Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-30
THE NEWS

At Jewell county, Kansas forty farmers
drove Oscar kinlesperger, tenant who had
taken possession of farm under foreclosure
from the place, and reinstated Joseph II. Ben
net, who had been rejected by the sheriff. The
mortgage money belongs to young lady III
Jewell City. Bennett is Farmers Alliance
MANA gale broke several RATS oflogs in
Chemaugon Bay, Wis, and swamped num-
Der eff beats, iheir occupants making narrow
escapes, Heavy rains in Northwest Kansas
aud in Nebraska have done great damage to
crops. Alma, Neb, was completely inundated
and several blocks of buildings were injured,
Fire destroyed the J. W. Seton butter.
dish factory at Anderson, Ind; loss $4,000,
There was panic among the girl operatives,
but no one was hurt. The commissioners
appointed by the President to negotiate with
/ the Indians occupying the CalvilIe Reser
Walton have completed their work, and, under
the treaty they have made 100000 acres of
land viii be thrown open for settlement IT
is reported at Helena, Mont, that Jaw Gould
! on his coming visit to that city, will look into
the matter of extending the Union Pacific
system so as to give it an entrance into Helena
over its own lines.-Jesse Pomerey, the boy
iiend, in state prison ut Charlestown, Mass,
sawed the lock of his EEL door so that it could
be removed He was placed in dungeon
Millionaire John j. Fsush, of New York left
s2S0eo to charities.-2, $40 immigrants were
tainted at the barge Office in New York, of
whom 1,0SS were Italians. At Clifton, Ont.
Ca :,
neck by c, Bower, aged seventeen who was
defending his mother from assault-Officer
Thomas Searsby, of Houston, Texas who was
shot by f. T. Hunter while trying to save
Mrs. Stoner from murder by Hunter, has
since died. The postoffice and store of J.
L. Leech Son, at Pomeroy, Pa, were broken
into by thieves, who robbed the place and
then set fire to it; loss 5000,
Prof. Francis A. Wilbur, professor of analy-
tical chemistry at Rutgers College, New Jer-
sey, diet Of pneumonia. The jewelry es-
tshlishment Of L. c. Bernays, at Little Rock,
was burned. Loss So, 900; covered by insur.
ance.-W William Aikens and several chums,
having spent the afternoon drinking, went 10
the farmhouse Of Clarence Ridge, near Hig-
ginsville, Nd, and asked for supper Upon
being refused, Aikens fired two shots at Ridge
the last causing fatal wound. Aikens es-
capped. Ridge is the son of the wealthiest
stockman and farmer in that vicinity
There was shooting atfray at Houston, Texas
over nan who had seven wiyes.-Ben
Hunt alias John Banks, a dangerous desper.
ado, was fatally shot at Newport, Ark, while
resisting arrest, by W. w. Edwards, an officer
from Mississippi Hunt is negro, and has
been wanted for murder for three years.
james 4, Hitler, proprietor of the Mountain
Pride Hotel, at ITillsboro', y. NJ, shot and
killed Dr. c. /. Mason, who, it is alleged, was
too intimate with IIiler's wife. Much excite
ment prevailed and Hiler was in imminent
danger at being lynched, when police rein
tvrcements arrived. IIiIer came from FL Paso,
Texas, two years ago. Mason is from Ken
tucky.-Mrs Christen Peterson Danish
woman, and four children, aged from three to
ten were found hanging in the cellar Of their
house, three miles northwest of Harlan, Iowa
1t is thought they have been hanging since
May Goth. The husband was sent te the in
sane asylum about week ago, and the wife
was believed to have been insane.-TwO
men entered the American Express Office at
Carroll, Iowa. bound and gagged an employe
named Matthews, robbed the money box of
5000 and then escaped. The only desc ption
which Matthews is able to give is that one of
the men is tall and the other short. Mort
cages amounting to half a million dollars were
n I Al,
Rubber Company. last of the soldiers
arr leaving the Indian country. Company B,
of the Third Infantry, which has been station
ed at Fort Suliy since the Indian war has
gone to Fort Smelling.
General Leonard Sewell, noted Louisanian,
died at the age of eighty-two years.--An old
German, named Williams, was struck atCum-
berland Gap, Tenn, and his head cut in two.
He was tagging the train to put a whisky Jug
on board.--The miners strike in Illinois is
about ended. The men gained nothing by the
Strike.-While Lewis and William Clair
brothers, of Philadelphia, were returning from
baseball game in Camden, N. j., they got
into an alteration with John Sweeny and
Alonzo Boggs, who stabbed them both. w.
}. Ashley, tailor, of Sewanee, Tenn, COM
mitted suicide by leaping from a bridge one
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would destroy the validity of the election.
Duplicates had been kept as usual by the
managers and no harm results.-Eigbt
masked men called George Aekleson. a six.
teen-year-old boy who worked far Porter Tam.
linson, a farmer, at Winterset Iowa to tho
door, thrust revolver in his face. hound and
gagged him, dragged him across a lot to a
tree below the barn and strung him nm. He
was let down and told that unless he confessed
10 having cut to pieces n saddle beIongin, ia
Clarence Morton, cripple that he would he
banged. He refused to confess. ara WAS drawn
ND twice more and nearly eboked to death ITo
was thentaken 10 the house Thrust tbrougb tho
door and left living on the floor in baicco,.
scious condition. iurv in the Cam,hoIl
murder case in JacksonvilIe Fla came j.,
with n verdict of murdar in the t;rst do,,raa
with recommendation TO mercv.-A F
TownsEev of Readiag pa threw himself AZ.
liberatelv before a train and was Killed
One mart of vioiIontos o,;s,ool, onotbo, g.
thieves and onened fire Jndge Aikers -