Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-13
THE NEWS.

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observatory, claims to be the first to see Mars
moons during this opposition. Amer
lean schooner Belle Bartlette was seized at
Port Hawsbury, N. S.. charged with viola
ton of the customs laws in 1890 at Shippegan
while under command of another master
United States Commissioner Hoffman ex-
amined forty-ive prisoners at Wallace
Idaho, nineteen of whom were released on
bonds ranging from $500 to $4,000. Two of
the men were placed under bonds of s., 500
each, but bail has not been furnished. An
organized band of tramps raided the village
of Maytown, in Pennsylvania. w. r.
Sheldon, of Fort Payne, was appointed re-
ceiver of the Fort Payne, Ala, Coal and Iron
Company on application of minority of
bondholders-A tunnel Waterman frustra-
ted an arranged train robbery near Winston,
Texas.
The hearing of the Coeur dAlene ricSers
was begun in the Unittd States District
Court at Boise City, Idaho.-Two eagles
fought duel to the death for the possession
of a six-months-old child which one had car
ried away in Michigan.-The Catholic
indianapolis, elected officers for the ensuing
year. Albert Delaureus, the crazy Swiss
lawyer and engineer, who threatened to shoot
himself in Tiffanys jewelry store, and to
blow up with dynamite the banking house of
Barring, Magoun g. Co, if he was not given
money plead guilty. Justice Mcmahon SEN
fenced him to eighteen months imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Peter Steinmetz, a
prisoner in the Yorkville prison, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his cell with a
handkerchief A report was made to the
selectmen of Hartford Conn, showing that
four baby farms were being Illegally con-
Quoted for the profit of the city missionary
Colonel Lyman Guinnep, veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, was crushed to death
by an elevator in Chicago. His body waY
shockingly mangled, the right leg being tor
from the trunk The Itasco Iron COMPANY
was incorporated in Chicago, with capital
of 5000, 000--A judgment of S45, 900 was
entered in favor of the State of Arkansas
against the Little Rock and Memphis
Railroad Compa ny in Chauncery Court al
little Rock, Ark
The single tax advocates Of Pennsylvania
met In annual conventionin Reading. Six
hundred applications 'were made by Home
stead strikers for store orders.-There was
fatal collision between freight trains near
Indian creek.-The demands of the tele-
graph operators of the Union Pacific were
granted-Cyrus Hyster and Lawrence
kayana, two employees of the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, were killed while walking on
the railroad track at Steelton. Martin
Reed who escaped from Jail where he was
lncarcerated for killing Alexander Chapel
in Washington county, Pennsylvania, killed
himself in preference to surrendering, after
he had killed on. of the force.-James E.
LlSsenhy Tennessee farmer, was assassinated.
Papers We're fled in Muncie, Ind, fsn tlle
organization of the W, N Whitley Harvest
ing Machine Company, which has been in
corporated with Springfield, Pittsburg and
Muncle capitalists as backers.-A thief in
Chicago tried to swindle Hetty Green out of
million dollars worth of real estate -
Commencement exercises were held at the
University of the S3outh-One man was
killed and seven wounded at a Colored Sun
day school convention at Chapel Hill, La
kate Patterson, of Crescent City, O. T.,
at midnight secured double barrelled shot
gun, walked in her night clothes to her lovers
house. called him outand shot him Think
ing she al killed him. she placed the muzzle
OF the gun in her mouth, and with her bare
feet pulled the IL igger, her brains being blown
out. Her lover was unarmed. Jealousy was
the cause, At Kalamazoo Mich Baruum
& Bailey were sued for SIS, 900 by the adj
ministrator of the estate of Martin Foley, an
employee of the show, who was killed in the
wreck of the show train two years ago.
Manager Hager say, he will not Settle
Miss Alice Jenking aud her father were
rescued at Cape May. They came near be-
ing drowned
The Peoples party of Nebraska nominated
{, H, Van Wyck for governor-An un-
known woman tried to blow up the residence
of Charles D. Irwin in Chicago Three
persons were killed and seven hurt by flood
in st. Paula train was held up and
robbed near Calls, California Ex-Senator
Marius A Fulton, of Wisconsin, died of
apoplexy, aged ffty-six. He was widely
known as an advocate of free silver coinage.
The National Bit Mills, machinery and
three cattle cars, in Paris Tex, were burned
The naphtha explosion at the Jayne Chemical
Works, in Philadelphia, caused the death Of
four persons. Stetson, notori
Gus burglar, was taken to Philadelphia from
Saratoga for diamond robbery. R.
Ross, colored, thirty-seven years old, of
Matchtown, near Merchantville, N. j., while
at work in bed of clay, was instantly killed
by an embankmeut caving in on him and
burying him.--Frank Mackin, superintsn-
of the tanning establishment in the peniten-
tiary in Jefferson City, was murdered by A
negro convict named Brown With the
exception of England, the Haytien govern
ment will be the first to break ground for the
construction of its buildings at the Worlds
Fair grounds Dutch Carmen, an Italian
who it is alleged kicked Andrew Umka. a
Hungarian, to death at a christening near
Tomhickon, Pa, was arrested at Silver
Brook
The premises occupied by Tarrant s. Co.,
importers and iobbers of drugs, in New
York, were damaged by fire to the extent of
100o00-W w. Belvin and g. F. Cron-
keyet sued Rand McNally & Co, of Chicago.
for so 090. A Baltimore and Ohio engine
ran into beef train near the Bellaire, Ohio,
bridge, 1sreeking both engines and two cars.
John Loyeioy, brakeman, was fatally in
jured, and Thomas Feeney, also brakeman.
internally hurt.-Fhe Honduras revolution
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