Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-17
THE NEWS.

being Drought before tinted states COMMITS
sioner Crawford he was released on the evil
dence of Money Expert Mccullough, who pro-
nounced the dimes of legal issue but east with
imperfect dies. The suspicious point about
the coin is the rough rim that remained on the
edge.-A monument to soldiers and sailors
was unveiled at Utica, N. Y.-Governor
Francis, of Missouri, has refused to interfere
in the caseof Tom Williamson, the condemned
murderer, and he will be hanged October 81.
Near 0wenton, KY. DR.. Ut Massie shot
and killed Jesse Hanover, a well-to-do farmer
Masse heard that Hanover had been talking
about him, and killed him.--Julius F. Pratt
and Addison Bybee, of the old Sarven Wheel
Works, now part of the American Wheel
Works Trust, made an assignment, and Be-
ment Lyman has been appointed assignee.
Pratt holds 1929 900 and Bybee 100000 in
the American Wheel Works, and each have
81, 500 in the b. B. s, Co., Of Dayton, o. and
SIS, 900 in the Indianapolis Wagon Company.
The failure is due TO the assignment made by
the American Wheel Works, in which both
gentlemen are heavily interested. At Gas.
par, Wyoming, Dr. Jos. Benson, confined in
Jail for drunkenness, set fire to the building
and was burned to death. Benson claimed to
have been ordained Catholic priest in Bos.
ton years ago, but was silenced because of
drink.-At Lima, o., Frank Castle was
killed by Elmer Downs. Both were engineers,
and quarreled about relieving each other
At San Francisco, Bernard Seville, who
swindled ex-senator Fair out of five hundred
dollars on the strength of forged letter of in
PRODUCTION from ex-Secretary of State Bayard,
was sentenced to three years imprisonment.
At San Francisco, letter was received
from Ounalaska, which says the steamer Hat
tie Gage is reported as having raided the seal
rookeries in Pribylotf Islands and escaped un-
molested. ~
The United States Supreme Court began
the October term. Justices Fuller, Gray and
Bradley were absent.--Captain Hooper COM
manding the revenue steamer Corwin, has ar
rived at Port Towns md for coal on his way to
San Francisco. He reported that the trial of
the schooners Etha and La Nymphe before
United States Court, at Juneau, for violating
the modus viyenli, had resulted in the con-
domination of both vessels. A number of
important telephone patent contest cases.
which have been pending in the Patent Office
for years, will be heard by the Commissioner
of Patents during the present month. At
Beading, Pa, while Charles Betz, aged
eighteen years, was cleaning revolver, he
playfully pointed it at his brother Alvin, aged
six, when it was discharged, killing the latter
Instantly. Charles Betz claims that he did
not know the weapon was loaded. He was
arrested.-The Pottsville (Pa.) Iron and
Steel Company's rolling mill, at Hamburg,
which was id e for sometime because of trouble
with the Amalgamated Association, and then
resumed operations with non-union hands,
went on double turn, giving employment to
one hundred and fifty men.-At West SUI
perior, Wis, the nine eli y banks have agreed
TO form trust, and hereafter a maximum
rate of two per cent. interest is to be paid on
city funds. The City Council has accepted
the proposition. Marshall, Mo-, bur-
glars bound woman and daughter and ram
sacked the house. The women were badly
hurt-The town of Hitchcock, n. D., came
n ar being destroy d by praire fres.-At
Virginia, ILL.,. City Marshal Robert Duncan
was badly beaten by joseph and Charles
Smith. Charles Smith was shot in the abdo-
men.-A heavy earthquake shock was felt
ut Napa, Cal.-Switchmen at West Superior,
w s., struck. A wheat blockade is feared
At Louisville Dennis Fitzpatrick, q work
house guard, was shot and killed while out in
the city. He quarreled with J. ]. McGrath
and Dan McAuliffe at a low saloon, and fight
ensued. Fitzpatrick fell, with four bullets in
his breast, and died in few minutes.-The
woman arrested at Helena. Mont, as high
wayman turns out to be Helen Forstund,
wild young woman of Spokane Falls, who is
fond of wearing mans clothes.-Willism
Evans, secretary of the Morse Wool Securing
/ Company of st. Louis, is short $40, 900. Evans
is missing.-Fire in Rapin & Co.'S cotton
storage sheds in Camden, n. j., caused S15,-
| 600 damage. Mortimer Wilson, fireman,
WIS hurt.
/ John Land, farmer near Topeka, Kansas
was eaten up by hogs. His wife found his
disfgured body.-The w. C. T. U. of Iowa
/ has petitioned the legislature to pass a law
against prize-fghting ami to retain the pre- sent
prohibition law on the statute books.-Hart
Bros, large firm, of Washington, Pa, has
| failed. Annie He.koweska was burned to
/ death in fire in tenement house at 80 Wei
I let street. New York "A little son of John
Young, of Garfield, Main, accidentally shot
and killed his little sister with shot gun
I By an accident on the Hudson River Railroad
near Poughkeepsie, Arthur Small, fireman OF
a freight, ard DAM i Crockmam, brakeman
on another, were instantly killed. The
Farmers Alliance of Minnesota will build at
West Superior, Wis, an elevator with ca
pacity of million bushels.-Three suspic-
ious fires accur. ed in Cincinnati, one of which
destroyed Dixon's furniture factory, with
loss of $40, 00D.-The Canadian government
has appointed Thursday, November 18th as a
day of Thanksgiving unsuccessful at
tempt was made TO hold upa passenger train
one hundred miles north of Paris, Ky
Judge Allen, of the New York Court of Com
mon Pleas was stricken with paralysis in the
courtroom. An inspector who has Just re-
turned from visit 10 Pedras Negras. Mex.
reports great desiitution among lower classes
of Mexicans in the states of Chihuahua and
Durango. Reagan, fifty.four years
old was given twenty -iv years imprisonment
under the habitual Grim nal act.-Samuel
Earle, of Herkimer county n. Y, dropp d
4, ad in the courthouse at Utica while argu-
ing cese.--Trouble is feared over the strike
of the railroad coal miners at Pittsburg unless
the strike is settled within week.-Thirty-
six Italians who arrived in New York from
Marseilles have been detained as contract
laborers The schooner Eeotune owned In
Onancock, while returning from Baltimore
struck rock on Broken Bar, near the mouth
of the Patapsco, and sank.-A FIRE in Dwight,
Ill, destroyed $50, 600 worth of property
Judge White, of Yankton, rendered a decision
affecting the validity of the Dakota State
Banking laws. He holds that the law deny.
ing the bills of diseounting paper, buying ex.
change, looming money or receiving deposits
TO private individuals and comforting these
rights exclusively on corporations, is uncon-
stitutional The state has appealed to the
Supreme Court.