Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-20
Th1 NEWS.

ously. Jones, NuO nhu lalu IN Wall, lhldliy
beat the woman as she was returning from a
fr ends, using a eouping-pin and then a
knife. The woman died. Jones csc tped.-
The firm Of John Calder & Co., and D. L.
Calder, of New Orleans, Individually, who on
May o. 1891, asked respite of their creditors,
filed proceedings making acession.,of property
10 their creditors. -The Office of Reinoehl &
Nultry, in Lebanon, Pa, was entered by burg
lars and two safes were blown open. The
thieves we're frightened away before they
secured anything. A. Olive, of Red Bluff,
Ark, killed his stepdaughter.- Nc.
Govern, aged twenty-seven, was fatally in
jured, and David Sill. aged fourteen, was dam
gerously hurt, at Cramps shipyard by an iron
plate they were hosting falling upon them
VIM. Sexton, for many years superintendent
OF the Gloucester Iron Works, and well-known
in the iron trade, dropped dead at his home
in Camden. He was about fifty-fye years old.
An ice-gorge in the Allegheny river threat
ems the inundation of Parker, the old oil town.
Henry II. Yard was indicted by the grand
jury in the UnitediStates District Court, Phila-
delphia, on the charge of aiding and abetting
Gideon W. Marsh, president OF the Keystone
National Bank, in embezzling the funds of
that institution. Miss Florence Springer, of
Goshen, N. j., is seriously i'll from hiccoughs
brought on by excessive laughing. Filth
Simcox, aged eleven, and her nine-year-old
brother, while skating on the Susquehanna
river, at Suabury, Pa, fell into q hole and
were drowned. committee on reorgani
! u,
pleted its work, and it is likely that new
company will be formed with capital of $3.50.
900, 600 common and $4,000, 000 preferred
Stockholm Appleby, a prominent resident
| of Wilmington, Del, died at the age of eighty
years-One of the largest mills OF the Dob
sons carpet manufacturers, Philadelphia, was
destroyed by fire. Loss $50. 000.-The
/ coroner jury has concluded its investigations
as to the cause of the accident at Auroran, on
the Lehigh Valley, in which Milo Smith,
brakeman, of Ithaca, was killed by a snow
pillow. Frederick Daniels, engineer, and John
Eggleston, conductor of the snow-plow, are
found guilty of criminal negligence, and will
be prosecuted for manslaug hter.-Alonzo
I c. Lamar, prominent window glass manu-
faeturer of Woodbury., N. j., and Philadel-
phia, failed. Executions against him to the
extent of$20, 900 have been filed. His factory
I here and large warehouses in Philadelphia
have been seized by the sheriff. Mr.. Lamar
saws that his assets will amount to $50 900, and
that he can pay all his debts ifallowed to con-
tinue his business. George Green, the million
aire patent medicine manufacturer, has offered
| to go Mr.. Lamar's security.
The British steamship Bresive, bound TO
Baltimore put into New York in distress
/ The Hotel Royal fire, in New York city, origi'
mated in the elevator shaft from the candle OF
the night engineer, who, probably, isnited
leak in the rubber gas-pipe, while making his
inspection round. THE town of Eliz lbeth,
Pa. was nearly destroyed by FIRE, dozen
buildings being burned, and many persons
making narrow escapes. Owing to con
tinued depression in the iron trade, the Chesa-
peake Nail Works and the pudding depart.
ment OF the Central Iron Works at Harrisburg,
Pa, shut down indefinitely, throwing three
men out of work.-A boiler supplying the
Indicating apparatus in a Philadelphia
residence, exploded fatally scalding two men.
The stables of the Norfolk City Railroad
were destroyed by fire; loss, s35, 0O0.-Lewis
Miller, who had been discharged from brew
cry at Murphys boro Ill, shot and killed
Joseph Schill. the superintendent, who had
dismissed him.--Elves Pardue, n young
farmer of Portland, Tenn, and his wife were
found on the floor of their bed-chamber with
their throats cut.--0he hundred and forty
Cinnamon in San Francisco forfeited their
bail, which is uncollectabe. -The grand
Jury of Jackson, Tenn, has found true bills
against n. s. White and ], W. Theus, presi-
dent and cashier of the defunct Bank of
Madison, whiche suspended in September,
I890.-Bulk Wilkersou was found guilty Of
the murder of his wife, in Heton, Texas.
There ere two other charges on the docket
against him, one for murder and one for inc st.
Fire destroyed the buildings on Railroad
avenue, owned by Maxfeld & Currer, dealers
in lumber; partly occupied by them.-A
mob in Alabama took fire. iends from their
guards and lynchel them john MalIoy, of
Toledo, killed his wife and himself Mrs.
Gregory, widow, was making soap, at We'll
ford, S c., when her clothing caught fire.
Mrs Gregory sister went to her assistance,
and both ladies were burned to death. Mrs.
Gregory leaves three hi,dren and her sister
leaves sIx.--Maytown, Lancaster county, Pa.
is terribly scourged with diphtheria, thirty
new cases having developed in two days. The
public school has been closed.
Johg l., Paterson s farm. house, at Agincourt,
Ont, was burned The family barely escaped
in their night dress S from the burning build
ing, and not single article of clothing or
furniture was sared.-John Mitchell, aged
fourteen, was killed near his home, Lost
Creek, Pa. in attempting to board passenger
train.-Thomas Butcher, of Camden, an
employee of the Camden AMI Atlantic Rail-
road, while unloading carload of iron was
instantly killed by u bar Of iron falling on his
head. His body was removed to the Camden
morgue. A. Bruins, president of the
tuied Merchants Bank, of Moorhead, MINI.
has been arrested on the charge of deirauding
the depositors out of $50, 000.-S. J. Burns
& Co., proprietors OF the st. Joseph Oatmeal
Mills, have failed. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets, $50, 000.-Dr. Lyman Hall died in
Champaign, ILL.,, aged seventy-four. lie was
one of the organizers of the Society of Sur
viving Surgeons of the Civil War. The
Greensville, Miss, bank made a settlement
with its creditors. Flores and VIC
torno Lopez, alleged Cara sympathizers.
were arrested by United States deputy mar
shas.-Bob Sisomore was killed by three
men in Clay county, Va.-Charles Vogel,
German, twenty five years old, shot and killed
himself in the Broad Street Station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. While forging a
red-hot ingot into an srmor plate on the 125-
ton steam-hammer, ia the ordnance depart
ment Of the Bethlehem tPa.) Iron Works, the
chain attaching the ingot to the overhead
travelling crane broke, causing the bar to
which the ingot was fastened, to break, pieces
of which struck four of the workmen, one OF
whom, James McIIugh, aged twenty-five
years, was fatally injured. a footpad way
laid Henry Vetter, a wealthy business man OF
Altoona, Pa, aud struck him with coupling
pin. He was scared of, however, before he
could rob His victim. Vetter's condition is
critical. It is feared his skull is fractured.
FOUND DEAD IN THEIR CABIN.
a Kansas Family Supposed to Have Been
Murdered by Robbers.