Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-04-11
THE NEWS

The gas works at 81. Augustine, Fla, we.e
destroyed by Ere and the engineer and fire.
man had narrow escapes. Reed, Of
the United STATES Court. at Pittsburg, has
appointed receiver for the Columbia Iron
and Steel Company, whose liabilities are
100000. While no official announcement
has yet been made, it is understood that
Germany has raised the embargo on American
pork.--A number of operators in the coke
region have notified the sheriff that they will
start up their works and ask protection. Two
leaders of the mob at Morewood have been
artested.-The New York State Senate
passed the bill appropriating 100000 for the
Worlds Fair.-Edwin Eberman, lumber
dealer, failed at Lancaster, Pa, for nearly
100000. Nine Italians were burned in
fire at Rochester, Pd.-The Telephone
Company at Albany lost $4,000 by fire.
The pudding department of the Pencoyd
Iron Works, at Philadelphia. shut down
John l.. Gonsawlis, OF West Liberty Pa, was
found dead with bullet hole in his head
The watermelons in Georgia have been in.
jured by the frost-A policeman shot and
killed in Chicago Edward Mahoney, a laborer.
and dangerously wounded John Monahan.
THE Delaware mine in Idaho was sold to
Englishmen for s475 000-Frost injured
vegetables in Alabama.-MissL Lizzie Rogan
was elected member of the fire department
Of Birmingham, CT.
Smith, Blast & Co., shoe dealers of st. JOS
eph, Mo, closed with stock 7alued at $780,
000.-H. 7. Jefferson, United States attor
ney for the District of Arizona, died in Tue
son,-Dissoution Of the Pittsburg Oil Ex-
change is predicted.-Mrs Nicely, the
mother of the young men hanged for murder
at Lancaster, Pa, is raving manaic.-A
special meeting of the executive council OF
the Irish National League was called to con-
slider the question Of endorsing Parnell.-
Ward Demaree, of Bloomington, H., murder
ed his mother and suicided.-A syndicate
composed OFF. D. Armour and several other
cattle kings, have boughtS0, 900 head of cattle
in Texas.-A storm at Springfield, Mass, and
vicinity did great damage to the telegraph
wires.-The breaking of reservoir bank at
St Mary's, Ohio, caused considerable damage
to the Erie road.-Albert W irving, an At
lantc City police justice, was arrested in
Philadelphia, charged with embezzlement
The Waysry Oil Works at Pittsburg were
burned Loss sl5)000.--A severe storm
swept through New England -Secretary
Proctor has gone to San Francisco.
Mexican bandits, charged with being robbers
of mai ear, were arrested in Texas.-A
man named Guy Mayberry was lynched near
Bryant Station, Tenn.-Preparatio are
making to move ON The Omaha lands April
17th.-The French man-of-war Naiad is at
New orleans.-The billappropriating $780,
900 to the Ann Arbor (Mich.) University has
been tabled in the Senate Thomas Gads-
den committed suicide at Savannah on his
daughters grave.-The remains of the wife
of Senator Faulkner were buried at Martins
burg The international Monetary Com
mission adjourned at Washington without
agreeing on uniform unit between gold and
silver.--Thc gunboat Bennington has met
the contract requirements.
John 0, Sonbergh, collector of taxas ofClcr-
mont, Pa. is charged with being a defaulter
for 81 ,0J0.-George Hoover, editor of the
Orange county, n. Y. Times, was fatally shot
by Jams MeNatcs. new cruiser,
Charleston has been ordered to Hawaii, and
the cruiser San Francisco to Chil.-Honor-
ably discharged soldiers and sailors of the
army and navy will form national urganiza.
tioh 10 be known as the United States Regular
Army ana Navy Yeterans.-The funerals
Of the coke strikers, killed in the attack ofthe
mob upon the works took pace at Mt. Pleas.
ant, and, owing to the presence of the state
troops, there was no disturbance. Labor lead
ers state that the strikers are literally sup.
piled with funds and the struggle will be CON
tinued.-Elward Ho!linger, negro pugilist
of Jersey City, murdered his wife by crush
ing her head with hsichet.-Judge viii,
lam B. Wood died at Florence, Ala. aged
seventy-one years.-The tug Tempest, own
ed by the Cleveland Saw Mill Company, sunk
in Lake Erie, and the engineer, fireman ard
raftsman we're drowned. Leading astrono-
mers and scientists connected with the colleges
and universities of the United States will ask
Congress to transfer the control ofthe National
Observatory at Washington from the Navy
Department to the hands of scientific and
astronomical board.--Fire in Memphis
Tenn, destroyed the franklin Hotel aud
other buildings.