Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-03
THE NEWS.

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mother, Mrs Thomas Bomberger, rushed on
the track to save him, when the car struck
/ both. The mother was instantly killed, and
the boy will die.-As result of the very
low water, another fearful landslide occurred
at Reel Foot, seventy-tye miles below Cairo,
/ III. The SIDE involved ground oyet half
] mile long and from forty to four hundred feet
wide. 1t seems that the water washed the
sand strata out from under the surface and let
the upper SOL down from ten to twenty feet.
The American Peace Society chose Rev. Row.
land B. Howard as ofhcial delegate to the
Universal Peace Congress at Rome November
9th to 16th.-The Indiana State Board of
Tax Commissioners are trying to compel the
banks of the State to make public the names
of their depositors and the amount If their
credit, with the view Of assessing bank de-
posts. - Vim. Gould. of Albany, convicted
of completely IN wreeking the Albany City
On. " National Bank, was sentenced by
Judge Coke TO six years in the Albany pen:-
Tertiary. -Samuel Morris, who settled in
Dubuque in 1882, and built the first log cabin
on the present site of the city, died at Potosi,
Wis, aged eighty-one. At Rockford, ILL.,,
one of the mills of the Oatmeal Trust burned.
Loss, $40 COO; insurance, S3S, 000-John
Appleman, of Buckhorn, Columbia county,
Pa, bought two bricks he thought were gold,
for So, 800. They turned out to be brass.
A wind-storm, which assumed the proper
tons of a cyclone swept through the counties
of Beltrami and Itasca, in Minnesota, prostrat-
mo ifxh af Tba 4 tn min o
timber was gr, at, probably aggregating from
80, 600 900 to 200, 900, 900 feet. The region is
only inhabited by lumber men, prospectors
and hunters at this time of the year, and it is
not yet known whether or not there was any
loss of life.-The wheat yield of Indiana is
placed at g. AL, 049 bushels. here was
big prairie fire about four miles west of Belvi-
dere, H., and before it could be got under
control it had burned over 200 acres. Con-
siderable property was destroyed.
murderers were set at liberty by men who
raided the Laramie county jail in Wyoming.
One was recaptured. Geo. W. johnson and
son and Mr.. Taber were burned to death by
the North Dakota prairie fres.-About one
nall OF the Montana cattle shipments has been
about ,OO0 and 90 900 have been shipped.
OF this number 43, 715 have been received at
the Minneapolis stock yards since August l,
$1,000 at the South St. Paul yards and $1,000
at the Minneapolis Transfer. This is very
heavy increase in receipts for Minneapolis
over last year. The cattle average the ranch
men S35. The fam ly of Mrs. George f.
| e G,,a
in Saginaw, Mich. The poison is supposed to
have been in the coffee drunk at breakfast.
Miss Sayers, domestic, is in critical con-
dition. The other members of the family are
doing nicely.--Benjamin Fritz prominent
farmer of Bart township, Pa, while trying to
separate two men engaged in fight was
struck on the head with an axe by George
Seminar, receiving fatal injuries. At Ma
quon, H., the bank, grocery, a furniture
store and several shops have been burned
The total loss is $l5, GOETHE Pennsylvania
commission appointed to select a site for the
proposed state hospital for the chronic insane
has selected the South Mountain site, eight
miles from Reading, between Wernersvile
and Robesonia, and three-quarters of mile
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5l5 acres in the site, and the price is 81, 600
John w. Mackay, the California million-
aire, and Miss Fair, daughter of Senator
james 6. Fair and sister of Mrs. Hermans
/ Oelrich, rolled into the Great Central Depot
at New York, attached to the fast all over
the New York Central and Hudson River
( Railroad, having made the fastest trip on re-
a
The Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Company,
formed to manufacture and refine sugar from
the raw material in Brooklyn, was incor-
porated, with a capital Of 500, COO. The
/ directors OF the company are all residents of
/ Brooklyn.--John p. Lynch's barn, in Linn
erick township, near Pottstown Pa, was
burned. Fourteen fine COWS persisted and all
the gathered crops were destroyed. Loss
$S,000.-The Lancaster county Pa Mutual
Live stock and Chaitel Theft Insurance Com
pany has made an assignment for the benefit
of its creditors to VIM. b. Given, of Columbia,
Pa. The assessments of the company are
/ 81 goo in premium notes. and the indebted
ness, of about the same amount will be paid
by an assessment of the policies, aggregatinc
over half million dolars.--Rev Howard
Macqueary, charged with heresy, has been
deposed by Bishop Leonard, of Cleveland, O.
"A band of armed men raded the village
of San Antonio in Missouri. and looted the
postofiice and numbered stores. -Governor
Pat ison bqs convened the Pennsylvania
legislature in special sessions. Octob r "a IN
consider the charges made against the auditor
general and the state treasurer. John
mitted for trial by United States Commissioner
Tinsley, of Lyrchburs, on the charge of
violating postal regulations in sending
scurrilous postal card to Young woman
A train on the Panhandle road struck n
carriage, near Centreviile, Ind. in which were
/ Joseph Black, his wife and two daughters
/ Black, his wife anil che daughter were in.
stantly HI led, and the Other daughter fatally
injured. james b. Daily was shot and
| killed at Port Chester, n y, by John P.
] Gleason, for permitting Mrs. Gleason to sion
/ at his home after she had separated from her
husband.-James Mahon was killed at Bri
tol Pa, by blow and txo kicks, inflicted by
| John b. Chase.-Over score of people
were made seriously i'll at Plainfeld. Conn.
by some miscreant putting croton oil in
coffee served at dance.
News from Bogota is to the effect that there
has been continual falling in gold. United
/ States Minister John F. Abbott has bad a
I warm welcome there.--An unexpected erup-