Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-01
THE NEWS

ufdWhi OF elsht hundlea cheyenne Indians
from Pine Ridge Agency. -Four eonyicts
in the military prison at Fort Leayenworth es-
capped by tunneling under the east wall of the
prison. Among the four was the base ball
pitcher, Lucas, who made his third successful
attempt to escape since his incarceration, some
months ago.-Lizzie Allen, aged fourteen,
and Mary Capler, aged thirteen, were drown.
ed while bathing near Marsh Bridge St John
n. BE. C. Allen, the publisher, of Au-
gusta, Ne, died at the Parker House, Boston,
ofpneumonia, He was taken i'll when on n
steamer returning from a trip abroad
William J. Elliott, former editor and pro-
priet9r of the Columbus Sunday Capital was
found guilty of murder in the second gree
for killing Albert c. Osborn, reporter, and
W. l.. Hughes, a bystander, on February %.
The verdict carries with it Imprisonment for
liie.-The Hopper Lumber and Manufac.
turing Company, of MichganICity, Ind has
assigned.-A terrible mortality prevails
among the cattle of Lawrence county, ILL.,,
which cannot be explained. Cattle die within
ten minutes after they are touched by the
disease. "A boiler in the repair shops of the
Hill City OLa,l oil mill expo led, fatally in
jnring Engineer Albert Spies and Fireman
Albert Fisher. The boiler sailed through the
air, went through a roof three hundred feet
away, and landed on n breakfast table
The schooner Michigan, while unloading coal
at Chicago, broke clear in two with a report
like a cannon.-A little daughter of James
Porter, of Mount Vernon, O., was burned to
death.-The soap works of H. G. Hume
well Il Co., Cincinnati, were damaged $40, 900
by fire; fully insured.--An incendiary fire
at New Brunswick; n. j., destroyed the Eel
ton Shoe Company's factory and three resi-
dcnces Loss $4,000
Fire at Clee Elum, Wash, destroyed an en-
tire block of business buildings. The loss
will exceed $4,000; insurance small. Michael
Garrison was fatally injured, and Theron Stat
ford seriously burned. At Decatur, ILL.,,
Miss Hattie Lockwood, of Elgin, H., was in
stantly killed and several other persons in
jured in street car accident. The car, which
was packed with passengers, struck curve
when going rapidly and jumped the track.
Miss Lockwood was thrown under the wheels.
At Marshalltown, Iowa, a Chicago and
Northwestern freight train struck Mrs. j. II.
johnson, aged seventy, and her four-year-old
grandson, at La Noble, while they were walk
ing on the track. Three cars passed over the
woman, grinding her to pieces. The boy was
hurled in the air and died shortly afterwards.
VIM. Hacker, the well-kuovn author and
writer on Free Masonry, is lying i'll at his
residence at Shelbyville Ind. For more than
forty years his works on Masonry have been
standard, and the best authority on the ritual
istic and secret work Of the order lie is 81
years old.-Professor Bret, well-known
educator of Paris France, was seriously in
jured internally in runaway at Ashland,
Wis, and lies in precarious condition. Prof
Bret has been in this country several months
looking up public school matters, OF which he
has to report TO the French Republic. He was
here on a similar mission in 1883. AT present
he holds proiessorship in the University of
France.
An explosion occurred in a new mill Of the
'ailin-l;lnd Powder Company at PlattevlIc,
Wis, as it was about to be started for the first
time. A workman named Lowery was the
onlyone in the mill and he was blown to atoms
The building was wrecked, and the conclusion
awoke the town.-The Tollcston Stock
Yards Company was incorporated with
capital of 81 100000, to do live stock and
freight bushes at Jersey City and Chicago.
Andy Farrell, a saloonkeeper, shot and
Killed Chris Harris, a conductor, in Spring
field, O.-Wiliam P. Drew, the late bank
examiner will ,,roDora "a r4,4or,ovt ,ol,t;,.,
to his supervision of the Keystone National
Bank.-The strike among the plush weay-
ers of Dobsan's mills, Falls of Schuylkill,
which has been in progress for the past ten
weeks, was declared oif.-Six store build
lngs, with their contents, at Forrest, Liyings-
ton county, ILL.,, were burned This is over
half the stores in town.-Gcorge Brophy
a1ed six years, and VIM. Peacock, aged eight
years, were drowned in the Lehigh Canal at
Catasauqua, Pa.-The West Hamburg Pa
Rolling Mill started work again. -Emyloyes
on the rapid transit electric street railway in
Newark, n. j., went on a strike. flames
A. Mckenzie, Worlds Fair commissioner,
said at Louisville, Ky, that he would probably
be candidate for Congress at next years
election.-Near Springfield, H., four boys,
two Of them sons of John Taswell, and the
others named Houstman, were playing with
an old gun, when one Of them dropped n match
on to it. The gun was discharged and Gus
Houstman was fat lily wounded, several shot
entering his heart. John Taswell was shot in
the arm, and Arthur Houstman in the shoulder.
The boys didn't know the gun was loaded. -
Wheat is yielding we'll in Michigan
AT Tacoma, Washington, Chief Justice
Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court
was rendered a reception by the members of
the Tacoma bar, judges of the state Supreme
Court and other prominent persons were
present-lt is announced from Chicago that
Herman Raster, widely known as editor-in.
chief of the Chicago Stats Zeitung. died in
Cubowa, Southern Silesa, a German province
Mr. Raster had been in poor health for some
time and went to Europe hoping TO recuper.
ate.-At South Portsmouth, Ky, Cant. John
killen, an old steamboat man. over seventy
years of age, was struck down and beaten bv
his negro servant, whom he reproyed for
negligence. Capt killen is dying and the
negro has been removed to Greenupsburg. XIV.
to escape being lynched. -The mountain
fire that has been raging near Lick Obserya.
tory, California, has been materially checked
and no further danger to the observatory or
environs is apprehended. A large force of
fre-fghters succeeded by digging in chang
ing the course of the fames-Henry S
French, boot and shoe manufacturer. Brock
ton, Mass, has failed and made an assignment