Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-11-05
The NEWS.

NIT street, Brooklyn. NJ chael Waters and
Edward Gilson deckhands and William
Butt were fatally scalded.-Tke two upper
stories of Daniel Bacon's candy factory ard
warehouse, il Read ng Pa, were partially
destroyed by fire. Goo work of the fire.
men prevented the destruc ion of the entire
establishment Loss about six thousand
DOL S; fu ly insured. ~ he plant of tho
Haverlord Electric Light Company, at
Haverford, Pa, was destroyed by fire, to-
gether with the company's stable, and the
S able owned by H. f. Bruner, and accu,
pied by Smedley Bros The Electric Light
ComI any loses twenty-five tn .usand dollars;
insurance ten thou. and do lars. B uner s.
10 on his stable is five Thousand dollars:
fully ms ued.-The Pennsy vania declared
a sem-annual dividend of three per cent. -
The Star Tn atre, in Cleveland, was set on
ire by an inceniiary. Pet Sweeney, of
Philadelpha a, was sentenced to twelve years
IN state prison for causing the death Of his
vile, by brutaIly beating her.
While waking on the railroad track at
Akron, O., W. ]. Golden and Robert U.
Conley were struck by train a killed.
Coney was single man. Golden, who was
his brother-in-law lived in Roanoke, Va
A wreck oecIrr d on the Norfolk and West
ern Railre ad near p;sIutan:a Station. -Four
tie IL frei 5ht cars and lccomot yes were badly
W ecked. Two or thr, men were injured,
and white tramp was killt d. Mountain
fifac CT
The outh makes the matter all the more
serious The Sc uyibill Coal Ex hanse,
i / calculating the wages of miners and labor
ELS of the SchuylkIll Ies ion for last half Of
October and first half OF November have
fixed the rate at Ell hit per cent. above the
- so basis. This is an advance of two per
cent. over last mon his wages.-Mr Mary
B. Morrow, while imam, killed her old
mother. - Grunewald Hall on Baron sire ct,
near CANA, in New Oriean was burned.
Les 500, 600; insurance $40, 900. A number
ofperson3 who occupied rooms on the fourth
floor were re cued by the firemen.-A. R.
McGown & Co., wholesale not ons, Phia-
a1elphia, madeana signm nt.-1he Rome
Rolling Mill Rome, Ga, went into the bapds
of recaiver.-Wi liam Root, of Elzabe h
n j., found the sandw ches in his lunch
basket sprink ed with broken g.ass and he
chars es his wife with designs on his life.
Armed With big knife, James Langdon,
a desps ra e convict attacked Patrick Lynch
an employe at the county Jail in Sunbury,
Pa Both are Of powerful physique, and
desperate battle was fought. Lynch was
stabbed a half dozen times, and VIII die
Henry Poffenberg was struck by small bag
thrown from train at Railway, N. j., and
died from his injuries. -Several trainmen
were badly hurt in a wreck On the Reading,
near Birdsboro. A number of persons
were killed by a runaway car in Hunting
don, Pa.-A collision of two freight II aims
on the Wabash river bridge, of the Big Four,
broke the bridge span and pile two engines
aud dozen cars into the va er, with an en-
gineer underneath. Hartnett Of
Phla6e phia, who PLEADED guilty to the
murder of his IN ress, Mary s, lies, wa
sentenced to tea years Imprisonment in tire
penitentiarv. Michael Kane and wife
we've instantly killed by their carriage being
struck by Blue Line hyer at Chester, Pa.
"A fire that started in oil store de-
stroyeI several blocks Of property in Mil
wauk e and caused a damage exceeding 500
000-At the meeting of the Humane so
cisty, in Pal adelphia, the voc was tie on
the resolution to condemn v.vIsection, and
the president ca tbs deciaing vote in the
affirmative.
The oyerseer of the poor at Atlantic City,
In examining the papers of an aged German
physician recently found starving to death
there, discovered that the woman's right
name was DR.. Antoine Won Selnitz, whose
husband had been an officer in the Prussian
army and connected with the diplomatic
corps. He also found an insurance policy
for $1,000, issued by ladies' branch of
Knights of Pythias lodge of Philadelphia.
-Four New Hampshire Iron Hall lodges
voted to join the reorganized order.-Cal-
iery JUNCTION, on the Pittsburg and West
ern, was wiped out by fire A terrific gale
ON the lakes caused consi 'erable damage
among the vessels in the vicinity of Cleve-
land.-The will of John H. Ripney offered
for probate in Philadelphia, makes proyis.
ion for several institutions in Frederick
Judge Reed dismissed the application made
in Philadelphia fol- receiver for the order
CT the Tonti, and required the plaintiff to
give security for cost i.-Prof. Franciulli
of New York, has been appointed leader of
the United States Marine Band at Washing
ton. -Manton s. Watkins, of the grain
firm of Watkins B; os., of Kokomo, Ind
was ARE ted on the charge of grand lar
ceny.-Clarence Bruner, commercial
traveller, wa, killed by falling from an ex-
press train near Evansville Ind He had
$4,000 insuranc on his life, part of which
was accident insurance taken out for that
trip.-Jam R. Bartlett, a survivor of tbs
Jeanette Attic expedition, whose mind has
been weak for some time, shot and killed bis
wife's niece, wounded his vile. AMI ther
committed su 'eide.