Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-07
THE NEWS.

Charles Smith, prominent young man OF
Caldwell, KS, was shot and killed over a
game of cards, by Bert Williams, a bartender.
The Wyoming rustlers hold out the olive
branch to the cattlemen, but their oyertures
are rejected. c. Rodriguez & Co.,
wholesale aud retail cigar dealers, New York,
ass gned TO Ferdinand Thomson. The
Pennsylva Supreme Court sustained the
constilulienality of the bill that allows only
the names Of the candi lates of the parties
polling at least three per cent. of the vote to
be printed on the official ballot.-A bill has
been filed by the United States government
in Philadelphia against tine Sugar Trust.
A freight train on the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago dashed down through
broken bridge. Engineer. Fireman and
brakeman were killed.-Fiye hundred
quarrymen and stonecutters of New Haven
struck for All increase Of one cent on hour
The journeymen plumbers of Providence
r. J., struck for nine hours and s.. 90 per day
Wind storms in Missouri and Kansas did
much damage. At EIdorado, Kansas, a
school house and four buildings were dc.
stroyed.-At Cherry Run, w. Va, tresle
was blown down, and one workman killed
and others injured. New York carpenters
struck and forced til bosses to sign an agree
mcnt fixing schedule Of prices for work.
Henry Hadden, & clerk i'll the employ ofthe
Porters, hat manufacturers, of Newark, n. j.,
while returning TO the factory with $500 with
Il A,l,a h., 10 L 81 10,
and robbed.--Six thousand pounds of whale
bone valued at S., 80 pound was destroyed
in an incendiary fire at New Bedford. The
National Executive Committee of the Prohi-
biten party, met in Chicago to complete ar
engagements for the national convention, to
be held June q in Cincinnati. --rhe coro.
aer's jury is inquiring into the cause of the &c.
tdent at Lytle colliery near Minersyille, Pa,
by which ten men were drowned, returned
verdict censuring the company's officials for
not having sufficient plank poles, Charles
Shane, aged fifteen years, Of BoylestOwn, Pa,
WIS found hanging in a stablc.-The request
Of the irainmen of the Delaware Laekawanna
and " estern Railroad for IN increase in wages
has been sratited an wages Advanced Ave
per cent.-Aagust Konnze, New YORK.
banker, died at the age OF sixiy.Gve years.
Herman Stalbert, q civil engineer, Of Rich
mond, Va, was drowned in tho Kanawha
river, w. Va.--The main building Of the
Minnesota State University, nj Minneapolis
was damaged S25. 600 by fre.-John Lodg's
home at Pittsburg, Pa, was burned to the
ground and his two little children persisted,
N. ]: Thompson ex-mayor of Jone>boro,
Ark, was whipped on the streets by farnicr
named Joe Wright. Thompson accused Wright
of stealing his cattle. A mob stormed the
Nashville, Tenn, Jail TO lynch the ravishers
of Misc Bruce, but were driven back. One
man was killed.
WIN. c. Taylor, connected with the evening
newspapers Of Richmond, for the past twenty
years, chiefly as court reporter, died aged As
years.--The Virginia and North Carolina
Railroad was sold at auction for So 000.-
Harry Nee. Stryker n student, died at La
layette College. The twin-screw steamer
Columbian, being constructed for the Richie
lieu aud Ontario Navigation Company, was
launched from Roech's shipyard. Fire
Cleveland and Pittsbdrg Railroad; and de.
.troyed the entire business portion. Fifteen
store buildings, including one brick block
were destroyed. The loss will reach $l0o, 600
The annual congress of the Scotch Irish
Society was held in Georgia. Steinert
of Elizabeth, N. J p, tried to kill his wife, and
then cut his throat Samuel Sinner, Of
Sugar Loaf Luserne county, Pa, has just In i.
formed the police that he stood outside of the
Hester farmhouse in October, 1889, when Joe
Eyaland shot William kester and man
halted Christian strusk John Kester, the
months ago three men-Higgins, Evaland and
Gallagher-wefe arrested for the murder; and
now other parties will be arrested. -The I'd
bay Line STEAMER Florida, which had recently
been bought by New York parties, and was
being flowed to Tint city; sank of Atlantic
City.
At Bloekton, Ala, Frank Daxt,r shot and
killed Joe Elsie. as the result Of an oil fend.
Governor Spencer anil Jack Burnett were
killed in Wyoming by depaty sheriffs.-A
weil-to-do farm r namel We;herton and Lis
wife are reported to have been foully muir.
dered while on visit to the house f some re.
latives near Amity, Ark. -Ah incenI;dfy
fire destroyed the lumber yard and aGjoin.
ing buildings in Browning, Mo-, loss $50, 900
insurance, Sc. S00.-At the Grand Army OF
the Republic Encampment Adjutant General
Kennedy was elected commander of the Col.
oFado an Wyoming G. A. R. f. NJ. Sawyer,
OF Boulder, was elected senior vice comman.
der.-S.x hundred coal miners in the co..
lnsville dis riot. Illinois, struck a fire at
Santasket BeaFh destroyed the Arlingtoh and
Gvtmahia l1otel.=A collision occurred on
The Louisville and Nashville near Guthrie. A
fireman and negro tramp were killed .--The
Big -Four Rdilrdl I'd Cothra@S has purchased
tn Toledo, Columbus AMI Cincinnati Rail-
road, and within sixty days will have trains
running into Toledo. The new line is seventy
two miles long.-The jury brought in a
verdict in the case, in Houston, Tex, against
Henry McGee Of murder in the frst degre,.
and assessed the penalty to death. The case
consumed two days, lie killed Officer James
Fem var ago by shooting him whiia he
was trying to stop figh,.