Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-17
THE NEWS


Rockingham county, Va, and Miss Fannie
Williams, of Chillicothe, O., were married Al
Staunton, Va.-Mrs. Max Ludwig killed
herselfat Pittston, Pa, with laudanum.-J
j. Ryan's ice factory at Chester, Pa was
burned. Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000
Orders have been issued from the Reading
coal and iron headquarters to stop work al
the North Ashland, Monitor, Merriam and
Otto collieries. Several hundred men will b
thrown out of employment.-Gen. Brags
has withdrawn from the race for the United
States senatorshipin Wisconsin.-Thes stone.
yards in Chicago are tied up because Of a
strike.-By an explosion of giant powder al
Deadwood, Joseph Hughes was killed
Russell Sage has won land suit in Minnesots
against the St Paul and Saltwater Railroad
Company, involving three million acres o.
land valued at ten million dollars. C.
Massey, clerk of Conway county, Arkansas
was sent TO Jail for refusing to produce the
ballot-box used in the last congressional elec.
tion.-Two boys, an engineer and one
quarryman we're killed by runaway car al
quarry near Westport, on Lake Champlain.
Rev. J. R. ]. Miligsn was found guilty OF
heresy by the Pittsburg Presbytery. Mary
Ann Morse, of Natiek, Mass, left $4,000 by
will to establish and maintain hospital in
the town.---The Baptist missions on the
Congo will not be abandoned. The work
there is prosperous.-Wm. Fishback has
Withdrawn as a candidate for the United
States Senate in Arkansas, against Senator
Jones, who now has clear feld.-The
bondsmen of State Treasurer Woodruff, OF
Arkansas, will make good his shortage The
deficit is $4,000 Charles King, WHO lives
near Middleton, Mass, reached, it is said, his
northumberland tenth birthday Detec-
tive Robertson shot and killed Alex. Groins
at the Crozier coal works. West Virginia.
Four men were Killed by the giving way OF
shed at Victoria, B. C-Hanley & Co,
commission merchants of Helena, Montana,
have assigned.-Mrs Jane Mullins shot and
killed her son Henry near Crab Orchard, Ky
Toe Clayton, an actress, is walking from
San Francisco to New York on a wager
The three-y ear-old daughter of Henry Beaver
of Indianapolis, died of hydrophobia
James H. Andrews stabbed to death Levy
Landsdown in Columbia, George NJ
Bartholomew, former president of the Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company, returned to
Hartford, CT, confessed ENLIGHTENMENT and
was sent up for one year.-The Connecticut
State Senate swore in the Democratic candi-
dates to the state offices. Governor Buckley
declined to be present at the inauguration
and all the state officials refused to hand over
their Offices. - Rev. J. R. J. Milligan, of the
Allegheny Reformed Presbyterian Church,
was placed on trial by the Pittsburg Presby.
terry of the Reformed Church, on the charge
of heresy.-John Youngman, Chippewa
Indian, convicted in the United States Court
OF criminal assault on fye-year-od girl,
was sentenced to be hanged on April at
Madison, Wis.-By the explosion of the
boiler of a locomotive near Ashland, Pa,
Martin Saeger, the engineer, and brakeman
were killed.-The Ward line steamer City
of Washington, from New York for Havana,
put into Norfolk ia n delapidated condition,
having been nearly wrecked in terrible
storm. Two Of the crew were killed and one
passenger hurt A Wheeling court awarded
$4,000 damages to child two years old for
injuries received on the Pitsbufg Wheeling
and Kentucky Railroad.-Rev, Evan Wat
kins, missionary, was convicted in Wheeling
of assaulting young laiy.
~. Barnett shot and killed Margaret Gus.
tine at San Francisco.-Mrs 2. Mcdowell,
wife of a ranch foreman in California, was
killed by an as-assin.--There is bad water
famine in Central Illinois.-Joseph and
Willie Barren were drowned In the Missis.
ippi, near Carsville VISA fast freight
aud a stock train on the New York Central
collided near Poughkeepsie. Conductor Chase
had his legs crushed.-The picture The
Ang, lus has been shipped to Europe.--Judgo
Pratt, in New York, vacated the order appoint
ing a receiver for the Sugar Trust, and directed
that the company be handed over to the
reorganization eommittee--The station of
the Reading road at Annville, Pa, was
entered by masked robbers, who got only IS.
Five desperate safeblowers were caught
in Chicago. The lady clerks of the Treasury
Department in Washington have organized a
movement to erect a monument to the late
General Spinner-Dr. William D. Durk-
hart, a prominent West Virginan, died at
Martinsburg, w. Va.-Gcorge Booth, aged
fourteen years, has confessed to setting fire to
the elevator Mt Cleveland, Ohio, which cause a
loss of 800, 000--An express car on through
train from Chicago to Detroit was entered by
thieves, and the boxes ransacked.-The
thirteen-year-old son OF c. J. l.. Sullivan, of
Lynchburg, Va, touched live electric wire,
and was instantly killed.-The breaking of
cable in mine at Elk Garden, W. Va,
caused fatal injuries TO several miners
Vim. II. Clayton, superintendent of the
Atlanta division of the Southern Express
Company, died at Atlanta.
Prof Young,of Princeton, has been awarded
the Jansen prize for his discoveries in spect.
rology. Eva Hamilton appeared in New
Yorj court to contest Robert Ray Hamilton,
will.-The North Carolina State Senate re.
nominated United States Senator Vance. and
adopted resolution instructing the North
Carolina senators to work for the financial re.
forms advocated by the Farmers Alliance
Heavy storms in New England and high
tides caused considerable damage.-Rev. J.
J. Marker and Rev. J. J. Sampson, Metho.
dist ministers. filed suit for damages in a
Chattanooga court against Rev. t. T. Carter,
editor of the Methodist Advoc tie, charging
defamation of character.
The Senate Interstate Commerce Commit.
tee has reported fnyorably bill modifying
the i-pooiing section % as to permit lin
tied pooling of traffic.
The railroad presidents have agreed upon a
commission to regulate transportation ques-
tons. ffty-third annual meeting Of
the stockholders Of the Philadelphia. VIII
mington and Baltimore Railroad took place
in Wilmington.-Ab by named Williams, a
mail carrier, at Weston, ". Va, when arrested
on the charge of robbing the mails, implicated
bis father.
DYING OF HYDROPHOBIA.