Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-14
THE NEWS


Master Workman Powderly, of the knights of
Labor, says the order has increased over
5000 members during the past three months.
The cruisers Philadelphia, Kearsage and
Newark will take part in the May festival OF
Savannah. The Supreme Court of Boston,
in the case of Joseph Sweat brakeman,
against the Boston and Albany Railroad for
the loss of an arm, affirmed the judgment of
the lower court, which gives the plaintiff
$40 000.--A. Plat & Co.'s cotton mill
Manayunk, Philadelphia, was destroyed by
fire. Loss $50 000.--The state authorities Of
New Jersey decided TO begin suits against the
railroad companies in that state interested in
the Reading eombne.-Tae Methodist
General Conference considered the report of
the committee on the Worlds Fair recon-
mending that the Exposition gates be closed
on Sunday. VIM. I. Harris, United
States commissioner of education, has been
elected to a lectureship before the University
Extension Seminary, which opens in Septem-
Der in Philadelphia. George Guise, of
Valley Railroad, was killed by being run
over and horribly mangled at Sunnyside N.
1.-THE Pennsylvania and Reading have
agreed 10 reduce the tolls on anthracite coal
and coke.
Misses Alice La Rue and Kitty Clark were
drowned near Hamilton OHIO, while boating.
"A jury at Helena, Mont, has given John
T. Reese, a travelling man, S25 0)C damages
against the Union Pacific Railway for in.
iuries sustained while boarding train, the
injuries resulting in the smputation of one
arm.-The Williams block, Fort Fairfield,
Me-, embracing the clothing and boot and
shoe stores Of J. b. Williams, the barber shop
of A. p. Welsh, and occupied on the upper
floors by four families, was ruined by fire.
Very few household goods were saved.
VIII ams' loss $4,000; insured Tor about
$1,000 The Williams Adams veneer works
warehouse, on Archer street, in Indianat oils
was almost totally destroyed by fire. The
total loss will amount to $50. 600, with about
$4,000 insurance. boiler of station
AIRY engine which was being used at new
building on Sixty-ninth street, near Ninth
avenue. New York, exploded, instantly kill
ing the engineer, William Doherty, and
severely injuring William McNeery.--Mrs
b. X. PETER, the siser-in-law of Senator
Pefier, died at Carlisle, Pa, aged seventy
four years--The Southern Baptist Conyen.
ton at Atlanta elected delegates to the Baptist
Centennial in Philadelphia, May GA.
w. McCormick's sawmill, near Lock Haven,
Pa, was burned.-Hundreds of cattle
persisted in Wyoming during the reeent
storms.--Two hundred families were driven
from their homes in Lincoln, Neb, by the
floods.---lsabella Mariana, Mexican girl
living at Los Mos, n. NJ, cut out the tongues
of her faithless lover and the woman he had
just married.
In the General Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence Bishop Taylor, of Africa read nm inter
estiug report GU evangelHatioG work in the
Dark Continent At the Compton mines,
Birmingham, Ala, in q collision of an ore
train with a COW, YarImaster G. B. Rees was
crushed to death and Eagiueer d. Il. Spain
bsdly injured. Henry II. Barr, agent for
the Heading Railroad at Chester, Pa, was ar
rested charged with embezzlemeni.-Th he
Catholic Church authorities have applied for
$4,000 fee, of space at the Worlds Fair for
an educational exhibt-In the Southern
baptist Convention at Atlanta $4,000 was
raised for the centennial mission fund, Messrs.
Joshua and Eugene lowering contributing
5000 each.-F. b. Hataling, a travelling
min of Syracuse, n. Y, committed suicide at
Cory, Pa. by shooting himself, through the
head.-Theodore F.Hunter, late president
Of the Ph@nixyille, Pa, was arrested. charged
with making false returns TO the comptroller
OF the urrency.-Fiye hundred people are
homeless in the flooded districts of Illionos.
"A large freight depotof the Reading Rail-
road in Philadelphia, together with quantities
of freight, was destroyed by fre.-Louis
Dnmpler, proprietor of the Buffalo Theater
at Buffalo, N. y. was shot by his wife, and
se-iously wounded.----Sergeant John j.
Brennan, Of the United States Army, stationed
at the League Barracks, Philadelphia, at
tempted suicide in disreputable house by
shooting himself in the head Louis l..
Garfield, a grand nephew Of President Gar
field, died in Cleveland. Eleven years ago.
while he was living at Bryan, Ohio, he was
tried and convicted of shooting man, chiefly
on the testimony Of n woman who now lives
in St. Louis. lie protested his innocence,
but could not prove it. Beore death came,
Garfield declared that after six years of effort,
he had found proof that the st. Louis woman
perjurcd herselfin the case, receiving there
for tire sum of S200.-The Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company has filed a
bill in the United States Circuit Court. in
Chicago, to ioreclo,e a $l25, 000 mortgage
against Albert L. Nicely, the well-kuown
elevator owEer.
A two-year-old son of John B. Richie, Of
Charlottesville, Ind. was eaten by house
dog.-During an electric storm in Dubuque
Mrs. Jacob Schenberger was struck by light.
ming and killej.-Mr. o. G. Warren. senior
proprietor of the Buffalo Commercial, died OF
pneumonia.--A shock, believed to be tina,
of an earthquake. was felt in Terre Hill and
other sections of northern Lancaster county,
Ps.-The section hands employed by the
Wabash Railroad Company between Chicago
and St. Louis are cut on strike. The men
have been receiving Sl25 and now demand
! S150 a day. Their demand was refused, and
they went out The total force reaches two
hundred men.-Jsmes Ford, farm r, OF
Middleton, KY, was killed by two negroes
Jones and Walker, two important
witnesses against the cattlemen, disappeared
Henry W. Miller the absconding trea
surer of Crawford county, Pa. was arrested
in Chicago. Halstead Watrous, New
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