Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-07
THE NEWS.

Seventeen miners were killed in cage at
the Anaconda mine, at Butte City, Mont
At Brownsville, Texas, ground was broken
and work commenced on the intercontinental
railroad which is to connect the United States
with Mexico and Central America. At
Newark, N. j., the car stables of the Rapid
Transit Line were burned. The loss is about
$4,000 The stables, which were situated on
the outskirts of the city, were used for the
storage of cars which were not in use on the
line. The fire had gained considerable head
way before an alarm was sent out. Its origin
is not known.-At indianapolis the Moore
Desk Works, with 100000 feet of oak lumber
and three buildings adjoining the main
structure, were destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000, with about $SS, 600 insurance. About
eighty employees are thrown out of work. The
company will rebuild on new site.-The
golden jubilee of Monsignor Nicholas Can't
we'll was celebrated in Philadelphia.
Horace L. Allen, n prominent Mason drowned
hin self at Binghampton, N. Y.-Judge
Ross of Los Angeles decided that Richard
Trumbull and George n. Burt didn't violate
tended for the Itata.-The United States
Worlds Fair Commissioners have been
ordered out of Chili.--An effort was made at
stockerton, Pa, to wreck passenger train on
the Easton and Northern Road. Robert A.
Moore, of Dillsburg, Pa, hanged himself at
his home.-At San Francisco Siegfried
Gosch, German laborer, murdered his wife
and young son, cutting their SOULS open with
Ratchet. He afterwards committed suicide
by hanging himself in the yard 1t is sup.
posed he was insane.-Dr. Briggs was de-
clared by the New York Presbytery not
guilty of heresy, Farmers Mortgage
and Savings Bank of Summerfeld. Oregon.
was entered by two masked men, who, al the
point of pistol, compelled the cashier to give
up about $4,000 in cash. The robbers, who
are yet at liberty, are supposed to be residents
of the neighborhood.
The exports of specie from the port of New
York during the week amounted to SIlS,SoS.
of which $245, 900 was gold and S473, SIS silver,
All tho gold wont to Havana, a47S, o20 silver
to Europe and 1888 silver TO South America.
The imports of specie during the week
amounted to 81, 404, 27S, of which 81, 0O6, 3l3
was gold and 1897, 1865 silver.-Joseph
Mercy's hat factory at No. So Richmond street
Newark, N. j., was totally destroyed by fire.
The machinery is insured, but the stock,
valued at $4,000, is lost. The total loss is
placed at $40, 600, which is partially insured.
The fire started in the drying-room. Two
hundred hands are thrown out of employment
by the burning of the factory.--A Belt Rail-
way freight train ran into a team driven by
Elijah Allen in the northern partOf st. Louis
Mr.. Allen was returning from st. Louis with
his wife and Oldest son. The team had just
crossed the track, and the engine struck the
wagon with fearful force back of the front
wheels. Mr.. Allen and his wife escaped with
broken leg each, but the boy, Elijah Allen,
Jr., was killed. Nearly every bone in his
body was broken.-Mr. and Mrs. George
Scott, of Portsmouth, N. H., were chloroformed
while asleep by thief and their home plum
dered of s., 900 in cash and jewels -Ellwool
City, new town in Lawrence county, Pa,
suffered severe loss by fre.-The State
Bank of Homer, Neb., was robbed of 600 by
two masked men. The robbers went to the
residence of the cashier, Freeze, and waking
him up compelled him to accompany them TO
the bank. They also forced open the safe,
after which they bound and gagged him, and
took the cash.--Three persons were fatally
hurt and sixteen more Or less injured by an
electric car getting beyond the control of the
moter man and dashing il . train of freight
cars at Montgomery, Pa.
The United States steamer Fern and the
English steamer Iago were in collision off
Thimble Light. The Fern was damaged. -
Thieves robbed the postofice at Seitzland,
Pa.--Farmer Seachrist was killed bya train
near York, Pa.-The drying kiIns of the
Franklin Lumber Company in Southampton
county, Va, were destroyed by fre.-A
Southern Associated Press has been formed
by leading newspaper men.-During fight
in New York John Whittle was killed, and
John Finnegan is charged with the murder.
Two of the three survivors of the wrecked
Swedish bark Nora which was wrecked on
August % on reef Off Mona Island, came to
port as passengers on the steamship SIN 'ason
Tower from Matanzas. The other man was
left at Mstanzas. The three men were the
only ones s,ved out of crew of twelve
Captain Pearson and all the Irest were lost
The crew of the whaer Horatio which
arrived at San Francisco, reported that the
crew of the whaler Grampus were not mas.
sacred in the Arctic ocean.--The cruiser
Newark has been examined at the Charles
town Mass navy yard. 1t will cost $15, 900
to repair her in the dry-dock. THE Ven.
dome Theatre in Nashville, Tenn, came near
being burned.-Niueteen buildings at Hen
derson, n. j., were burned; loss $t0o0Oo.-
Fire at Cleveland, O., in Mueller e. Co.'s
malt house and A. f. Shade & Co.'S croekery
,torc, did 800, 900 damage. in Loda,
ILL.,, did $4,000 damage. Dunavin,
Walter Briquelet and Charles Keehn tunneled
,ut of the Michigan state prison at Jackson
md esconad