Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-10
THE NEWS.


tional Bank of Middleboro, KY, closed its
doors Bad collections on overdue paper
caused it. They expect to be ready for bust
ness again in a day or two.-Alexander
Bergman, the anarchist who attacked " H.
Prick, was indicted Telegraphic des-
patches from Guerrero, Mexico, to the gov
eminent announce the capture of the Fed
eral general, Ranjel, commander of the sec
ond military zone, and the utter rout of his
troops in the mountains southwest of G uer-
rero.-James Lucas and Albert Egleton
became involved in street quarrel in Phila-
delpha, which ended by Egg 'eton knocking
Lucas down. and beating him while he lay
on the ground. Lucas died shortly afterward,
aud Egleton is in prison. IA desperaterob
Der tried to force Rev. David NJ. Cooper, of
Detroit, to give him money and was ar
tested after a hard fight.-Albert j Nc
Mullen, supposed to be one of the wealthiest
farmers in Sinking Valley, has assigned to
Frank McClain, of Altoona. His assets Of
s35, 600 will likely cover his liabilities
The Ashland, Shenandoah aud Mahanoy
City Electric Railroad Company has passed
into the hands of syndicate composed Of
Ohio and Pennsylvania capitalists. Gov
ernor Tillman, of South Carolina, in order
to consider an application for pardon, COM
muted the death sentence upon Milly Brown
a fourteen-year-oldn negro girl until October
T. The girl brutally murdered a little child
in Spartanburg county.
An attempt was made 10 bold up the Mis-
souri, Pacific ast-hound passenger train near
Kansas City Concully, thecounty -seat of
Okanagon county, MINI, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 500, 900; insurance
one-fifth. A epidemic of hydrophobia is
threatened in Anderson. Ind, where many
persons have been bitten by mad dogs
George Vernon, lifelong resident of Bor-
dentown, and one of the Oldest and best
known engineers in New Jersey, died there,
IA his eighty year. H. q. Aitken,
private banker of Tottenham, Dat, is miss
ing, aud the band is in possession of the
Bank of Hamilton which is understood to
be the heaviest creditor,-The twenty-one
convicted New Jersey election inspectors
were sentenced, some being sent to the peni-
tertiary for various terms, and Others to the
state prison. "A number OF additional ar
rests were made at Homestead, and Sscre-
tary Loveioy made more informations
against strikers.-At the hearing in Phila-
delphia on the application for the confrma-
ton of A. L. Stockwell as receiver for the
Iron Hall Bank, important admissions were
made by Mr. Stockwell while on the witness
stand.-The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has issued orders to agents and officers
to disinfect all buildings along its lines.-
Talton Hall, the desperado who had figured
in nearly hundred murders, was hanged at
Wise Courthouse, Ya.-There were AS
business failures in the United States the
past week 1t was reported in PhilaIel-
phia that the Reading Railroad Com
pany would refuse to make joint rates with
the Pennsylvania for carrying coal, and that
there would likely be war between the two
railroads.
The miners in the Coal Creek and Oliver
Springs district have been ordered to strike.
"A cloudburst did considerable damage
in the neighborhood of Alpine, Texas
The Honduras revolution is reported to have
been wound up.-The Free Thought FEEDER
alton of America was formally organized in
Chicago. Two hundred persons were present
at the meeting, which perfected the organi
zation.--Dr. John J. Reese, the eminent
Philadelphia toxicologist died in Atlantic
City.-A. L. Smith, of the Washington
Observatory, and W. C. Power, of Chicago,
q member CT the United States Geodetic Sur
vey, are conducting a party of engineers
through the central part of Pennsylvania for
the purpose of locating a site for a national
observatory Oak Grove Hotel at
Merchantville, n. J., summer boarding
house, having about one hundred and thirty
boarders, was burned to the und,-The
ditching of freight train on the new branch
Of the Geneva and Buffalo branch of the Lee
high Valley Railroad caused the death of the
engineer, and the serious injury Of other
train men, The W. c. 7. u. in Boston ex-
pressed sym, athy for Miss Lizzie Borden.
Mrs. Fessenden made a passionate plea in
her behalf An extra stock train ran into
a coal train on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
near South Fork. Both engines were
wrecked, and Brakeman w A Furguson,
aged twenty three from Emmittsburg, Nd,
was instantly killed. -Chancellor Wolcott
appointed receiver for the property of the
Iron Hall in Delaware. The striking iron
workers at the Hughes & Patterson mill in
Philadelphia, threw up the sponge aud APP
piled for work-Charles Edwards was
Drained in Leadyille by a man he wanted to
kill.-Julius Germand the Hungarian So
cialist, who disappeared from public life ten
years ago, arrived in Victoria from Japan
lie has just escaped from Siberia.-A syn
dictate of Colorado capitalists hes just pur
chased the famous Trinity river gold mines
in Southern California. The properties em-