Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-28
THE NEWS

dalf the business portion of MiddlesbGrg
VT, was burned; loss $3.50, 0o0.-In rail
road wreck near Havana, H., Charles Har-
grove, an engineer, was killed. minneapolis
is threatened with coal famine. Coal can
not be procured on account of blockade OF
wheat on the railroads. Fire at Paragou,d.
Ark, caused loss of $780, 0G0. The major
ity OF Houk (Rep.) over Williams Dem, or
Congress in the Knoxville (Tenn.) district is
between 1850 and 5000 valuable coal
mines have been discovered in the Niga
Islands, of Alaska. 1t can be delivered in
San Francisco II is said, for s. ton. -
Mortgages are being rapidly reduced in East
ern Kansas. Memphis the De Soto Oil
Mills were burned; loss 100000.
William keck has been identified by Will
liam Nipseh, Of Allentown, Pa, as the muir
ierer Of Mrs. Nipsch. locomotives
and twenty freight cars were demolished, and
sixteen men injured by head.end collision
on the Chicago, st. Paul and Kansas City
Railroad.--Henry Smith, alias Charles
Williams, Il convict, serving five-year term
in the Trenton State Prison, escaped by
breaking through the ceiling of his celia
suit brought in New York for alleged infringe.
ment of patent reveals the existence of a
barbed wire trust.-Two doctors were dis.
covered in the act of robbng bank at
Gardner, lll.-John Hallinger, aged seven.
teen years, was fatally beaten in a pr;ze-fcht
with George Altman, aged nineteen years, in
New York city. The boy was brought home
in an unconscious state, and died from his
injuries. BY the bursting of a big water
conduit in Brooklyn several laborers were
killed.-In the Bear Creek country. the
northern part of Marion county, Ala, famous
for its murders, Deputy United States Marshal
Dan Osborne, attempted to arrest an Illicit
distiller named Young. Five men were with
Osborne when they rode upon Young's still
and ordered him to throw up his arms. In
response, he dropped gun on Osborne and
fred, killing him instantly. He then turned
and fed, and although dozen shots we're
fred at him, none took effect William
Blesh, cOlored, was hanged in the presence of
5000 people at Mt Vernon, Ca, for murder
ing man named r. r. Bone, on October 18th
last. Blash confessed his guilt on the gallows.
Bone was shot as he was running from his
house, which Blash had entered for the pur
pose of robbery. Blash had read Rube Bur
rows and jesse James literature, and decided
to become hghwayman.
George Wetzel, a noted smugger, died at
Sand Beach, Mich.-The Milford, Mich.
State Bank has failed; liabilities $l3S, 900;
assets SIS, 0G0.-A number Of vessels were
damaged on Lake Mi higan by the recent
storm.-Two masked men entered the
Northern Pacific Express car on the Missoula
and C~ur d'Alene Railroad, and at the points
of tleir guns made Express Messenger Case
open the safe and give up all the money il !
contained-S2, 020. The robbery occurred
between Dorseyand Mullen, near the Montana
and Idaho line, wild, mountainous country. |
arthur L. Miller, the theatrical manager !
Sho was brought to Philadelphia, from New
York to answer the charge of obtaining money !
under false Pretenses, furnished bail, and will /
return to New York. The charge grew out
ola transaction in connection with the transfer
Of an interest in an opera.-1he coroner's |
jury which has been holding an inquest on
the bodies of the victims of the recent fatal
accident on the Mount Penn pa Gravity
Road returned u verdict that the proper
officers of the company had not exercised
sufficient supervision over the employees, and
declared that a radical change in the manage
ment the road as necessary. Mentoga.
forty-fye miles below Chat anooga, Tenn, a
sawmill boiler exploded, instantly killing two
Young sons Of the proprietor, T. P. Battens
\ sawdust wheeler had his leg broken, and
Mr.. Battens had an arm broken in two places
Portions Of the boiler were thrown three
hundred feet.
At Utica, N. Y. Mrs. Catherine Mansfield
was burned alive. She was eighty years old.
-Four men were held FIR the action ofthe
grand jury at Glen Gardner, n. j., for tarr-
ing and feathering a young an.-lreas-
urer Smith, Of the Order of til, Rising Sun,
has disappeared from Lowell Mass, and there
is great excitement among the shareholders.
The steamer Andes arrived at New York with
three shipwrecked crews. The Savannah
River Convention, composed OF representative
delegations from Augusta, Savannah Atlanta
and counties adjacent TO the river on the
Georgia side and from Abborville, Port Royal,
Anderson and adjacent counties in Carolina,
met at the Augusta Exposition. The conven-
ton WAS unanimous in the conviction that the
Savannah riv,r wss entitled to better treat
ment at the hands of the fe Ieral government,
and that stream of such importance should
be made thoroughly navigable at seasons. II
was decided to send delegation TO Washing
ton to urge the matter upon Congress.-The
United States cruiser San Francisco, flagship
of the Pacific Squadron, arrived at San Fran
cisco from Chill. Admiral Brown denies
many of the sensational stories cabled from
Chill. He says the United States C uiser
Baltimore did not cut the cable at Iquique,
but the wires were cut by the cable company.
The Admiral says he had heard ofthe charges
made by the Congressionalis but there was
nothing in them. Hal Balmaceda come
aboard the San Francisco, he would have
given him refuge. The Admiral further
stated that Minister Egan had conducted him.
self through the entire trouble with becoming
dignity. Carter was gored to death
by mad bull near Terre Haute Ind