Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-05
THE NEWS.


Six daring train robbers held up and robbed
the express ear on the st. Louis and San Fran.
cisco road near st. Louis of $l5, 0o0-Jhre
men were killed and three others fatally
wounded by the fall of the west span of tbs
Great Northern bridge over the North Fork
of the Columbia river, in Montana. -, hn
Treber. of Deadwood S. D., arrested in Ger
many as a deserter, has been sentenced TO six
months imprisonment at hard labor. AR
rangements are completed for the transfer TO
an English syndicate Of the five milk con-
densing factories at Carpentersyilie, ILL.,, and
at Brewster, Wassaie and Walden, n. Y.
Trey have been owned by the Borden and
Millbank families for over twenty-five years.
The purchase price is not stated, but as their
net revenue last year is said to have been over
$780, f0, it must be sl2 900. Goo or sl5 900, 600
--Franesco Herman ez, who robbed the
psymas er of the eleventh Battalion Of the
Mexican army in Chihuahua, Mexico. and
killed policeman in escaping, has been cap
sired at Ell Paso, Tex, and extradited. lie
viii be shot.-George L. Barr, proprietor OF
Hotel Warwick, in Springfield, Mass, shot
1nd killed his vie, and then killed himself
The childrens department of the Convent
Of Our Lady Of Mercy, in Newburgh, y. y,
was burned. All the little ones were saved
by the sisters.
Several people have been killed and Major
Downing seriously wounded by Apache
indians in Arizona. flames T. Mckibben
and two other men, named Stacey and Lordon
have been arrested at 9andOval ILL.,, for ars1n.
During the pas; year a number of barns and
residences have been fired, and The work has
been traced TO the men under arrest, with
Mckibben os leader. Stacey aud Lordon
have made confessions in which they say tina.
other burniugs were planned, and that
arrangements we're made for the assassination
of several people. McKibbcn IS a labor
agitator. John raruell, T. brother Of the
late Charles Stewart Paruell, arrived at Old
Ironsides, n. j., from West Point, Ga. lie
and his mother will sail for Ireland on
Wednesday ncxL--At Gladstone Mich.
fire destroyed for the 500 road an elevator
-four shed, coal dock and other property
The elevator was worth $40, 600 aud had
from so, 600 to $4,000 bushels of grain lii it.
The flour shed was worth $4,000, and con.
tanned from 5000 to 10000 barrels of flour
The coal dock had six hosting engines, and
was worth $4,000. The engines and 5000
tons of coal went into the water. The prop
erty is all covered by insurance. Near
tranquility, Ohio Isaac Simmons, farmer.
and his wife were bound band and foot by
three men, who plundered tine house, and
secured all the money the old couple had
saved up for number Of years. The amount
will probably reach 5000, The old couple
were afraid of banks and preferred to hide
their money. Earthquake shocks were felt
in Tacoma, Fort Townsend and Olympic,
Wash: no damage.
One train plunged into the rear of another
IN the Lake Shore Railroad at the tunnel at
Toledo, and mother and her two children
kile , and many persons were injured
The wife of Charles I, Leonard was murdered
by Louis Harriet, farm hand, near her
home, at kcyport, n. J.-The Advance
Beneficial Order of Philadelphia, one Of the
short term concerns, made an assignment
Convicts in the Western Pennsylvania Peni-
Tertiary at Pitisburg had dug the tunnel nm
der The prison TO the sidewalk outside, but
were foied in their attempt to escape. -
James S. Wyman mayor of Allegheny, Pa,
was arrested charged with embezzling city
iunds.-A special meeting of the City Coun-
Gil of Omaha, Neb., broke up in a big row, in
which three councilmen severely pounded
IL Il, 10, iba
works of the Joy d Seliger Plush and Novelty
Goods Company at Newark, N. J.-Eugene
Fitzgerald was shot dead at Georgetown KY,
y Alvin Sims, who clerked in the drug store
of an uncle OF his victim. There bad been
an election for county officers, and Fitzgerald
is sal to have been intoxicated. lie stepped
into the drug store and called for a cigar
Sims waited on him, and Fitzgerald refused
to pay for the cigar. He also grabbed the
lighter and struck Sims in the face. Sims
pulled revolver and fired, shooting four
times. --6ieorgc kennan. the lecturer nnd
writer, is suffer ng from nervous prostration
in San FIR ncisco.---By the explosion of MI
aid blast at one of the mines in an Oxford,
pa. furnace, Peter IIankshire was instantly
killed, George Dode was fatally injured and
number of other miners were badly hurt.
The men we're drilling aud struck the old
charge.
William Stcnlli, Pole, was killed by
Pennsylvania Railroad train near Railway,
n. J.-Walter Williams, an engineer ON the
Texas and Paeifc Railroad, was nstantlykiiled
by jumping from his engine while approach
ing burning bridge near Fort Worth, Texas.
- While ont hunting Conductor Mike
Dryer, of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway. was accidentally shot and instantly
killed near Denison, Texas, by his companion,
RoAdmaster Wright. Dryer was from Phla
delphia. 1t is estimated that three million
bushels Of g ain are anoat at BuflaIo.-Mrs.
Anthony Drexel, wife of the head of the firm
of Drexel x Co., died at her country house,
Runnymede, Delaware county, PA
locomotive belonging to the Cleveland, Akron
and Columbus Railroad Company exploded
near Akron, o., and was badly wrecked
The body of Engineer John Byron was found
six hundred yards south of the track, while
that of his fireman, George Parker, was two
hundred feet north. Both had been instantly
killed.-At Beaver Lick, KY, during a
quarrel ct dance Col Carrier was killed,
and Ed. Farrell severely eut.--John Mans
ley was killed, and John Kennedy, both boys,
fatally hurt, by Baltimore and Ohio train at
Chester, Pa.-AlexOnder Moorehead, twenty.
four years DID, shot himself through the
breast at Homer City, Pa, because his brother
married the woman he loved. AT Chicago,
in saloon row, Robert W. Tssker, a laborer,
was shot and instantly killed byI. W. Simon,
q son OF the proprietor. Young Simon claims
that he fred the fatal shot to save his fathers
life. as Tasker was choking him.
WRECKED BY A RAILR0ADER.