Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-07
THE NEWS


Whalen in Chicago, has been sentenced t
life imprisonment.-Joh Tucke, assistant
paymaster of the Singer Sewing Machin
Company, at Elizabeth, n j.. has been ar
resie / charged W til embezz emeat-A ne
gress named Dayton, at Denver, Col, ha,
| confessed to the murder of James Wade
Rev. J. G. Furman, ID. D., one of the mos
prominent clergymen of the Baptist Church
and for many years president OF the Furmal
University, in Greenvile, S. c., died, agef
eighty David Stern, auditor of tn,
city and county OF San Francisco, died sud.
denly at his residence from apopiexy. He
was California pioneer, and sixty-thre,
years Of age.--A telegram was received in
New York announcing the death of John II
Hall, the well-knuwn railroad man, al
Townsville, Ga. Mr. Hall went South with
Jay Gould a few weeks ago, but took i'll and
succumbed to an attack of pleurisy .-Tran
slto Hurtarte, the widow OF General Barrun
diai has filed claim for one million dollars
against this government for the loss OF her
husbands life.-A bill passed the pennsyl-
Yania House of Representatives to tax an
thraelte coal lands Tor a relief fund for iuiul.
ed m ners.-The South Dakota legislator,
has passed the Australian Ballot law-It
now looks like the niue men on trial in New
Orleans Tor the murder Of Chief Of Pol &c
Hennessy would all be convicted The
Secretary of State Of Delaware has entered
judgement against the bond OF ex-State Treas
nrer Horhert Tina Saa,ritiay -,
The remains of Emma Abbott, the opera
singer, we're cremsted in Pitt>burg, and the
ashes will be placed in monument to be
erected to her memory
Six of the crew OF the American snip Ig;-
liant were 10 while attempting to rescue a
man.-Sim Stevenson, who brutaly mur-
dered man named Simon near Read City,
III, has been captured. Dan Porter, the
murderer confined in the Quincy (Ill) Jail,
knocked down the sheriff aud escaped-
Joseph Staengel, of Thorpe, Wis, cut his
throat to avoid capture. lie may reeoyer.-
Three mill hands were killed by the explos-
ion of a boiler at Charleston, Mo.-John A.
Greely, brother o. Gen. A. w. Greedy, OF the
United States signal service, died ut Newbury
port, Mass.-A collision near Carbon, Iowa.
rusulted in the killing of two passengers
South Joliet, H., has secured $4,000 tin
plate plant.-Virgini Knox Carusi has OBJ
tanned divorce from Guis hi Carusi, better
known as Count di Monteriole. Rev. N. A.
Barr, of Adamstown, Pa, was expelled from
the Evangelical Church by the Bowman cor
ference tor calling a brother preacher the
champion liar.-Mark Brophy was found
dead in barn in Paterson. n J. His skull
had been battered in.--I>aac Dowell shot
and instantly killed ]. II. Wharton near
Council Grove, Ks--At Qray's Station, near
Barbourville, KY, Abner Mitchell killed
john Woods, and in turn was shot to death
BY John Ingle. The cause was an old quarrel
Tie United Brethren Conference Of the
Pennsylvania District adjourned at Mechan.
icsburg to meet next year at York, Pa
President A. J Csssatt, of the Intercontinen.
tai Railway Commission, entertained the
members of the commission and prominent
railroad and government officials at his home
in Phiiadepha.-George Maue, editor Of
the Haz'eton Sentinel; local preacher by
the name of H. f. Sutherland, and J. r.
King, OF Hazleton, Pa, were arrested charged
with sending obscene circulars through the
mail, rejecting upon the character of Rev.
Peter Donohue a Methodist clergyman, and
presiding elder of that district. -Ex-Gov-
ernor Oglesby's residence at Alkhart, ILL.,,
was burned, and Mrs. 0glesby injured
just after wedding in Poeahontas WA,
Jlmes Harris, groomsman, shot and seri.
ously wounded Samuel Freeman, another
groomsman.-Twom men who were put out
OF church in Richie county, W. Va, Tor
di<orderly behavior, laid in wat for Mr.. Van
Wilson, deacon, and stabbed him seven
times.-Edward jackson arrested in Hunt
lngton, w. Va, for robbery, confessed tomur-
dering a man, marrying four women and
stealing horses.-Ground will be broken
April 9th for the monument to General
Grant in Riverside Park, New York
John Fallon, twelve years old, accidentally
shot and killed his six. year-old brother Robert
in their home in Wilkes1arre, Pain ae-
cordance with the last wishes Of Henry Meyer.
a German hotel proprietor at Pori L chmond,
New York, his ashes were taken to the top OF
the Statue of Liberty, on Bed De-, Island, and
scattered TO the winds.-John Copeland, Of
Parnassus, Pa, aged thirty.two years, in an
insane moment fatally shot his wife and tried
to kill his two chidren.--The boomers on
the Cherokee Strip suffered severely from a
blizzard, several children perish ug in the
intense eold.-The Red Star steamer Penn
land, at New York from Antwerp. reports
having sighted the Warren Line steamer
Iowa, from Boston to Liverpool, sinking, and
the British steamer Chester taking of her
crew. The Iowa had evidently been in COLI.
sion with an iceherg- The body of Rev.
Dennis Crowley, pro essor at the College Of
the Sacred Heart, Vineland, n. j. was found
by two boys lying in ditch. He had been
stricken by apaplexy.--By the breaking OF
cable at the coal mines in Marion county,
Tenn the car dashed down the mountain,
and two men were killed and eleven hurt
-Four prisoners overpowered the turnkey OF
the Jail at Dayton. Ohio. and escaped
Andrew G. McLanahan die1 near Green.
castle, Pa.-Robert Kurtz, who escaped
from the Easton, Pa, jail, was recapture'.
George F. WORK aud James S. DUNCAN.
the Bank Of America wreckers, were found
guilty in Philadelphia Brooks, one
OF the murjerers OF Theodore Broihead at the
Delaware Water Gap. in 1865, and who es-
capped, has been recspturel The conces-
sions of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
to their men have been accepted. aud all
threatened trouble averted-The Pensacola
has arrived at Va paraiso, Chili.-The
Senate passed the Legislative Appropriation
bill.-After long fight the, House passed
tn Postal Subsidy bill as q substitute for the
Senate Shipping bill--yeas $50. nays 80
Senator Henry W. Blair, Of New Hampshire,
was nominated as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentisry to Chins--Three
men in Santa Cruz, Cal, were rnn over by a
hand-car and killed.-The claim Of the
Hugo heirs, Of Alton, Ill, to tract Of land in
Ailegsny county is said to be valid.-The
bl zzlrd caught the Cherokee boomers unpre-
pared for the cold, and women and children
are in danger Of dYing-The National
Tobacco Works Of louisville have been sod
to eirarette synthetic