Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-18
THE NEWS.


The steamer Juliet arrived at Chicago with
the graduates of The Northwestern University,
about whose safety there had been grave ap-
prehensions.-Seven people were killed and
anumber injured by the storm in Chicago.
Three crevasses occurred on the Mis- is.
sippi, which caused plantations to be dam
aged and railroad traffic to be blocked.-J.
A. Mccormick and D. c. Jones, the para
mour OF Mrs. Mccormick, killed one another.
p. J. Foley. implicated in the assault on
Miss Lena McMahon, for which the negro
Bob Lewis was lynched in Port Jervis, was
committed for the action of the grand jury.
A jury of inquest on the deaihof the four
teen men of the Boston. killed by the ex.
plosion at the Mare / land navy-ysrI. rem
dered q verdict of accidental death.-Sena-
tor Aldrich, of Rhode Island, was reelected.
Frederick Unger, of Jersey City, was ar.
rested on the charge of criminslly assaultine
his daughter, Mrs. Schubert .-Eartbquake
shocks were felt in Santa Ana and Riverside,
California .-Mrs. George Beaudrey, of
South Bay City, drowned herself and two of
her children.--A Chicago Grand Trunk
locomotive exploded one mile east of Climax.
Mich, fatally i~njuring Engineer Wood, Fire.
man Smith and Brakeman Parker.-The
Pennsylvania has secured control of the
William Penn Coal Company olliery.--In
a railroad wreck on q trestle near Middle
boro, KY, a locomotive and sixte n freight
cars fell two hundred feet, and the engineer.
fireman and conductor were killed and four
trainmen fatally injured.
Mrs. Levi NJ. Villas, mother of Senator
Villas, died suddenly in Madison, Wis.-At
Genoa, q small station eight m les east OF
Texarkana, on the Cotton Belt Railroad,
burglars entered the Office of the Bodcaw
Lumber Company. opened the s fe and car
ried away $4,000 worth of the company's
stock; S12, 600 worth of notes, and 800 in
cash.-An the employees of the rapid transit
line of Colorado Springs are on strike for
more wages, and no ca S were run. Beth
sides are determined.-The Crescent Pare r
Manufacturing Company's mills, of Hartford,
we're destroyed by fire. L SIS, SIS ,000; in
surance, SIS, 000.-One Of the ears of a
stock train which was passing under the
Girard avenue bridge on the main line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, in Philade phia,
jumped the track and caused a wreck which
will involve damages to the amount of at
least $50, 90 Mrs. Alice Stone, of Kings
ton, N. Y, who committed su eide BY shoot.
ing herself, LETT a letter, in which he tated
that her father-in-law had ruined her
Governor Flower, of New York, made a
narrow escape in a ra ilroad accident on the
Lake Erie and Western Road. The fortielh
annual convention of the International Typo
graphical Union opened in Philadelphia
A cyclone on Lake Minnetonka did con-
siderable damage, tres and houses on Orono
Point being demolished.
Frederick Palmer announced in New York
that he knows where 5000, 900 worth of min
ing securities belonging to the creditors of
Field, Indy & Wiechers Area boat in
which two passengers were being carried from
the Muelle Lacate,leria TO u Spanish mail
S Gamer lying in the harbor of Havana cap.
sized, and one of the passengers was drowned
before assistance could reach him. -Several
houses in Havana undermined by The storm
and flood there collapsed .-The Philadel-
phit and New Seashore Railroad, which was
recently fought at the receivers sale by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was opened
up under the new management. - The
steamer Leo sailed from New York with a
cargo of food for the starving Russians
Two robbers compelled Paymas err Wilson,
Secretary of the Judson Manufacturing Com
pany to deliver 81, 000.-Col. L. L. Polk,
president of the Farmers Alliance, died at
Washington.-Fire destroyed a number of
business and Westinghouse, and hotel an
furniture factory, at CullaD,, the famous
Alahaml German colony, en.alling a loss OF
500, 900, partially covered by insurance
Powers Grand Opera House in Grand Rapids,
Mich, was partially burned. - Samuel
Johnson, q maniac with a revolver, created a
panic on a train in the vicinity of Holly,
Mich. - Strikers in T~onawanda, N. Y,
drove away non-union men and repulsed the
police. Two officers we're shot.
Pablo Pera, q noted Mexican exile, has Just
died in Phoenix, Arizona, aged ninety-one
years. Fifty years ago he was one of the
most prominent ard active men in Mex can
politics. lie was twice sentenced 10 be hot,
Lut made his esci pc INTO Central Anne lea.
tie espoused the Cause of Maxim liGn and
had a pos lion on his staf.-1he Mnssila's
officers testified before the joint immigration
committee. Senator handler said their evil
denee showed they ha taken all reasonable
precaut. ons. So Baltimore and Ohio freight
train ran into an electric street car at the
o~tnern city limits, near Wheeling. Mrs.
Charles Miller anl Miss Kate fitzpatrick
were kil!e and Join Emsheimer seriously
ounded.-Char.e Hill was lynched n
Paducah, KY, ior attempted rape.--The
Circuit Court in Cincinnati, decided the suit
against the Ohio and Miss ssippi, and in favor
OF Brown, Shipley & Co.-Fire destroyed
Woods, jerks 4 Co.'S. p aiming mill in Cleve-
land. Damage So Vo.-Frey's Hotel at
Lake Michigan, was burned. The loss is
so, 000. -GeLeral Manager Mellen, of the
New York AMI New England Railroad
announces an agreement with tie Reading
road for an exchange of traffic via the l, u5h.
keepsie bridge, that will make good the los
OF income iron The transfer of the Peansy!-
vanla business to the Shore Line,