Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
THE NEWS.


sacrament to Grand Army and Farmers Al
lance men -James D. Robinson, president
of the Grand Rapids Savings Bank and of
the Fifth National Bank of Grand Rapids,
Mich, died, aged seventy years He leaves
a widow and three children. D. A. Nc
Kinley, the Governors brother, Hawaiian
consul at San Francisco, died there.-Two
children and their dog were killed by pan
Their in Warsaw, NJ nn.-Martin Noblings
throat was cut, as he claims, while he was
asleep at his home near PottsviIle, Pa
Rose Fisher, a young woman OF South Or
ange, was found dead in pond. She is sup
posed to have committed suicide. -Alexan-
der Bergman was tried in Pittsburg for the
murder of II. C. Frick, convicted and sen
fenced to twenty -one years in the peniten-
tiary.-Chairman Watson, of the Inter
national Quarantine Committee. thinks none
of the North Atlantic coasts are adequately
equipped for the cholera emergency -
There are now l. 056 persons from the infected
steamships quarantined at Camp Low, Sandy
Hook john Knox, a fireman on the
steamer Nevada, lying at her dock in New
York, died from supposed cholera.--A new
patient was removed from the steamer b.
hemia to Swinburne Island.-Fire at South
Beach, Staten Island, did twenty thousand
dollars damage to the hotels and other build
ings.-Fiiteen hundred furniture-workers
are locked out in Cincinnati.-A vast
forest fire is raging on the mountains near
No Ia Al otof, Iacfr
of the trees on the reservation proclaimed
as national park by the President
VIM Il. Kimball, O. Canton, N. Y, has
been appointed bank examiner for the city
of New Ycrk.--The Uuion Transfer and
Storage CoEpany's building in indianapolis
was destroyed by fire The National Con-
vention of Street Railway Employees has
decided to organize independently of the
American Federation of Labor and the
Knights of Labor.-The executive com
mittee of the Western Union Telegraph
Company recommended that the capital
stock be increased by the issue of s13, SOC, 900
additional stock of the company, making the
total stock 500, 900, 00O.-Harrison T. Har-
vey, a store-keeper at Viola, Del, while
closing his store, was attacked by three men,
who tied him to the floor and raGsacked the
place.-The body of young man named
J. H Meadows, was found in the woods near
Houston, Suwannee county, Florida, and
two men have been arrested charged with
the crime.--A windstorm did great damage
at Petersburg, Va, Many houses were un.
rooted, market-house blown down and
trees uprooted. - The Washington and
Chattanooga limited train was wrecked nee
Basic City, Va, and the engineer, fireman
and conductor We're killed, and a Balti-
morean hurt.-Spiegel 6, Co. furniture
dealers, of Chicago, confessed Judgment for
100000 The liabilities, it is said, will ex
coed $50, 900; assets about the same. Dull
trade is the cause given for tho collapse.
Minnesota elevator companies decided to
withhold reports of stocks of grain from the
commercial agencies. ferryboat South
Brooklyn sank in her slip in New York just
after landing eight hundred passengers.--
The Nevada silver men endorsed Weaver for
president, and Senator Stewart promised to
stump the state for him.-Ex-Go Governor
Thomas H. Watts, of Alabama, died
Serious trouble is again expected between
the two factions of the Choctaw nation
The two story brick building at 1856 Inlay
street, Brooklyn, occupied by the Occidental
Oil Company, was damaged S40,0 by fire.
The building was used for the manufacture
of cotton seed and castor oils. The seized
American schooner, Hattie Maud, is now in
the hands Of Collector Of Customs Ruel, who
has placed an armed guard on board. Both
Collector Ruel aud United States Consul
Simpson have wired to Ottawa regarding the
case, but so far neither has received a reply.
Samuel A. Moody, living rear Belmont,
Me-, shot Miss Fannie b. Nichols and then
killed himself. Ohio, Illinois
and Indiana have made arrangements to in
spect all west bound emigrant trains as they
reach the state lnes.---A rabid dog on the
Dupont farm near Wilmington, Del, bit a
boy and dozen dogs,-The National
League of Republican Clubs decided TO hold
lis next annual meeting at Louisville. Gen
eral Clarkson was reelected president and
A. 3. Humphrey secretary.
Detectives have caught Alfred Henshaw
in Harrisonville, Mich. He confessed to
murderin his partner in Ontario ten years
ago,-The Dominion Trades Congress ii
session at Toronto, has decided to petition
the Dominion government to submit to tie
people of Canada for decision, by popular
vote, the question Of the retention
of the colonial status, imperial fed
Grafton independence and annexation
Donald-McRae, one of the Oldest citizens of
Wilmington, n. G., aud prominent bust
ness man, die at Lindville, n C. He had
been largely identified with railroad ard
manufacturing interests. United
Court of Appeals has decided that all goats
hair from abroad is dutiable at IL IL cents a
pound. Brinton Coke, Of Philadelphia, a
member of the extensive coal mining firm
of Coke Brothers, died at Drifton, Pa, aged
sixty years.
The international Ticket Agents Associa-
ton adjourned in Philadelphia to meet in
Atlantic City.-Fire destroyed George
Meyers carriage factory, St Gabriers
Academy and F. Vogel 81 Cos carriage fac
tory in New YORK
a general meeting of Richmond Terminal
stockholders were held at Richmond and a
board of directors eleetei.-The Danville
Iron and Machine Company, of Danvile,
Va, made an assignment. -Mar4 r.
Towne widow of John Henry Towne of
Philadelphia philantmopist, died at Eagle
Head, Mass, aged seventy-one years.
The authorities of Richmond, Va, will
likely establish quarantine against all per-
sons coming from New Benjamin
dcAllvaine, aged seventy one years, was
killed on the Railroad at BridgeYille d. c.