Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-23
THE NEWS

Mexico. were killed by lightning.-Texas
fever in a ~viiulent form has broker out
among the herds o cattle in the southern part
of Lyons county, Kansas.--Mrs. E. f. Early
OF Philadelphia, mother-in-law Of C. c. Han.
cock, general passenger agent of the Port
Reading Railroad. died at her cottage at
Ocean Grove, aged sixty-nine years. Her
husband conducted President Lincoln's
funeral.-It is stated that the Prince of Wales
will visit Canada next year, and that he will
make a trip TO the Pacf Coast ov, the
Can dion Pacific Railroad, visiting the Chi.
oago Fair.-General Scho6eld received adj
vices from the officers in command of the
troops In the C@ur d'Alene mining district,
that all was quiet, and the riotous miners
leaving the country.
An ueIy.Iooking sea 'erpeant was seen as
porting about in Lake Erie.-Ca Parks,
co,ored. was hanged in Caldwell, Texas, Tor
outrage and murler.-Carlos Backus Wig
gins was arrested on the arrival OF The steam
shin Philadt lph a in New York and a lot OF
je ,elry stolen in Tr;nid ID, was found upon
him.-Miss Rosa Woodruff, Of Jackson,
Miss, was frightened by wh.iecap letters MO
spasms which causel her eath.-lllinois
Wis, was arrested in San Francisco. charged
with having murd red q Chi amsn on the
bark w. II. Dimol I'd, while the vessel was
lying in Honolulu.-In the Uni ed States
Circuit Court in New York the Dun Meican-
tile Agency was held responsible for losses on
account of q report it gave. carter,
land eomm %ssioner, was elected chairman 81
the Repub lean National Convention ana
Chris Magee, seer tary.-The steamer En-
chantress arrived at New York from South
American ports. On her voyage from Santos
10 PernamSuco Captain Hammond ana
several other officers died of yellow fevor.-
A train on the Northeastern North Carolina
Railroad ran into q wasl-out near Florence,
N. c., ami the news agent and a brakeman
were killed. a company, composed oil
New York, St. Lou S, Kansas City and Aurtra
capitalists, Is being organ zed to. tuild a rail-
road to the wonderful Marble Cave, thirty
five miles south of Aurora. Mo-, and thence
on 10 Mempnis.-To prevent a collision, the
man at the cross NJ Of the Atlantic City
Railroad and the Wet Je sey Railroad, near
Atlantic City, switched an express train off on
The meadows, upsettins the locomotive and
baggage car. hut killing no one.
TkTinncfs 6. Newlan waselected president of
the Mining Congress in Helena.-Aetual
work WAS commenced on the Hennepin Canal
under the contra I of Commodore A. J. Whit
ney.-Pr,f Dwight E. Carroll, Of Lehigh
University, took paris green with suicidal
In ent.-Aaron Hanna, proprietor of the
saugerties Eiec. rio Light Works, in Kings
ion, n. Y, was kil'ei ty a iolt oflightning.
John D. Robertsoa, Connecticut secra-
tary Of state, died in New Haven ut the age
of eighty .--Whitkoy caused a fight between
white and Ind an employees in an Alaskan
ctnnery, and several were killed on 10th
8 des.-The Prohibition Convention of Kan
las nominated can lidates for state officers end
Congress.-F re destroyed the EaS Fl ur-
ing Mills and several adjacent buildings in
Paris, Tenn. Loss S 5 0-0.-The crew OF
the Argentine torpedo.catcher Ross,es was
saved.-A fcheme is alleged to have been
discovered 10 secure fraudulent certificates of
ideut ~ication for Oh nnmen.-The son of q
wealthy New York tobacco manufacture di d
in the a'mshouse at Win ngton, Dell and
was buried in potter's field. The young mans
sweetheart came 10 Wilmington TO nurse him,
and was terribly she sked to find her lover
dead. She ordered his remains to be sent 10
New York for burial. The new steamer
Ell Paso ttarted from New York on her trial
triP.-Fre;ght Conductor Reuben Fisher
was killed at Harrisburg.-Th chasing de-
pa tmeat Of the Welby Powder Mills, near
Tamsqua, Pc, exp cd I'd, injuring two EN-.
Pc; es and wrecking the chasing mills and
several surrounding buildings.
Train robbers s cured a5rut $4,000 from
the NJ. j.. & 7. train, near Adnir, Ind al Ter.
ritory.-Whl am She's Lroke the worlds
single.hand rock rilling record Mt the Ma
tional Mining CongT IS content. lie ma lie q
hole % $40 inches derp in fifteen 'nutes.
-Ch.caso so ieti $ passed reso u ions a k.
ing the Worlds Fair directors 10 decline the
United States appropriation with the Sunday
ck sing string-The cayeltssness If d
switchman caused tn, wreck of an excursion
train near Ev nsvi.le. Several were killed
and others Lurt.-Henry Brown has been
sentenced to lie impr .sonmeIt in. Pad1cah,
Ky, for the murder of Chas. Hampton last
Christmas.--Julian Morley, who raped his
stepdaughter, was iynched IN HALEY, ARK.
1t Is likely that the Congressional commit
tee investigating tn 'ahor troubles at Home
stea will summon the Pinke tons TO testify.
Warrants were sworn out by Secretary
L vejoy, OF the Carnegie Company. against
Hugh Mcdonnell, John McLuckje, and
other leaders of the strikers at Homestead,
charging them with The murder of the Pinker-
ton men.-The Homestead strike has in
Directly caused the indefinite suspension of
the Braddccy wire works.-J G.. Kelso,
president of he Bank Of NaCnoli. Ark. alb
seconded with $40 oo0-CharIes Fabler. aged
twenty-eiyb; wears of PHILADELPHIA. was
drowned while bathing in Roncocss creek,
near Delarev. Hi, bodv WAS reroyered.-
The sactio, NOR n, tho Wabash smnloved he.
higher wages.-Six indians we're arrested at
juneau on the charge of murder.-John s.
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