Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-04-25
THE NEWS

Inc British forces advancing upon Manlpur,
India, had an engagement with large num-
Der OF the rebels and routed them.-The
Jews have been ordered to leave St. Peters
burg by May 3.-The Third Battalion of
chartered at Chelsea Barracks London have
followed the example of the Second Battalion,
and reyolted against the excessive drills and
other treatment to which they have been SUBJ
jected. A number of the mutineers were
placed under arrest.-The natives of Portu-
guese Guinea have revolted and massacred
the Portuguese officers and soldiers.-A jury
at Fairfield, Ia, acquitted Lawson j. Baldwin
of the murder of Matte Rodabaugh The
story telegraphed from New York that Ann
ODelia Diss De Bar, the notorious "spook
medium, - was going to California under the
patronage of Senator Stanford is Indignantly
denied by both Senator Stanford and his wife.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank, of
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, is the first national bank of
America to resume after once having passed
into the hands of recei er.-Fire in the
st. Louis Smelling and Refining Company's
carbon warehouse did $4,000 damage
Captain Daniel 7. Foster, Republican, was
elected mayor of Bloomington, ILL.,, by 40
plurality over D. S. Dyson, Democrat, and U.
o. Andrus, Prohibitionist Prof B. w.
Evermann, of the State Normal School at
Terre Haute, goes to Washington, where he
will be assistant chief of the division of ex-
ploration of lake and river basins in the
United States Fish Commission. A cyclone
struck Plttsburg, Tex, destroying two resi-
dences and killing one woman.-The wet
weather in Eastern Kansas has ruined the oats
and potatoes but the wheat looks well--
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Pittsburg
resumed operations after ten weeks of idleness,
giving employment to two thousand men.
The grand jury of the United States Court
In Chicago has returned true bill of indict-
ment against George J. Gibson, former secre.
tary OF the Whiskey Trust, on a charge of
bribery. although the Anti-tights bill
passed the Minnesota State Senate, it was
killed iii the House committee. The strik-
ing miners wives and daughters are vigorously
defending their homes from the evictors.
Ferdinand Myers Philadelphia, aged seven
teen years, committed suicide.-The steamer
Athos, from West Indian ports, arrived at
New York with eight shipwrecked sailors of
the schooner Joshua Baker, of Boston, which
was lost on Fortune Island April 81. V.
Mcmahon, twenty-eight years old, died in his
room at the Manhattan Club, Brooklyn from
an overdose of morphine.-A gang of rail
road thieves were arrested at Pittsburg.--
Wiley Wilmington, wealthy planter of Col
umbia county, Ark, was murdered by Gus
Frazier, colored.-kate Lawrence was muir
dered by James McDufe near Rochester, N.
HERMAN Mason shot and killed John
Van Coy and fatally wounded Walter Wood
ward in saloon fight at Bakerstown, Pa
tank containing fourteen thousand gallons
of oil exploded in st. Paul, MINI, and one
man was blown to atOms.---Dr. James X.
Thatcher, professor of physiology in Yale, is
dead. x-Spcakcr Reed is now in Rome.
Portuguese authorities in South Africa
fired upon British steamer and seized the
British mail, the outrages, causing excitement
in England. Foster, who has been
negotiating for a reciprocity treaty with the
Spanish government, arrived in London, on
his way to the United States.
The Dunawas brothers were hanged at
Tahiequah, Indian Territory, for the murder
Of Washington Lee, a Cherokee The
boundary between Alaska and the Dominion
of Canada will be one of the points of discus
sion at the October conference at Washington.
Complete official canvass of the Chicago
meyoralty election gives Washburne a plu
r,li Of A A.
tons, crushed Edward Goodwin and Frank
konnaly to death in a Pittsburg foundry
Walker Brown was hanged at Laurcns, S.
c., for the murder of Noah Pomage.-In q
quarrel between Newton Nesbit and wife at
Leclaire, Iowa, the withdrew revolver, shot
her husband and then attempted suicide
Philip Beck and Albert Hopes, employees of
the Parkersburg (Pa.) rolling mills, were
struck and killed by Pennsylvania Railroad
train near Parkersburg Charles Mattson
was elected chief justice of Rhode Island
\ mill of the Norwich (Ct.) Falls Cotton
Manufacturing Company, was burned; loss
S5O,000.-J, P. Blair, of Blairstown, n. j.,
was sued at Chicago for $500, coo for lawyers
fees and for libel.-The residences of Richard
Doughty and Parker Titon, near Absecon, N.
j., were burned. Col. Charles Ogden Wood
died in Washington. IS. J. Nichols and
John Cummings were arrested in Huntsville,
Ala, for passing counterfeit money. Some
heavy fire-proof landings dropped from the
fifth floor Of the Shoreham Hotel in Washing
ton to the basement
Nellie Spaulding, aged twenty-five years,
while under arrest for drunkenness in Buffalo,
n. Y, committed suicide in CELIA wind
storm at Marion, Ind, crushed the Crosby
paper mill and demolished other buildings.
A number of persons were injured. The
spinners' strike at Clark's Thread Mills was
declared off.-In a collision on the Lake
Shore Railroad, forty miles west of Cleveland,
the two engineers and six postal clerks were
Killed. Philip Ohnacker shot and killed
his mistress Mrs. Catharne Barth, on the
steamer Elder, about to sail from New York
for Bremen, and then committed suicide
Five n IN were drowned in Laurel Creek, W.
Na.-Three men we're killed and two seri-
Ously injured by a premature explosion in a
mine at Aspen, Col-The coke companies
will continue evicting the strikers in hope of
forcing them into submission, and more trouble
is threatened.--At fire in Boston the roof
of building fell in, imprisoning twenty fire.
men, number of whom were injured
Alanson Sweet, one of the founders of Chicago,
died at the age of eighty-seven years.-Four
children were inferred in one grave near Lees
port, Pa.--At mining village near wilkes
barre, Pa, John Hayna stabbed John Silbet-
ski.-The grip is decimating Indians in
North Yakima. Wash.-The circus and wild
West show was wrecked by mob in Knox
vile, Tenn.-General Kilbourne Knox,
governor of the Soldiers Home at Milwaukee,
ir dead.-Mrs Geo. Murphy, of Lee Town
ship, Ind, shot her five-year-old daughter
She is crazy.
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