Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-06
THE NEWS


sse rules by selling tickets for an excursion.
New men will take the places of the eight
hundred striking coal and ore handlers at
Ashtabula Harbor, Cleveland, Ohio and
trouble is feared.---ia the PHILADELPHIA CITY
Councils investigation Of ex-City Treasurer
Bardsley's methods, Granville B. HeInes. a
director in the Keystone Rack, testified that
there had been an ovesissuc Of stock amount.
Ing TO 200 shares when the late John Lucas
was president Councilman Etting offered
resolution that President Harrison be asked to
investigate the conduct Of the Treasury De-
parnent in connection with the keystone
Bank.-Wiilard r. Smith and Walter
Pfefer, freshmen of Rutgers College, were
ate"aed while bathing in the canal at New
brunswick, N. J.-z=-Application was made
to the Supreme Court of Boston f.r the disso-
'utiea elthe National Sugarine Company, a
corporation organized in January, 1857, for
the manufacture ofsegaf according to for
mula in the possession of one Hickman. The
stock Of the company was issued, and HEX
msn returned a large share in consideration of
she Secret he was supposed 10 possess, which
was TO yield great revenue Preparations
were made to carry on business Then HEX
man disappeared. His secret was supposed to
nc locked up in The Security Safe Deposit
vaults, and wheb The apartment hired by him
was opened by order of the court the expected
tot"tpia was not found. The corporation then
collapsed, and has not attempted to do bust
ness since. Judge Allen ordered the corpor-
alton dissolved. -The Brooklyn Cooperage
Works sutfereda loss of 1926, 600 by fire. The
company is owned by the Sugar Trust.-0.
T. Boyd, local editor of the Titus County
tTexas) Times, was fsund murdered .-
Simon Rinehold, 4 lawyer Of indianapolis,
was found geiiy of robbery, and was fined
$500 aud sentenced TO ten years imprisonment.
$3.50 he place of Kraemer & CO.. makers of
musical instruments, &c, adjoining Steinway
Hall, New York, was damaged $50 900 by
fire.
A. Il, Myer, leading merchant of PIatts.
burg, Mo-, with his two daughters-Ella and
Rosa eighteen and fourteen years-was
drowned while trying to ford a creek. The
bodies were recovered. -Raus sherman
notorious horse thief, made daring attempt
TO eacepe from Jail ct Logansport, Ind. but
was foiled. lie had confederates.- The nj
torney general of North Dakota has RENDERED
an opinion declaring the election of II. P.
Rucker, of Grand Forks, as chairman of the
state Worlds Fair board void. Rucker is n
member of the National Commission, and the
attorney general says that he cannot hold Office
on the state board, being onlyex-officio advisory
member of the board. Someone threw A
stone through one of the windows of Wagner
sleeper on the westbound Overland FLYER near
Shelton, Neb. The little child of T. A.
Holmes, of Chicago, Yves fatally injured and
other occupants Of the car were greatly
frightened,
The Executive Committee of the Worlds
faif has confirmed the appointment of F. J.
V. Skiif, as chief of the department of mines
and mining, and NJ. E. Stone, as chief of the
foreign department---~Miss Ruth A. Tilton
sued Albert j. Steafns, Of Chicago, for s., 900,
Tor breach Of Promise. killed
one of family of ten, near Leayenworth,
Kan, the others being stunned.-Articles of
Incorporation of the Santa Fe and Prescott and
Phoenix Railroad Company for the construct
ion of railroad from Ash Fork, on the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad, through Prescott
to Phoenix, has been fled with the secretary of ,
Arizona. D, b. Robinson, general manager
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was
elected president ofthe company, f. NJ. Dickey
treasurer and Frank NJ. Murphy secretary.
Henry Morse, an inmate of the Soldiers
Home, from Detroit, entered room at the
home at Grand Rapids, occupied by Henry
Harrington, and stabbed the latter half dozen
times in the side with a butcher knife, in
hicting fatal wounds-Joseph Newton, a
living in the northern part of
johnson county, ILL.,, was captured near Lick
Creek, in Union county, whereupon he drew
a revolver and killed himself--While Mar
tin Spillman and wife were driving across the
railroad track near Lebanon, Ind. they were
struck by the east-bound train on the Big
-Four Road and fatally injured.
flogeman, a constable, and Cyrus Aldrch a
farmer Of Norton county, Kansas, had a quar-
rel The farmer fired at the constable, and
the latter killed Aldrich. Hageman also died
from his wounds.-The Pennsylvania legis-
lature completed the work of the session by
appropriating 100000 for the states repre-
sentation at the Worlds Fair and adjourned
sine die.-The rush ofold employees for work
In the Connellsville coke regions continues
Governor Mellett of South Dakota refuses
to call special session of the legislature to
take action on the Worlds Fair, unless it
could he guaranteed that the state would be
under no expense whatever. -The United
states fishing schooner j. d. Hopkins has .
been seized by the Canadian cutter La Can
adienne for fishing inside the limit at Fox Bay,
amherst. Richard L. Trumbull, CHILEAN
senator, indicted for violating the neutrality
laws, has pleaded not guilty at Los Angeles,
announcement is made that the .
new metal aluminium has been reduced to
fifty cents per pound. At Rye Lake, Wis,
Montcith & Braderick S general store and two
residences have been destroyed by fire. Loss
81 900; insurance S5J0-Three laborers
were fatally and twoothers slightly injured by
falling wall in Chicago. The fatally hurt
are Lars Olsen, Charles Fifer and Charles
+ aulk.-At Lincoln, Neb, the Jury in the
Sheedy murder case has returned a verdict Of
not guilty in favor of the prisoners. Mrs.
Sheedy and Monday Mcfarland This an.
was received with cheers, min
gled with Kisses. Col. William H. Peyton,
a prominent Virginian, died at GreenyiIle.-
Congressman Ii. \. Herbert, of Alabama, who
has served eight terms, announces that he will
not be candidate for reelection Decora-
ton Day was observed throughout the eoun-
try on Saturday. The feature of the obser-
vance at Baltimore was the unwilling of a
monument to Capt. James II. Rigby at Loudon
Park. All the Union graves in the various
were decorated. The ceremonies
at Arlington, Soldiers Home and other ceme-
teries about Washington were imposing. All
Alexandria, Va, Lee Camp of Confederate
Veterans escorted the Grand Army Post to the
cemetery and the graves of the Union dead
were decorated jointly. Confederate veterans
attended the observances at General Grants
tomb, in Riverside Park, New York, and
Hon. John S. Wise madea speech. President
Harrison visited Philadelphia and made an
address at Laurel Hill Cemetery, where Gen
eral Meade is buried.
PRESIDENT CARNor visited recently the
Jardin d'Acclimation and Dahomian was
asked what he thought of the French Chief
Magistrate ooh, he is dignihed and grave
looking man, replied the dark-conlplexioned
same woman. For The Lords sake, has he
only one2p