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CENSUS BULLETIN.
kate and County Indebtedness In the
North Central Division.

Tate and County Indebtedness In the
IN North Central Division.
y WASHINGTON, Nov. III. Census bull
1etin No. Ga, shows that the state and
bounty indebtedness in the North Central
division averages $24 per family; count
ihg FIVE persons to family 1t Is $21.35
in Minnesota, $56.45 in North Dakota,
5000 in South Dakota, $11.85 in Wis
consin, and $9.55 in Iowa. The net
county Indebtedness of Minnesota in
1880 aggregated $3,315,657, an average
Of $12.75 per family Of five persons
The heaviest aggregate ia in Ramsey
county, but the heaviest debt per capits
II in Cook county. In North Dakoti
Burleigh county has the heaviest debt
hut Mercer county is more deeply in
volved in proportion to population.
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GRAVE YARD INSURANCE.


Sensation Caused at Dallas. Tex. by the
Arrest of Prominent Citizens
DALLAS, Tex. Nov. o.-Something
of sensation was caused here by the
arrest Of Thomas J.: Wood, Jr., prom
inent young banker Of Dallas, and DIR.
James Orr, one of the leading physicians
of Terrell. It is alleged that these men
filed an application for $4,000 insur-
ance policy ON the life of one, Clinton FL.
Page, who was ait the time dying with
consumption. The application was Ger
titled to by DR.. Orr, who was Pages
brother-in-law. The policy was paid
after Pages death. Since then 1t trans
rired that 4 system Of grave yard insur.
ance has been worked and the arrests
followed.
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Carried Ont His Threat.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1g.-Dr. A. j.
Schroeder, of $50 Twenty-seventh street,
who was held to the grand jury for
causing the death by criminal opera
tion OF Mary Murphy, servant girl,
was found dead in bed at the home OF
his brother. When the girl was dying
Schroeder threatened to kill himself il
her life was not spared. During the
night he drank champagne, which it !:
thought was poisoned.
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The Treasury Cases.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. IA Madison
special to The Journal says: In the
treasury cases, ex-Treasurers Bates and
Kuehn testified that they had used the
interest on public funds. The sensation
of the day was the production OF a
memoranda in the handwriting OF
Banker Hanks, showing a definite
agreement between Treasurer McFet-
ridge for interest. McFetridge had
denied that he had any agreement.
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selected school Lands

WATERFOWL, s. D., Nov. 19.-Samuel
Bowman, the deputy commissioner OF
school lands, is in the city looking after
the filings ON the public lands in the
Watertown district. He has selected
$4,000 acres, which takes in all
the lands open to settlement with
the exception of 4,0oo acres.
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Fatally Injured by a Deer.

PINE Cry, Mimi. Nov. IL. "A pecul-
lar and fatal accident occurred near
Pine City Tuesday. An Indian shot and
wounded buck deer and was about to
cut his throat when the animal struck
the Indian in the eye with his large ant
lers, thereby stunning him. In endeav-
oring to escape the deer injured the
hunter SO that recovery is impossible.
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Tne xaiser After shrlecl.s.

BERLIN, Nov. 10. Among the moral
evils which the kaiser has undertaken
to cure is that of usury. The kaiser
blaines usury for much of the misery
among his subjects. He believes that
the present nsury law, passed in 1880, is
inadequate to deal with the evil and he
proposes to have brand new law that
will make usurers unhappy and protect
the poor and needy of small sums OF
money.
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more French Miners Strike.

PARIs, Nov. 10. Dispatches from
Lens state that more miners went out
on d strike, making total of 81, 800
now out in the department of the Norde.
The situation is becoming serious, as
more than half of the output of coal
used in France is furnished by the mines
now idle by the strike.
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New German Party.

BERLIN, Nov. 19.-An interesting
feature of tsaa reichssag is a new party
known as the Colonial party. The
members belong to and vote with their
respective parties on all other subjects,
but in relatlon to the interests Of the
colonies they act as unit.
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serernl sailers nrowned.

MAyIsTEE. Mich, Nov. 10. The
schooner Hattie Estelle, from Chicago
to Buffalo, with cargo of wheat, while
trying to run into the harbor here,
struck the bar just outside the piers.
The crew took to the rigging and four
were rescued by the life saving crew.
The cook and one sailor were drowned.
The captain is still lashed to the rigging
suun0sed To be dead.
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Russian Peasants desperate.

LONDON, Nov. 19.---The Telegraph's
correspondent in st. Petersburg says
that an illegal printing press has just
been seized by the authorities there.
Revolts due to the famine and attended
with considerable bloodshed are re-
ported in CharkoH and Ekaterinoslav.
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s,rpea Davidson,s Com mission.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. 19.-Secre-
tary of State Crawford has counter
signed Governor Flenling's commission
to Davidson as United States senator
from Florida to succeed Call, in obedi-
ence to the order of the supreme court.
The fight will now be carried on at
Washington.
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Captain Alone saved.

LONDON, Nov. 19.The captain of the
American schooner Bradley, which
sailed from Charleston, 8. c., Oct. 8,
for Weymouth, Mass, and which was
abandoned Oct. % in Latitude 81 north,
longitude 81 west, states that the crew
OF the1 schooner took to boats and were
drnWnpd
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fuo..d ON Account Of niphtheris.

EAUK RAPIDs, Mimi, Nov. 9.-The
public schools were closed on account
Of diphtheyia in town. The young son
Of Joseph Campbell, ut whose house
several Of the Lady teachers board, Is III.
This il IT, 4 ~ case reported.
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Man-of-war sails.

New YORK, Nov. 0.-Vhe United
States gunboat Concord has sailed from
here for st. Thomas, West Indies
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
WORK AND WORKERS.

THE Master Plumbers National Association
held its annual session in Cincinnati.
Tue trainmen on the Cincinnati, Wabash
and Michigan Railway have demanded an in
crease in wages.
THE employees of the Pioneer Iron Furnace
in Pottsville Pa, went on strike for the Fits
bug scale Of wages.
THE brickmakers strike at Denver, Color
ado, was declared off, and the old men will
ask for work at the reduced wages.
A STRIKE of the painters and plasterers in
Pittsburg is threatened, the bosses having re-
iected the scale signed some time ago.
THE Typothete in New Haven, Connecticut
have decided to oppose the demands of the
Typographical Union for the nine hour day.
WORK has been resumed at the Black Dia-
mond coal mines, at Seattle, Washington, the
miners having accepted the companys terms
PROCEEDINGS are to be instituted against
Evans & Co, in Boston, on the charge Of i'm.
porting stone cutters during the recent
strike.
THE street-car drivers strike in Grand
Rapids Mich, was DECLARED off. The men
conceded everything demanded by the conf
panies
THREE hundred eloakmakers employed by
Landsman, Hierscheimer & Co., in Cleveland
Ohio, went on strike because of reduction
in their wages.
ITALIAN laborers OH the Northern Railway,
near Prosper and Kootenai county, Idaho,
have struck for higher wages. The Italians
have forced other laborers to quit work.
J. RICHARDSON, shoe manufacturer of
Reading, Massachusetts, has discharged all of
his lasters, owing to a demand by the Lasters'
Protective Union for an increase of So cents
per case.
THE cigarmakers' strike in Chicago has, it
is stated, driven one large factory from the
city, the Phoenix, which has removed to De-
treit and there is prospect that the factory
of Oppenheimer & Fisher will remove to Mil
waukee, and that Zimmerman will go to Day.
ton, o.
THE Builders Exchange in Pittsburg has
refused to accept propositions made by Secre-
tary Mcclure, of the carpenters, for a settle
ment Of the eight-hour strike. The first bene-
fit money from the Federation of Labor was
paid on Tuesday, and will, it is said, now be
reeei7ed regularly.
THE prospect of big furniture strike is ex-
citing Grand Rapids, Michigan. The en-
ployes of the Grand Rapids School Furniture
Company claim that they are locked out and
that their employers intend using non-union
labor. The Furniture Workers Union may
support them in going out.
THE Merchant Mil of the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, at Harrisburg, has been closed
for an indefinite period. 1t is rumored that
other departments will also be closed 1t was
reported that the employees will present the
Amalgamated Association scale, ''and it is
sure to be rejected by the company"
THE meeting of the Westinghouse Electric
Company at Pittsburg to complete the reor-
ganization scheme was again postponed until
July Is on account of the unavoidabl bic absence
of Mr.. George Westinghouse. 1t was stated
at the meeting that almost three fourths Of the
stockholders have assented 10 the plan.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
A NOTED MooN8HINER CAUGHT.


Harve Mullins. Under Indictment in Two
States for Murder, Arrested.
Harye Mullins, the leader Of the notorious
Mullins gang Of noonshiners, who have been
making whisky and committing murders and
other crimes in Mcdowell County, VIVA, for
seven years, has been arrested together with
P. c. Copes, one Of the gang. Numerous cold
blooded murders have been eoIamitted in the
vicinity, all attributed to this gang. aud eight
Of their number are now under indictments for
murder.
Mullins himself is said TO have killed Eve
men, although a mere boy, and is under in
dictment for murder both in West Virginia
and Virginia. He is also under Indictment
in both States for moonshining. and bis cap
ture is one of the most important as well as
one Of the most daring pieces Of work on the
part Of officers in twenty years. MulliDs' cap
lure was made By Deputy Internal Revenue
Colleetor y r Eesdlc and posse
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

JOAQUIN MILLER has planted 10000 trees
around his home in Oakland, Cal.
CHARLES DUDLEY WABNER is described,
IN what is perhaps meant to be a compliment
tary way, by a Western newspaper as Our
American fiash-light photographer OF social
fads. "
PRESIDENT DIATz, Of Mexico, has strain
OF Indian blood in his veins, as had his pre-
decessors, Juarez and llidalgo. The Congress
of Mexico is largely composed Of descendants
OF the ancient Aztecs
Mrs. ROBERT l.. CUTTING, who died in
New York last week, would never tell anyone
how old she was, and it has been solemnly
agreed that there should be no mention OF her
nge upon her cottin-plate.
Sir GEORGE STEPHEN is a lucky man, and
his peerage gleatly pleases Canadians, though
he is not Canadian born. lie went to Canada
when quite young, but began life as bare
footed lad in his birthplace.
THE foreign Ministers TO Pekin who saw the
Emperor at the recent royal audience, carried
away an agreeable impression of the OrienIai
sovereign. lie was simply attired, and bore
no scepter or other emblem of authority. In
stead of a crown he wore plain feat hat. lie
appeared mild ard rather melancholy.
ONE of the delusions of the crazy King Of
Bavaria is that the carpets Of his apartments
are Of thin glass and must not be trodden
upon. Another Of his hallucinations is that
the walls of the rooms are hung with news
papers, and from them he reads aloud TO his
attendants imaginary stories of the events of
the dag.
JUDGE CRIsP, a leading candidate for
Speaker Of the next House, lives in typical
Georgia home in Americas. The front yeranda
of the house is veritable bower Of roses, and
the broad long hall invites the cooling breezes.
The surrounding grounds are a garden Of
flowers, and the hospitality of the place IS
proverbial throughout the State.
Mrs WILLIAM NISSAN VANDERBILT is
undeniably handsome. Her height is little
above medium, and she has full rounded
figure with perfectly moulded arms and shout
ders. Her eyes ure large, dark gray, and the
white lids triie heavy. Her nose is short
and straight, and her complexion a creamy
white, while her hair is dark brown. She
always dresses 10 the best taste.
CONGRESSMAN Roswell z. Flower, Of New
York, who is spoken Of as the Democratic
nominee for Governor of the Empire State, is
a sturdily built man Of middle height, with
a rotund face framed in closely clipped black
Bidewhiskers He is rising IS, and is plain.
hammered, blunt-spoken man, with be bit OF
emphasizing his remarks by adding, And
don't you forget it." He il enormously
I wealthy, being rated ct $1,000, 600, yet he
I Is profoundly industrious and is personally
popular on both sides Of the House, where he
/ is conspiruously serving his third term. He
is an incerrigible smoker, and wears eye
glasses
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04

SIX MEN persisted.


A Cyclone Destroys the Patterson Coal
Company's Breaker at Natalie.
The Patterson Coal Com,any's breaker.
located at Natalie, Pa, was destroyed by
cyclone and The following persons were killed.
J. N. Blossom, Ilawley, Pa; j. Bentley
Dodson, shiokshinny, Pa Richard Roberts,
I.uzerne Borough; William Lodge, Luzerne
Borough nm Italian, unknown, and another
stranger still under the debris,
The breaker was located on The summit n
Big Mountain about 600 feet above the sea
level. II ran almost due east and west. The
structure was about 800 feet IN length and the
highest point was l65 feet
Lodge, Roberts and the two unknown men
were skaters, and we're engaged in fOohng
the breaker at the time Of the accident. The
other two killed were carpenters, and met
their death while employed OF work on the in
terror Of the breaker.
Shortly after noon the sky IN the nsrih be.
came black and the darkness grew ia intensity.
The men perehed on the high tower eazcd on
the advancing storm, expecting 10 descend in
time 10 avoid the rain. Suddenly "a fash ~
lightning Illuminated the horizon. a thunder
peal that shook all the neiahb0rhGod followed
aud the next minute the terrible wind gust
gathered up the mighty structure ~ though IL
were feather and whired II around. dashed
II 10 ruin.
The men were mangled almost beyond re-
eognition. The breaker was one Of The largest
IN the region, lie capacity being about 1000
tons per month.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
WORK AND WORKERS.

THE Master Plumbers National Association
held its annual session in Cincinnati.
THE trainmen on the Cincinnati, Wabash
and Michigan Railway have demanded an in
crease in wages.
THE employees of the Pioneer Iron Furnace
in Pottsville, Pa, went on strike for the Pitts
bug scale of wages.
THE briekmakers' strike at Denver, Color
ado, was declared off, and the old men will
ask for work at the reduced wages.
AsTRIKE of the painters and plasterers in
Pittsburg is Threatened the bosses having re-
iected the scale signed some time ago.
THE Typothete in New Haven, Connecticut
have decided to oppose the demands of the
Typographical Union for the nine hour day.
WoRE has been resumed at the Black Dia-
mond coal mines, at Seattle Washington, the
miners having accepted the company's terms.
PROCEEDINGS are to be instituted against
Evans & CO., in Boston, on the charge of I'M
porting stone cutters during the recent
strike.
THE street-car drivers strike in Grand
Rapids. Mich, was declared off. The men
conceded everything demanded by the COM
panies.
THREE hundred eloakmakers employed by
Landsman, Hierseheimer & Co., in Cleveland
Ohio, went on strike because of reduction
in their wages.
ITALIAN laborers on the Northern Railway,
near Prosper and Kooteuai county, Idaho,
have struck for higher wages. The Italians
have forced other labOrers TO quit work.
J. RICHARDSON, a shoe manufacturer OF
Reading, Massachusetts, has discharged all Of
his iasters, owing to q demand by the Lasters'
Protective Union for an increase of Sc cents
per case.
THE cigarmakers strike in Chicago has, il
is stated, driven one large factory from the
city, the Phoenix, which has removed TO De-
trOit, and there is prospect that the factory
Of Oppenheimer & Fisher will remove to Mil
waukee, and that Zimmerman will go to Day
ton, O.
THE Builders Exchange in Pittsburg has
refused TO accept propositions made by Secre-
tary Mcclure of the carpenters, for a settle
ment of the eight-hour strike. The first bene-
fit money from the Federation of Labor was
paid on Tuesday, and WILL it is said, now be
received regularly.
THE prospect of big furniture strike is ex-
citing Grand Rapids, Michigan. The en-
ployes of the Grand Rapids School Furniture
Company claim that they are locked out and
that their employers intend using non-union
labor The Furniture Workers Union may
support them in going out.
THE Merchant Mill of the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, at Harrisburg, has been closed
for an indefinite period. 1t is rumored that
other departments will also be closed. 1t was
reported that the employees will present the
Amalgamated Association scale, land it is
sure to be rejected by the company"
THE meeting of the Westinghouse Electric
Company at Pittsburg to complete the reor-
ganization scheme was again postponed until
July 10 on account of the unavoidab bic absence
of Mr., George Westinghouse. 1t was stated
at the meeting that almost three-fourths of the
stockholders have assented to the plan.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
CABLE SPARKS
TIE Earl of Clonmel is dead.

TIE Earl of Clonmel is dead.
THE Munich theatre was damaged by FIRE.
A LOCKOUT of $500 n-plate workers in
Wales is threatened.
PROF. WILLIAM EDWARD WEBER, the
German electro-scientist, is dead.
Mr. GLADSTONE is in feeble health. and
his physicians has urged him to make sea
"trip and 70 have an unbroken rest.
OWING to the long and severe frosts the
vintages OF tho Rhine, Moselle and PaIat.nate
districts of Germany are complete failures.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL and Mrs.
Kate 0'Shea were married at Steyning,
Sussex England, by the registrar of thai
town.
THE Irish land bill which was prepared by
Mr.. Bslfour is meeting with decided OPPOSE
ton from tory members of the British House
of Lords.
Al Frankfort Germany, a servant girl un.
dressed herself in the Geological Gardens and
jumped into the bears pit, where her mangled
body was found
Bettenbausen, Prussia, end forced him to give
up the Sunday collections and the altar
vessels which he used in the services.
Mr.. JOHN MACNEILL, home rule member
for South Donegal, Ireland, stated in the
House of Commons that there were great
number of cases of Starvation in Donegal.
LIEUTENANT LINRAGHI, of the Italian
army, who fled from Italy to Switzerland to
escape prosecution III connection with the
murder of natives at Massowah, attempted TO
commit suicide.
DR.. WALTER KEMPsTER, an American
specialist i'll lunacy, will testify in behalf of
K. C. Duncan of Washington, D. c., who is
held in Wales to answer a charge of attempt
ing TO murder his wife.
THE Steamship Fuerst Bismark, of the
Hamburg American Packet Line, made the
run from New York to Queenstown in DAYS
q hours and 10 minutes, which is the fastest
eastward passage ever made by any steamer.
THE st. James Gazette, of London, is
authority for the statement thae Sir Andrew
Clarke Mr.. Gladstone's chief physician is in
fear that the veteran statesman may not re-
cover from the effects of an attack of the grip
from which he suffered last spring
SIR GEORGE BADEN POWELL, member
CT the British House of Commons for one Of
the Liverpool divisions, ard Mr.. w. Dawson,
of the CANADIAN survey department, have
been appointed arbitrator on the part OF
Great Britain in the Behring sea seal fisheries
dispute
THE committee of the Reichstag investieat.
ing the workings of the Standard Oil Company
in Germany will ask for the abolition of the
duty on oil barrels, thus placing sailing vessels
engaged in the oil trade between the United
States and Germany on an equal footing with
the tark steamers.
AS soon as John Dillon is released from
Galway jail where he is serving a six months
sentence for melting tenants in Tipperary not
to pay rent to landlord, it is expected be
will be chosen leader of the faction Of the Irish
parliamentary party of which Justin, Mccarthy
is chairman The latter is said to be a com.
plete failure as q leader.
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SUDDENLY STRICKEN BLIND.
Strange Addiction of a Mother While a,
Play With Her Little Child.

Strange Addiction of a Mother While AZ
Play With Her Little Child.
Mrs. Elias Robbins, of Wyoming, Pa, was
suddenly stricken blind while playing with
her four ear-old son a few days ago The
little boy was trying to skip rope which his
mother had been turning for him, Then to
show him how 10 do it better she took the rop5
herself and began skipping. She had moi
made more than half dozen jumps when she
dropped the rope, threw her hands to hei
head, staggered and fell.
When some of the family ran to her they
found her cropping with her hands, She wal
perfectly conscious and rational She said
she could not see. She felt something like a
rush of blood up the back of her head and then
all had become dark. She wa I)ut 10 bed End
physician summoned.
At first it was believed that the blindness
would soon pass away, but it did not. She
remained totally blind, though otherwise in
perfect health. Shewas taken 10 Wilkesbarre
and placed Under an oculists care.
All the physicians who have seen the
patient are puzzled. Up to the time of her
affection she had no trouble of any bind with
her eyes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
FREAKS OF THE LIGHTNING.
Mother and Children Burned--An EIee-
trio Car Struck.


trio Car Struck.
A heavy rainstorm prevailed in st. Paul,
MINI, and vicinity, causing numerous wash
outs.
The play Of lightning during the storm
caused havoc among the electric wires and
motoneers. Lightning struck an interurban
car on University avenue, near Dale street,
destroyed the line overhead, and ran into the
motor. The ears on this line were delayed
for some time by the accident. A similar
happening occurred on West Seventh street,
but in neither case did the motoneer suffer
any great harm.
Lightning struck the house Of Peter Russell,
residing on Wyoming street, near Oakdale,
and descending the chimney, struck Mrs.
Russell who was sitting near il, and severely
burned her down the head and neck, and
partially paralyzed her lower limbs. Two
children who were on the floor, were also
slightly burned, The house was considerably
damaged,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
RULES OF THE PEOPLES PARTY.
The Revised Constitution aud Bylaws
Made PabIic by the secretary.

The Revised Constitution aud bylaws
Made Public by the secretary.
The constitution aud by Jaws, a. revised and
changed by Secretary Shilling Of the, New
Peoples party we're made public. The articles
call for the organization and regulation Of
local clubs to be conducted under the auspices
Of the National body. Stated meetings shall
be held By every club. The president shall
be elected at each meeting. Any citizen d
The town or county may become a member By
signing the declaration Of principles and the
platform Of the National body and pleiging
himself 70 unquslihedly support the principles
rs enuHciated.
Any member who makes a motion to iBdose
a candidate of,or to enter into fusion with any
other political party shall Immediately cease
to be a member Of the club and Of the nep
party.