Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
THE NEWS.

AT Marion, Ind. Edward Caniley, the
forger, has been sentenced to three years in
the penitent.ary on pl, a OF guilty Cantley
had nm extensive scheme for defrauding acct
dent insurance companies by forging papers
in claims for disabilities He had policies for
S54,O in eight companies, from which be had
an income of over $500 aweek in sections
of Iowa much of the fall wheat will be fail
IRE. owing 10 the continued warm weather.
Near Morris, H., W. l. Barnett killed his
wife. and then made an unsuccessful attempt
at suicide. At Sacramento, Cal, Richard
Won Oiinda, blacksmith. murdered his wife
and then killed himself. His wife had left
him on account Of cruel treatment. He met
her. and asked.her TO drop the proceedings for
divorce and live with him again She refused
and he shot her twice, killing her instantly.
Hethen fired two shots at himself and died in
a short time. VII lie attempting 10 ford the
Little Blue river near Fairbury, Neb., Albert
| Hermann drove his horses into too swift water
and the outfit was carried down the stream,
the wagon overturning, Mrs. Hermann and
two children, who were in the wagon. were
swept away, and the children were drowned
Hermann, with difficulty, swan to the shore
and, after hard effort, succeeded in bringing
bis wife out of the wat r, but she died shortly
afterwards. Sheriff CASTOR anI
bartender we're found murdered in Ghio's
saloon at Arthur City, Tex, both men being
shot in the back. The cause of the double
murder is not known, but it is generally be-
lieved to be revenge.--The report that Secre.
1 tary Blaine is again i'll is unfounded. -Nes
Lundstrum, lumberman. was found shot
through the back and head upon the railroad
track, at Republic, Mich. Robbery was
evidently not the motive of the crime. as
considerably sum of money was init shed q
| his body.
/ The Journeymen Tailors' Union Of Toledo,
Ohio, numbering 225 men, struck for an ad
vanre in rates of pay which averages about
% per cent. above the old rates. They work
entirely by the piece. The merchant tailors'
/ shops are all idle or running with but one or
two men, as the union embraces nearly all the
workmen in the city. The master tailors say
: they cannot comply with the demand, which
they declare unreasonable. They will wait
three days for the men to come back, and if
they do not they will then send their work to
other cities to be made up.-Two freight
cars were run off the transfer steamer Charles
Marian at Memphis and four men in them
were drowned. The cars were loaded with
wheat and flour. Two tramps were in each
car. The train was backed with more than
ordinary force into the boat, causing the hind
cars TO break over the bumpers and pitch in
TO the water.-The CHILEAN steamer Itata,
which has been released on bonds furnished
| by local capitalists left San Diego, Cal. for
Valparaiso. The steamer had been tied up
| since July 4th.-The plant of the Delaware
Iron Company at New Castle, Del, operated
by Morris, Tas&er & Co., recently partially
! destroyed by fire, resumed work. The works
when in full operation, give employment t,
about 1000 hands.-A bloody Indian out
/ break is in progress in the district OF lula
| mengo, Texas. Steamboats, between Poiu,
Pleasant, VIVA, and Cincinnati, are aground,
the Ohio at this point having but one foot and
eighteen inches Of water.--S Sanford Dowd.
an old Iowa soldier, is dead lie was the
father Of 81 children.--Captain Eli Foster q
soldier, who escaped from Libby pr son dur
ing the war. died at Chicago.---A movement
is on foot to buy up all the rice mills in the
South, and throw them into pool. Thu
Standard Oil Company and English capitalists
are believed to be behind the enterprise
The Irish League will work with the Irish
Federation, but will remain neutral so far as
the leadership is concern d.
Chief Justice Green of Oklahom1 decid d
/ that when saloon is run contrary to law. any
person can stroy the business. The Wash
ington msehine factory at York. Pa, owned
by n. C. Baughman, was burned loss s., 0G0.
At Fairbura, Ga, Joseph Nimmo, an old
citizen, was shot and kilel by his son, ST.
John Nimmo.- Melbourne has given up his
rain exp eriment at the SUI rgestion of the Cit-
zens' Committee of Gocdland, Ks, which had
the matter in charge. If rain falls Lefore
new test is III ,de Melbourne is not to have the
credit Melbourne is not satisfied with his
test and will wait until rain has fallen and the
clouds, which the committee agree are of his
making have cleared away, before makinga
new test. From the beginning to the end of his
experiments the wind has maintained yeloc.
ity of from thirty-five to forty miles per hour.
Melbourne is satisfied that rain can be PIE
cpitaied while the winds maintains such
high velocity. Since the experiments begun it
has rained all around Goodland.-Time-keep
George l.. Coe, of the Mckee & Nilsson Pipe
Works of Patterson, n, j., has left for parts
unknown with, it is alleged, 81, 42S of the
concerns money.-The sealing schooner
Edward W. Webster, Capt. Mclean, arrived
at San Franc SEQ, after an absence of seven
months. The sailors killed large number
of seals, when the Russian authorities opened
fire on them, firing volley after volley. The
captain of the Webster, nevertheless ordered
the crew out again on the follow ng day, and
when they refused to 80, some of them were
put in irons and fed on bread and water for a
number of days. The sailors acknowledge
they received hard treatment during the en-
tire period. The mate of the vessel says the
schooner was not warned against Boring Sea,
but the men state tina: the schoones Lilly L.
was spoken June 30 and that she announce
she had been ordered out of the sea by a rev.
enue cutter. Captaia Mclean 20 the sailors
say, said that he would enter the sea despite
revenue vessels. TIE Webster brought back
1900 skins.-An explosion of dynamite in
the Butte copper mine wrecked the shaft
house and killed a number of people WIN
Houser and Spencer Cameron, Two kenton, o.,
farmers, beat each other TO death.-~Ghe
want of proper sewerage is the cause of an
epidemic of diph liberia in Saratoga, n. Y.
The steamer Pennonia, reported lost with all
hands some months ago, has been heard from.
ha Al I. i l. zr.
Marshall group May 4. All on board escaped
to the shore, and after much exposure and
suffering reached Apia in safety and left on