Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-27
THE NEWS.

Tenn, the boiler exploded, and Engineer
james Blunderfiald was thrown into the air
one hundred feet and instantly killed Fire
man Robert Prater was torn to mass, and
the engine was demolished, and the track
torn up,-Whilea attempting t3escape from
Sing Sing Prison, Convict Vincent was killed
and Convict Welsh wounded Carl Axel-
son, New York workingman, broodei over
his wife's death until he bscano insane, ami
then committed suiciie-E. 7. ELS, a black
NTH in San Diego. Cal, was fatally shot by
Geo. Schmitt a rival blacksmith A wide
Unknown resident OF Syracuse, n Y,
Prince" Charles A Perkins was found dead
in his chair, of heart disease He was form
erly secretary of the legation at Stockholm
and consul at Barcelona, and married Prin-
cess Maria Isabella, of the Spanish royal
family.-EdwarJ Shewell, of Glen Rock,
Pa, and Ella StaufTer of Shrewsbury, were
killed By freight train.--A. Wrenn &
Sons carriage factory at Norfolk. Va, was
burneI.-Bogus checks are pouring into
Chicago banks drawn on the Atlas Bank of
that city, and coming from Boston, New
York and seaside resorts
Jerry Simpson has been Endorsed and NOM
mated for Congress by the Democrats in
Kansas.-Joseph c. Bailey, of Philadelphia
who was jealous of his wife, shot IN mistake
Mary Carney and Paul Gather, and put a
bullet through his own brain.-John A
Bostwick, the Standard Oil millionaire, died
from heart failure while his stables were
burning. The coachnlan and footman we;3
burned to death The executive commit
tee of the Southwestern Silver Convention
issued a call for a second annual conven- ion,
to meet in Ell Paso Tex, Monday, December
5.-A passenger on a Colorado train PIT to
fight two would-bn train robbers who were
''holding up" the other assenge's.-The
buckwheat trust has been incorporated IN
New Jersey Fire destroyed the Lindell
Hotel, the Cotton Belt Depot and several
small adjoining buildings at Pine Bluff. Ark.
The fire was cause: by defective flue. One
of the hotel guests was burned. Several,
however, were in their night clothes, and lost
everything At Richmond, Ind, the Har-
Ian family held its biennial national reunion.
The entire number of descendants is 5000,
several hundred of whom were present, rep
resenting almost the entire country, They
are all descendants of Joha and Michael Har-
Ian, who settled in Philadelphia in 1852. -
VIM. r. Cole ex-engiTeer of the Central
Railroad, living in Savannah, Ga, shot his
wife and child, and then attempted suicide,
without success Dependency at his failure
TO get employment is thought to be the cause
which led to the tragedy. Jacob N Gray
bill, bishop of thu River Brethren Church,
died at his home in Manor Towoship Pa,
aged eighty-one years. Congressman
Blouut, of Georgia, has decided to retire from
public life.-Many # the poor people
burned out at Delmar have no shelter, ard
some of the railroad employees whose homes
are burned are compelled to sleep in box
cl"S
The grave of a moonshiner, who with his
family had been murdered in Tennessee, was
blown up with dynamite The Montreal
bankers have made a move in the way of
lessenlng of what they call the American
currency evil in Canada At the next meet
ing of the Dominion Bankers Association
motion viii be made proposing discount of
from one and a-half to two per cent. There
Is about four million dollars in American
silver at present in the country. -The an
nouncement is made by Presipent Mel cod,
of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, that Mr.. John Gordon is appointed
general manager of the Lchigh Valley Trans
portation Company, with office at Buffalo,
n. Y, vice Mr.. W. P. Henry, assigned to
other duties.-A bill in equity was filed in
Common Pleas Court by the commonwealth
OF Pennsylvania, through Attorney General
Hensel, against Edward w, Magill, assignee
for the benefit OF creditors of John Bardsley
in which the court is asked to order that
portion of tie million-dollar verdict recently
recovered by Assignee Magill against the
Keystone National Bank be marked to the
use of commonwealth g. Grogan's
Richmond Varnish Works, located in the
suburbs of Philadelphia, sustained $4,000
damages by fire George Payne one OF tho
owners, and his fifteen year-old son, were
severely burned by an explosion while they
were mixing yarnish.
E.N. Adams, printer, about thirty years
I'D, who recently came to Philadelphia from
Providence. R. l., committed suicide by
shooting Edward Leisey a well-known
citizen of Reamstown, Pa, was arrested,
charged with setting fire to his barn, which
was destroyed with the seasons crops. In
JefauIt of bail he was committed for trial
FIX President Borgan, of Honduras, is
alive in San Francisco. F, Miller,
bookkeeper of the First National Bank of
Columbia, is a defaulter. Nelson Beenker,
Of New York was arrested on a charge OF
abandonment-The town of Clyde, Mich,
was urned.-Mrs A. E. W. Robertson OF
Muscagee, l. T, has completed the transla-
ton of the New Testament from the original
Greek into the Greek language. The Uni
yersity of Ohio has conferred upon her the
iegree of doctor of philosophy in recogni-
ton of her scholarly attachments
Farmers who claim that bacGwater caused
by the dam across the Neosho river at o.
wego ruins their farms, have blown the OBJ
iectionable distractions up with dynamite.
The dam was the finest in the state-The
Southern Passenger Association has boycott
ted the Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road.-The Kentucky legislature has been
reconvened As a further prec1ution
against the Introduction of cholera into
Canada, the importation of rags from Ger
many and Belgium has been prohibited by
an order in city coupcil.-The Texas militia
Is split up and diSbandeJ "A cloudburst
occurred at Freedom, Pa, doing much dam
age to property. The main street was torn
out six sect deep, and the foundation of
houses was washed away Fortunately no
one was killed or injured. -W oodville a
village on the Michigan Central Railroad, is
sinking into the earth because of the cavein
of an abandoned mine. George Kitteras
shot at Mary Flowers at Lancaster, Pa for
refusing his proposal of marriage, but the
buckle in the girls belt detected the bullet
and saved her life