Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-25
THE NEWS

The marshal Of kentland. Indiana, was
shot and kill Il hy Jack Palmer. The diff
Guilty arose over the t inning of fome trees
on the premises of ralme which had been
ordered done by the town board. Congress
man Bryan, of Nebraska, was renominated'
-WilIiam r. Marin, Of Little Rock, Ark,
president of the White an Black River Rail
road Company, who was stricken with paraiy-
sis in Elreno, at the Hotel Ctdlo, died there.
A grain FIRE starred on the ranch OF o.. L.
Mcnamara. near Morccd, Cal. 1t burned his
grain and that Of NJ. Bohily and ii. Chealey'
seven thousand acres in all. The loss il es-
timated at a hundred thousand dollars. a
disastrous food caused u great deal of damage
Mt the log booms on the Missignoi river in
Vermont.
Fire destroyed over $500, o0o worth Of
property in f. Elizabeth, W. Va. It broke ont
in the Independent Bung Factory. the largest
in the United States, which was destroyed,
with a loss OF $3.50, O0o. The flames spread to
Burns Bros. and Hoffman's works, and they
we're also Observation-Disclosures John LATE
and Harry Knox were killed while trying to
put two men off a train on the Ligonia
Valley, who refused to pay fare.-The
National Convention of Loyal Orangemen,
In convention in Pittsburg, elected officers.
-Afre in French'sstable and the Germanis
Hotel in Boston caused a loss of s25, 000.--
William Henry Painter, who murdered Mrs.
stro p, W. ~ Lanua1 - Vol D. - ~
business houses were destroyed by FIRE in Rich
Hill, No. L2ss, $40, 0O0.-The Gran
Lodge of Elks, in 5 ssion at Buffalo, adjourned
to meet next year in Detroit.-The boiler
manufacturers, in session In Buffalo, refused
to concede the demand for a nine-hours' day
W tn ten hours pay in Boston and Chicago.
Charles Selden read q paper on "Elec-
tricjty and Transportation" before the con-
yention of Railroad Telegraph superinten.
dents in Denver.
Mr.. Enmons Blaine, The general agent OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad i'll Chicago,
and son of cx-S cretary james G.. Blaine,
died in Chic go from blood poisoning, follow
ing Inflammation of the bowels. He had
been ill but u short time, and is believed to
have overworked himself at the Minneapolis
Convention. The news was a great blow to
his father, who heard it at Bar Harbor, and
who sta ted at once for Chicago. }.
B. Morgan. ex-congressman from Mississippi
was shot nj killed on a train near Horn
Lake, Tenn, by Henry Foster, q lawyer,
Nth whom he had had q quarrel. Judge
Morgan ives on his way to the Chicago Con-
ven ion.-Two spans of the Northern Pa
cifc bridge at Ciark's Fork, was burned
John johnson " as hanged by q mob OF Nc
Comb City.-1hc Alaska made an oc an
trip tw enty mimi es faster than the Aurania.
Charles Morton, colored. killed John
Reilly, also colored, in a quarrel over a game
of crap in Chester, Pa.-President Nc
Knight delivered the baccaieureatc sermon
at Pennsylvania Collcge.-Seri us trouble
is cared If an attempt il made TO begin work
At the Minnesota Company's mines i'll Tower,
Wis. Ihc strikers arc despe ate.
ii. l.. LOucSs, OF Huron, vice president OF
the Nato al Alliance, assumed the duties o.
the late president, J.. L. Polk.-Fonr
Italians, who killed their boss in Pedro,
Washington, were lynched.-Onaha 20 ed,
by an overwhelming majority $1,000 in
bonds to aid The n. braska Central Railroad
TO build a bridge across tn Missouri rive-,
and a union depot in Om1h and 100 miles
OF railroad north from Council Bluffs.--Mr.
Fred Eckstein, one of the foremost men in
the American White Lead Combine, met his
death in Cincinnati by falling down the ele-
vator shaft in his new build ng, q distance OF
eight sto-ies.-The Buckeye Cart Works,
in Charleston, W. Va, we're destroyed By
fire, mourning n loss on building, stock and
finished work Of about 50 200; insurance
so, GOETHE Supreme Court of Michigan
sustained the cons nationality of the Miner
Flect;on law.-Joe Wal ace was executed
in Nashville, Tenn, for The murder of Henry
Cole.-Twenty-hve persons were poisoned
in Somerville, N. j., by eating corned beef in
a bad condition.-Naior L. D. I. Wicks, a
millionaire, aged S xty-three years. fell dead
from heart disease, in the presence of his
Young wife, in q Chicago hotel.
Gen. Polavieja, who recently rendered his
resignation as governor general oil Cuba
sailed from Havana, for Spain.--Fire broke
out in the large factory of the Keystone Cigar
Company, and the fumes communicated to
Miller's tin shop, on an adjoining lot, in
Ere Ieiicksburg, Pa. Both buildings were
destroyed The Broadway and Newberg
Electric Street Car Line, in Cleveland, was
tied up by a STRIKE. The men demanded
twenty cents an hour for ten hours work.
The local newspaper train, on the Grand
Trunk Railway. comm, West, ran off the
track, near Hillhurst, Quebec, owing to q
washout. The engineer, fireman and express
messenger were killed. There is also q heavy
washout near Ayers Flats, on the Boston and
Maine Railroad. -Powder in the store Of
W. II. Ryan, at Pa~rmley.ville, KY, was ex-
ploded by lightning, and many persons bad y
hurt.-A pleasure yacht capsized in lake
S. Clair, and two ladies and one man wer
drowned john D.. Rug lies, who killed
Express Messenger Montgomery, was NOR
tally wounded By Sheriff Wykof, who cap
turel him in Woodlan +, Cal.-James X.
Edsell, ex-sttorney general of Illinois. died
in Chicago, suGde:.ly of heart fai.ure.-A
c.oudburst in German Valley did cons der
able damag- to crops and pro2,rty.--Powel
Shriver strangled himself to death in tbs
Wilke, i ARE jail.-Presid en, Burr, of thu
Ssekonk, Mass, Ice Company, was sentences
TO four years in the penitentiHry Tor forgery
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