Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-02-07
THE NEWS

The National Distilling Company, at Mil
waukee, lost $4,000 by fire-Fire did $780,
go damage in the new Board Of Trade build
ing at Dubuque, lathe residence of
banker named Cowles, at Clark's, Neb., was
robbed of $1,000 by burglars, and his wife
killed-Edward Byrne & Son, dry goods
men in Chicago, failed; assets $4,000, liabili-
ties 81, 900.-Dug Burke. a bad man, was
killed at st. Louis by H. II. Chenot, work
house guard.-W. N. Zimmerman, Farm
efs' Alliance agent at spartanburg S. c., is
reported short in his accounts-Geo Best
was killed near Harrodsburg, KY, by three
men in the presence of his bride.-C. w.
Lamman was killed and John Mcconnell was
fatally burned by railroad collision at Beach
City, O.-Fire destroyed the Nutery hos
telry at Paterson, n. ]. 1t was one hundred
years old.--The business part of Winnebago,
H., was burned; loss So, 000.--Emer Clark,
superintendent of the Kansas City Cable
Railroad Company was killed in that city
by a cable car.-The governors of Virginia
and Georgia hold that the money appropriated
by this Congress for white and colored agri-
cultural schools must be divided as the State
laws direct.
VIM. Swisher was killed and John Kelley
badly burned in the ammonia plant of Tamm
Bros glue works in ST. Louis.-John Bond,
\ Mitchell Qnd.) negro, has been in bed ~
years. Though well, he refuses TO get up be.
cause his mother sold the farm.-A Barry
(lll.) brakeman killed himself by running
red-hot poker through his body.-An cpl
demic of diphtheria is raging in Adair, Iowa,
The Consolidated Fire Insurance Com
pany of Chicago has made an assignment
Three negroes confined in the town Jail at
friar's Point Miss, were burned to DEATH.
George Bradley, the first patient to be inocu-
lated with Koch's lymph in this country, died
in New Haven. The new steel cruiser
Newark formally went into commission at
Cramps ship yard in Philadelphia IN
attempt was made by an unknown man to
murder Lena Marks near Utica, NY. The
rolling mills at Bradsboro, Pa, have closed
down.--Lewis kurtz, a Jersey City school
boy, exploded a cartridge and was severely
injured.-A Grand Army post has been es-
tabiished in Hamilton, Out--John Y Rus
sell, aged eighty-one years, was suffocated in
burning house in Petersburg, Va--The
Worlds Fair Association of Chicago will call
for an additional subscription of 100000 of
stock.--The contract has been let for the
construction of the Danville and East Ten
nessee Railr ad from Bristol to Danvile.--
The New York and New Jersey Terminal
railroad Company, projectors Of the scheme
10 tunnel under the Hudson river, filed ar
tcies of incorporation at Albany.-John
Tyson, prominent St. Louis grain m reliant,
suspended,-LinkW sggoner, a desperate,
deted mob who broke into the Jail at Clai-
borne, La, to lynch him, and shot two of the
men who wanted TO kill him.
Charles Zeigler, prominent resident Of
Adams county, Pa, died at the age of fifty
nine yesrs.-bn collision on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad an engineer
and fireman was klled.--The Wisconsin
legislature has repealed the Bennett law
An explosion occurred in a New Castle, Col,
mine, and seventy five miners narrowly
escnped.-A large number of fishermen were
adrift on the ice in Lake Huron, and it Is
feared a score or more of them have persisted.
DR.. C. C.. Lancaster died at Knoxville,
Tenn, of blood poisoning, the result of PEI
forming surgical operation.----W. Ii. Goad-
charles large nail mandatory at Towauda,
Pa was destroyed by fire. Loss 5000;
insurance 1885, 00.-Ex- Fenian officers have
been buying cartridges in Kansas City for
either the Guatemalan government or =
surgents of that country--Three brothers
named Engmark have been arrested in Chi
cago for robbing their emp overs Of $1,000
worth OF jewelry.--The war ships Chicago,
Dolphin and Yorktown will go to New
Orleans at the time of the Mardi Gras festivi
ties.-Ihe steamship Newport encountered
a terrific storm on her trip from New York to
Colon, and suffered some damage. Engineer
Robert Brown was killed in a collision near
East Rochester, n. f.--Judge II. J. Ewing
mortally wounded burglar who was going
through his house, The East Texas Fire
Insurance Company, of Tyler, Tex, went into
voluntary liquidation. Thomas B. Wood
side, of New Burnside, ILL.,, committed suicide
IN the presence OF his faucee.-Caleb {.
MorrelI, well known journalist, died in
sing, Mich, has confessed to the murde, ,F
Nellie Griffin, his adopted daughter.
John Hand was arrested at Webb City. Mo,
charged with counterfeiting, and set a
molds were found in his ROOM One pas
senger train ran into the rear of another on
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad,
aud Rube Adena, passenger, was killed, and
several others injured coroner's jury at
Nashville, Tenn, declared that Mary Ann
Dolan was murdered by John Moran, who had
adopted and raised the girl.-Colonel A. A.
Andrews diamond store, in San Francisco,
was robbed OF 81 800 worth Of gems.-Allen
Heath, a Norwegian farmer, of Corona, Col,
was trieked out of S5,ooo.-The largest
mines of the Reading Company have sus-
ureen'eat whi''lef, tne poet has laid aside