Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
THE NEWS

The bodies of i've dead infants have been
found secreted under the stones of the walk
in Chicago by The police, who will make
further investigations. The pc ice think they
we're lett there by the agent or agents of
some l~ying-in hospital Tillie Lud-
wig shot and killed Walter d. Clark in
Tracey, Cal, who wanted 10 kill her for
refusing to marry him.-Willie Kaneher,
who committed an outrage on an eleyen-year-
old girl, was lynched by a mob at Appa'a-
chicola, FLA cyclone struck Cleburne,
Texas, and several people were killed. Con-
siderable damage was done TO properly
Among the passengers on the steamer Hon 'e,
which arrived at New York from Central
American ports, were r.. II. Ca4d, Amer can
consul at Puenta Arenas, Costa R ca, and the
wife and daughter Of Mr.. johnson Nickens,
American consul at Blsranquilla, Colombia.
Near Sslyersvile lie, Ky, in a fight at
Republican primary election Joseph Higgins
shot and killed Robin Daniel, ex-county
assessor. D.niel Green lost an eye in the
fracas. and Elijah DUNCAN was injured, prob.
ably fatally. -Austin Porter, a confessed
wife.murderer, was lynched near Grayson,
Ky. by a mob "A plot is believed to nave
been discovered to Il fraul the Canadian
government by forged checks.-The Hunt
levee, in Illinois, has given way, and the
food has swept III f.rt lie district Tor twenty
miles.-People along the Rel River are
taking to the hill S to get beyond the reach of
the flo d.
A dastardly dynamite plot is claimed TO
have been discoverr1 in Chicago.-A six
year-old colored gil 10 S.okn, Ky. killed her
baby sistfr.-An;cnio Valati, ,ct,ng stew
ard OF the Rochester Cub, suicidcd by taking
morphine at The clubhouse. lie was mar
ried one month ago 10 French woman, young
aud pretty, ia New Iork.-An Allegany
Valley train ran into a waskout near Frank
lin, Pa.-The wife of Samuel Reeser. OF
Hamburg, Pa, committed suicide .-The
directors Of he Chicago and Evtern Illinois
Railroad Company have declared the regular
quarterly diyid nd of one and a-half per
cent. on the preferred stock payable July LIST.
Austin IIortsr cut his wife 10 pieces in
Lexington, ky.-The marhlecutters Of
Louisville have gone out on q strike Tor nine
hours a.day with ten hours pay. Emf loyers
say they will notIgraut the demand
An ElizabethtowD, Ky, mob tried to lynch
Ii. a. James, who neglected his wife while
she was dying.-Ed Edward Mcmillan was
hung in Wilkesbarre for wi e murder.-A
heavy landslide took place on thu PENNEY
vania Railroad, nenr Port Clinton Cut, PA
during the raihstorm, shortly before the
northbound express train arriYed.-John
sweeny was declared not gully, in Camden,
OF the murder Of Albert ClaIr.--Af fire broke
out in the hold OF the British bark Willow
bank, at Delaware Breakwater, from Rio
J%aneiro. Tug Juno went to her assis auce.
HE bre was extinguished.-A passenger
train on he Oregon Pacific ran into a hand
car, on which were ten persons. Mrs. Pratt
and child, and a child named Manning, were
kHled instantly. The seven others were
severely iniurt d.-John G. Locme and his
two sons were drowned at Silver Creek Dam,
on tie Milwaukee river, while on q fishing
trlp.-Four of those concerned in Ascen-
sion, Mexico, were condemned to be han led,
one to thirteen years imprisonment, and
forty-onc were iberated.-A motor train,
Loaded with Il picnic party, jumped the track
on the Missouri River Road. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Cole, old residents OF Omaha, were
instantly killed, and several were Injured
The Platte Valley Bank, one of the oldest
and wealthiest institutions in Nebraska, Las
closed. It is said that Cashier Starrett has
lost $4,000 bulling corn at Chicago.-The
cornerstone Of st. Marks Lutheran Church,
OF East York, Pa, was laid with appropriate
cerem0ny.-Conicderate Memorial Day was
observed at Winchester.
The New York Chamber of Commerce.
odoptet resolutions f~ayoring the international
monetary Conference. Henry X. Boyer,
e1-state treasurer OF Pennsylvania, was
arrested on the charge of disappointing
iunds.-Thcre was Il very destructive
cyclone in Texas. In the vicinity of Durango
u number of Fe PIE were badly hurt, and
several killed. Growing crops were seriously
damaged ,aroug out the state. The rivers in
Missouri are rapidly rising, Oklahoma and
Michigan also were storm-swept. The Iron
ana steel Manufacturers, the Galvanized
Iron Manufacturers and the limp ate Manu-
iaeturcrs Associations, at Il joint meeting in
PIttsburg, agreed upon u scale of wages
LNeise Commissioner Eock has had u warrant
Issued in New York, char ing Rev. Thomas
Dixon. Jr, with criminal libel.-The barn
Of Granville Terry, near York, was set on fire
by a TRAMP. The O,cott Richmon Ter
m ma reorganization committee decided to
return securities deposited with the Central
Trust Compuny.-Ihe Lake Carriers Asso-
citation deeidedt 10 petition Congress to provide
lights on the gre lakes in a number of
places where they are at present maintained
By private means.