Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-28

Broadwater, president of Montana Central
division of the Great Northern Railway. died
in Helena. John X. Buchtel, founder and
patron of Buchtel College, died.--The
Ehrisman's Touring mill, located in the east
ern part of indianapolis, was destroyed by
fire. Loss $50, 600. insurance $40, 0O0. Abe
Jones has been sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment by United States District Judge
Morrow, in San Francisco, for the robberies
of the Reading stage on the nights of October
Is and 81 last. His companion, 'tBill"
Howard, who was shot while resisting arrest,
and another man accused of completely in the
crime, turned states evidence.
The Lake Carriers Association at Cleve.
land adopted a memorial to the United States
Senate protesting sg inst the proposed redur-
ton of the item in the River and Harbor bill
Tor the deep channel from $500, ooO to $780,
WO-Two workmen were killed and five
badly wounded by the iall of the roof of the
First Methodist Protestant Church in Pitts
burg.-The Oswego fire destroyed five ele-
%yators, leaving but one standing. Loss on
l~uilding 1853. 900; on grain and lumber $780,
wv" IA " NOi1lolOh vi LHB aHuulid
road, in which the train-guard WAS killed and
! messenger hurt.-At Midway, Madi-
ioa county, Texas, a mob went TO the house
IF Arthur Burrows, who was accused of Sc luc-
ing a young girl ofthe neighborhood, and shot
him five times, killing him instantly.-A
collision on the c., NJ. and st. Paul resulted
in the killing Of an engineer aud the ~injuring
of others.-The Pennsylvania Military
Academy has been closed for the season as a
precautionary measure, as another case of
typhoid fever has been d iscovered among the
cadets Charles Schmeck. a farmers
son., near Princeton, Pa, was driving a lot of
cattle. he was set upon by a vicious Texan
steer, which gored him, broke an arm and
inflicted other serious injuries.-Express
Mes enger Saunders and Soliciting Agent
Cox were killed by train robbers OH the Jack
s%onville, Tampa and Key West Railway
Camelia Camarbella was arrested in Mama
ronek, N. Y, for poisoning her paramour's
wife.--The Opera House and Record news-
Taper in Lansford, Pa, were destroyed by
flre.--Charles Steward, in custody in Nor
%rillton, Pa, for rape, beat out the deputy
sheriiPs brains, and was then hanged by a
mob.--Mrs. Mary Baker, whose husband
WAS killed and cattle butchered by the In
dams. sued the government for SIS, Co.,
Mrs. Jane Mcdonald was burned TO death in
York, PA aumber of 81. Louis Kings
Daughters went to Russia on an GRAND of
mercy
At a meeting of the directors of the Louis.
vile Southern Railroad Company S. n. Eel
ton, OF Cincinnati, was elected president in
place Of Theodore Harris, of Louisville, and
n. +. SIN tn, secretary, in place of William
Cornwall.-United States District Judge
.Blodgett, in Chicago, resigned TO become enc
OF the Bering Sea counse's.-By the cap.
sizing oil Il boat near Morrilton, Ark, Hamp
Wilson, co.orcd, four won IL and five children
were drowned.-Robert Kelly was shot and
killed in Philadelphia by Mrs. VIM. Stedman
while trying to rob the house. Hon. John
A. Anderson, for twelve years the representa-
tive OF the First Kansas district in Congress,
died at Liverpool, England. Mr.. Anderson
bad been travelling in E ,ypt for his health
A shower of frogs fell at Mexico, Mo-, one
farmer counting s. 600 of them.-Zachariah
Jackson, of Duncansville, near Altoona, Pa,
was arrested by Constable Lyman Price for
l'eserting his wife, and in trying to break
AWAY from the officer was shot in the back.
1t is estimated that from twenty to one
hundred lives were lost in the Sioux City
Hoods. Scores Of houses were undermined,
md great damage was done to the railroads
and stoekyards. Thousands of acres Of grain
lands in Iowa are und T water.
DIR. Speargeon, of Muncie, was nominated
for Congress by the Prohibitionists of the
Sixth District of Indiana at Newcastle
Sam Leflere, colored, who murdered an in.
offensive colored barber, Ike Wilkinson, in
January 1891, was hanged in the county jai
yard at V .cksburg, Miss .-Mrs. Van Ia en-,
of Iroguois, saved her six children from her
burning house, but lost her life.-The
Ma sachusetts House, by a vote of 104 to sc.
passed the bill requiring that sales of liquor
shall be made only to guests in connection
with food. The bill is to take effect on its
passase.-Senator Hill. delivered the grafton
at the anniversary of the signing of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
" IA "a . Al "a $NsS VI 0ICSuSt
the convict tried for killing his keeper, James
A.. Bl omer, in the Eastern Penitentiary, in
Philadelphia, brought in a verdict of murler
in the first Gegre THE on hundred and
forty second anniversary of the birth o
Stephen Girard was celebrated 1t Gi ard
College P ilsdelphia.
Colonel Blunt, commanding the Sixteenth
Infantry at Fort Dougks, near Salt Lake, has
been notified by the War Department to hold
MS command ready to march at an hours no.
lice to the scene of the strike among the min.
efs at C@ur d'Alene, daho.--Jacob Buzzard
anu Herman kunz were killed near Linden,
n. T., by an express train. An immense
crowd attended the funeral Of Andrew G. An.
derson, the Swedish engineer, in Sioux City,
whe rescued twenty-seyen persons from the
hood. -Patriek and James Dody, two mis-
ehievous st, Louis boys, were killed by
Charles Ebbinghaus-s. w. Conley was
shot from an ambush in Madison, Ga, and
Killed by i. A. Cochran.-The vile of An
zone Fratter eloped from Mammaroneek, n.
Y, with Charles Strobel, a boarder.-Mar-
tin Foy, Jr., and Jerry Donohue tried TO es-
cape from the Jail at Saratoga springs-Two
men named Howison and Bieubien were ar.
rested ia Montreal for manufacturing and ut
tering counterfeit American silver dollars.
They have already served a term of impr;s-
enment for a similar offense.-Fire, sup
posed to be Of incendiary origin, destroyed
four blocks of wooden buildings in the center
of Chehalis. Wash. The loss is $40. O00.-
Harry 7. Hall and William T.. Richter had
arranged a plan to set fire to the house for in
surance on Halls Photographic outfit. Richter
confessed and both were arrested Beviyino
and Villela accomplices of Red Mike in
the murder of Postmaster Mcclure in Wilkes
barre. were sentenced, respectively, to twenty
and fifteen years in the penitentiary.-John
Bach McMaster, the historian, has been offer
ed the presidency of the State University of
Illinois.
JAY GOULD carries in his purse a 1o-cent
piece which he declares was at one time nj |
that stood between him and a dead-brok 6