Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-19
THE NEWS.

Andrew Poll was sufocated by gas at
| Wllkesbarre Pa.-At San Francisco adver-
tisements have been published calling for
bids for raising and repairing the sunken
| Gillian iron-clad Blanco Eneaada, which
was destroyed by a torpedo at Caldera last
| May.-Seyenteen Chinese were landed on
| the beach near Port Townsend from British
Columbia. The customs officers arrested ten
| of them, but the others escaped. 1t is said
| that there are eight thousand cases of influenza
in Nashville. Josiah Minot, law partner Of
President Franklin Pierce, died at Concord
n H., aged seyenty-three. -Mayes, chief OF
the Cherokee Nation, died at Tallequah, l. T.
Head keeper Patterson, of the Trenton
state prison, identif I'd prisoner in the
Camden county prison as Henry Smith, who
recently escaped from the state prison by
cutting himself ont. The man was arrested
at Camden, n j., for entering house With
the intention of robbery. lie gave the name
of Stephen Harrison. A mob of masked
men broke into the Jail at Waycross. Ga, for
the purpose OF lynehing Welcome GoIding and
Elijah Cheaves, charged with murder but
the prisoners chung to the sides of their cells,
and the Iynchers havi's no lights, riddled
the empty beds of the prisoners with slot, an
then left Engineer Edward Paxton, of the
Cumberland Glass Company, was terribly
burned by an explosion at the works, in
Bridgeton, y. J.-Councilman W. c. Nc
Cormicl and George Miller were arrested at
Unontown Pa. on the charge Of kidnapping
child which Mccormick claims to be his
own Col. VIM. L. Merrill, United States
Engineer, in charge OF 'the Ohio river and all
It's ma vigable tributaries, dropped dead on an
Ohio and Mississippi train, near Edgefeld,
H., while en- route TO Shawneetown on bust.
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1t is now believed that Henry L. Norcross,
Boston note broker, is the bomb-thrower
who attacked Russell Sage.-The car short
age is increasing, owing to the blockades of
the Eastern Gateways. The roads out of Kan
sas City are limiting their shipments. The
Rock Island has departed from the rule
adopted by the Western roads, aud, to lin
tied extent, is allowing its cars to go through
in order to get the grain out OF the way -
The bark zen. Butler, from Port Gamble
Wash, foundered and broke up southwest of
Cape Avago. tits feared that nine sailors
we're loSt.-This years hop crop is large
Two United States marsha brought to Wichi-
Ia, Kansas, from Il c Greek county, three
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! ,lo,rn and rothed in Brantord Fla.
| Rev. DIR. IIortsman, chancellor of the
/ diocese of Philadelphia, has been appointed
/ hishop of Cleveland. Ohio-At Kansas
! CITY George Wisner shot and killed Daniel
Beckel, and then gave himself up. Wsner
was lea Gus of Beckel's attention to his wife.
At Philadelpbia the sash aud planning
/ mill of Anon & Bro. was Quilted by fire. Loss
/ s11N00 insurance $500. The fire is sup
! posed TO have been of incendiary origin
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