Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
LATER NEWS.

The Union Railroad station at New
Haven, Conn, was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing loss of over 100000.
THE First Reformed Church Of Albany
N. Y, celebrated its 250th anniversary.
CAPTAIN ANDERSON and a sailor Of the
schooner Charles C. Dame were drowned at
Mount Pleasant, in Charleston Is. CT Har-
Dor, by the capsizing of small boat.
AT Chicago ILL.,, Frank Ives defeated
Jacob Schaefer at fourteen-inch balk line
billiards, by score of 800 to 400. Ives is
now champion of the world.
LORD SALISBURY has sent communica-
ton to this Government in reply to the note
of Acting Secretary Wharton, OF the State
Department, requesting a renewal of the
modus vivendi for the protection of seal life
in Boring Sea during the coming season.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
NETTLEToN has instructed immigration Off
GERS that ''tubercle of lung being clasSed by
the medical authorities as a dangerous con-
tagious disease, the law absolutely prohibits
the landing of aliens suffering from that dis
ease"
SENATOR HILL of New York, returned to
Washington from his Southern trip. Dis
trict Attorney Ridgway. of Brooklyn, and
Assistant Adiutant General McEwan, OF
Albany. N. Y, accompanied him.
QUEEN VICTORIA left Windsor Castle and
at onca proceeded to Costebelle in the south
of France, where two hotels had been en-.
gagged for the royal parry during their pro-
posed five weeks stay.
WHEN the American steamship Missouri,
loaded with Americas gift of grain to the
starving Russian peasants, passed up the
harbor of Libau she was greeted with loud
and enthusiastic cheers. Crowds lined the
jetties. Greek priests went on board and
held thanks giving service, which conclud-
ed with the formal and impressive ceremony
of blessing the shin.
MRS. CHRISTIAN ALsEN, wife of the keeper
of lakewood Cemetery, Troy, N, Y, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself ton rung
of ladder placed against one of the ceme
terry vaults. She was insane from the grip.
THE Standard on Trust has been dissolved
in New York City, by vote of the stock.
holders. The leaders and originators of the
Trust, however, will continue to be the chief
directors of the companies which composed
the Trust.
The gainesville Ohio, Savings and Loan
Association Bank closed its doors. Angry
depositors threatened violence.
HEAVY snow storms prevailed in Iowa
and Illinois.
LAMsoN BROTHERS & Co., a leading
Board of Trade firm of Chicago, H., are
losers to the extent of $4,000 to s6), 90 by
the populations of employees. The firms
cashier and bookkeeper were in collision.
THE explosion Of gasoline stove used to
heat water in the baptismal font in church
at Manning, Iowa, wrecked the font and set
fire to the clothing of the minister, the Rev.
Mr.. Boles burning him fatally.
AT meeting of the full board of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, William R.
Morrison was elected Chairman to fill the
vacancy made by Judge Cooley's resignation.
THE Presiders has made the following
nominations: dilo A. Jewett, of Massachu-
sets, United States Consul at Sivas; Samuel
| L. Overstreet to be Register of the Land
Office at Guthrie, Oklahoma; Deforest d.
Leach, Register of the Land Office at Okla
homa, Oklahoma.
The price of $.S9S7 per Dunes, paid by
the Government the other day for silver, is
the lowest figure at which the Government
has ever purchased the metal. At this figure
the silver dollar is worth 69>z cents in gold.
A DISPATCH from Hyeres, France, an
nounces the death there of Louis Cartigny,
aged 101 years. He was the last French
survivor of the memorable naval battle in
the Bay of Trafalgar, on October 81, 1905,
| IN which the British feet defeated the COM
bined fleets of France and Spain, and in
which Lord Nelson was killed.
THE Bar Sylvan McDongal was blown
ashore on the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia,
and five of her crew drowned.
THE House of Commons by a unanimous
vote has expelled George Woodyat Hast
ings, recently convicted of embezzlement Of
| trust moneys
SEVERAL of the members of Balmaceda's
Congress admitted to bail at Santiago.
| Chila, are in such a wretched condition
through prison abuse that their lives are
despaired Of.
| COUNT Won ZEDLITz's resignation from
the Privy Council has been accepted by En-
peror William of Germany.
liz accordance with the decision Of the
Miners Federation, nearly all the 300 1000
British coal miners who quit work on the
| 18th inst. have resumed work.