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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
LITTLE LEFT OF DELMAR.
The Pretty Town on the Dividing Line
Destroyed.

A despatch from Delmar, says Twelve
acres Of this thriving village were burned
A northerly breeze drove the fire with suc;i
force, and the heat was 50 intense, that it
was impossible to get near enough to burn
ing building TO fight the flames The fire
was discovered on the roof Of the Knights Of
Pythias Hall about 1870 O'Clock and the
wind soon famed the faint fame into a roar
ing fire. This building was situated on the
Delaware side short distance north of the
ralrold station,
The flames communicated to the large
brick store of Cooper & Wilson, and spread
in all directions. The fire made more rapid
progress toward State street. the dividing
line between Maryland and Delaware After
consuming about twenty or more houses On
the Delaware side, the flames leaped across
TO the Maryland side, and in less than two
hours deyoured more than forty buildings,
mostly dwellings of railroad employees. The
intense heat of the sun added to the heat
from the fire made the work of saving furni-
ture the more difficult.
Women and children hurried to and fro
with pieces of furniture trying to save
something from their doomed houses. Many
persons were overcome from heat a great
deal of furniture was taken from the houses
only tn be burned in open lots from flying
sparks. The loss is estimated at 100000.
1t is impossible to give each individual loss
but it will reach nearly 800 900, with insur
ance perhaps $50, 900 to s75, 600 Delmar is a
thriving village, inhabited mostly 10y en-
pleyes Of the New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk and Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroads, and was growing very
rapidly when the fire came aud swept 1t
away. The houses were mostly frame stIuc-
lures Of modern architecture. The town will
be rebuilt q { once
it is reported that three persons are miss
ing and are believed to have been lost in the
fire. Ihrst. others are badly ininrad
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
NO. 49,.
FRICK IN DANGER
The Police Discover Another An
arohistio Plot.
Word Sent Here By the Austrian
Government,

The Pittsburg Post published story to
the effect that the police have discovered an
other Anarcbistie plot TO ass,,ssinate II. C.
Prick, the chairman of the Carnegie Steel
Company, Limited, who was shot by Berry
man three weeks ago
The intended assassin is the Anarchist
Aaronstamm, of New York, who is close
friend Of Bergman and Emma Goldman
Aaronstamm has been in Pittsburg forsev-
eral days, and, it is claimei, has been wait
ing for favorite opportunity to kill his VIC
Tim lie is said 70 resemble Bergman very
much, and is armed with a revolver in one
pocket Of his coat and dynamite bomb in
the other.
The plot was given to the New York police
by Vice Consul Eberharlt, of Austria. The
information was given TO AR Eberhardt by
an Austrian, who arrived in New York re-
Gently with letters from the high police Ollie
ials Of Vienna stating that the Austrian story
could be relied upon.
The New York police at once notified the
Pittsburg authorities and a close watch for
Aaronst nm IS being kept about all the Au-
rchists' resorts The police have good de-
'cription of the fellow and will arrest him
on sight
As result Of the disclosures. additional
guards have been placed about the Carnegie
buildings and Mr. Prick 3 residence and do
tectives accompany him wherever he goes
Mr.. Prick regards these precautions as I'M
necessary, but his friends insist upon this
protection
The matter has been kept secret by the
police authorities Of New York and Pitts
burg in the hope that they might succeed in
capturing Aaronstammm
In this connection it can be said that Sec
rotary Loveioy has been warned that he has
only until the 18th instant % live Other
officials Of the Carnegie Company have also
received threatening letters. The police are
satisfied however, that they can Illustrate the
plans Of the Anarchists
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
The Intense Goodness of Spacr.

We rarely realize, [ think, how easily
the earth parts with its heat, and no
cold space is through which the earth
sweeps in its orbits Nor do we com
monty appreciate how relentlessIy space
sucks away the heat which the earth has
garnered from the sunbe4us, out into its
illimitable depths. Way out i'll space
is a cold so intense that we fairly fail to
grasp its meaning. Perhaps 800 or 400
degrees below the freezing point of
water, some philosophers think, are the
dark recesses beyond our atmosphere.
And night and day, summer and winter,
this insatiate space is robbing lis OF our
heat, and fighting with demoniac power
to reduce our globe to its own bitter
chill. So, after all, oar summer and
winter temperatures are only maintained
by the residue of the suns heat which
we have been able to store up and keep
hold of in spite of the pitiless demands
of space. Our margin sometimes gets so
reduced or nights in winter that we can
readily believe the astronomers aud
physicists when they tell US that re luc-
ton of the suns heat by seven per cent.
and a slight increase in the number of
winter days would suffice to bring again
to our hemisphere a new Age of Ice, with
its inevitable desolation. The balance is
really a nice one between the heat we
daily gather from the sun and the share
of it which we lose in space. Harper's
Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20

All horsemen will be interested in the
reports of a feeding trial with horses,
which has been carried out by Professor
j. W. Sanborn. Horsemen have gener-
allo been IN the habit of believing that
when grain, especially meal and more es-
pecially such as corn meal, is fed to
horses alone or minced with hay, it
tends to form a compact mass in the
stomach and produce indigestion. Two
lots of horses were fed for nearly three
months, one with hay and grain mixed,
the other with hay and grain separately.
At the end of this period tae food was
reversed, and the horses were fed some
two months more. The division of the
hay and grain into separate feeds gave
better results than the mixed hay and
grain feeds, on which the horses did not
maintain their weight so we'll. Profess
sor SanbOrn accounted for this by the
fact that the timothy hay when cut fine
with its sharp solid ends irritated and
made sore the mouths OF the horses, and
possibly induced too rapid eating, and
when the hay and grain were moist, the
animals would be likely to eat more rap
idly than when fed dry. In another trial,
which covered feeding cut against whole
hay to horses, the result was decisively
III favor Of the cut hay. The difference
i'll weight of the horses was 115 pounds
in favor of cut clover for the four
months and half of the test Clover
hay and lucerD, unlike timothy hay, do
not present sharp, solid cutting edges.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

BY premature fall of rock at Swope's
quarry, at Mapleton, Penna., Samuel Bell
was killed aud several other workmen were
injured
NEWTON TALBOT, an electric lineman, was
KILLED at Port Huron, Michigan, by current
from a trolley guy wire. "The current was
only 800 volts 4"
A THROUGH train from Chicago, on the
santa Fe road, was wrecked at Petersburg,
Colorado by the spreading of the rails.
Eighteen persons were injured
A BOAT, overloaded with picnic party of
ten, was overturned in Lees Pond, near
Worcester, Massachusetts, Annie Bernstein,
aged Is years and Ida Harris, aged ), were
drowned
A BALTIMORE and Ohio engine ran into
beef train near Bellaire, Ohio Both engines
and two cars were wrecked, and two brake
men were injured, one named John Love
joy fatally
By collision between two steam yachts,
near Marine City Michigan, Charles Wor-
den, aged % years, was drowned. He was
son Of the the United States Consul at Wal
laceburg, Ontario.
EDDIE and Willie Bennett, aged and 10
years respectively, were drowned in a pond
near Trenton, New Jersey. Ii is thought
one fell in and the other was drowned while
trying to rescue him.
A DESPATCH from Charleston South Caro-
lima says that eight negroes were drowned
by the swapping Of a sloop between sulh-
vans Island and the main land. They were
hucksters on the way to market
THE second floor Of a building in courea Of
construction at Lancaster, Pema. collapsed,
carrying with it half dozen men, who fell
is feet with the heavy timbers Frank Hart
and Henry Rudy were probably fatally in
iured.
ARTHUR CROFT, timer, Of Pittburg,
swallowed five ounces of carbolc acidin mis-
lake for vino and died in great agony Mrs,
Croft had secreted the wine from her hus-
band and in searching for it Croft came
across the carbolic acid bottle and drank
from it without looking.
PATRICK MURRAY, Charles Olin, George
Davis and John Iolin, employees of the
Quinsigumond mill Of the Washburn g. Moen
Manufacturing Company, near Worcester,
Mass were horribly burned by the explosion
of tank containing sulphuric acid. They
are IN a precarious condition.
A DESPATCH from Guthrie Oklahoma, says
that a whole family, consisting Of a man and
wife and four children, names unknown, were
killed there few days since The family
had been in the city buying provisions, aud
while returning to their claim on the old
Cheyenne reservation their team ran away
and over precipice Every member Of tho
family and both horses were killed
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20

In an address on 'tooth culture" at a
meeting of British dentists, Sir James
Crichton- Brown referred to the with.
drawal of dcurinc from our food as Que
of the important causes of the increase
of dental carries. This element seems
to find its way into the animal economy
only through the silicious stems of
gasses and outer husks of grain, in
which it exists in comparative abund-
auce; and the fneuess and whiteness
now demanded in -four are secured by
removing the bran that yielded hourine
to our ancestors. The enamel of teeth
has been found to contain more fourine,
in the form of flouride of calcium, thau
any other part OF the body. Fiourlne,
might, indeed, be regarded as the char
acteristic chemical constituent OF this
structure, which is the hardest of all an.
ilnal tissue, and contains 95.5 per cent.
of salts against - per cent. in the der
tine; and any deficiency Of this elerent
must result in thin and inferior enamel.
The question of restoring the supply of
tlouriue to our diet is worthy of consid-
Grafton.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20

MUST INEIWI " TW1TlI N Ilo hNYII.
If one WE'RE f., os,- his friends what
mineral we aro mast familiar Wit, and
most commonly usol a. fooi tba
answers would nr,,qbIv he bath varied
and amqsina S,lt would fancr fret
SUGGEST itsetf to mon7 and to those
Whose training in nbvsioIo2v and.
byrieDe has not been nepIecfej m
do9bt thn c,oio, of lime md iron and
carbon. which. in one form or another
we use with food t, build nm hone and
Drawn. would b, amplv 1r,ei Rnt
after ALL it is water for water is a
,-,;,,--ol sd ;,,l v, m
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
An Insect Terror.

A strange spider, it is reported, has
appeared i'll great numbers in the low
lsads and valleys about Hermosillo,
Mexico, and is giving the natives great
alarm. 1t is peculiarly ferocous aud
manifests no fear of anything, not hest
tating to give chase to men who disturb
it. 1t is considerably larger than the
tarantula, common in those regions. and
is terribly poisonous. Three deaths
have been lately reported from its
bite. 1t is a hairy insect and has
legs as large as q pipe stem. Il
runs with remarkable agility, and climbs
the stick or whip toward the hand of any
one who strikes at it. 1t is a newcomet
to the section, and so far no one has beer
found who has seen it before. Ore of
the deaths was that of Mexican who
was riding along and saw ore of the
spiders. IIe struck at it with his whip.
and before he could drop the whip the
spider was at his hand and had bitten
him. He died within three hours in
great agony. The spiders hop along the
ground IN great leaps toward the object
of their attack. 'Ssy Orleans Picayune,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
RIOT Ind ARSON.
Striking Railroaders Repeat Home
stead Scenes.
Cars Fired and a Passenger Train
Wrecked,

A despatch from Buffalo, n. Y, says:
There is no further Disgusting the fact that
the strike of the Erie and Lehigh Valley
syitchmen is a serious matter. Riot and
ncendiarism mark its tidal wave. Whether
it would have proved 50 very serious TO the
railroads TO have $50 or 209 men leave their
posts of duty without warning IS not now the
question.
Property belonging to the railroad COM
pany has been destroyed by incendiary fires;
msn engaged in the peaceful performance of
their duties in the companies service have
eeen assaulted AMI sent to the hospitals; the
movement of trains has been seriously inter-
fered with, and the lives Of innocent persons
who were in no way connected with the strike
and had not even heard of it, have been en-
dangered by the derailment of passenger
train ON one of the roads.
Such is the indictment up to the hour of
writing There had been more or less trouble
between the strikers and their sympathizers
and the men who were doing the strikers
work, and few desultory assaults had oc-
Cured. Things began to put on a more SER
lous aspect at 2 O'Clock A. NJ, when a series
of iucendiary fires broke out simultaneously
in the Lenigh Valley yards. Eighteen or
twenty freight cars filed with wool, cotton,
hay and various other mechandise, two pas
senger coaches and two watchmen's houses
We're burned
The fires occurred at places where the fire
men could not successfully stay the flames on
account of an absence of water, besides the
difficulty OF access to the fires The water
tank adjacent to the coal trestles was
smashed, and an engine that was taking
water there wrecked by a string of 10 run
away coal cars that had been turned loose
from the tTestle.
The strike of the switchmen inaugurated at
Buffalo on the Erie and Lehigh Valley lines
has extended to Waverly and Sayre on the
Lehigh and all freight traffic on that line is
at standstill. A train of beef stands on an
Erie siding there the switchmen refusing to
allow it to be switched to the Lehigh tracks
to proceed 20 its destination.
) The division superintendent of the Lehigh
has telegraphed to Oswego for the sheriff to
come to his aid, although the men are max
ing no demonstration. 1t is expected that
the Erie men will also go out and then all
traffic through these towns will be at a stand
still The men are non-communicative and
their future movements are unknown.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20

There are nineteen general hospitals in
London Eleven Of them have medical
schools attached, ald three, st. Bar
tholomew, St. Thomas and St. Guy, are
endowed The first of these is the
wealthIest and most ancient, having been
founded in 1922. Its net revenue in
1889 was 1853, 900 It owns houses IN
London and has also about Is, 900 acres
of land in various counties. St. Thomas's
was founded in 1867, aud has a revenue
Of about 532), 900. s.. Guys has a
revenue OF about $13D, 900. The Lon
don Hospital in Whltechapel Road, with
accommodations for rs patients, is the
largest in the metropolis. 1t treats an
nually also about 100000 out patients
besides trivial cases not registere /. The
total number of beds in the general and
special hospitals in London is $500, of
winch $500 are in constant use. The
poor law indrmitie5 and the sick wards
OF the work houses furnish IA, 900 beds,
and the Metropolitan Asylum Board has
$500 for infectious cases, the average
number in use being less than 1000. -
Boston Transcript
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
INVITING CROWNED HEADS.
Special Invitations to European Rulers
to the Columbian Celebration.

to the Columbian Celebration.
The State Department is about to send out
invitations the like Of which were probably
never issued before by the Government.
They are to be most elaborate affairs, and
viii be engrossed on the finest and most en-
during parchment The invitations are 10
Marie Christine, Queen Regent Of Spain; TO
the infant King Afonzo; to the Duke Of
Niragua, the lineal descendant Of Columbus;
to Emperor William Of Germany; to Queen
Victoria and other high personages in Eu-
rope, TO take part in the commemoration Of
the landing Of Columbus Invitations have
already been sent 10 these Powers 10 partici-
pate in the Worlds Fair, but this Is a special
honor intended for those most closely inter
ested IN the celebration Of the discovery Of
America
The invitation TO the Queen Regent Of
Spain is c0uched in the most courtly LAM
guage 1t reads:
Great and Good Friend; The Congress Of
the United States, recognizing the iliustrOus
services Of your ancestor Queen Isabella of
spain, desire that a special invitation be tx
tended to You to take part in the coming
commemoration Of the landing of Column
bus
The invitation 10 Emperor willinm and
other potentatpS relate 10 the matter of relics
of Columbus. The exact form Of the invi-
tation TO young Alfonzo has not been deter
mined upon vet. II would hardly be the
proper thing 10 address him rs Great and
Good Friend, as he is hardly old enough for
that distinction. The form will be selected
in a few days
These invitations viii be delivered in per
son by messenger. Hon. w r. Curtis OF
the Bureau Of American Republics, will
leave September LIST for Spain to present The
iuNritoti1us
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
WORK AND WORKERS.

AB1Cf % of the Lands in the Mount Clare
Works of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have struck, owing to Il reduction
IN the wage for piece work
THE fire in the West Superior Wisconsin,
iron and steel works were lighted the other
night and tho works are in charge Of the
police. An attempt will be made to run the
works with nog-uniol men, under the pro-
lection Of deputy sheriffs
TRoUnIE is reported among the employees
Of the Central New England ami Western
Railroad recently Incorporated in the Read
ing system A number Of section men have
left the road because Of q reduction in their
wages of % cents per day.
RAILROAD men at Elmira n Y, claim
that recently discharges Of telegraph opera
tors by the Delaware, Lacka wanna and
Western Railroad have been made because
the men belong 10 the Brotherhood Of Rail
way Telegraphers.
A TELEGRAM from Iarned, Kansas. SAYS
that the officers Of the Farmers Alliance are
authority for the statement that the Alliance
has agreed to furnish the locked ont men NJ
Homestead with -four enough TO tide them
over their trouble with the Carnegie Com
pany.
The strike Of the employees Of the Stat
ington Valley Mill Company, near Beth'e
hem. Pa, has ende1 in a compromisa The
AlFl dib ~ itsEsiNt Atit same wages hn IelDfo
the strike and In case Of a reduction are 10
receive two weeks notice thereof The cause
Of the strike was the companys refusal 10
sign the Amag amated scale
The miners at the Trout River Mines, in
Cambria county, Pa a few days ago elected
check weighman and asked that he be
given place OF the scales This was refused
by the manager and in consequence 200 men
are now on strike, with prospect 81 more
following II Is believed that II the strike IS
not soon ended the State authorities win be
called upon 70 enforce the Check Weighman
act
r a MASS MEETING held ia Phillirsburg Pa
by representatives Of over 300 miners IN
the CleaTiield District, declared the men
would strikson September ist unless an adj
vance was ma o IN the price 81 low grade
coal mining and a chagee made in the check
wetghman system n resolution was also
adopted calling on the men in the Puuxsu-
tawnsy District, which adjoins the Clearfield
District, 70 stand firm for demands Of the
same character which they havepresented 70
the GENERATORS
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ton, her indifference, her polite sang
froid. He should never know that she
liked him. She would let him see that
she regarded the whole thing as a joke,
and yet now that the time had come,
she was struck dumb, and sat, blushing
and silent, like any schoolgirl.
"Milly, he said, gently, "don't shrink
away from me. A year ago l believed
that life had nomore charm for me; but
thinking of those blue eyes OF yours,
ha' come to different conclusion.
Dearest, you engaged yourself to me as
a mere mailer of form. Will you do it
again-this time in real earnest?'
And the end of AIilly's carefully
studied speeches was:
"Yes.'
So there was Mrs. Dlrrow in the
Moore family, after all, and when Ethel
Elliott, in a shabby pension at Llcerne,
read the marriage notice, she exclaimed,
scornfully:
"Well, never thought that Mllicent
would take up with a second hand sweet
hearti"
Mr.. Elliott made no reply; he was
gloomily surveying pile of upreceipted
bills.
''Do you hear, Jim?" sharply spoke
his wife. ''AIillicent is married. And
to my old beau!"
"Yes, hear" said he, abstractedly.
"Well, why don't you say some
Tthing9'
'I've only one thing to say" sn1rled
the Sophisticated hero. "That any
idiot who gets married does very
stupid thing. Five hundred francs
1nilliner's bill-a hundred francs board.
Good heavens what is going to become
Of us2"
81 thought you loved me, jim"
whispered Ethel. aim sure Doctor
barrow did"
Then, said Elliott, deliberately, ~
wish you had married him. y Saturday
Night.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
INTO AN OPEN SWITCH.
Six Men Killed and Fifteen Horribly
Injured.

u4OAf
The Toledo, Walhonding Valley and Ohio
Railway, branch of the Pennsylvania sys-
TEN, ROW in course of construction, expert
enced its first horrible mishap six miles north
of Coshockton, at point known as Richie
sons Gravel Pit. Six persons were crushed
to death and fifteen others were terribly in
jured.
The cause of the disaster is told briefly e.;
follows: A construction train in charge of
Conductor Humphrey and Engineer White
has been engaged in hauling gravel from the
pit. The killed and injured were engaged in
ballasting the roadway at point three miles
north Of the pit. After the last train had
been unloaded the men boarded the cars that
were being pushed ahead Of the engine TO
come to their boarding camp
A few hundred yards south Of the gravel
pit the train was running at a hazardous
speed and when it arrived at the pit which
was to be passed without stopping, the switch
was open and the train entered the siding
and collided with some empty cars standing
in the pit The greater number Of wCrLmsn
we're seated ON the first and second cars an1
when the long train turned in upon the spar
they had no opportunity to jump Ten Of
the cars were piled in a mass of debris, and
beneath this the poor mortals were crushed.
IT required two hours to extTicate Sc me of
the dead and injured
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
Il SHALL DIE TONIGHT"
a Man on Trial for Murder Accurately
Predicts His Own Death.

II shall die tonight said W. Il. Sheitor
to the Sheriff, who was conducting him from
the the courthouse to the Jail in Marshall
NC.
Shelton was on trial for the murder Of
Grant Tweed some months ago. whiskey and
woman having much to do with the homi-
eide During the day the State had put on
the stand three eyewitness Of the killing.
and Shelton, who had heart disease. was
much affected by their testimony.
II was while or the way to prison. after
court had adjourned for the day. that bs
told the Sheriff he would die that night. He
ASKED thai he might be put IN comfortable
room instead Of cell and his wife might
visit him u 5 requests were granted
AS he predicted Shelton vas taken in dur
ii5 the i.islit AMI, although physician ex-
ha;istei his MEDICAL skill in irving to relieve
hi,H, he died about O'Clock Shelton was a
rabusi Hooking man and seemed in perfect
health when the trial began.