Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-23
THE NEWS.

5000 people who had been waiting for weeks
marched across the bofder ami began the
scramble for sites in the new county -
Fears are now expressed at Cheyenne, Wye,
that the rustlers will barn ranches and COM
nit other depreciation. The Northwestern
Wire Mattress Works AMI extensive lumber
yards at Kenosha, IS, were destroyed By
fire. Loss $500, 900. -Representsii5 yes OF
seamen's unions from ali parts of the country
met in Chicago to form federation of all the
unions of seamen sailing from Atlantic, Pa.
cific and like ports. the organization to have
n membership Of 81, 900. -The nude DO ly Of
q woman was found on the lake shore
Chicago, mutilated after the fashion of the
victims Of the Whitechapel fiend. III. Clay
Smith, former prominent politician of Bed
f,rd, Pa, plead guilty to forgery, and was
sentenced TO eighteen months in prison.
Two men were ki led and one injurel in a
Wreck at The trossing Of the Wabash and the
Illinois Central at Monticello sherifl's
officers stopped bull fight and arrested thu
sports near Anoka, Minn.-The school
teach RS of Fort Dodge, Iowa, struck for
ulSher wages. -lIighbinders killed two
Christian Cinnamon in a ST. Louis saloon.--
Jacob Glover, a pioneer coal operator. died in
Dudley, n. J.--Doughtery and Thomas
two telegraph operators, and BOOKSELLER John
son were arrested at Gloucester charged with
wire-tapping. The Supreme Court of Penn.
sylvania decided that the fine of 800 i'm
posed upon the firm of j. Otis Paul for the
sale OF o!eomargarine contrary to the State
Ia" OF 1915 is not violation OF the Interstate
Commerce act--The factory building and
stock on hand of the Cumberland Spoke
Company at Burnside, Ky, was burne1.
Loss estimated at SIS, Mrs. DR..
Younger and Mrs. shudder were buggy
riding and, while crossing the railroad track,
near Ra!linger, Texas, was struck by an en-.
ginc, smashing the vehicle, knocking both
ladies' out, killing Mrs. DIR. Younger and
iataily njuring Mrs. Shudder-A cyclone
swept over the western portion of the Creek
Nation, destroying over dozen houses, and
Killing three people and number of horses
md cattle.--Heavy rains and floods de.
droyel several thousand acres of farming
land in Illinois. Mamie Hubs, aged ten
years, was burne to death at Sunbury, Pa.
Seven men were blown to atcms and
sui dinss DESTROYED, by an explosion at the
works of the American Forcite Company,
near Mt. Arlington. N. j.
Samuel Jackson the famous Philadelphia
eyrotechnst, died of heart-failure. Hon.
Senator Stephens, representing the Bedford
division, of Quebec. is dead. Fire Dc,
stroyed $50, COO of properly in Henry county,
Na.-W William Davis, prisoner in Camden,
n. j., escaped while being conveyed to tbt
courthouse, Mrs Miller and Mrs. Lock-
hardt, Of Lincoln, Neb., at empted to inter-
fere in q family qu'rrel, ana were shot,
Minneapolis is overrun with anarchists, and
the people are very much alarmed. LEO
still interfercs with navigation in the North
west.-W c. Erskine, prominent attorney,
was attacked by iootpads in Pittsburg, while
on his way to his home. III was robbed OF
$1,000 in cash, diamond pin, gold watch
and chain, and valuable Iapers. The thieves
assaulted him from the rear, and, after knock
ing him down, beat him almost insensble.--
A serious confagration took place at Port
Carton, Pa, which almost completely de-
molished the carriage factory of Henry Krebs,
& blacksmith shop Of John Illingsworth the
cigar store of William f. Wilson, and the
shoe store Of Daniel Paul. The fire was Of
incendiary origin.--The steamship Phila-
delphia brings news of battle between gov
ernrnent troops and rebels in Venezuela. No
constitutional government exists there now.
Confusion was caused in church in
Havana by the explosion of bomb during
ces.--Harry Lee, son of General Fitz.
hugh Lee, committed suicide in St. Louis
The captured cutt!emen arc enjoying life
under the protection Of the troops who re-
fused the request Of the Wyoming sheriff for
their surrender.
The closing of the Spreckel Sugar Refinery
in Philadelphia was due TO desire to keep
up the prices. "A daring and successful
train rob4ery was committed near New Or.
leans, but the robbers succee led in getting
AWAY with only s., 000.-A. G. Brown, the
deiuuting Canadian broker, has fed to
Mexico. A hail-s:orm in Bennetyille,
c., did considerable damage. Chickens and
hogs were killed. -Aldeft Rodgers, Of Hills.
boro, Texas, nearly bent to death r. f. Good.
ing, whom he charged with writing an article
rejecting upon him. Gooding may die
Two passengers were killed by collision of
cable cars in Chicago. Albert Zilman,
Juhpstown, Pa, farmer has been arrested,
charged with causing the death of an cd man
by ill-treatment. -C Cinnamon are being
tmuggled in Canada on bogus certificates.
Elmer Swim, aged sixteen years, committed
suicide at his home, near Mechanicsburg,
Pa--John McMillin, of Sullivan, Ind, was
swindled out of 300 by New York green
goods men. DR.. Charles Bingham Penrose,
The surgeon of the cattle bandits, and now
under arrest in Wyoming, is a member of
prominent and wealthy Philadelphia family.
William L. Davis, musician, of Ply
mouth, Pa, was struck by a train near
Wilkesbarre and instantly killed.-In the
potato district of Northern Berks and Lehiph
counties, Pa, potatoes are selling at twenty
cents per bushel, with but few buyers Some
farmers have hundreds OF bushels on hand
and cannot dispose Of them.