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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED.
Result of a EoiIer Explosion On a
steamer at Chicago.

Result of a EoiIer Explosion IN q
Steamer AT Chicago.
A boiler explosion aboard the steamer G.
w. Parker killed seven persons and seriously
injured many others 10 the neighborhood Of
Achievements bridge on the south branch Of
the river about 4.3o O'Clock in the afternoon.
The list Of the killed and wounded 50 far as
can be ascertained is AS follows
killed-Jsmes D. Carter. captain fthc tug
c. w. Parker; John C. Moore engineer Of &.
w. Parker; Samuel Arms rong, Of NaDistee,
cook Of c. W. rker; unknown msn killed
by fragment Of boiler while standing at east
end Of Areher-svepae bridge; Mrs. Mary Rice,
OF 3Jlo Archer-avenus; Barbara Rice her 49,
ysar-old daughter; Samuel Sawyer, lsborer,
1926 Blume street.
Wounded-Joseph Cullen, fireman Of c. W.
Parker, will probably die; Henry Bell, deck
bpnd, badly scaldei nd leg parsiyzed;
Charles Kirkip, cifizen, wounded by missiles;
Frank Wagner, arm broken; Joseph Bono
rszk, skull fractured, may dir; George JueIl,
captain Of the tug Van Setback. leg and back
hurt; Louis de Mass deckhaad on Van
Sehasek, back sprained; James Cunningham,
cook on Van Setback, &C lip wounds.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
NO. 4.
THE NATIONAL GAME.

LONG leads the Boston League team in
batting.
ANsoS, Of Chicago, can't pick up low
thrown balls.
KANSAS Cry tried seventeen pitchers
without finding winner.
THE Boston Association team has been
shut out but twice this season.
In forty-seven games Baldwin. OF Pitts.
burg, struck out sixty-one times.
Fourz, Of Brooklyn. will probably coufins
bis attention topitching next ssason.
RICHARDSON, Of Now York, is the quickest
player in the business on double plays
CoRKHrLI.is jaw was broken by pitched
bah in one OF the last games at Pittsburg
CHICAGO has earned the most runs 10 tho
League, and also accepted the most chances.
PITCHER KING. released by Plttsburg,
says he will be with the Boston League team
next season.
THE Pittsburgs played the strongest game
in the League for the last six weeks OF the
pennant race.
TBE Chicagos won but Eve OF the eighteen
games played with the Giants aud only one
OF the Ave was captured in New York
BY winning sixteen consecutive games tho
Bostons in the last week Of the pennant
struggle forged a head OF the Chicagos.
WILLIAM c. Fireman, the millionaire
owner OF the Lebanon (Pennl Club, Is the
only absolute owner Of a ball club in the
country.
THE present Boston League team will need
but very little II any strengthening for
next season. IL is pennant winning team
as it stands.
KNOLL, Crooks, Dutfee aud Twitchell have
signed W contracts with Columbus. They
are the only meu of the present team who
win be retained
WITH one pennant gained for tho Hub and
another within reaching distance, Boston's
baseball enthusiasts enjoyed a very exciting
wind up Of the season.
A STATUS OF Tho Ball-Trower' has been
presented to the City OF San Francisco, thus
immortalizng baseball playerE The statue
is placed in Golden Gate Park.
Tom Brown, Of tho Philadelphia Athletics,
leads the sluggers OF the Association In HIS
hits, contributing fifty-six, including twenty
eight doubles, twenty-one triples aud seven
home runs
DENNY, Of the Philadelphia League team,
toward the end Of this season, played ball
again in the style which made him famous
years ago, and he hit bali 10 tho fence az
Eastern Park, Brooklyn, In a way that
showed how he acquired the title OF Home
run Denny
THE last week OF the season was remark.
able for two unusual events in the BROOKLYN
teams calendar FoutS went in 10 pitch and
Ward covered second haso. Foutz had not
pitched a game ia over year, and Ward
had not played second base since 1885, when
he was n member OF tho New York team.
The work Of both men In their comparatively
new positions was first-olass
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
SHOT HIS SCHOOL RIVAL.
5ohr g Wood Sentenced to spend ul
LIZ. =. e.. -.

Job" Is Wood Sentenced to spend Ills
Life 80 State Prison.
John q. Wood shot and killed Alexander
8. Brown in duel last May. near IIiwa,see.
Ca, and was convicted Of murder. The jury
recommended him to the mercy Of the court
Wood was sentenced 10 life imprisonment.
Wood and Brown we're fellow students and
class rivals in the Hiwsssee Institute.
Methodist school Both we're members Of
influential families and widely related. Their
rivalry spread 10 their friends, and Of the
commencement exercises last NAY their
relatives marshaied In force.
At the close ofthe exercises the young men.
with half dozen witnesses, went 10 a clump
OF woods near the town snd fought duel
according to the code Brown fefi eead at
the first Ere Upon the indictment and trial
OF Woodthe greatest difficulty was experienced
in securing jurors. Thirteen grand Juror.
were disqualified because Of their relationship
10 Wood or TO Brown
Out Of M men drawn ~ petit Jurors only
IL were found not disqualified either by
relationship Or By opposition to capital
punt hment.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
How Not TO Become Bald.

The increasing prevalence of prema-
ture badness is fact now recognized bv
the medical profession. According to
DE-. Joseph Tyson's remarks In the Ian
CT, the principal cause, although not the
sole one, seems to be the frequent COW
criny of the head. Women VIGOROUSLY
lose their hair less often. The cause is
found in the comparative lightness of
their headgear. Coming to practical
remedies Or prevcntives, we are told by
this authority that children should as
much as possible do without caps, and
that hats, when worn, should be of the
lightest description. The chimney pot
hat cannot, we are warned, be too
strongly condemned. In winter light
felt, we'll ventilated and unlined, is best.
Washing the head more than once a
week is deemed harmful; continual
brushing with hard brushes Is also to be
avoided. Greasing the hair, once SO gen.
eraI, is now considered vulgar; but a
little simple grease or oil, applied after
washing, would, we are assured, be bene-
ficial.-Loadon Nexs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
WORK AND WORKERS

ALL the iourneymen tailors in Birmingham
Alabama are on strike for higher wages. Only
ore firm granted the demand.
TUE works of the Para Rubber Shoe Com
pany al South birmingham Massachusetts,,
shut down for an indefinite period.
A STRIKE Of the Hooking Valley miners, in
Ohio, is threatened because mine bosses in
Hodley's and Rend's mines have discharged
union men.
PIERCE & Co, the lumber men Of Ottawa,
Canada, vie ded 10 the strikers, agreeingto a
l0-hour day ind 60 cents week extra. This
gives employment to 81 men.
A FEW extra GU rds have been added to the
force at Briceyille Tennessee, rnd the lrtsecs
Of the convieis have strengthened their posi-
tons BY building rifle pit on all sides OF tho
stockade.
ABOUT twelve hundred wharf laborsrs are
on strike in Savannah, Georgia. They say
that they do not propose 10 interfere with non
union men, but union men will not be allowed
to work.
THE handlers ,mployed in the New Eng.
land freight house. at New Britain, Connecti-
cut, have struck because they were not paid
for overtime. J heir places have been filled.
They received 81 80 per day.
THE Cotton Manufacturer Association
met in Fall River, Massachusetts, aud In.
its revised ,chedulc Of wages report, with the
provision thst II the market awakened and
fell of ma erially they should call another
meeting. Tire action Of the association has
lifted load from the minds Of operatives and
business men, who were fully alive to the fact
that prolonged strike would follow a re.
duetion.
SECRETARY NOBLE has issued circular
calling intention % an order now in force in
the Department which says To prevent fur
Their ImpoituBities for promotion, in which a
lew OF toe employees have INDUCED, in spite Of
the well-knOwn rules OF the Department.
notice is given that application for promotion
made by the employees themselves or at their
instig tion. will not only be absolutely fruit
less. but, if persisted in regardless Of this
order, m . imperh their position inthe office.
NOTICE was posted ut the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works OF the Carsegies. ut Bruddock,
Penns., that, owing TO improved machinery,
the product had been sogreatly increased that
n scae Of wages would be necessary"
The old scale. which expires on December 81 +,
has been in operation three years. A confer
ence Of the officials and employees will be held
about October 10. The wording Of the notice
leads the workmen to think that a reduction
in wages isconteniplated. About 100 men are
employed at this plant.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

THREE workmen, named Lamurdy, Lewis
and Shoru, were killed by eave-in at the new
State Armory, Mt Malone, n. y.
ANDREW QUINLAN, aged 70 years, sup
posed to be the Oldest railroad conductor in
the United States, was killed by train at
lyon, ~ J.
THREE men were drowned in Chequamagon
Bay, Wisconsin, by The upsetting of boat
Two of them were named Anderson and Mel
son, the third was unknown.
JOHN CROMWELL was killed and John Cart
wright fatally injured by the premature ex-
plosion of charge of dynamite at the Roberts
dale coal mine, Huntingdon, Pa.
A HEAVY wind and rain storm did much
damage at Muncie, Ind. A circus tent coll
lap ed durin performance, and several per-
sons were seriously injured. One man had
three ribs broken.
As result of a collision on the Hudson
River Railway in New York city. John
Leonard, fireman, was killed. and Patrick
Morrison was injured. A number Of horses
and pigs were killed, and locomotive and
nine freight cars were wrecked.
THE family of Mrs. G. T. Lewis, in Saga.
nav, Mich, consisting OF five persons, was
poisoned. The poison is supposed to have
been in the coff,e. Miss Sayers, domestic,
Is the only one in critical condition.
A WIND storm of almost the violence of
tornado swept through Bellrami and Itasea
counties, Mich, dwelling everything in its
course. 1t is estimated that from 49,, 90
10 200, COG, 600 feet Of pine lumber was dam
aged. 1t is not known whether there was any
loss of life.
A DESPATCH from Turtle Lake, Slim,
says that the family Of MIR. Nesse, farmer
living short distance out of town. consisting
of himself his wife aud several small chill
dren, were hemmed in by the forest FIRE and
no doubt burned TO death, as no help could
reach them.
GEO. w. JOHNSON and his son have been
burned TO death by the prairie fires near Bea-
yer creek, North Dakota. An old man named
Tabor has been so badly burned, near Viii
Transport, that his recovery is doubtful. THREE
m are reported to have persisted in the Hol.
land settlement.
LEWIS b. EARL and Frank Thayer went up
in balloon at Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Earl was
to jump with parachute, and Thayer to de-
seend with the balloon. When the balloon had
gone up short distance the trapeze rope
broke, and Earl was killed Theyer had an
arm broken and suffered internal injuries.
A train on the Pan Handle Railroad struck
a carriage near Centreyille, Ind, in which
were Joseph Black, his wife and two daugh.
ters. Black, his wife and one daughter were
instantly killed. and the other daughter was
fatally injured. The Black family were on
the way to attend the races.
AT Marietta, Ga, the horses attached TO a
carriage in which four ladies were returning
from church ran away. The ladies were al
thrown out, and Miss Katie Reynolds. II
years of age, had her neck broken. Mrs Mer-
rift, her aunt, received internal injuries from
which she died in q few hours Miss Alma
kohlheim was badly hurt and is in critical
condition. Mrs Reynolds, mother OF Katie,
jumped from the carriage, but was not badly
hurt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
A GRAIN ELEVATOR BURNED.
One Of the Big Structures IN Baltimore
and It's Contents Destroyed.

One Of the Big Structures in Baltimore.
and It's Contents Destroyed.
Elevator A Of the baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company's system, situated al 10.
Gust Point, Baltimore, was destroyed by FIRE
about 7o'cioex the other morning, together
with ali the machinery and the 1876. 800 bush
els Ofwheas which il contained. The loss,
which Is heavy, is covered by Insurance.
Elevator A cost to construct and % pat in the
machinery 10000. It was erected in 1871
and is said 10 have been the first elevator on
the Atlantic coast. Its capacity was 10000
bushels. During the past year II has been
for what IL known e. the bay trade" for
wheat brought in vessels up the Chesapeake.
The IRE aid its work quickly Half an hour
after the discovery of the flames the roof AMI
wallis had fallen. The flames had possession
Of the elevator - completely that vheu the
hremen arrived II was abandoned 10 lie Ger
tnig fate, and the men gave their attention 10
saving surrounding property. Blazing boards
and pieces OF timber were carried 70 con
siaerable distance, and, falling upon piers aud
ships, kept seamen and fireboet snd tagboats
busy putting out the many fires thus started.
The IRE is attribute 10 Spontaneous combus-
Tan.
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TRADES INDICATOR.
Decline of Activity in All General
Lines of Distribution.
Bank Ciearings Improvcsi--Big Decline In
the Amount of Wheat Exports
Business Failures.

the Amount of wheat Exports
Business Failures.
Rather less activity in general lines of dis.
tributiou than had been expected continues
10 be reported in SPECIAL telegrams to Brad
sireef's, a'thongh, rariicn'arly at the West
and Northwest, there Is good deal # con
fdence di PLAYED that the receipt of oders
will son meet all snticipations.
Ch'ciro Minneapolis, st. Paul, St Louis,
aud San Francisco report, relatively, the
greatest degree of activity in staple lines.
Farmers sales Of produce in Central Western
Southwestern, aud some Western States are
beginning to show ia improved mercantile
collections.
The greatest degree of activity continues in
groceries an provisions, except lard, (which
is dnlll, tobacco with advancing pr cesl,
clothing, hats, shoes, and hardware. Warm
weather has checked sales at Kansas City. In
Nebraska rains have prepared the soil for
Fall planting. Colder weather will stimulate
general trade greatly. New Orleans reports
Louisiana yields of rice and sugar viii be less
than expected.
BANK cLEARISGs IMPROVED.
September hank clearings reflect an i'm.
proved tone Of business, aud in enlarged vol.
ume of speculation. For the first time this
years months total clearincs show gain over
the corresponding month year ago Total
ciear.n at hfty-seven cities IN September
we're y, 2i9, 1875, 525, gain over last year of
&c per cent
Reports to Bradareei's Of mercantile fail.
u'es throughout the United 5 ates during nine
months OF the current year show total Of
$500, against 1888 in the first nine months Of
1899. The aggregate liabilities of failing
traders are SlSs, 81 $40, against S92. 5il $50.
The increase OF number OF failures is IL per
cent and liabilities so per cent.
WHEAT EXPORTS DECLINE.
Exports of wheat from tae United les
beth coests, have declined sharply, aggrega.
ting with flour as wheat)only 3, 405, 9s2 bush.
els, against 4 I'll ,00J bushels the week before,
and 6,974,oe0 bushels in the preceding week.
In the concluding week of September for three
preceding years like exports did not vary
much fiom l, Coz, 600 bushels.
Exports trum the United Stats ports and
Montreal tn week were ,759.09i bushels; in
the like week, 1890, a little more that 30 per
cent. AS much, and for fourteen weeks ex-
ports wheat aud -four aggregate IS, 632, 900
bushels against 257T7, 600 bushels iron
United States AMI Canada) in fourteen weeks
of 1890. &c, SIS O00 bushels from the United
Statrs only in 1889 81, 767 900 bushels in 1883
and 1894, 900 bushels in like portion Of
1857.
Exprots Of wheat from California are
ehecked, and visible stocks there accumulate
Shipments of wheat by farmers Wet and
Northwest are falling oil. and interest reyiyes
as to the extent they may carry such restrie.
tion. For the first quarter OF tbs current
cereal year ava liable stocks OF wheAt lave in.
creased net -, 7j3, 600 bushes both coasts) as
eontraste ! with an increase of only 3,074. O00
bushels in the corresponding portion OF 1890
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Markets.

BALTl4oRE-Fl our--City Mills, super. 81. 20
M341. Wheat-Southern Fultz, 30 "a LOO
Corn-Scuthern White, 6s97oc., yellow,
69M7uc Oats-Southern and Pennsylvania
3lM34Ic. Rye-Maryland and Pennsylvania
Sjcg9 c. Hay.-Maryland and Pennsylvania
$l2.5O(dls-O0. Straw-Wheat, G.00(17.59.
Butter-Eastern Creamery, 24(925c. nearby
receipt 15fdl6c. Cheese-Eastern Fancy
Cream, 1atCa lo4c., Western, sg9ic. EggsEI9
H20c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior $1-OOlJi.5o
Good Common, sIO0@500, Middling, 500
CISCO, Good to inered, s9.09t9li-0o. Fancy,
sl2.00@l3.oo.
NEW -Flour-Southern Good to
choice extra, S. 65Cq4.25. Wheat-No. White
10 IMlc24. Rye-Staie e3fg94c. Corn
Southern yellow, 63@6ftc- Oats-White,
State 33AM3le. Butter - State, 15923e.
Cheese State, 7a91c. Eggs-21(a2ie-
PHILADELPHIA - Flour - Pennsylvania
Fancy. S4-25la 40. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern BED, 1.03f91.031. Rye-Pennsyl-
vsnia. 90fd95c- Corn--Soufhern Yellow, Ga
ache. Oats-3301334c. Butter-State, 24t6g
&c. Cheese-New York Factory, 10gg10ie.
Eggs-State, 21G22c-
CATTLE
BAITINoRE-Beef- 81. 5of9,4.75. Sheep
s3-50@4.75. Hogs-s4- 5OG5-00.
NEW YoRK-Beef-s4OOf95.4 Sheep
S3.50N462t. Hogs-5.00tg5.S0.
EAST LIBERTY-Beef- .7545.0o. Sheep
s40o@5.00. Hogs-s5.49&5-50.
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VOL. XII.
AUTUMN SONG.

Autumn stands by the maple-tree
tAhl but the Winter follows9
And drops the bright leaves down to me-
or blows them away on the north wind
free,
Across the meadow, across the lea,
Over the hills and bellows.
The squirrel runs to the chestnut tall,
tHoi but the frost's cold fingersD
And rafting down the ripe nuts fall.
But never squirrel shall have them all,
While the lads AMI lassies merrily call
Through fields where the aster fingers.
The witch-h7z,l waves her fringe of gold,
lHark to the winds a-sighingh
The hunters moon shines over the wolf,
The days grow short AMI the nights grow
cold,
And the weary year is getting old,
While the withered leaves are flying.
dorothy Gray IN Youths Companion.
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STRUCK BY A TRAIN.

han and Woman Killed Outright and
Two Children Fatally Hurt.
A wagon belonging to the National Meat
Market at Erastina, Staten Island, and con-
tanning four persons-a man, a woman, and
two ehiidrea-xas struck by west bound
train on ihe Amboy division Of the Staten
Island Rapid Transit railroad at the crossing
in GitIords
The man and woman were Instantly killed
snd their bodies we're hurled considerable
distance from the track. The children we're
picked up in dying condition and were
carried TO the nearest house
The victims were John Jones. aged "a yesrs.
Q fisherman Of Frssfina: Mrs Carrie Edwards.
his sister, aged d years. and Blanche Ed
wards, the 1-year old infant Of Mrs. Edwards.
Anton Banter. need "A years, was 90 badly
hurt thai it is feared be will die.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
Queer Phrases.

Every nation has its own familiar
phrases, which sound very queer to
foreigner We have great many that
seem very natural to us, because we have
known them since childhood, and other
countries similarly have expressions that
we would think funny, bat which are
not in the least to them. The French,
for instance, say, "Oae of these four
mornings" when we would say, Zone
of these days. Where we say, zone
can't do thousand things at once,n the
French say, lone can't accomplish
thirty-six things in u breath" In Caina
clustering coward is said to be as
''harmless as paper tiger. "-Nep Yorl
Telegram.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10
WHOLE VILLAGES BURNED.
Great Destruction by Forest Fires in
California.

Great Destruction by Forest Fires in
California.
Terrible forest fires have been raging for
over week in Eldorado county, Cal, and
more than forty square miles of country have
been burned over and many dwellings, barns
hay, fences, and thousands of acres of dry
feed consumed. When the fire approached
the town of Pilot Hill, all hands turned out
to try to check its progress. Back firing was
attempted, but it had little effect owing TO the
swiftness of the fire. Half a dozen houses on
the outskirts of the town we're burned in
quick order. The flying sparks caught in a
frame building around the postoffice, and in
few minutes the store, postoffiee, saloon, hall,
Warmers, Davis and Kirehner's residences,
including outbuildings, were all burned.
At Burner Hill there is nothing left of the
village but a hotel, schoolhouse and two or
three scattering buildings on the outskirts Of
the town.
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TANNA DEVASTATED.

civil War and Hurricane Spread Ruin
in the Island.
Adviees by the steamship Monowaii say
that the Island of Tanna has been visited by
hurricane and devastated by civil war.
Fierce fighting is now going on, and two
villages have been wiped out Of existence.
IN The midst of the fighting came the fearful
hurricane.
The German ship ]. w. Gildemeisten was
wrecked in Dianirua Bay. The cutter Hilda
was driven ashore, and canoe containing 10
natives bst
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FOUR BURNED TO DEATH.
Result of a Tencment-House Fire in
New York City.

AteSuie u Iencment-HOuse Fire in
New York City.
A fire occurred early in fye-story brick
tenementhouse at the corner of Hudson and
Dominick streets, which caused the death of
four persons and the fatal injury of fifth.
The dead are: Mrs. Annie Murphy. 80 years
Old, wife of Fireman Matthew Murphy; Miss
Katie Dunn, y years old, dressmaker who
boarded with Mrs. Murphy; Josephine Ryan,
. years old, Of Washington, d. c., Mrs.
Mnrphy's niece; John Toohey, Q years old,
Mrs. Murphy's son by former marriage.
Martin d. Toohey, ii years old, also Mrs.
Murphy's son, is so badly burned he will die.
The last two named were taken cut of the
building alive and taken TO 81. Vincent's
Hospital. There John died at O'Clock in
great agony.
Nine families resided in the house and each
family had an average of three boarders The
fre broke out in an unoecupied wood-house
IN the cellar, and the police said that it was
OF ineendiary origin, but they would not saw
on what this opinion was based. The actual
dsmsge to the building will not exceed 81 ,59i
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THE conduct RS, brakemen and switchmen
on the Atlantic system of the Southern Paci-
hc road asked for an increase in wages, which
was denied them by the division superinten-
dents A demand for an increase will now be
manager.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10

JEAN ISGRLow Is now gray-baired little
old woman Of SO years She is kind friend
Of the poor, and at regular intervals gives
them what she calls copyright dinners" from
the proceeds Of her books.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10

ALBERT BIEEsTADT, the artist, has Just
returned from four months visit 70 Europe.
lie IL at work upon his great picture Of The
Landing Of Columbus" for the Worlds Fair.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10

It is said that blondes get seasick
quicker than brune.tes. Perhaps this
phenomenon may be accounted for BIZ
The fact that the former are naturally
light-headed. -Biaghamton republican.