Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-01
THE NEWS.


Henry Won Bergen suicided in Savannah,
Ga, by drinking an ounce of carbolic acid
in a glass of soda water, dying in five min
utes The loss of position, refusal of mar
rage and drunkenness were the causes of
the rash act. Taylor & Hawthorn's hosiery
mill in Germantown, Pa, was damaged by
fire to the extent of $40, 0oo, insurance Sc, 900.
IT. r. Vincent was killed by contact with
an electric wire in Kansas City, the result of
practical jobe-At the Ryan slatequarry
Moore township, Pa, George Shissler, Jr.,
was instantly killed and Lucas Smith badly
burned about the face and eyes by prema-
lure explosion While in the act of writ
ing bogus check in the Office OF Atwood,
Violet & Co, w r. Cossett, the embezzling
cashier Of the Peoples Bank at Hope, Ark,
was arrested. Cossett robbed the bank and
made of with the funds of the county school
board of which he was treasurer.-A fire,
supposed to have been started by children,
has swept the whole eastern side of the bust
ness street of Howard, S. D., causing n loss
estimated at 100000, insurance so 900. r.
b. Allepsmoth aud wife, an old couple, lost
their lives while saving household goods
The boiler of n locomotive on the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company's branch line ex-
ploded, killing one and injuring two
Colonel {. F. Croker, first vice pre- ;ident of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, intimates
that the report that The Arkansas Pass Rail-
road is soon to go into the control of his COM
pany is correct.-The New York State
Senate Committee adopted the report of
their counsel declaring the Reading combine
illegal.-George T. Comstock, formerly
chief Justice of tine New York Court of APP
peas, died in Syracuse. The large steam
saw mill, door and sash factory of J. F.
Collins, at Seavils Station, twenty miles
from Cape May, was entirely destroyed by
fire. A number OF Philadelphia van
drivers were arrested for robhing the mails
-W William Aver, aged thirteen years, of
Adamstown, Pa. while out cunning with his
father, accidentally shot and killed himself.
The Democratic State Convention of
Massachusetts, renomnated Governor Rus
sell.--Two men were killed in railroad
wreck on the Western Alabama road
The two Chinese boys admitted since the
passage of the Exclusion act, were given
rousing welcome by Chinatown in Chicago.
The business portion of Marengo, H.,
was destroyed 10y fire.-Henry Watson, a
negro, who wa, trying 10 incite riot in Du-
rant, Miss, was killed by a posse-Thc
Herald Office, the property Of E. W. Step
hens, was entirely destroyed by fire at Col
umbia, Mo. Loss $50, coo; partially insured
jesse K. Thompson aged eighty-two
residing near Downingtown, Pa, threw him
self in front of a Reading engine and
was mangled to death.-Robbers wrecked
a train nsar Usage City, Kan. Cars were
hurled down an embankment and four peo-
pie were killed outright and others injured.
An accident on tho Pittsiurg and Fort
Wayne Road eau. ed the death Of six peoS;o
while others were seriously injured.
In a collision on the Pennsylvania Rail
road near Lancaster Pa, fireman was
killed and an engineer seriously hurt
W, +. King, chief astromer of the Dominion
of Canada, has been appointed the Canadian
commissioner of the Alaskan Boundary
Commission.-The Lowell Spinners' As
sociation asked for an increase of wages
At meeting of the writing paper manufac-
turers at Springfield, Mass, it was decided
to shut down for month.---ReY. DR. Chas
NJ. O'Keelfe rector of the Catholic Church
of St. Charles Borromeo, in New York, died
of pneumonia Canada has extended its
regulations applicable to maritime torrs to
frontier ports, in consequence of reports of
cholera in New York.-The old monitor
Nantucket was despatched from the Brook
lyn navy yard to Sandy Hook to do quaran-
tine guard duty.
The general torn Of the Third district OF
New York banded down a decision in the
case of the people ex. rel The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company against Edward Wemple
comptroller. Thi5 was corporation tax
case in which certioTari was allowed, and thu
determination of the comptroller was re-
versed.
Some Of the bodies of the unfortunatas in
the wreck at Shreve, O.. was completely incin.
erated."The general term of the Supreme
Court declared the apportionment constitu
tional-The strike Of the operators Of
the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern
Rairs al is still on.-The United State;
Cold Rolled Wire Company has been or.
CARRIED at Hammond, Ind, with $500, 0OC
capital, for tho purpose of manufacturing
cold rolled copper wire-Arthur Watson
killed Miss Amanda Caine in Independence
Ky, and seriously stabbed her mother -
Several gifts for Roanoke College in Vir.
ginia were announced,-The Pan-Presby-
terrain Council elected Dr. Blake honorary
secretary Permanent Secretary Dr. Mat
thews presented his report. Dr. Thomas
read paper.
Owing 70 a defective frog, the passenger
train on the Joplin branch of the Mis- oar
Pacific Railroa was wrecked, two cars be-
ing derailei and almost demolished. Frank
DeForest, of st. Louis, the air-brake in
spector of the Missouri Pacific, was killed
and several others injured Fire broke
out in the plant of the Union School Furni-
ture Company, in Battle Creek, Mich, and
the factory, office and four other buildings
were destroyed The loss will aggregate
500 O0O.--A conslli lation Of farmers and
laborers has been arranged in Illinois, to be
known as the United Farmers and Iaborers
Of Illinois, destructive cyclone is re-
ported TO have occurred n the Riukiu Is
iapd--Judge William T. Sherwood of the
Common. Pleas Court of Cleveland died
from exhaustion caused by a surgical opera
ton. ---Glrtield and Leo Van Amman shot
each other, and then jumped into Black
River, New York, and were drowned. -
Jacob Kcal.eY who wa, injured in the Clay
ton explosion, died at Wilmington. The
whaling steamer Kite, with Peary's explor
ing party, AMI the reli expedition aboard,
arrived at Philadelphia Elizabeth
stanton died in Paltor county, Pa, at the
age OF one hundred and seventeen ycars.
Joseph st. Clair, } emp oye at the electric
powef-house in Richmond, whilo adjusting a
lelt, wa struck in tn head by piece of a
broken pulley, knocked sens sless, and dies.
in two hours. THE body of man was
found floating in an upright position in the
river near New Castle The western part
of Lancaster county, Pa, was visited by a
terrible rain storm, and bridges washed
away.-Another death from cholera oc-
currel in New York, making seven fatal
cases in ALL
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS.
y Dg,-Cyr ~, oil rno,. IF n Won re