Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-21
THE NEWS.

the enforcement OF Inc balt act against Can
adam fishermen this season. This practically
ends the tariff war between Newfoundland
and Canada.-The forty second annual SEES.
sion OF the Pennsylvania State Medical So
ciety began at Harrisburg.-Ring Rhen
Brothers circus train was wrecked near Con-
cord a. Kansas, and four men killed and FIVE
ipjured.-A servant in the employ of Sena-
tor Faulkner, at Martinsburg, w. Va, stole
a lot Of valuable jewels and clothing.-Chau-
eellor McGiil, of Trenton, N. j., refused TO
admit to probate the will of John Wade. a
millionaire who died recentli at Plainfeld.
Richard Kyle, teller Of tbs defunct West.
ern Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago. was
indicted for embezzlement, his alleged steal
ings being SIC, 000.-Ilundreds of persons
we're rescued from the tops of houses in the
flooded districts in Illinois. Immense damage
has been done to crops in the bottom lands of
Missouri.-Chairman Ciarksou was inter-
viewed in Chicago. He said he did not think
there would be a nomination on the first bal
lot.-The remain of Alfred George Lathrtp
were buried in New York.
In a duel at short range in Fort Worth,
Tex, Harry c. Robinson was shot dead, and
w. II. Coflman seriously wounded.-Alfred
Fuechsel was arrested in Chicago on suspicion
of having caused tie death offs girl by drown
ing.-In Chicago Albert Gerkrosch was shot
dead by one OF a gang of youthful highway
men.-At Corpus Christi, Tex, John T.
Parker, fer the murder of City Marshall Mus.
sett, has been sentenced to ninety-n min years
imprisonment in the penitentiary. Four days
were spent in securing a jury, but the actual
trial only occupied four hours.-Vast beds
of steel ore in the Hanover Valley of New
Mexico have been purchased by n syndicate.
One of the three stage robbers In Reading
Cal, was captured by three boys. He was
badly wounded.-Chinamen are comforting
with President Diaz with the view of moving
the Cinnamon in this country to Mexico.-
D:phtheria is epidemic in Erie, Pa.-John
Pfagler, q well-to-do stockman who held the
enmity of the cattle thieves, was found shot
TO death at Fort Morgan, Col.-Teu tene-
ment houses at Avondale, Ala, belonging to
lion. A. A.. Bachelor, of Louisiana, and
valued at $4,000 were destroyed by fire.
The floods in Missouri and Illinois continue
their work of destruction. The Bowman dyke,
of East st. Louis, gave way, and hundreds of
acres of lowlands were submerged.
Indians are reported to be driving whites
ri the Cheyenne AMI Arapahoe reservations.
-Major 1illman, the defau.ting cashier of
NE Falls City (Ky.1 National Bank, has ar
ranged to settle by paying over the amount
charged against him for fraudulently using
S25, coo put in his charge as u fund in trust for
Mrs. Alexander, a wealthy widow.-Hatha.
way, who was riding with Wellman, one of
The victims of the cattle riots, at the time the
ssssssin's bullet struck him, aud who then
carried The news of the tragedy to Buffalo,
has been arrcsted.-Daniel Smith, q farmer
living one mile south of Orwigsburg, Pa,
committed suicide by hanging himself to a
riossbeam in his barn. Worry over debts on
the farm caused the act.-The pottery of
Thomas A. Maddox & Sons, the largest sani-
iary ware manufacturers In Trenton, N. J..
was totally destroyd by fire. Loss about $I75,.
0G0; partially insured.-Myron Pratt killed
Mrs. Margaret S. Perry in Lincoln, Neb.--
Judge Toney decided that the Frankfort (Ky.1
Lottery had n right to run, no matter if the
state constitution did prohibit it: The Henry
College lottery grant was, however, declared
eNhAusteu' SlAly'se'ehtn annual com
~ y "e helo'nneu lheologieai
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interesting exercises, degrees being conferred
on fifteen graduates.-The Supreme Lodge
nnsu'1 oN '''S'un az Snarleslo"h
S. C., elected oficers.-D. A. Schofeld, Of
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Inc capitol building at Santa Re was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $3.50, COO. No insurance.
Fire in Jefferson, Texas, destroyed the
wholesale house of d. c. Wise & Co. Loss
$40 Coz. Partially insured--Lena Bruno
and her two-yesr-old brother disappeared from
her home in st. Louis. 1t is thought that she
Jumped into the river with the baby.-The
expedition to explore The mineral deposits on
the Carriso Mountains, on the Navajo reser-
walton, started from Fort Wlngate under es-
cort OF Company d, Second Cavalry, and one
company OF Indian soldiers. General MeCook
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Colorado and other Western rivers are rising
rapidly, and the water has gone above the
danger line. Heavy rains in the West cause
fear OF inundations'- Paul, a Ger
Elan miner OF Plymouth, Pa, has fallen heir
70 $4,000 by the death OF his father in Posen.
"A warrant has been issued for the arrest
of Mayor Wesicott, OF Camden. N. j., on a
charge OF false 1mPrisonment.-Reub"n
Davis, for nifty years a sehoo!-teacher. is dead
aged elghty-three, at shiloh, n. }. lie was
master OF three languages, ana a noted maihe-
matlcian. lie lelt va liable ns@ srnatieGl
manuscripts
James pociey confessed numbering WIS aa"i
aud her child In Nililsca, Iowa In a shooi'
ing affair at + rankioft' NY nel"een iona ).
Johnson and ehsrles ovens tue ialtrt was
Killed, while the former ana a number Of