Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-17
THE NEWS.

directors of the Manhattan Elevated Rail
way Company declared the regular quarter
II dividend of 1-2 per cent.-fhe Seaside
House, at Rockaway Bach, owned by
Wainwright and Remsen, was destroyed by
fire. Loss SIS, 000.-The Quebec Council
established ten-days quarantine for all
vessels from infected ports Passengers
on the Labrador complain of inadequate ac-
commoda ions and want of the nece saries
of life at Crosse Isle.-The Parkin Lumber
Company's mills, dry kilns storage sheds
and electric light plant, in Lindsay, O., were
burned Loss $50, 600; insurance 81, 000-
An electric car accidenti in st Louis resulted
in the death of six persons, aud the injury of
many others.-The twenty-frst annual
convention of the National Board of Steam
Navigation opened in the Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York. A resolution endorsing the
Nicaragua Canal scheme was adopted.
Dr. F. A. n. Koch, a prominent physician
of Hanover, Pa, died.-The Virginia
Portsmouth Baptist Association began its
annual session in Shiloh Baptist Church,
Petersburg, Va.-A passenger trainon the
Illinois Central, near Lincoln, ILL.,, was thrown
from the track and twelve persons injured
The Southern Ice Machine Company, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, assigned, naming T. F.
/ Stewart as assignee. Liabilities $50, 900; as
sets $3.50 600 Its officers say it is hut a
| temporary embarrassment-M Mrs Eugenia
| Sheriff. and Emma Austin, died in Louisville,
| KY, from arsenical poison caused by eating
ice cream.-John Greenleaf Whittier was
buried at Anlesbury, Mass.-The great
rag warehouse of Joseph Joseph, on Harrison
avenue in Cincinnati, has been de troyed by
fire. Loss s150,0O0 Burnetts furni uro
factory, adjoining has also been damaged.
The steamship May arrived in Mobile,
Ala, with yellow fever.--The American
Bobbin, Spool and Shuttle Company, which
assigned several months ago, has been petit
toned into insolvency by the Durham Bobbin
and Shuttle Company Reading has re
Gently been flooded with spurious silver dol
lars The police arrested Linda Myer and
Annie Miller, who say that they came from
Chicago, with large amount of cash ard
thirty bogus silver dollars in their posses
STOP. They were sent to .iail.--General L.
J 49, 'Nos"toi1 pho VI liAt COMMISSION"
ers of Alabama, lied at his home in ITALIA
/ dega. He was seventy-six years of age. He
/ often represented his county in the legis'a,
/ ture, and was frequently a delegate to "a
/ tional Democratic conventions. For years
he was the Alabama member of the National
| Committee He will be buried in Mobile.
| lone bandit robbed the Wichita and Lit.
Tie hock Express, near Kansas City.-A
wholesale delivery occurred in Chattanooga,
| 'lghteen prisoners escaping. Among them
we're three condemned murderers-Bud Cor
ION, John Massengale and Nose Broader, the
latter olored.-The St. Louis Exposition
OF 1872 opened for forty days run with an
attendance of rs, 600 persons. THE British
Dark Salina returned to Philadelphia from
/ we Arctic seas, but brought no things Of the
Aite or Perry's expedition Thirty two
swedish enligrants from Liverpool were
/ luarantined at the Canadian 500. The
directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee. and St
raul railway Company declared a dividend
Of two per cent. on the common stock and
! three and a-half per cent. on the preferred.
/ -Rev. j. E. Julian committed suicide at
Leesourg, %la.-Fire destroyedJ F. Budd's
shoe factory and eight dwelln- houses adioin-
/ ing in Burlington, N Tho factory was
ulled with stock, and the loss is SO, 900. The
loss on the dwellings is $4,000. Partially in.
sured.-During circus parade in Mays
vile, KY, atrainer was torn to death by a
nger, In whose cage he was riding The
large barn of Francis Seidel, in Windsor
township, near Reading, Pa, was destroyed
oy hre, and his daughter who was on top of
the strawstack, made narrow escape
Washington and Lee University, at Iexng-
ton, Va, was opened with the largest attend
ance IN five years. An open switchlock
caused the wreck of a freight train, and En-.
glneer w S. Ferguson was burned to death
Tho poet Whittier in his will loft instruc
tions that his funeral should be conducted n
the plain and quiet way Of the Society of
Friends. Later repor s from the collision
on the Cambria and Clearfeld Railroad, show
that nine men were kill, d, instead of seven,
Us at first reported The ma ority of them were
Italians. Engineer Yoder and Fireman Dunn
OF the work train, whose neglect of orders is
! supposed to have caused the wreck, disap-
| peared after the accident.-More than two
thousand workers in the lumber mills of
/ Marinetti, Wis, went on strike-A COM
mittee of the employees of the Reading Rail
road held a conference with President Nc.
Leod and other officials in reference to the
I blanks issued applicants for employment
asking them if they are members of a labor
organization, and, if SO, wild they withdraw
and refuse to support or belong TO any labor
. organization, and also if they are willing to
join the Philadelphia and Reading Relief
Association.-Th qua r,n ulsr hanging
that was to have taken place at Spartan
burg, 5. c., was converted into dual one by
Governor Tillman ordering to respite for
thirty days for John Williams, the SLAYER of
Mayor Henneman, and Milbry Brown. tho
chill murderer. Andy Jeferies and Adam
Foster, two twenty three year-old colored
men, expiated their crimes of murder ON the
gallows within the enclosure of the Jail ward
In the presence of only the few men that the
law permits.--An unsuccessful ATTEMPT
was made to rob the express car of the Santa
4 Fe express at Wharton, in the Cherokee
Strip.-The large modern barn on the
farm OF Seth PancoaSt, near Media, Pa, was
destroyed by fire, together with the season. S
crop and farm implements. Brigands shot
down the guards and Bank Agent Charlie.
Martes near Durango, Mexico, and removed