Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-29
THE NEWS


of North Dakota are deaouncing the action of
the state railroad commissioner in placing an
embargo on wheat shipments by requiring in
spection at the Minnesota line. The dam
age done to the wheat in North Dakota by the
frosts was not much account The volcano
at Calimo, near the City of Mexico, is still
active.-Edward Baker, an old citizen of st.
Louis, died two weeks ago in apparent power.
ty. i trunk had been found in his house
which contained over $l7 000-James
Wright who is wanted in Sueadsville, Han
cock county, Tenn, for the murder of Joseph
Owen, has be n arrested in Mansfield, Mo-
There is much excitement in st. Paul
over the suicide Of G ,or &C J. Osborne, super
intendent of the ST. Paul railway elevators
His suicide was causel by speculation in
wheat. The town of Charleston Ark, lost
$4,000 by Il fire. The couri-hous. and re.
cords were burned At oly Tex. fire
destroyed half the business portion of the
town loss $4,000. One hundred more
Cherokees have arrived at Arkansas City, Ks,
and have joined the colony on the Cherokee
Outlet.-Army worries are doing great dam,
age to the cotton in Pulaski county Ask
The saleof beer has been stopped for the
present in Ardmore, l. T., under the or Ter Of
the Interior Department.-The Farmers
Alliance OF Oklahoma has just concluded
territorial convention. William H. Eaney
a mail carrier of Williamspor., Pa ,vas stung
by honey bee and killed
AT Missou'a, Mont, it has been resolved to
boycott all Chinese and all persons employing
or patronizing them. A party of fifteen mask
ed white men raidcd the ranch of a prosper
Gus Chinese gardener near the city, complete
ly demolishinG the cabin, with all its furni-
ture. They beat one inmate in a shocking
manner a other was tarred and feathercd.
and his cue cut of. A third escaped by swim
ming the Playmates of the Hamil-
ton children, at Ironton, have admitted that
they locked them in the chest in which they
were smothered. In collision on the
Northern Pacific, near Tacoma, Engineer
David Young and Fireman Frank Cooper
were killed.-At Clawson, Texas, the Claw
son lumber mill together with machinery and
dry kiln, were burned, The lumber in the
yard was saved. Loss SO. OO0.-In the
Cherokee Strip United States Marshal Ed
ward Short and a desperate train robber,
Charles Bryant, had a duel to the death.
Both kept firing till they fell dead At the
Pine Lake pleasure resort, nine miles east of
Lansing three girls went out in a row boat.
which was upset, and before they could be
rescued Ida Smith, aged nineteen, daughter of
lfy-i,, "a
Pearl Schooley, eleven years old, daughter of
Charles NJ. Schoo,ey, of Lansing were drown
ed. Their companion, Kitty McCurdy. was
saved. The families of all the girls were at
tending spiritualist camp-meetingat Hazlett
Park The bodies were recovered. -Frank
Johnson aged fifty years, supposed to be from
st. Louis, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head at the Bingham Hotel
Phihdclphia. tenth annual encamp-
ment Of the Sons of Veterans opened at Min
neapolis, with about 10000 member in at
tendance. Mrs Mary Woodruff, sister Of
the inventor Of the Woodruff parlor car, died
at Vineland, n. j., aged cighty-threc years.
Chandler Bros, at Montgomery, Ala, made
an assignment, Assets $40, COO; liabilities $50
Geo. StringcUcy in the money market the
cause.-H +. Bingham, well-known lawyer
of Portland, Ore, while fishing on Il cl fl Of
rocks at the beach, fell into the water, was
carried out to sea by huge wave, and drown
ed.-Forest fires are doing great damage in
Nevada county, Cal.--General Nelson Miles
is opposed to consolidating the state troops
and forming them into a standard army of
100000 men, and placing them under the con-
troll of whoever may be secretary of war;
There was fall of fifty degrees intemperature
in South Dakota flow of petroleum was
discovered in the Crows Nest, Rocky Noun
tains.-Two contract laborers, imported by
Claus Spreekles, the sugar king, to work IN
his refnerics, were detained at the Immigrant
Landing Bureau in New York on their ar
rival from Bremen.-The South Carolina
Farmers Alliance propose to form a trust
to hold back one-half the present cotton crop.
The brothers aud son OF Robert Sims, the
illicit distillcr, rescued him from the United
States marshul's posse at Baden Springs, Ala,
after bloody fight, in which one of the
guards and another man were shot fatally,
Bailey Sims killed and Jim Bailey MORALLY
wounded, -Au immense body of iron ore
has been discovered along the east side of Me-
MINI county, Tenn, in the Chelhowee Noun
tains.-Long wagon trains of boomers are
on the road to the Sac and Fox reservations,
in anticipation of the Presidents proclama-
ton opening the Indian lands.-A cloub.
burst at Pottsville, Pa, flooded portions Of
4 u,
stories of their houses. Great damage was
done in the business section.
Frank c. Amy, the murderer of Christie
Warden, was captured after desperate
struggle in the barn of Mr.. Warden, the
father Of his victim, at Hanover, \. II. lie
had been hiding in the barn for weeks, and
had broken his leg in trying TO escape
Clark Woodman, one of the wealthiest citi-
zens OF Omaha aud director in the Linseed
Oil trust, was found dead i'll his room in the
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, and it is sup
posed he committed suicide.-At Caldwell
Ks, J. L. Mayes, chief of the Cherokee
Nation, with twenty-five leading men Of he
tribe, had conference with the cattlemen
who are now hcrdmg cattle on the Cherokee
Strip. TWAS arranged that all the cattle now
grazing there shall he transferred TO individual
Cherollccs 10y bills of sale, and that when the
time comes for marketing the cattle arrives
the Cher KEGS shall transfer them back to the
cattlemen at an advance sufficient to meet the
grazing charg S. BY this agreement the half
million head Of cattle on the Strip can be kept
there, End as many more brought in as the
Cherokecs care 10 take.-Deputy United
States Marshal Barney Connolly was killed in
the Cherokee Nation by ex-Deputy Marshal
Busby. Connolly ha warrant Tor Busby's
arrest, and when he attempted the capture
was shot--Near jackson, Tenn, during
quarrel, Joe Hardin, a farmer, accused lis
nephew, j. l.. Edwards, OF having spent five
cents which the former had entrusted with the
latter. Edwards resented tie accusation by
striking his uncle over the head with piece
OF iron, whcreupon Hardin jerked ont his
knife nd stabbed him TO the heart. Edwards
died instantly. liar lin was arrested. Near
Nicksburs, Miss, local freight train on the
Valley route was wrecked, near Cleveland
Station, by running over bull. The engine
and sixteen ears were dcrailed AMI three
white men killed-two tramps who were steal
ing ride and brakeman.-Near Knox
vile, Tenn, two boys thought to play des
peFadoes, One climbed in the wagon of
farmer named Marsh and stabbed him in he
neck with a knife. The wound is se-;ous.
Both boys were arrested.