Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-03
THE NEWS

Wodnueu.---t hleves locked the cashier OF q
Chicago bank in the vault after securing
several rolls Of bank notes, aud starting in
buggy to escape. After an exciting chase the
police captured all of them and recovered the
money!. NJ. SCOTS new Grand Opera
House. at st. Paul, Mimi, costing Si50OOO,
was opened.--The stockholders Of the Hast.
ings Nebl City National bank has asked for
the appointment Of receiver.-A counter.
feters' den has been discovered near Gray
Cliff, on the Crow reservation. George
Waller was gagged and robbed at the Union
Depot Hotel. in Kansas City.-One thou
sand girls returned to work at Clarke's thread
mills.-Eh Foster of Athens, o.. charged
with killing Salosnkeeper Betiomly, has been
convicted of murder In the second degree,
The punishment is life imprisonment a
Mrs. Cabh tried TO commit suicide by hanging
herself from the balcony OF an Abba tlows)
hotel Housed & Stevens auction house
in New Brunswick, N j., was destroyed by
fre.-H c. Marks 4 Co, Of Admission. Ala.
have assigned. Tirello, Hungarian
shot and killed Michael Curley, Mrs. Curley
and Michael Hodek, in saloon in a mining
hamlet near Wilkesbarre--T New York
Supreme Court has decided that money may
be carried from the city to the track and
placed on horse by l.seller.-A man
named Heliet was robbed in Bangor, Me- OF
E,400.-The lifelesS body of James Brown
was found in his room at Oxford, N. j.
Bud Moore was shot in the head at Terre
Haute, Ind.-Fire destroyed block of
buildings at Viroqua, Wis. Loss si50,Oo0; in.
surance S16,0)O-Two people were killed
and others wounded by the explosion of
boiler at Newport Ark.-0scar Conrad,
boy, was aceidently shot and killed at Mitiin.
town, Pa.--Telegraph operators on the Lake
Shore Road have been asked to withdraw
from the Order Of Railway Telegraphers or
resign. Four people were burned to death
at Rochester, N. Y.-Dr John Davis died
at Cincinnati of heart disease, aged seventy.
Mrs. Ellen Gibbons, aged eighty, was burned
to death at Saratoga, n. Y. &C. c. Jones was
shot and killed at Elgin, Ks.-George Kelly
and Jack Lynch, railroad men, were fatally
stabbed by unknown men in a saloon in
Birmingham. Ala.-During the past week
there were 1913 business failures in the United
States.-Cheyenn scouts encamped at Battle
Creek, S. D.. had an encounter with hostile
reds in which several were killed and wounded
on both sides.-The Edisto Phosphate and
Fertilizer Works. near Charleston, S. c., was
burned. Loss about S2O0,O00.-Daniel w.
Talcott, bookkeeper for ii. w. Sage & Co.
lumber dealers OF Albany, n. ", was arrested
on the charge Of ezzlement.--Minnie
Wilkes had her scalp torn OF by her hair
catching in the betting Of machinery in New
York laundry.-Three highwaymeu, i'm
personating officers arrested Frank Myers,
knocked him scnseess and robbed him of
81, 800, in Fostoria, O.-Nineteen counter
feiters of silver dollars were arrested in Pitts
brrg.-The station of the Erie Railroad
Company at Port Jeryis. N. y, was burned.
Loss $4,000, Insurance 10000 George a.
Green was killed and his wife seriously hurt
by q runaway team near Willamette. CT.
The Mt. Porter House Hotel, in Keene VAL
ley, n. H., was burned. Loss, $4,000; insnr-
$1,000 Winnie Group, a pretty Hun.
garian girl, was murdered and mutilated at
Bohemiavillc, Long Island Frank Hrulisch
was arrested and charged with the crime
number of fine horses were sold at the Bel
mont farm on Long lsland.--The strike at
the Pullman car shops was settled, the men
returning TO work at the new scale of wages
a child was killed and several people
injured 10y boiler explosion in Cincinnati
Frank Brown, saloon-k eeper in Chicago,
was found dead behind his bar with bullet
hole in his heart George I. Work, of Phil
adelphia, charged rehypoth,catng stock,
has been released on bsil-James II.
Stevenson, ofPhiade!rhia, died from injuries
received on the North Penn Railroad.-A.
X. Hathaway, aged fifteen years Of StauntOn,
Va, was shot accidentally and killed by Jas.
Whitworth, at sulphur Springs, Texas
Louis Schwine, Of Cincinnati, gave his child,
by mistake, dose of carbolic acid, which
killed it.-Charles Mayors, a brakeman on
the Frisco Road, was killed by drunken
passenger named Blunt. at Springfield, No.
Fire at Auburn On. " prison did $4,000
damage. No insurance. A. Seeley
driver of street ear in indianapolis shot
q
up.--Thc residence of E. IIerkoltz at Nc
Keesport, Pa. was wrecked by a natural gas
explosion, aud his wife injured. THE Fish
ing Greek Lumber Company, Of Lancaster
and Columbia, Pa, made an assignment
In an effort to rcarrest F. r. Favre, Of Davis
ton, Miss, who charged with being impli.
Gated in the shooting Of a man named Parker,
had been released on bail, Sheriff T. B White
was shot, and Favre himself kilied--The
freight depot Of the little Miami Railroad, in
Cincinnati, was burned together with large
quantity Of freight in cara Total loss aboni
$4,000
}. r. brany shot and Killed Z. ). Ufenu. a
private Waterman, while he was eating his
Christmas dinner, on a wharf at Norfolk, Va.
Isaac Sawtelle was found guilty Of muir.
der ia the first degree at Dover, n. H., for
killing bis brother.-The captain and crew
Of the wrecked bark Atlanta, which during q
terrible storm broke in two In mid-ocean, was
rescued AID brought to Victoria, b. c., by a
coasting schooner.-Fire in the Union Club
house, New York city, did 81 900 damage.
The manufacturers and jobbers in the plate
glass trade propose to advance prices
| While paying part in Christmas enter
tainmcnt William Strong was arrested 10
Pit;sburg charged with robbing his employ
ers.--President McGrath, Of the Kansa,
Farmers Alliance, says that the third party
movement will embrace all the labor orgsni
cations in the United States-Maggis
Murphy, Of Jersey Cry. crushed Edward
McDermott's skull with an axe.-Two stu.
dents Of Michigan University we're drowned
in a mill pond, at Ann Arbor, while skating,
Moses Howell, Of Clsrksbarg, w. Va,
pointed pistol, which exploded and wounded
two friends.-Miss Sallie HARRISON, Of Gin
cinnati, was stricken with paralysis and died
soon aiter.--H Moses Howell, Of Parkersburg,
W. Va, shot Mrs Norris through the nose,
and also wounded her husband and little
daughter Walker, burglar was
shot and killed in Philsdelphia by watch
man.-Tapcrs on a Christmas tree caused
The burning Of Edward Peurose's home in
Phi.adeiphis, aud the death Of his mother
ia-iaw. oliver Phelps accidentally killed
himself with pistol near Savage, Howard
county, Md. c. Scott, agento the Wells
Fargo Company at Porteryille, Cal. is short
in his accounts Three trawps who killed
brakeman near Huntington, Va, were
lynehed.-- indianapolis has been flooded
with two dollar counterfeit silver certificates.
Three brothers named Lille, in Nebrsska
have coafessei to having wrecked a train
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