Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-12-24
The NEWS.


Der Of convict laborsrs died while at work
on the ST. Louis ami Iron Mou tain Rail
way. Idle laborers are supposed to be at
the bottom of it.-Governer Tt Imam OF
South Carolina, Il ned The bill placing the
absolute control o. al the ra lroads in the
state in the hand, OF a commits ion
Nauritz Anderson, fou en- years Of age,
killed rccluss Il rmer rear O.ema, Wis.
and took pos ession OF lis home. The Su-
preme Court of Lou ana declared constitu-
tional the law p ss,l two years ago, and
know as the Jim Grow" law, making ii
Compulsory on railroads to provide separate
cars for nfgroes. The survivors OF tbs
Tolbert family Of desI eradoes are seeAing
vengeance ag Ainst thu citizens of Kemper
county, Miss, who were instrument in hav.
ing them run down. Fred Irving o bur-
glar, was br, ught down by Policeman FIRTH.
pistol in Portland. Ne. He now lies at deaths
door in tn. hospital with bullet in his
right lung an I another in his right shoulder.
He claims TO CO LIE from Washi gton, D. c.
Three m We eseriously, one fatally
injured, by an explosion Of dynamite at a
sewer in Lynn, Mss. The men had been
blasting out a ledge for q sewer. A man
named Frank Kelley had both arms injured
and his thigh bad torn. Alex. Besuregard
had one arm 50 badly mangled that it had to
be amplt4tel.
message in a bottle pickle up near North
Mauitou land states that the steams Gil
der lad brokei in half--In consequence Of
o;ii Il news tat cholera had broken out
again in fla nburg, tn, Co unit govern
ment has CLOSED Their countrj's port egsinst
all vessels having lett Hamburg after De-
cember 1O.-The Worlds Fair Executive
Commit ee has decline to permit the erec-
ton of theatre at JACKS Park. It took
this action by refusing the conc ssion to
Mrs. J. B. Lynch. of West Virginia, and
Mrs. L. G.. Lit.leton, OF Tennessee. These
two women have worked for months on a
theatre scheme, and say they were ass ired
~ tie Ways and Msani Committee that the
concession would be granted. The story
of the attempted a. sassination Of President
Hippolite is ain confirmed by despatch
Chicago to lynch Pinkerton de ective who
was making an arrest Frouatt
was arrested on the charge of having con.
mitted the Railway murder, which h teen
g mystery since 1SS7.-Harry Stumbaugh,
while intoxicated, fired shotgun into a
crowd of childr, g urnirg from Nelson-
vile, Ohio. Two small girls, daughters OF
Isaiah Koon and Alexander McComb, were
struck in the shoulder and back OF the head.
The wounds arc fatal. There was no motive
for the shooting. Stumbaugh was arrested.
The eeateuce of death assed by the
military court martial at Monterey on Col.
Flowers Hern andez will be carried out next
Monday at sunrise The colonel was tried
upon the charge of assisting Cara to escape
at the time he made his escape from the
United States last year.
A mountain lion is ter o 1zing the resi-
dents Of Seatt'e Wash - Reports from th'
recent fight near st. Isna il shows that I'll,
Mexican revolutionists shot down the women
and burnei t e bodies of the dead soldier,
Jacob H. NJ Quald, a young Pennsyl
vauia farmer. committed suicide bee us
iss Minnie Wishers refused to marry him
Tho remains OF Senator Gibson Of Louis
lana, We buried from the suburban resi-
denc, of his brother, Hart Gibson, in Lex
ingtou, Ky.-Fiye Chinese won and 6
baby were rescued fiom burning rookerJ
il San Francisco, where they had been locked
In by H ghbinders.-The City Couacil oi
Tacoma Wa h, has TO- wal del propositi II
to C. B. Wri h, of Philadelphia, Pa, stat
ing that ths Council had agreed upon GER
tain figure for the purcha Of a light and
water plant from the company represented
by Wri hit. The price named is supposed tc
be 81, POO, coo. Agent McCourt of thi
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, at Gin
cinuati, has cen re ieved. There is short
age of $50 COO in the accounts OF the freight
office. The com any has attached the real
estate and other property Of McCourt.-
k.ncellor McGil, OF Jersey City, overrulsd
the app ication for writ OF error in the ca {
o. Edward Hallinger, un Ter sentences to be
hanged for the murder of his wife, and tbs
condemned mau's counsel will appeal to the
United States Supreme Court.-The dis
tr ct att rney, at Pittsturg. made informa-
ton against H. F. Dempsey, master work
man of the Knights of Labor assembly
charging him with felJnioas assault and ad
ministering poison 90 non-uuion workmen al
Homestead.
Jactshoro's -four mill in Dallas, Texas,
was destroyed by fire. L IS, 1000; insur-
ancs 81 500. Mr.. w. K Alexander has
been appointed freight agent of the Louis
vile aud Nashville Railroad at Cincinnati,
wee John N Court, VIII has te N removed
p nding the prese investigation Of his
stewardship By experts. Mr.. George Shot
we'll, the cas- .ier, has been removed. Il.
STRIPPING hot and killed negro barber at
vidagia, Montgomery county, Ga. The bar
Der had knocked Stripping down and Yves
about TO hit him with piscs OF scantling,
when Stripping fired the fatal shot.-G. A.
Wright & Son, of Cairo, Ga, failed. As
sets f120, eco; liabilities $40, 900. The EN-
pire storage warehouse in New York was de-
stroyed by fire. Los go, COZ Articles OF
incorporation OF the Wyoming and Utah
Raj road Company have been lied with tie
seci cary of state OF Colorado. The purpos .
OF this company are to build a line of road
southwest fro Ii the town of Casper, Wy. to
the city of Ogden U ah, with branches from
the main line to r wins and Lender. The
stock i to tie aced at $40, 000, 600. Rose
Donahue who was pIalyzei when q child
nine year OH, and ~ho was Fever able TO