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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-15
ASPIRATION.

Fallen again! Sol give up the fight,
What boots II to strive, IL forever and ever.
In spite Of ones utmost of pain and endeavor,
Still TO cleave to the right
Still to follow the light,
One falls from each height?
What boots 1t? Oh, better to climb and to fall.
To strive and to fail. to fight and be slain.
Than to grovel content on the souls lowest
plane.
AT the spirits clear call
Whose stirs not at all
His cup shall be GALL
Joseph B. Glider in Youths Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-15
destined for Great Uses.

It is estimated by Swiss engineer that
100000 horse power for electric transmits
Eion Of power can be easily obtained from
the waterfalls Of that country.-New York
Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-15

People who know actors and read this,
win already have said that il Is fiction
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

THREE more cases of typhus fever were
reported in New York.
THREE men we're killed in the Anaconda
mines at Butte, Montana, by falling earth.
AN unknown aged man was struck and
fatally injured by an electric railway car IN
Lascaster, Pa.
JOHN SUTTON, accidentally shot ard killed
his 5-year-old brother, Isaac, at Hayden town,
Penna. He was handling q revolver care
less y.
SEVERAL cars of a passenger train we're
wrecked, by the breaking of an axle near
Bridgeport, West Virginia Fifteen pas
sengers were injured, none fatally.
BY an explosion Of gus at Knowles, Taylor
& knowles's pottery, at East Liverpool, OHIO,
three workmen were fatally injured, and q
Iortlon OF the works were wrecked.
PAUL DENSE, leading citizen of Mount
Carmel, Pa, was found on tine kes1ing Rall-
road. He had been struck by train while
returning from friends wedding.
THE st. Louis express on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was wrecked near Bridgeport
Ohio, by the breaking Of driving vi heel OF
the locomotive. No one was seriously in
jured.
The boiler in the shops Of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway at Savannah
Georgia. exploded, wfecking the building,
destroying large number Of valuable
patterns, and killing two men and fatally in
Juring third.
DlPHTHERIA is again prevalent TO an
alarming extent at Locust Gap, mining
village near Mt. Carmel, Penns. The Sta, {
Board OF Health has taken steps TO prohibit
public funerals and to quarantine houses in
which cases of the disease have occurred.
CARL HARTMAN, aged IS years, and Ed.
ward Chatfie, aged -. of Rochester, Penna
died from eating roots which they supposed
were sassafras. Mrs. Martin Hartman and
her daughter Louise, years old, we're in
critical condition from the same cause
BIZ fall Of top rock and coal in the Noun t
Lookout eolliery, ct Wyoming, Penna., John
Mlsche was killed and Thomas John was
fatally injured. While the victims were
being carried out u second fall occurred,
fatally lnjuring another Polish miner, name
unknown,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
ABANDONED IN MID-0CEAN.
Ten of the Crew of an oiI-Iaden Vessel
Probably Lost.

Ten of the Crew of an oII-Iaden Vessel
Probably Lost.
Shipping circles were startled in Phila-
delphia by the report OF the abandonment in
mid-ocean of ihe new bark Invertrossachs,
involving loss upward of $4,000 to the
underwriters. Ten men are said to have
perisheJ. Tle news was received from
Captain Deuchers. of the tanker Bear Creek
which vessel has arrived from Pensut.
On the afternoon Of March 3. in latitude
40 so, longitude $50 o. Captain Deuchers
fell in withihe British steamship Nendelssohn,
bound from Baltimore to Rotterdam Inc
Mendeissohn signaiied that she had on board
twenty-six Of the crew OF the lnyertr0ssachs.
A search OF the ships articles fled with the
British Consul, shows that on leaving Phila.
delphia the lnycrtrossac.s was manned By q.
crew Of thiriy-six inen, and II IS believed the.
other ten have persisted.
This il the heaviest loss sustained by the
marine underwriters tor many years. The
Invertrossachs Captain Tayiof in command,
sailed on February !, bouni 70 Calcutta,
laden with H. y so gallons o. oil, in cases,
valued a; so 49, Nine days later she was
spoken by tie British steamship Orslno,
partially disia1s;ed but hearing IN for the
coast. At that time Captain Taylor was 80
positive he couli makea narbor OF safety that
ne declined the assist nee that was offered
him by the master Of the Orsino. Shipping
men are no. puzzled over the cause Of the.
captain abdud ming his ship, and 1t ~
generally conceded that she must have
foundered, otherwise the officers and crew
would never nave LEFT the vessel
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
Spontaneous Combustion,

A young man of Parkenburg, W. Va,
employe of an oil company, and whose
wooden clothing was saturated with lin
seed oil and other infammables, was
washing his hands in benzine when his
clothing suddenly burst into flame. The
other employees extinguished the fire, and
he was found to be seriously burned His
wounds were dressed in cotton waste
saturated with linseed oil, and he was
put to bed. Some hours after that the
bed caught fire, aud he was again badly
burned. DIR. Cowden, the attending
physician, supposing the fires to origi-
nate in spontaneous combustion, pro
ceeded to make some experiments, which
he thus describes: The first test was by
saturating waste with linseed oil aud
keeping it at temperature of 140 de-
grees; in three hours it began to smoke,
and in draft ;gnited. Second test, by
rubbing waste containing some paint aud
the linseed oil on wooden block tor
two minutes, then put in oil, both at
temperature of ninety-fve degrees (not
quite the heat of the human body; it
took fire in less than one hour. Linsee
oil alone was used on the waste, with the
same results. Fourth, linseed oil and
waste were kept at ninety-fve degrees
three and one-half hours, were taken out
and rubbed, and soon began to smoke,
and in draft ignited. These expert
ments were Intended to place the oil and
waste as near as possible under the same
conditions that they were in the bed of
the patient, and at about the same tenn
peIature of his body heat. All the ex-
periments brought about chemical oxida-
ton and combustion, and there is reason
to believe that the burning and subse-
quent fire in his bed were from similar
causes.-New Orleans Picayune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
WORDS OF WISDOM.


Our heaviest burdens are those we
borrow.
Where there is no faith there is no
obedience.
Much doing is not SO important as
well doing.
Genius may be swift, but patience has
the surest feet.
A self-mals man never gets tired o.
Dragging on his job:
More people fall from encouragement
than from misfortune.
If grooming could heal broken bones,
nobody would be lame.
No man can look at the stars without
wanting to live forever.
If nobody had a hobby the world
would soon stop moving.
There would be more good boys if
there were more good fathers.
Love never has to be watched to see
that it does a full days work.
Living only for what we can see,
proves that we are short sighted.
The man who loves most is not the
one who tries to keep the most.
Admiration is well enough in its way,
but it can never do the work of love-
A fanatic is man who takes burn
ing interest in something we don't like.
The greatest blockhead is the one
whose mistakes never teach him any
thing.
1t is great deal easier to be content
ed without riches than it with them. -
Indianapolis Qnd.) Rams Horn.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
WORK AND WORKERS.

The strike of the switchmen on tho IN
nois Central Railroad has terminated.
FIVE hundred men and boys employed in
oeIz Schwab d Co.'S shoe factory, in Chicago,
struck because of disagreement with the lrm
over men employed during former strike.
JONES Il LAUGHLIN's American Iron
WORKS, and the pudding department OF Pam
Ter " Sons, at Pittsburg, have shut down on
account OF the depressed condition OF the iron
trade.
NINE of the IS furnaces of the puddle mill
ofthe PhCelix Iron Company, at Phenixyille
fenna-, resumed operations after several
weeks, idleness. 1t is believed the entire mill
Will resume soon.
1T IS reported that orders have been re-
eelyed at the United States Express Com
pany, 9 offices in Chicago and Cincinnati TO
open the fight on the Brotherhood by dis
charging several messengers.
The Reading Foundry Company, whose
foundry at North Reading, Penna, has been
ldle Tor three months, announced that opera
tons VIII be resumed in about two weeks
giving employment to 200 hands.
SECRET meeting of employees of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company was held in Har'
risourg TO discuss certain grievances relative
to the hours of work. committee was sp-
pointed to formulate and present the griev-
ahcesot future meeting.
AsINGULAR outcome ofthe street car trouble
IN indianapolis was the appointment, OF
Thomas Steel to be receiver of the company.
The appointment was made OH petition of d
rev prominent citizens. Steel W IS formerly
superintendent of the company, but was dis
missed by Frenzel when the latter became
president. The question of solvency did not
enter into the case, and the move is regarded
as a partial victory for the strikers.
A TELEGRAM from Pitsburg says that the
skelp iron and steel manufacturers of that dis
trlet have formed an association, aud that
when the time comes for The fixing OF the new
scale OF wages will insist upon their own pro-
duct, instead of on bar iron, as heretofore.
Ihey Will also demand three turns day of
eight hours each instead of two turns, as UNI
der the old scale. In the association are repre-.
sented 80 firms, employing from 81. 900 to 40,
OO0 men. 1t is expected that the association g
demands will be opposed both by the Amalgs-
mated Association and the bar iron manulact'
urers, and that there will be very bitter
struggle.
TELEGRAM from Birmingham, Alabama,
says: The crisis OF the fight betwe the
Alabama and Pennsy lyania iron product il
felt TO have arrived. The market has gone to
pieces and birmingham furnaces have ~
tons IN their yards. The rairea $ have been
called on to reduce freight 10 the lowest posi-
bic point, and reduction of 10 per cent. in
wages has been determined on. Representa-.
ives OF three leading companies have gone on
to New York To consult with Eastern stock
holders and Directors of railroads interested
In The meanwhile the furnaces continue in full
operation"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
CABLE SPARKS.

LEO Nil celebrated his eighty-second
birthday aud the fourteenth anniversary Of
coronation as Pope,
NJ. LOUBET, a moderate republican, has
succeeded in forming Il ministry for France
with himself as prime minister.
Hon. CHARLES FOSTER, Secretary of the
United States Treasury, arrived in England
much benefited 10y the sea trip, but still weak
II has been decided that the remAins of the
Duke of CiaIeUce and Ayondalc will be finally
inferred in the memorial chapel IN Windsor
Castle.
Mr. GIBBY, a prominent conservative and
member OF the Pembroke (Wales) board of
aldermen, committed suicide at Pembroke by
blowing his brains out with gun.
NJ, Tricoupis declined to form n ministry
for Greece, aud NJ. Constaut1pou 0 became
minister OF the interior md finance. The
Greek Chamber, which placed itself in oppo-
siton to the King, was prorogued.
IT is stated in insurance circles in London
that Mr., Ross, claim settler OF the National
Marine Insurance Company, has been ap-
pointed British arbiter in the dispute between
Great Britain and the United States regarding
the Boring sea.
Mr. WHlTELAw REID, United States min
lister to France, concluded with NJ. Jules
Roche minister OF commerce OF France, an
agreement for q commercial reciprocity treaty
between the Uuited States and France.
GREAT excitement was caused in the
fashionable Faubourg 81. GerInain in Paris,
by the explosion OF dynamite at the residence
of the Princess of Sagen. No damage was
done beyond the destruction Of neighboring
windows.
TIE Russian ministerial council is ex-
pected TO Immediately issue decree remOy-
ing the prohibition placed some time ago on
o. tt
question OF the exports Of oats will be post
pOned
SOME Austrian frontier guards at Sando.
mierz, hrc4 upon and wounded three Russian
spies is the latter were crossing the river Wis
tuIa, WhIvh forms part Of the boundary be-
tween Austria and Russia. The spies sue
ceeded in making their escape.
HERR WEENUrn, German imperial COM
missioner 10 the Chicago Columbian Exposi'
ton, wants more space at the fair for German
eXhl6ls than has been allotted him Herr
Krupp, the great gun manufacturer, will have
an exhibit that will involve alone 500, 600
marks.
THE miners of North Stafiordshire, Eng,
and North Wales have notified the masters
that they will strike in order to maintain their
prices ard wages. THIS action Is in accord
nnce with the decision Of the recent miners
conference, held IT Manchester, decision
which affects over 10000
THE death Of DIR. Nukovitch, the Bull
garian agent 40 ConstantiuOple, who was
stabbed by an unknown assassin in that city
while he was proceeding to his club, hns
caused Il great sensation nj sofia and through
out Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand has given
orders that the court frtcs he cancelled. Great
indignation prevails everywhere because Of
the assassination. A man has been arrested
in Constautmope Oh The charge Of commit
. t... t-F..l.,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
To Pat Creases Into Mems Trousers.

And now we have among us, writes
4 New York correspondent of the Chi
cago Post, an institution with name
very like the Trouser-orium 1t is the
headquarters of company got up by iQen
who understand that the town is full of
young men who live in lodging houses
and boarding places, and wear trousers,
but cannot keep thcm in order, because
they do not like to carry them around
the streets to tailor's. Therefore, the
trousers orium company proposes to. send
its wagons to every such bachelors ad-
dress and get all his spare harness once a
week to press them and put fashionable
creases down the fronts and backs of
| them for seveuty-dve cents. Should the
garments be slightly in need of repair,
the defect will be remedied, aud, should
they be in very bad order, a postal card
will be sent to the bachelor stating the
price for which they will be mended and
asking whether the work shall or shall
not be done. As there is already an es-
tablishment where socks and underwear
are patched and darned, the affairs of the
bachelor in New York may be said to be
improving.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
A Famous Old ArsOnaut Judge.

Judge Reardeu described the morning
appearance of the late Judge Lake when
he sat upon the bench. 1t seems that
Judge Lake used to be a sort of Judge
Jeffreys toward criminals and that his
mercy was never strained. For in
stance, he would walk up the steps of
the tbench," and the poor numbering or
and think of cells and gallows.
'Pat," would the Judge say sharply,
cheat the stovep
Then the faithful mental would stir
the fire hurriedly, and the Judge would
adjust his shining collar and faultless
neckcloth.
After which he would rub his polished
| finger nails together and thrust them
through page or two of the decisions
of that famous British jurist, Lord
Erskine, and as climax he would look
at his translucent hands and exclaim:
'Hurry them up-Pve only few
minutes this morning"
Then the batch of prisoners would be
ushered into the dock aud the steely eyes
of the Judge would be turned upon them
in such fashion that, like certain
pictures painted by the old masters, one
might imagine that the eyes looked
dozen ways at once.
Lake seems to have been so impartial
that he lacked discrimination, for on GER
tain occasion, when the clerk called off
the first name on the docket, gray
bearded burglar of sixty-eight years
stepped forward to be sentenced.
prisoner at the bar" said the Judge,
inspecting his elegant little finger nail,
''you have been before this court on the
charge of theft many times. l hesitate
to be severe, but in justice to public
morals find it my duty to sentence you
to confinement in State prison for the
term of fifty years, and when you emerge
from its walls may you be a better man.
"Say, Judge" said the clerk, look
ing up to the polished jurist, 'you got
the wrong man-you forgot-it was
young Hayes you were going to send up
for fifty. The old tramp, there, he amt
going to last two years, let alone fitty!n
"Ah! how is that2" demanded the
Judge, inspecting the list on his desk
sob, 1 see-yes, yes!-dear mellow
very odd! Just give Hayes fifty years
also, and you may as well let the other
matter stand. When a man of sixty odd
years hasn't learned enough to avoid
being found out he's much safer in
jail"
And the docket would proceed. San
| Francisco Examiner.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
RACE BATTLE.
Four CoIored Men Killed, and Several
White Men Wounded.

Four CoIored Men Killed, and Several
White Men Wounded.
A despatch from Edmonton, Ky, says:
News has just been received of bloody fight,
which took place at Clarks Cross Roads, Eve
miles east of this place, between a party OF
twelve white wagoners, on one side, and
eleven negro farm hands on the other, in
which four negroes we're killed, and three
or four wounded, and two of the wagoners
seriously hurt The wagoners who haul
lumber from Nright's Mil, i'll tais county, to
the Horse Cave, were on their way 10 their
homes at this place. When near Maxey's
Distiilery, which is located at Clarks Cross
Roads, they met negro farm hand. who is
employed on the farm of john Anderson. In
passing, one of the wagoners struck him with
his whip, TO which the negro remarked that
he would see him again. The negro went to
inc house OF Anderson, who employs a large
number OF negroes, and, in company with ten
others, started for the distillery where the
wagoners made a business of stopping. When
they arrived at the distillery, all the wagoners
were inside the house, purchasing whiskey,
except two. These the negroes sat upon with
rocks and clubs, and would have made shor
work of them, but Tor the Itimely appear.
ante of ten others, who sprang among them,
and in a short time shot and killed four, ana
wounded three or four others, two of whom,
it is said, cannot recover. The sheriff ana
posse have gone 10 the scene OF the trouble.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
NO. 26.
BOLD BURGLARS.
The Coldwater National Bank Entered
and Everything Of Value Taken
Safes and Vaults Carefully Ex ntne"--
Bonds Valued at $4,000 and Sso'V"V
in Specie Among the spells.


A despatch from Co,dwater, Mich, says;
The Coldwater, mt onal Bank was robbed
Of $4,000 in currency, silver and gold, ana
S4l,0 $50 in Philadelphia and Reading bonds
The Job was the bodest AMI most complete
piece OF work Of the kind ever performed IN
Southwestern Michigan, ana was undoubtedly
the work OF experts. The crooks blew open
every safe aud vault, time.locks and all, and
took every bit Of cash, including bills, silver,
and pennies, they could find.
The robbers gained entrance TO the BANK
which is located in brick building upon the
principle business corner, through rear
window. They had previously visited q
blacksmith shop only block away, where
tn secured hammers, chsels, drill and
other toos to aid them. The outside iron bars
Of the window were forced off, the window
then being easily pried open. Once IN ths
bank the operators had things their own way,
as no one slept there.
The outer doors OF the vault aud the time
locks we're destroyed with dynamite, anu a
number OF citizens who slept IN the vicinity
now recall that they heard an explosion aoou'
2 o'clock.
The private dcpositors' vaults were ran
sacked and from one 81 ,,0O) worth OF Phlla'
delphia and Reading Railroad bonds we're
taken. II will be some time before the total
loss can be ascertsintd.
The bank burglars had evidently arranged
everything before using dynamite. lhs
curtains were pulled up and heavy elanke,'
hung 10 deaden the noise. Every pQssiDie
prrcautiou was evidently taken to make lhe
noise as light as possible 50 as not to disturb
the neighborhood. To guard against surprise
they had replaced the wrenched Uars partially
SO as TO give the appearance Of being intact
They must have lie by the rear door, winch
opens with spring lock and Is bolied rom
the inside.
Teller Dawson WIS the first TO enter the
bank and when he opened the door be saw
signs OF explosives on every hand. BIS o.
iron steel aud wood were blown all over ths
room, aud large quantities OF cotton batting
used to deaden the sound we're scattered on
the floor. The robbers had ufade complete
job Of ii, as every pace worth looking ih'o
had either been broken or blown open.
From appearances It IS probable thst tnc
robbers wers inside the bank for at least two
hours. and that there wers at least fout
separate explosions, which, however, must
have all taken place within i've minutes.
The Co dwater National Bank Is ibe oloes'
banking institution in southern Michigan,
has a capital stock of 500 CO.., aud surplus
and undivided profits fund If $4,000: it'
business will not be at all interrupted. Ihers
is no excitement among the depositors, as u'e
institution is entirely solvent
The bunk offers a 500 reward ana inc
Sheriff offers 800 additional for the Apprehen'
sion and conviction OF the thieves.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
THEY DIED TOGETHER
A Washington Artist Shoots His wife
and Himself.

A Washington Artist Shoots His wife
and Himself.
Two shots, fired almost simultaneously in q
room occupied by Fernleigh Montague, an
artist, and his wife, startled the inmates Of
house No. SIS Fourth street northwest, Wash
ington, d. c. The door was forced open by
an officer, when husband and wife were found
lying on the bed dead. From their position
the woman had evidently laid on the bed and
allowed her husband to place the pistol to her
mouth and fire. Then, sitting up, e turned
the bloody weapon to his own mouth, fired
and dropped back on the pillow dead
Dependency, tNe result of long and painful
illness, was undoubtedly the cause of the
deed, but the reason for the wife consenting to
the rash act is a mystery. theory is adj
vanced that she worshipped the man TO that
extent that she was willing to die with him,
and another is that, having waited upon him
SO long and being herself worn OFT. she too,
became respondent and preferred to die.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
WHITE CAPS JUSTICE.

They Tar and Feather Farm Hand aud
Then Order Him TO Leave the County.
A band of White Caps visited the farm
house Of John Reid, al Eigin. Mimi. dragged
Sydney Green, farm hand. from his bed,
gave him coat Of tar and feather, rode him
on the rail, and ordered him to leave the
country. lie returned to Reds house, but
was ordered away. Refusing to 90, warrant
was sworn out for his arrest, and he is now in
Jail.
The White Gaping grew out Of an elope-
ment. in which Greene and farmers wife
were the principals,