Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-27
THE NEWS.


Franc SEQ. Thirteen Chinese were employed
in the match factory. Two of them were
burned TO death. Captain A. d. Yocum, of
Hastings, Neb. shot and killed Myron Van
Fleet for slanderng his daughter.-Two
children of Michael Lynch were burned to
death while the house was on fre.-A train
of the Pennsylvania Railroad killed party
of three young people returning from dance
n ar Braddock. The total taxable real
estate Of Philadelphia for 1891 was $40, 64l,-
167.-John Kaiser. photographer of New
Albany, Ind. in Jealous rage shot his wife,
and after making an unsuccessful attempt to
escape committed suicide.-An incendiary
fire in Malvern, Ark, did $4,000 damage.
Temperance people blew up with dyna-
mite tavern in Newport, Tenn.
big fire in the center of the business por-
ton of New Orleans consumed nearly two
million dollars worth of valuable property.
E B. Turpin, the wealthy Gallatin, (Tenn)
LAWYER who shot and killed VIM. Carter al
that place. was taken to Nashville and jailed.
because of rapidly growing sentiment Iii
favor of lynching him. lie was indicted
for murder in the first degree.-Ihe depot
at North Elizabeth, on the Pennsylvania Raj
road. was burned.-Titiana Tolstoi has sent
letter from Moscow, acknowledging receipt
ofS2 20 from the W. c. I. U. for the famine
sufferers.-The Supreme Court of New Jer-
sey denied new trial to Lingo. the murder
err of Mrs. Lingo.-Three men were killed.
by the overturning of steel converter at
Pittsburg. DR. G. Stanley Hall, in an ad-
dress before the National Educational Associ-
alton, charged that the health of children was
ruined in the public schools.-Three men
we're killed and two others badly hurt in a
mine accident near Plattsburg. j. G.
Shannon, pastor of the Methodist Church at
Newport, Perry county, Pa, was run over by
a horse and fatally injured. A pack of
wolves from Canada has been terrifying resi-
dents in the suburbs Of Buffalo, N. "
The Reading Railroad Company will build
big powder mill on the Moosc Mountains
The Pennsylvania Metallic Cornice Manufac-
turing Company of Wikesbarre, Pa, made
general assignment. Rev. W. q. Lumpkia
Of Chesterfield, Va, ded.-The stockhod-
srs ofthe City National Bank of Norfolk YVES
organized Rev j. T. Shannon, of New
Bloomfield, Pa, was run over and seriously
hurt.--Elihu L lett was burned to death i'll
box car at Crewe, station on the Norfolk
aud Western.
The villagers OF Loretta, in Ontario, killed
pedler because the song they made him sing
was contrary TO their sentiments. Pros
o,ctor Brandt discovered a cavern Of silver
ore in Colorado, for when he refused $780, 900.
Mrs. John Roth, aged thirty-three, Of
Reading, Pa, lost SIS which her husband
gave her to pay a bill, and this so preyed on
her mind that she committed suicide. DR..
John Gimary Shea, the Catholic historian,
lied at Elizabeth, n. J.-In a fight at
dance at Beiden, ILL.,, two men were killed
and others badly hurt.-Garza escaped from
bis pursuers by jumping out of window.
Six sympathizers were captured Black
Iiphtheria broke out near Bellaire, ONT
Mrs. Byrne, of Pottsville, Pa, fell against a
red-hot stove and was burned to death
The steamship Indiana lett Philadelphia with
great cargo of food supplies for the starving
Russians. Library block, at Decatur, Ills,
occupied by the public library and several
manufacturing concerns, was burned; loss
800, 00O.-The visiting Congressman and
diplomats to Chicago visited the Worlds Fair
building. Washington's birthday was cole
brated in New York by number of events.
social and patriotic, and by the Southern So.
ciety by big dinner. Rev. Anthony
S:hmiz an aged priest of Minersville, Pa,
died suddenly aged eghty-six years.
The jury in the case of A. Y. Alice, charged
with the murder of Editor W. C. Bowen, of
LaSalle county, Tex, last June, returned a
verdict of not guity.-It was announced
that the Bossick Mine, at Silver Cliff, Color
ado, had been sold to New York and San
Francisco parties for 81, 900, 900. berry
Turner, a noted outlaw, was MORALLY wound
ed in Middleboro, Ky, while attempting 10
escape capture. lie was then captured and
hanged by his captors. Mexicans show
enthusiasm for the Worlds Fair.-A ball
was given by the American legation in Mexico
In honor of William +. Curtis, the Worlds
Fair Commissioner a delegation com
prising the members of the legislative COM
mttee of the Nationel Grange. Patrons of
Husbandry, was before the House Committee
on Postofices and Postroads, to advocate the
free delivery of mails in rural districts
The congressional rarity started for the Worlds
Fair grounds, in Chicago, on the Baltimore
and Ohio.-A party OF fifteen senators and
representatives let for Bethlehem. They were
invited by the Bethlehem Steel Company to
witness the process of making forgings for
armor and great guns.