Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-15
THE NEWS.

The river cities and individual interests LOOK.
ing to bettermont of ocean and river commerce
are cooperating to that end.-Taxpayers in
Kansas City, Kan, raided the Council cham
Der, with the view of taking summary ven
geanee on the Mayor and Council for consider
ing proposition that was believed to be
backed with doodle. The members escaped
before the crowd reached them.-Camp
Douglass, Wis, was almost totally destroyed
by fre.-John Irwin, aged twenty -four, re-
siding at Chester, Pa, was drowned a Bur
lington, n, j., while bathing His body was
recovered. Two deeds have been flee for
record in the Beatrice, Neb. Register of Deeds
office wherein the Chicago, Kansas and Ne
braska Railroad Company deeds to the Chic
ago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Com.
pany all IT. property, rights and franchises.
The consideration named is $25, Do, 600. The
property named is situated in the States Of
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and
Oklahoma.-The Supreme Court of Montana
has ordered the releause of Editor Mcknight,
the Helena Journal, who has been sentup for
contempt of court because he had said that
the Davis will contestants coul not get an
impartial trial in Butte Mont-A wind
storm struck Sanilac Tuscsla counties, in
Michigan, and did great damage to the crops
and thcr properties.
Evangelist Moody has received petition
100 feet long, containing $50 signatures re-
questing him to make another cyangeli tic
tour in Scotland.--One man was killed and
five Others badly injured by lightning striking
small house in which they had taken refuge
from storm, at Ninita, Indian Territory
The Masonic Savings Bank, at Louis vile, ",
made an assignment. The capital is $3.50, 900
and the deposits over million. Farm
er's Alliance, of Elk county, Kansas want
the Alliance to hold national convention to
petition President Harrison to Immediately
call Congress for the purpose of passing law
for the issue of legal tender treasury notes, to
loan to the farmer at a low rate of interest, to
enable them to save their homes from the
grasp of monopolies. john Phillips was
killed and his son badly injured by prtma-
ture blast in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
"A new green-glass factory will be erected
at Millville, N. J.---Thirteen miners we're
burned by their naked lamps, causing an ex-
plosion of gas in the York Coliery Tunnel at
Pottsville, Pa.-Mexicans along the Rio
Grande are suffering on account of the drouth,
which is running their crops --Another rich
find of silver is reported on Pomeroy noun
tain, near Carbon, Cot. The vein is about
three inches thick and ofpure metal. /: is
evident that there exists still larger vein
somewhere III the vicinity of the same mineral
andi is thought that these discoveries will
soon lead to important developments. At
Elizabeth, n. j.. while Max Leyanson, Abra-
ham Hanson, and Robert Blum, hucksters,
were driving to the Newark market, crossing
the tracks OF the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey, their wagon was struc1 by a train.
The vehicle was demolished, Tevanson's skull
was fractured and he is dying at the hospital.
Hanson had one leg badly mangled, but Blum
escaped with slight bruises. The state o.
Pennsylvania has entered two suits against
the county Of Philadelphia and against
John Berdsley. for money lost through Bard.
sley.
The robber of the Columbus Grove Bank,
Lima, o., has been traced TO forest but
some Of his pursuers think that he has reach
ed a railroad and escaped.-J. o. Wynne,
business agent of the Georgia State Alliance
Exchange, is over 5000 shorti hsaccouuts.
Three brothers named Earnest became in
yolved in quarrel near Centralia, Pa, in
which one was beaten so badly that he cannot
recover. While the fight was in progress,
Bert Cleaver interfered in favor ofthe beaten
brother, and was stabbed by one of the Ear
nests.-Presdent lnman, of the Richmond
Terminal Company, denies the charges of the
company's insolvency, declaring that each of
the companies in the syndicate owns secure.
ties largely in excess of its outstanding in
dcbtedness. during a terrific storm at
Ottawa, ILL.,, Gustave Breining was struck by
lightning and killed.-A cyclone crushed
the tabernacle and caused Il panic in Leon, Ia,
seventy summer cottages being unroofed, and
others crushed by falling trees.--J. Abel
Motley, farmer near Danville, Va, fired
upon a party of boys bathing on his place, and
killed his own nephew, Geo Ferguson, a lad
aged seventeen years.--Whilec coming out of
Green Bay with a cargo of lumber from Me-
nominee to Chicago, the iron steamer Roanoke
was struck by squall, driven on reef and
sunk.-At Wenona Beach, on Saginaw Bay,
three boys, age twelve, sixteen and eighteen
years, respectively, we're drowned by the cap.
sizing of their boat. The names were Frank
Wintzerhalter and Charles Wiedmeyer
Chicago Louis B. Meyer a cigar dealer made
$4,000 aud his liabilities at $50, 600 The
elevator shaft of the Tonawandt IN. " Iron
and Steel Works was blown down during
gale causing loss of $50, 600.
The courthouse of Winston county. Ala.
was destroyed ly fire, together with all the
county records. LossS7 Dob. B. Gwynn,
of Humeston, Iowa, shot and INSTANTLY killed
his brothcr-in-law, Liberty Shocks, near that
place. Gwynn went to Snooks' house. called
him out and told him he had come to kill him,
The statement was supplemented by the cues.
ton, Did youeall my mother liar?" Shocks
answered Yes, whereupon Gwynn fired one
barrel of a shotgun. He walked four feet
away and fired again. Shocks filed with
shot, died instantly. The murderer went 10
Corydon and gave himself up.-The famous
Moqui Indian snake dance. which is held
every two years, has commenced on the reser.
walton, sixty miles from Winslow, Arizona.
and will continue sixteen days 1t is reported
that the government is taking steps to discon.
tinue the dance, and that this will be the last
one held. Major Donaldson, who took the
Moqui census, has gone TO the dance with
Photographic outfit, and the government has
also sent corps of photographers ex-
cursion and freight train collided at Rouse
Point, N. Y, and two people were killed and
about dozen wounded. l. George Love. son
of the head porter of the Stockton Hotel Cane
May, said in joke that the Cape May Bank
was broke, and caused run on it. The bank
stood it. Love was arresIed.-James Flypn
died of hydrophobia at Maiden, Mass.--The
Chicago and St. Louis limited train on the
West Shore Road, running from Syracuse. n.
T., struck freight train near Port Byron at
LOS A. NJ. Michael Bergen, fireman on the
passenger train, was killed, and ten Italians
were killed, and about twenty passengers.
mostly Italians, badly hurt. The freight broke
coupling, and before it could be repaired the
fast train struck it
JONI c. CALHOCS. grandson of the South
tarol1na statesman of that name. declares
that alternate generations in his family smolS.
pfa md slaDxt- Il l.