Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16
THE NEWS.

Captain Mcdonald, Inventor of the whale
back, is figuring on using the whaletack for
war services. LONE, Mich, well-to do
farmers have been arrested on charges of
stealing wheat by the aholessle.-The ex-
press messengers in the Southwest are again
on strike-A stage was held up near River
side, Arizona, and robbed by a lone highway
man.-At Philadelphia, Mrs. Margaret
Donavan, forty-6ve yearsold, who was suffer
ing with the grip, took caholic acid in mis-
take for medicine, and did from the effects of
the poison. Michael Kirwin, of Girard
vile, Pa, was found lying at the Finger
Board" a suburb, dying from the exposure to
the cold. He was about .wenty-eight years of
age, and was dissipated. Kirwin had been
drinking Heavily, and he fell asleep on the
roadside, where he was found by some men,
who carried him into nearbv residence, and
doctor was summoned. The Young man
only lived few minutes. He was froz n to
death. Michael Connors, the two-year old
son of John Connors, who lives in Burlington,
N. j., while playing about the kitchen, where
his mother was engaged in washing upset a
tub of boiling water and was so badly scalded
that he died shortly afterward. The child
was so badly scalded that in emoving his
clothing large pieces of fl; sh fll from the
bones.-The suit of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton Railroad Company against
VIM. r. McKeen was certified Il the Supreme
Court Of the United States in the United States
Court of Appeals. The sum oisSs9, 000 is in
volved in the suit, and three Judges of the
Illinois Court of Appeals unanimously de-
cided that the case was of slch importance
that it should go TO the highes court in the
land at once.
One hundred convicts will be put to work
in the Oliver Springs Mines; Tut an agreement
will be made exc mpting Brieviile from con-
vict labor, and in consideration of this the
miners will declare cessation of hostile feel
ing.--Mrs. Salome Preysert, the Oldest
female member of the Mo avian Church in
America, died of the grip in Bethlehem, Pa.
During trial of the big guns on the
monitor Mianotonomoh, near New York, sew
eral officers of the vessel had Their ear-drums
bursted.-Forty-f Jersey mich cows
per shed in fire on Wilklnsou's dairy farm,
near Roanoke, Va.-While lot of laborers
were thawing out forty sticks of dynamite in
stone quarry near Bellaire, o., the stuff ex-
ploded. and eight men were seriously injured.
The old Cotton Opera House. in Charles
ton, w. Va, was de troyed by fre.-It was
reported from Chicago that the Monon, the
Louisvi lie Southern and the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Geor ia Railroads would be con-
solldated into one lea. railroad system
John Higgs, q SIN OF the late Thomas Higgs,
of Decatur, ILL.,, found alter his fathers death
F45, 700 in cash hid away in corner offs room
in the old frame house. Harry Welsh, con-
duetor, and Peter A. Reinhard and Samuel
Crawford, brakemen, in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, have been
arrested at Lancaster charged with stealing
from the company ut Columbia, and have been
held for court. hecomFany has been heavy
sufferer OF late from petty theits at this point.
Fire in the Louisville and Nashville shops
at Decatur, Ala. caused loss of $40, 00o
The plans submitted for the Carnegie library
building at Pttsburs Ii We been accepted. 1t
will cost 800, 000.-Fire at Jeannette, Pa,
did $4,000 damage. The buildings destroyed
were the Cook block, Dispatch building,
Sowasa & Fink S drug store, and the residences
OF DR.. Hugh Henry ind William Ziegler.
During the fire lamp exploded in Zieglers,
burning three men seri usly. The fire is be-
lieved to have been incendiary. George B.
Dunbar, assistant general passenger agent of
line Burlington Road in Missouri has resigned
and accepted position in the East. South
western Passenger and icket Agent Orr, with
headquarters at Kansas City, will take his
'sition, nd B. John, Kansas City passenger
nd ticket agent will fill the place made
laeant by Mr.. Orr's promotion. Joseph
Clark, representing an English syndicate, has
bought twenty-three, or all but six of the -four
mills in Utah. The transaction involves
1850, 900 for the plants and 1851, 600 for stock
now on hand The company proposes to erect
number OF elevators, and expects to control
the entire wheat crop of the territory. The
GAINESVILLE, Ga, wooden mills have been
totally destrt yed b., fire. The loss is $l00, COO;
no insurance. Two hundred employees are
thrown out of work.-The Syracuse Steel
Works were burned; loss $45 600; insurance
80, O0.-The boiler of large saw mill at
Boiling Ala, exploded, killing Engineer
Cooper and four other employees The mill is
wreck; loss $50, C00.-An explosion of gas
at the Nelson Colliery, Pa, killed Philip
De erts and Paul Grunzie, and injured six
others. The cause of the explosion is not
known-A motion has been made at Denver
for new trial for DIR. Graves -Indi .tment.
have been returned by the deral grant Jury
against William Wright, ex-cashier, and Gil
man, ex-teller of the National Exchange
Bank of Lexington, KY, charging embezzl
ment of $33, 495. w. II. Cheppan, bookmaker,
is indicted asAccessory.
Frank SaIve was Killed in ChIcago by n
train.-Mill property worth $4,000 was
burned at Blue Earth, Mimi 1t is said
that the Reading Railroad Company is
prospecting for q short line between New
York and Atlantic City. Henry S. Gambel,
of Boyertown, Pa, made an assignment of
large roller -four mill and fifteen tracts of
land in Berks and Montgomery counties for
the benefit of his creditors. The liabilities
are $50, o00.-At TiIton, n. H., o. & E.
Morrison's mill was burned; loss SIS, 900;
insurance S11,0 O. An effort will be made
to change the congressional districts in Missis-
sippi.-The Ohio River Railroad Company
has made an offer for the purchase outright of
the Newport News and Mississippi Valley
Railroad Frank Brady, a base ball player,
Of Mount Carmel, Pa, had just accepted
position at a mine for the winter, when & run
away car jumped the track and crushed him
to death.-The First National Bank of
Muncy Pa, was closed, owing TO a shortage
IF about forty thousand dollars.
A BLOODY REVOLT
In the State of chihuahua, MeI--Garza