Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-14
THE NEWS

Jam T. Waiter, in Norfolk county, Sept m
Der s, 1889. A report from Cslverton,
Fauquier county, Va, says that the house OF
Mrs. James Hines, near there, was burned
down, and in it were found the bodies Of Mrs.
Hines and two of her children, burned to a
crisp. Mrs. Kincs had been outraged. IA
committee appointed by the last National
Convention of Railroad Commissioners, 10
secure congressional action for a batter equip
ment of freight cars, so as to lower the risk OF
, traihmen, held a meeting in New York.
John Laflerty, farmer, of Huntington town.
ship, Pa, is under arrest, on the charge of
whipping boy to death.-Dr. Charl NJ.
Palm r, a leading physician of Southern Wis
consin, has confessed that he is guilty OF
robbing the postoffice at Raymond Center.
lie is said to be victim of the opium habit,
and not responsible for his actions, st is
reported that Canada proposes to spend large
Sums of money TO induce immigrants to come
brother Slavs became involved in quarrel
while drinking heavily. One of the men was
struck, when be drew his revolver and shot
his b other dead. Anangry crowd chased the
murderer who escaped into another part of
the house. and cut his throat, dying soon after
Newton Hobbs shot and killed Henry
Beaver during drunken quarrel at Sylbans
Mills, W. Va.-Miss Adele Jaramills, a
pretty young Mexican girl, who was on
her way to Beaver, Col, 10 attend school, was
shot and killed in the washing-room of the
depot 1t Les Lunas, near Albuquerque, n. NJ.
Her murderer is believed to be Frank Romero.
boy who had asked her to marry him, but
who had been refused.
AT Chillicothe. Mo-, Gilchrist, Jr., proini.
nent teacher, died. His death so affected his
aged falht r that he was stricken with paraly-
sis and died.-At Duluth, Mimi, the greal
eoal-pile on the Northwestern Fuel Company
docks is sti on fire. although water has been
pouring into the burning mass at the rate of
800 gallons a minute. Some sixty men arc
wheeling away the coal from the pile but the
fremen cannot reach the hottest portion of
the blaze. The fire will burn probablya week.
The amount due the depostors of the
Ulster County On. " Savings Bank is 50
Az, $3.50, and the assets 81, los, 547. So leay.
ing deficit OF 1855, 9ls.50.-Joseph Hilda.
a Syrian pedler, who lived in Wilkesbarre
Pa. is missing, and it is believed he was mur.
dered.-The casualties at Nanticoke mine
were increased by the death of Thomas
Thomas, a nephew of ex-senator Morgan L.
Williams, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Young Thomas
was nineteen years old, and was employed Is
a driver boy. This makes eleven deaths re
sulting from the explosion. The Bapti t
laymen of Chicago have pledged themselves
to raise $4,000 for city mission. Willie,
the fve-year-old son of John Reeding OF
Trenton, n. J., died of hydrophobia. Emery
Ferguson, q Salvation Army man, was killed
during scutfle in Picton, Out. with his own
pistol. stock of hardware belonging to
Worth d Vaughn, at Nellsville, ILL.,. was d.
stroyed; loss $i2, 000.-Six or seven men
were injured at Cincinnati by falling of a
ladder at a fre.--The dead body of Frank
Anderson was found at Pontiac Mich There
were evidences of foul play.-WaIter Locke
who is half.witted, killed his father, an idiot
with an axe, about three miles northwest OF
Ozark. Mo.
Special Police Officer John Gillen was shot
aho Killed IN San Francisco by Chinaman,
INN Su Chan, who also shot aud probably
tl'led joseph Cowell, a milkmsn, besides
"onnding Il, Barbaris, restaurant keeper.
ihe Chin man was walking along the street
"heh wagon, driven by two young men,
passed him. They made some remark, which
QHEnTed the (hipano,, h.
ana fired, the shot striking Cow ell, who wac
also in the wagon. Officer Gillen approacne |,
ana Chin Su Chan raised the revolver again
and fired Squarely at the officer. The China
man started to run. A great crowd pursued
him, among them Barbars. Chin Su Chan
wounding Borbar,s the latter in the thigh.
Ire Chlnaman was caught and taken to jail
Five hundred dollars in gold was found in
canvas belt on him. Fire in n round house
OF the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, at Lex.
Ington, Ky, did $50, 600 damage BY an
explosion of gas in No. 1 shaft of the Susque
hanna Coal Company at Nanteoke, Pa, six
men were killed and several fatally injured
Inc accident was caused by the breaking of a
safety lamp, the flames igniting the gas in the
mine. Joseph Mayer, proprietor of the
Arsenal pottery, at Trenton, n j.. estimates
hrs loss at over So, 600 from the recent rob
berries Tor which his invoice clerk, ". W.
sweet, and several Philadelphia crockery
dealers have been arrested. Charles Crit.
lenford, an employee of the Weiss Produce
company, ofklingcrstown Pa, has absconded
with ~, 600, and girl to whom he had been
attentive is also missing Much fried fruit
Is being sent East from California The
Edgemoor land syndicate has bought 80, 90
acres of land in North Dakota, where Ger
mans will raise barley for malt purposes
sdeak thief stole several hundred dollars
worth of property from Wilson College, at
Chambersburg Pa.
1t has not rained or two months around
Columbus, Ind. Wells and ponds are dry,
and the crops have been much injured
Seven Thousand Indiana miners have been
ordered to strike.-The value of Mrs. Their
esa Fairs property has been estimated at 81,
694, 0.--At Galveston the large dry goods
firm of Weiss Brothers made an assignment,
Gus Teevy being named as the trustee. As
tests between $500, COO and $500, eco; liabilities
Sl59, 900. john Heyer, OF Jersey City, was
arrested at San Francisco, charged with eoun-
terieiting. THE water in st. Clair r yer
near Port Huron. is only twelve let eight
inches. movement in grain from Chi
eago is now very aetiye.-Owine 10 strikes
in the Pittsburp and Indiana block coal fields
there is coal famine AT Cbicspo.-A women