Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-21
THE NEWS


ton, Ill, to oppose granger legislation. In
/ Dallas, Tex, Della Close was shot to death by
/ George Martin, her paramour-Dennis
Crahler shot fatally two men in Chicago, and
wounded another seriously because they re-.
| fused to testify in his favor-Harris Gill
bert, of GAINESVILLE, Ark. shot his son because
he refused to get outof his way.-The Var.
iety Iron Works, in Cleveland, O.. have made
an assignment-I Dallas, Pa, James Pol.
lock and son were lifted by whirlwind, hurl.
ed against tree, and seriously injured
Pleuro-pneumonia has appeared among
David Hers cattle in Lancaster, Pa.-Or-
/, 1ers have been given by the Secretary of
/ the Navy 10 hasten the work on the new
cruisers San Francisco and Charleston, at the
Mare Island 1ard.-The Louisiana Lottery
/ Company is working American cities through
branch Office in Mexico under the name of
the Mexican International Banking Company
Col. James Rody Sneed, ex-auditor of
theCniedStates Treasury, died in Chicago
Private P. Malioy, of the Fifteenth Infan try.
at Mobile, Alabama, was stabbed and fatally
wounded by John Jackson, colored, who
charged the soldier with having seduced his
sister.-Alex. Campbell, who killed Mamie
Joseph in St. Augustine, will be tried in
Jacksonville, Fla.-Charles W. Longacre
agent of the American Tack Company in st.
Louis, is short 81 500, which he spent in try
ing to pick winning horses.
Saudia Hall, the first hall built by Scan.
n limo uio ri IN ~ 30 Ia
Gated in Chicago.-There is great alarm in
Douglass and Lincoln counties, in Washing
toh, owing to the raids OF horse thieves
George E. Close, of Kansas City, committed
suicide near Sterling, Ill.--Michael Over.
meyer, a farmer, was robbed and murdered
in Rochester, Ind.--Samuel Will, at Elco in
Illinois, shot his daughters lover.-Henry
Hail.. aged seventy years, was convicted at
Council Bluffs. Iowa. Of wife murder
Conductor tickerson, Of the Pittsburg and
Western Branch road, has confessed that he
was concerned in the theft of valuable pack
ages from freight trains. Senator Walthull,
Of Mississippi, has declared his intention
of declining enominaiion.-The boss
plasterers in Chicago are preparing for the
general strike.-Mrs. Hannah Cleveland
Kink, of Otisco n. Y, died al the age of one
hundred and two years.-An earthquake
was felt in Newburgh, N. Y.--Denyer, Col,
is without mayor just now.-By the falling
Of the roof at a col,iery near Centralia, Pa,
Samuel Cook lost his lfe.-At Grinnell,
Iowa, Gilbert Braden shot and instantly killed
Edward Kicker. Braden who came from
Brooklyn for the purpose of killing Kicker,
claims that the latter did Bradtn's sister an
irreparable wrong five years ago.--New
Jersey fruit-growers anticipate big peach
crop.-Bear Ridge, Beech Wood and Re-
lance Galleries, operated by the Philadelphia
and Reading Company, suspended for an
indefinite period. The North Franklin will
also shut down. This suspension OF mining
will add two thousand men and boys to the
list Of idle miners, which is already large
August HeintZ & Co. failed at La Grange.
Texas; liabilities 100000 Hungry miners
near Rondsviile, Ohio, broke open store and
helped themselves to provisions Miller,
brush factory near Shoemakersyille, Pa,
fifteen men and women were made unconsciou,
by sulphur yapor.
Henry A. Stearns has been nominated for
governor by the Rhode Island Republicans
III place Of Lyman b. Golf, declined. 1.-The
tower OF Liberty on the Washington Head
quarters, at Newburg. n. (which was erect
ed with funds provided by the United States
and the New York state government, was
unyeiled.-The recent cold wave has saved
the peach trees, and the growers predict an
abundant clop.-G. Wharton Richie, re-
ceiving teller of the Commonwealth National
Bank of Philadelphia, is missing, with $7,Sl8
OF the banks funds.-Fred. B. Woods, pro-
prietor OF shooting park in Cincinnati, was
accidentally shot and killed by W. A. Stevens,
/ dry goods merchant.-Control of the Pitts
| burg and Western Railroad has beer formally
! transferred TO the b. & O.-Rev. Howard
4 MacQueary, the young Protestant Episcopal
I clergyman of Canton, Ohio, Who was convict
/ ed Of heresy, will leave the church,. NJ.
Bell, of Washington city, Photographer, has
sued the krebs Lithographing Company for
selling Mrs. Clevelands pictures, he claiming
the exclusive right.-Leila Copperage was
killed and her sister injured by being struck
by railroad train near Roanoke, Va
( Norman Bull, aged twenty-five years, COM
mitted suicide at Wilmington, Del, being
disappointed in love.-The banking house
OF r, R. Weed & Co., at Williamsport, Pa,
closed its doors.---The jury in the case of
/ Camelee Lupez, on trial at Wichita Ks,
brought in verdict of murder in the second
degree.-The journeymen plumbers of St.
Paul, Mimi, were locked out by the master
| plumbers man named Edick was ar.
rested in Utica, N. u, charged with enicing
! young girls to his room and criminally as
/ saUlting them.-An unknown man assaulted
young girl in Mount Pleasant, Mich, and
then set fire to the house. The girl was
burned to death.-A despatch from Houston
! Tex, says that while Officer James E. Penn
was attempting TO arrest two negroes in a
dance-house for carrying concealed weapons
he was shot and Instantly killed, and a by.
stauder named Frank Michaels was MORALLY
wounded. The negroes escaped Congress
man Barnes, of Georgia, has accepted the
/ position of counsel for the Cherokee Indians
Work on the Chesapeake and Ohio CANA
will begin on the 23d of this month The
fourth anniversary of Baby McKee's birth
day was celebrated at the White House.
| A. Minor Griswold editor of Texas Siftings
| and welI-known as humorist, died at She
boygan Falls, Wis.-Chicago Republicans
nominated Hampstead Washbourne. son Of
Minister Washburne, for mayor.--Seyeral
blocks of valuable huiIdinpS in Svracuse
Y, were burned, entailing heavy losses. One
man persisted and the occupants of the Van
lerbilt House and large apartment house
made narrow eseapes.-The United States
steamship Galena and the United States tug
Nina went ashore during the gale off Vine
| yard Haven.-Two thousand indignant eiti-
zens of New Orleans broke into the Jail aud
! lynched eleven ofthe nineteen Italians of the
Malta Society who had been indicted for the
assassination of Chief Hennessey. The Iial-
/ IAN Minister at Washington, under eabied in
structlons from his government, called on
Secretary Blaine aud protested against the
killing Of his countrymen, and demanded
protection for other Italians in New Orleans.
Mr.. Blaine Immediately telegraphed Govern
or Nichols Of Louisiana, to take steps to have
the Italians in New Orleans protected
Michael Thill, a German tailor, of Washing
ton, died from dose of carbolc acid
| Secretary Proctor visited ST. Francis Bar.
racks, at ST. Augustine, Fia.--Laura Pur-
nell, middle-aged woman, was found dead
| with babe lying near her body, crying.
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