Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-12-17
sOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Awaco Tszas cotton compress cen
pressrd $40 bales IN zine hours and Eve
minutes aga nst the Galveston q i.sal bales
in zen hours his heats the world CON
pressing record.
A SuRK occurred a. summerv lie. Ca. II
originated in a liver sble. which was
burned. together with several fne horses. A
large building adjoining, occupied BY the
News, a weekly paper, was also destroyed
The loss !, est mated at SiS00; eOver,d by
insurance
A SPECIAL from Cedar Blun, IA, says:
"A fire broke out in the office Of the Ildus-
trial Free Press, ard the building with CON
tents was destroyed. Several other build
ings were burned The Free Press was
owned by II. Lawrence, and the pant was
valued at 5000 The property was not in
cured
Tue Supreme Court OF Alabama is hear
ing arguments in the celebrated case iuvo
wing the control OF the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad. El-Minister Edward J. Phelps,
cf Vermont, is one of the attorneys present
Owing to this litigation the directors who
served last year are still in office, refusing TO
surren Ter to the board elected by the Nicho
las faction meeting last February. The de.
csion OF the lower court was in favor OF
Nicholson aud his associates, aud IL the SUI
preme Court atfirms the decision il practic-
ally gives the control Of the Mobile and Ohio
to the stockholders.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed
decision involving the validity % an ap-
preparation for he Worlds Far. 1t was
held that the act OF the l. gislature making
the appropria ion and providing for COM
m ssiorers was unconstitut onal and void
The commissioners appoin ed under the pro-
visions Ct the act have already expended
t25, 600 Of their own money, exp citing 10 be
reimbur ed The decision raises an uuex-
pected obstac'e 10 the way Of reiching the
State treasury.
THERE is large vance in the cotton
factory stocks in Augusta Ga. Some OF the
securitie have advan, cd as much as eco a
share In the last two weeks. The big boom
in cotton, " hich is row bringing remarkably
large prices is attributed as the C use Of the
advance OF sock becauss the high price
value OF the staple has n cessitated an in
crease in the prize OF manufactured cotton
goods. 1hs Augusta factory stock has
jumped from 751{ TO Oh. and /, still going
up. King AMI $ bley stocks ar, both up and
very little i offered for sale on the market
DEPUTY Constable Joseph Moultop, while
riding along lonely place ON the levee b MT
at Convert st. James parish, Louisians,
came upon two dead bodies and a fatally
I wounded MAJ, who gave his name az Step
hani Area. he wounded man said he aud
hi. two comp an ons had been induced by
/ four men whom they met in the French mar.
ket to go to st. James parish for worS. At
the point where the bodies were found the
men att c&e Areta and his friend and lett
/ Areta for dead. All were Ita ians The
murderers are suppo ed to belong to the
/ Malta Areta cannot recover.
4 PUBLICATIONS in Savannah, Ga, I'D to
I the fear that there would be trouble in the
near future between the Savanna, Florida
AMI Western Railroad and its engineers. 1t
( is true that Superintendent r. @. Fleming
/ had given no ice of a reduction OF wages on
/ January /. Now, however, the road has do
1 quire the reduction Of wages.
I THE House committee deci ell to make
favorable report on the bill requiring insur-
ance companies TO 5eposit So, 600 State bonds
with the State trtssu or before doing bus.-
ness in South Carolina. Many comp mics
have served not CO that they will abandon
the field.
AT on City, Tenn, Col. Z. Hood, one OF
the leading citizen Of Florence, Ala, fell
between the cars Of moving ore train AMI
was instantly XII d.
The shooting Of Henry Green, who ives
found dea in the road near Johnson City,
Tenn, with istol bullet ia his brain, Is re-
garded as the signal for reopening the Green
Jones war in Han ock county. As a con
sequence Of the feud between ihe two famil-
rs twenty persons have been killed, more
are in the p nitentiary and others have eft
the coun ~.