Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-23
THE NEWS.

A shifting engine, at C.rrie Furnace, at
Rankin, Pa, ran into an abutment of the
Pittsburg, McKeesport and You hiogheny
Railroad trestle, and dislodged it. A freight
train passed over the trestle, moment later,
and the span gave way, precipitating eight
cars to the bottom. Brakeman A. C. Carruth.
ers was killed instantly, and Brakeman
completely demolished masked I'm
entered the grocery store of Augustus Findeisen
at Reading, Pa, threatened him with revolt
yers, and beat him with clubs, fracturing his
arm and cutting open his head in a terrible
manner. But for the plucky fight made by
his daughter he would have been killed. The
desperadoes secured nothing. destroyed
a breaker, ownel by he Reading Coal and
Iron Company, at Shamokin, Pa. The origin
Of the fire is not known. Five hundred men
are rendered idle. The loss is SIS, COO N.
II. De Young was elected president, and Gen
eral Felix Agnus vice president of the Ma
tional Press Clubs Association, in San Fran
o.-Ma thew Tyler, an Old citizen of
York, Pa, died at the age of seventy-eight
years.-Frankln Smith and Daniel w.
Smith, sentenced to ten and fifteen years re-
spcctiyely for the Strominger murder, were
removed from York, Pa, to the penitentiary.
Samuel McDowells elegant mansion, near
Philadelphia, was destroyed by fre.-The
birthday anniversary of General Robert E.
Lee was appropriately observed in Richmond
ya.-The Lynchburg and Durham Rail-
road was leased to the Norfolk and Western
Company. Inspector Williams denie,
that a large number of mines in the anthracite
region are idle. There are %, 600 miners and
mine workers in the Third anthracite district
who are all at work on three-quarter time
Full time TO miners means about twenty day
to the month. A blizzard in Texas inter
fered with business.--It Is very cold through
out the South.
Charles Ii. Aldrich, the newly appointed
solicitor general of the United States is
Chicago lawyer, and one of the youngest men
ever honored with so important an office
William r. Hancuff, aged sixty-two years,
who had been missing from his home in AL
toona, Pa, for several weeks, was found dead
on the mountains. -The Texas rangers and
the United States troops on the border have
planned what is called roundup, by which
IT, ponoso 20 o,d srrrorrd Car. o,d
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,yos,orr Railroad Con,nonv has beep ;ncor.
porated, with a capital of $50, 900, 000.-The
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