Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-02
THE NEWS.

| Jackson Park on the Electricity Building,
and from now on The double force of men will
be employed. -Everett Townsend, of the
| firm of Townsend and Grahl, manufacturers
| of hat bands in New York, assigned to Abram
| S. Townsend, with preferences for s. $780,
| Col w. Hayes Grier, of Columbia, Pa, was
| appointed superintendent of public printing
| in Pennsylvania, in place of Major Barton ID.
| Evans. OF Westchester. BERNARD Bisehof,
! in trying TO sop Jacob Heck and Jacob
| Elder from iormenting an old man in Phila-
| delphia, got into quarrel and stabbed both
men, inflicting serious wounds. -Frank X.
! Draeger shot end fatally wounded Mrs. Ii. o.,
/ Flick, of Cleveland, O., whom he charged, had
| hypnot zed him. deputy Sheriff Floyd
slusher was killed in Leslie county, Ky, by
| the Brown brothers. He had LEVIED on their
| property, and this incensed the Brown broth
| ers to murder. -0hio's secretary of state
/ Daniel J. Ryan, has rendered his resignation
to Governor Mckinley, in order to accept a
POSITION as World g Fair commissioner. 1t is
thought his chief clerk, Mckinney, will be
appointed to succeed him.--Abraham Cooley
Michigan farmer, cut his wife's throat and
his own.-John B. Morse, of Providence
shot and killed himself.--Henry King,
while trying to burglarize store in Steuben-
Vile, Ohio, strangled himself-Rev. VIM
Lane, Presbyterian missionary, in Brazil
died.
Nine men were terribly burned, four OF
them fatally, by the turning over of con-
yertor filled with molten metal, in the Car
negie mill, at Homes.ead,, PA decree
was fled in the United States Court, at
Charleston, S. c., directing the railroads in
that stale to pay into court the amount OF
taxes on the old assessments, and ordering the
clerk of the court to turn the money over to
the state. The Norfolk, Wilmington and
Charleston Railroad Company was incorpor-
ated and organized at Charleston, with A. A.
Gaddis as president. In quarrel over
butcher bill, at Somerset, Ky, Jesse Davis
was shot and killed by Robert Ethridge,
Davis wife and children witnessing the
shooting. A little daughter of William
Taylor. at East Union, Ohio, died from the
sting ola rsttlesnake.-The Wyoming NJ.
E. Conference in session at Nilkesbarre, Pa,
voted against the admission of Women
The Reading Railroad Company has shut
down the Jersey central's shops at Ashley
Planes throwing seven hundred men out of
work.-George Hutchns, farmer, who be-
lieved in the Henry George theories, left his
entire estate, valued at $50, 900 to that cause.
His widow only received her legal dover.
She contested the will, and her money aud
the entire estate. was finally expended in law
yers' charges, and the widow is now in the
poorhouse. A. Leak, president of the
Bank of New Hanover, at Wadesboro. N. c.,
died at the age seventy years.-Walt Whit
man, the poet, died at his home In Camden.
N. IA detective employed as o night
watchman at stove factory in Blissville, l..
l., was murdered by strikers.-Frederick
A. Thompson, aged thirty-two years wanted
in New Haven, Conn, for forging checks to
the amount of 900, was arrested in New
York.-Henry Albinger shot his brother
John at.Nogardore, Ohio. then blew his own
head off.--Barney White who took part in
a lynching in Georgia was convicted of muir.
der.
South Dakota delegates to the Republican
Convention were instructed for HARRISON
The American National Bank, of Birmng-
ham, has gone into liquidation The bank
originally had n capital Of $780, 900, which
was to large extent, loaned out on securi-
ties that deprecated in value, and not long
since it threw out its worthless securities and
scaled its stock down to S12o, 000.-Execu-
'ors for s135, 600 were entered in Allentown,
"a, against the Lehigh Iron Company. Stag
aafion in trade and the recent break in prices
| are the causes assigned for the embarrassment
/ 81 the eompany.-The Supreme Council
Royal Templars of Temperance elected Off
| GERS.
Engineer A. E. Leighley and Fir man J.
W. Keller on q west bound train on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad, near Bonham,
Tex, were killed by collision with an engine
The government approaching the services
81 Chief Redstone, Of the Assinab oine tribe,
I mas paid his way to, Chicago for treatment for
cataract.--A tin-manufacturing concern
/ will be opened at Duluth. Max Phillips. a
st. Louis musician, who Is under hallucina-
ton that people are going to kill him, cut
himself In twenty places and will probably
Tho courthouse at ST. Charles, No.,
was destroyed by fire. with all its records
! 1t is now reported that Sheriff Dunn, of
Seward county Ill.,, was not murdered by a
mob organized to kill Judge Botkin, but by
his own deputies for the money he possessed.
Hey. John Temple, of Evansville, Ind,
has been sentenced to seventeen years in the
peuitentiary for the murder of Warren GRAY.
who was acting as peacemaker between
Temple and his Wife.-A fire swepttDunlap
Island, Miss, loss S25, 000.-Henry Smith
was hung at Louisville, KY. His crime was
the murder Of his employer, Louis Specht.
January is, tS9L-Burglars made an attack
on the house of James Taylor, at MeKeesport,
Pa, and roughly handled the daughters, one
of whom will probably die from the shock
The burglars wer, frightened of.-John
Mckirdy, auditor of Allegheny, has been put
under arrest on the charge of selling feed to
the city while serving as city councilman
! A Chinese steward of the ship Annie NJ.
Staple, of Boston, committed suicide because
plot with the Chinese cook to kill the
captain and his wife had failed. Before
killing himself the steward hacked the cook
! up with a sharp knife The Yuntic Ct,
| postoffics robbed and suspicious character
is under arrest.-The railroads have con-
ceded the demand of the Birmingham iron
masters for reduced rates on pig-iroD to points
4 north of the 0hio.--Mrs. Henry Lards, wife
! of the turnkey Of the county Jail at Adrian,
Mich, was fatally burned while clean.ngta