress. Two years ago, Burgess son at
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at 2546 Eighth avenue, New York, spread to
paint store of A. J, Kelly q Co., on the rear,
and did $4,000 damage. more
soldiers have been arrested at Walla Walla
for participation in the lynching of Hunt.
This makes sixteen now in custody Winter
wheat in Illinois is more promising than at
this date any year since 1SS0.-Antonio
Batres, minister plenipotentiary from Gaute-
mala to the United States, has reached Chi
cago on his way to Washington.
Ire old Exposition building on the Lake
front ~ Chicago will be torn down.-Ei
Paso, Texas, is flooded. Charles J. Dixon,
VINO wanted to kill Jay Gould, has been put
IN an asylum, drunken fishermen
nearly killed DR.. Wilbur, aged eighty-seven,
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the Columbus Westbore, from 1913 to 1884,
and at one time editor of the Cincinnati Volks-
blatt died at Columbus, o., aged eighty
Inc Salt Lake, HALEY and Puget Sound Rail
road, feeder to the Central Paeitlc, has been
Incorporated Fire did considerable injury
to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
shops at Galveston, =. Newton Klein kill |
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cutters strike at Milwaukee has been settled. |
WIN. Price, colored was hanged at Mar
snail, Mo.-Forest fires are raging near
Ashland Wis,--Rev Jacob Post, of the
Perseverance Presbyterian Church, died at
Milwaukee, of general debility, aged seventy !
years He has been in the ministry thirty
three years.-Fire in the VIII jlesale timber
yard of Bennett Bros, at Lakeside, Mich,
destroyed two million feet oflumber, estimated
to be worth 10000; fully insured -The |
Spring Garden National Bank of Philadelphia |
closed its doors,----The Southern Baptist
Convention began work at Birmingham, Ala,
Robert Adger, well-known Charleston mer-
chant, is dead.--Peter Churnus fatally shot
ms cousin, Anthony Chumus, during quar-
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Prof, Julius T, Hilgard for many years
superintendent Of the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey, died at his residence in
Washington. Italie paper says Italy
will send a circular to the European powers
in reference to the New Orleans case.-It is
rumored that train in Unbria was swept of
the track by a torrent, andanumber Of travel
ers drowned.
2, II. Downing, collector Of the port at San
Pedro, Cal, IS dead.-The Opera House and
other buildings at Plano, Ill., were burned.
Loss, $50, THE Bedding Motor and
Manufacturing Company, ofChicago assigned.
Liabilities $l75, Goethe National Express
Company now does business through from
the Atlantic and Pacific.---John W, Penton.
bad man, WAS killed bysherias, near Milton,
Fla.--The steamer Fl Monte put in at South
port, N. G., with her cargo of cotton on FIRE.
edward Douglas and Charles Tilden,
school children, were killed by train, at
Hartford, Conn,--Three men were killed in
collision at Shepher, Mieh.-The United
States Supreme Court decided against George
Wood, colored, and Shibya Jugiro, who are
Fire did 800, 900 damage at Weissport, Pa
The United States cruiser Charleston is now
believed to be in pursuit of the Gillian in
surgcnts' steamer Itata, and should the latter
resist capture, fight may result.-In
wreck Of freight trains on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, fireman and engineer were
killed and five locomotives wrecked. dix.
Sc I Iathn
have sold to NJ English syndicate 2, 900 acres
Of land in North Carolina, known as the Green
swamp tract, in the interest of the Norfolk,
Wilmington and Charleston Rairoad.-
Three thousand miners resumed work in the
Schnylkill coal felds.--In attempting torm
work train through blazing forest on the
Sinnemahoning Railroad, in Pennsylvania
the locomotive was ditched, owing to the
intense heat having spread the rails, and the
superintendent of the road and six workmen
persisted. Martin Griner, Logansport, Ind,
killed his mistress and committed suicide,
The Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan
Railway Company has placed blanket mort
gage for Si7, 900, 0G0,-Olver Patrick, aged
thirty-eight years, was killed in street fight
in Norristown PA passenger train on the
Sente Fe Railroad was held up by masked
bandits, in Oklahoma, and the express car
robbed.-The Indiana Supreme Court has
sustained the eight-hour law.--Four tramps
and 800 head of cattle were killed in a rail-
road wreck near Trinidad, Cola young
lady passenger on a Lake Shore express train
made remarkably narrow escape from a
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