Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-09
THE NEWS

mining towns celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary Of the arrival of the first Polish
Immigrants to America.-Asheyille N. c.,
veted S625, 900 for town improvement, and
elected Charles D. Blanton, Democrat mayor.
At railroad camp on the Chattanooga
Southern Railroad, four negro laborers were
burned to death, in drunken stupor, in box
csr,-The third annual convention of the
National Association of Machinists opened in
Pittsburg. McReynolds, from Seran-
ton, Pa, while walking on the street at Pat.
terscn, n, j., with his mistress, Mrs. Annie
Hobsca, was struck down from behind by an
Unknown party, and died from his injuries.
Gideon W. Marsh and Charles Lawrence. who
were president and cashier, respectively of
the suspended Keystone National Bank, Phila.
deiphia, were arrested, charged with conspir-
ing to make false reports, -@A MENDOZA H., is
suffering from ineeadiary fres-Dr Merg-
fer, Of Aiaesvvflle, Wis, shot and killed WIN.
pchi during quarrel over dog.-All the
messenger boys in Portland Maine, are on
David Cassell's tannery and currier
shop near AWHILE, Pa, was burned with con-
tents; loss 81, 000 partially insured-Judge
NJ. II. Owsley died at Lancaster, Ky
Charles Pratt, vice president of the Standard
Oil Company, died in New York.-A beet
ssssr factory with daily capacity Of four
hundred tons is to be erected at Marshallto@n,
lowa.--The Breaker Island Blast Furnace
Works, Mt Troy n. y, were burned, seven
large engines being destroyed. Loss $780, 900.
One Thousand NEE are thrown out Of employ
meat
Fire at Johnstown, Pa, destroyed the First
Baptist Church and several stores, causing
loss of 000.-Charles Cleary was con-
victed at Lock Haven, Pa, of murder in the
first degree for killing Policeman Paul, of
Remove, Pa.-John X. Parker and George
W, Lewis were arrested at Asbury Park by a
deputy United States marshall charged with
selling liquor without paying the government
tax.-Ten miles of forest on the South
Mountains, Pennsylvania, have been destroyed.
An Italian who has become a naturalized
American citizen of New Orleans has appealed
to Mayor Shakespeare for protection FROM the
revenge Of a death society like the Mafia-
Millions of cate-pillars from North Carolina
swamp crossing trestle on the rails of the
Carolina Central Railroad caused the wheels
OF locomotives TO slip on the rails and delayed
the passage Of trains.-=W William 8. Ritter.
one Of the oldest newspaper publishers in
Eastern Pennsylvania, died Mt Reading aged
sixtS'three years.-Delamater & Cos, pro.
position to settle with their creditors on fifty
Nor paYat hazd ell Il
of Austin, Mimi, was nearly entirely destroy
ed by fire. Loss SIP, 000.-Rev. DIR. George
w. Boutwell, Ofthe Congregational Church of
the Covenant, New York city, died at the
Brooklyn Hospital, after two weeks of agony,
from inhaling cork into bronchial tube.
B. I. Hutchinson, the famous Chicago
grain operator, who disappeared fof near
week from change, has turned up again
A tornado destroyed nearly a hundred build
ings, in Paducah, Ky, and several persons
were injured New Orleans Coffin
Manufacturing Company works were burned
Loss, $50, 000.-Charles d. Freeman, Grand
Master of the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows of Pennsylvania, is dead. 1.-The greater
portion of st. killian, Wis, was destroyed by
t'fe.-Jim Jackson and Jim Crabtree two
desperadoes, killed each other az Walnut Hills,
Na.-Towns In Massachusetts, ami New
Hampshire we're shaken uD by an earthquake
The Association of Medical Superlntend-
ents Of American Institutions for the Insane
closed its annual session in Washington and
adjourned to meet in the same city next May.
Reports Of the War Department are 10
the effect that large number Of young In
dams are enlisting in the regular army, and
the department expects that this will prove an
important factor in the solution OF the Indian
problem. -Special Commissioner Foster has
delivered to Secretary Blaine a copy of the
new reciprocity treaty with Spain.--Post-
master General Wanamaker will formulate
plan for the relief of postal clerks who are in
jurcd in tia service. is a belief in
Washington that President Harrison will ten
der 10 Senator Edmunds seat on the Su-
preme Bench, in the place of Justice Bradley,
who may retire The moulders in all but
three of the foundries in Washington have
gone on strike.-Secretary Foster has
fixed 50, 900 SAILS as the maximum which the
North American Commercial Company will
be allowed TO catch the coming season.--A
pnlsion telephone company has been incor-
porated in Illinois. -Twenty-fv thousand
dollars worth of opium was siezed at San
Francisco.-oiiyer Morgan, an Ohio farmer,
was found near Winchester, that state, with
bullet in his heart.--John Graham, in try
ing to avoid arrest at Scranton, Pa, was
killed by a train.-Four highwayman were
arrested at Antonio, New Mexico, charged
with robbing the mails--One hundred and
thirty-six men graduated in medicine from the
University of Pennsylvania.