Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-19
THE NEWS.

Waltar Snyder, of Tifin, 0aio, while in an
Insane fit, shot f. Naylor, Burt c. ebsugh and
Thomas Downey j. +. Conley, of
Chattanooga Tenn, committed suicide. -
There was disastrous FIRE in Daubury, Ct,
the loss being between S75, 600 and 100000.
-Anderson's gun store, in Fort Worth,
Texas, was burned. Stock was valued at
$4,000, and insured for $4,000; the build
ing, valued at $4,000 and insured for $500
In quarrel in Lancaster, Pa, James Sellers
stabbed Frank Daily in the breast, inficting
probably fatal wounl. The men are cattle
drivers and both had lost an arm.-The
body of David Boyer, who had been missing
from his home in Newport, Tenn, was found
in cave near that city, and his son was ar
rested on suspicion
Arrangements have been made for tn,
annual meeting Of HE Association of Military
Surgeons in st. Louis. Lindsay A. Bennett
Of Atlantic, Ia, shot his wife and himself
Ross Locke was acquitted in Vandalia,
H., OF murter.-Tne elevator and mills Of
the Sergeant Milling Company, in Joplin,
Mo-, were burned TO the ground. A colored
girl in Rayville, La, who had tried to poison
whole family, was lynched. John Lyon,
alias Harry Hines, has been arrested in
Chicago charged with passing FIVE, ten and
twenty dollar counterfeit bills TO large
amount, and the Treasury officials believe he
is one of gang which has been working ex
tensively of late in that and other Western
cities and towns. Philadelphia NJ. f,
Conference voted against the admission OF
wom"n delegates TO the General inference
Frank d Laubach, jewelers. of Akron,
Ohio, have failed with liabilities reachingtc
S50,001 .-As a cart loaded with stone was
ntering the Jail yard at New Castle, Del,
Jour shorttermed prisoners, employed at the
stone pile, made dash through the open gate.
One was knocked down by piec. of rock,
thrown by warden and recapured, The
others escaped.-At the railroad station,
Milford, bel, four stores, carriage factory
and blacksmith shop were burglarized. In
The station and stores safes were blown up.
The burglars got away with about 5000
Charles O5hler, fell from the top of tele-
graph pole in Wilmington, Del-Mrs. Jane
Youngln died in Norristown, Pa, of starva-
iion.-The bodies of Miss Annie Belle Med.
ley, J. A. Medley and Felix Burdette, who
were drowned near Peerless, W. Va, were
drou ned.--The fail of an elevator in St
Louis killed three men and badly hurt two
boys.
The works of the Colville & Collins Norway
Bolt Company in Pittsburg. were burned to
the ground. The loss on building, machinery
and stock is at least 800, 000-Alf Morrow.
deputy sheriff in Texas; killed John Fulfor
who tried TO kill prominent farmer
James p Freese. prominent Mormon, was
arrested for unlaw full hab:taton. -Tom. A.
Gaffney, in jail in Fort Dodge Iowa, for
numbering Ed Buggy, tried to commit suicide
3 by battering his bead against The iron bars of
the eaye. Doctors say he will de.---In at
tempting 10 GRO Red river, in Texas, the
team of VIM. Briseoe took fright and three
OF Briscoe's children were drowned, the wife
and eldest child and Briscce getting safe
ashore.-A fire at Bloomfield, Iowa, laid
waste the entire south side of the public
square, including the opera house and many
fine store buildings. The loss Will probably
reach 5000 000.-The cries of a baby awsk.
ened family in a New York flat in time to
save themselves from Robert Taylor,
serving a five years term for burglary, es-
capped from the Berks county, Pa, jail by
cutting hole in his cell, through q wall over
thirty inches thick.-Joseph Cary, aged
nineteen, and Annie Frolin, sixteen years of
age, and the heiress to $40, 600 were married
secretly in Newark, Nj, and the girls friends
are seeking to annul the marriage. Two
cars being shifted at Atglen, Pa, jumped the
track and crashed into building occupied by
Frank Smith and his mother The building
was wrecked and both occupants seriously
in, urei. -Macgie Kelly, the fifteen year-old
daughter of John T. Kelly, farmer near
Huntingdon, Pa, was waylaid in the woods
ard outraged by married man. -Waylon
A, Swartz, farmer of Westminster, Ont,
who had met with heavy financial losses, be.
rams respondent, saturated his clothes with
cool oil and set fire to HIMSELF meeting with
q horrible death.
the United States and Mexican boundary
survey party has begun operations.--W. Ii.
IL. and Frederick Iarton, two Georgia boys
Of good family, are on trial at Sandersville,
on the charge Of burning the bridge on the
Georgia Central Railroad. Eight Mexicans,
believed to be Cara reyolutonists, have
been arrested and taken to San. Antonio, and,
1t Is reported that Cara and his band will be
all under arrest within ten days.-By an
Ineendary fire in Waverly, ILL.,, several build,
ings were destroyed and W. c. Fleming, q
druggist narrowly escaped with his lite.-
fire at Dover, Mimi, destroyed Huf's
Hotel, the Brockway House and other build.
ings,-Johu Bright, living in fancy county,
Mo-, shot and killed his wife, and then made
his escape L. Rogers, who was to have
been hung at Dallas, Tex, was respited for
two weeks by Governor Hogg.--The works
of the Miller Soap Company, Cocker & Bro.
proprietors, in Lancaster Pa, was destroyed
by fire; loss So 600; insurance $4,000.