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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
AT MINNEAPOLIS.
An Uneventful Opening of the
National Convention.

MIR. Fassett Temporary Chairman-Ihe
Harrison Men Accept Him and the Day
Passes without a Test of Strength.
A despatch from Minneapo is says: The
patriotic air of Columbia, y My Country,
lis of Thee and The Star Spangled Ban.
ner" should be the prelude to the opening OF
a national convention, and scarcely had the
last echo of these inspiring medleys died
away when Hon. j. S. Ciark.on, chairman OF
the national committee, raped the Tenth Re
publican National Convention to order. Pray r
was offered by Rev. William Bush, chancellor
of the University o: Dakota, of Mitchell, S.
D., who prayed III IT The deliberations of the
convention might be free from partisanship,
to the end that ST, at good of he nation might
be subser we'd.
Preserve, o Lord. " said he in conclusion,
the nation that is loyal to Thee and 10 the
principles OF Thy word"
Hon. Michal IL, De Young, of California,
one Of the secretaries Of the national commit.
tee, read the official call OF the convention and
five minutes were consumed in the somewhat
monotonous proeeed!n s.
Gentlemen OF the convention, said Chair
man Clarkson, Il am instructed by the M
tional committee to nominal. for -FOUR tenn
porary chairman the Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, oil
New York" [Applause.
There was q momentous hurrah. while
everybody awaited The action that might be
taken by the Harrison element in opposition
10 Mr.. Fasselt's selection. But the optici.
psted contest did not take place. 70 one wa.
placed in nom nation in oppo ition TO Mr..
Fassett, and when the question W submit ted
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
DEAD IN EVERY R E

Fifty Churches and Many Houses De-
stroyed In the Mauritius Hurricane.
Further mail advices from MauritIus say
that the morning after the recent hurricane
every street in Port Louis was filed with
debris. Hospitals were erected in various
parts of the town, and to them were conveyed
the injured IS sooa as they could be removed
from the wreckage. Dead and injured were
found under the ruins of houses in almost
every street. The course of the storm was
cratic, massive houses were overthrow
while frail no ses near them we're not injuredJ
Not a single house in the Tauquebar section
Of Pc I l. uis was left stan ling. The e Was
no lack of volunteers 10 extrlcate the injured
or doctors TO attend them, The buriu oil the
SIX hundred persons killed in Port Louis
occupied six DAYS.
In many cases the laborers employed on
plantations deserted the field, upon the ap-
proach of the storm and took re uge in large
outbuildings. There bu iding, soon collapsed
an hundreds we're crushed 10 GrHtn.
Out OF the sixty-two churches and chanels
in Port Louis. fifty were deT stated. The
remaining twelve were badly damaged.
Boats were stranded during the hurricane ct
places five hundred feet from the Sc. Ii was
with the greatest dific lty that the lightship
was prevent d from sink Z.
The British bark Aconcagua, from New
York, grounded on the west side, OF the
hsrbor, after having drifled IRON the east
de. Assbe drited she roll ded with several
vessels, damaging her bulw.r She is
lying in a ad position on the rocks and is
lleaking.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

GUSTAV HALGREN, Swan Goderlind and
John A. Henson, young men, were drowned,
al Redwlng, Minnesota, by the upsottiqg vt a
boat.
WILLIAM MCDOWELL WAS fatally burned
at Pittsburg BY the eX plusion ola limp. which
he tried TO hl without oxtinguishing the
light.
NINETEEN persons at Littlo Rock, Atkan.
sas, was poisoned by some substance placed
in their TODD; several of them were In a critt-
cal condition
CHARLES II. SEYMOUR "A prominent fur.
niture dealer Of Cleveland, Ohio, died OF blooi
poisoning; caused by a cut from a raEor while
being shaved in n barber shop.
ATRAIN on the santoF Re Road was wFccked
at Lamont. Illinois. by striking a COW and
cali which were on the track. Engineer John
Isabel was killed aud ten passengers we're in-
iured.
CHICAGO and Eastern Illinois train was
wrecked near bauville. Illinois, owiugto tho
bad condition Of the track by reason OF tho
heavy rains. Six passengers were seriously
ihju.eJ.
WILLIAM PURCELL and his 7.ycnr-old son
were attacked aud perhaps fatally gored by "a
bull near East Lynn. Missouri, u few day.
ngo, The animal afterwards attacked another
farmer. and was killed by him.
A PORTION OF the tunnel on the lake Erie.
Alliance and Southern Railroad, twelve miles
south Of Alliance, Ohio, cRgcd Ia. bufying
three men, One Of the men was rescued, but
not until alter he had bcel terribly injured.
A wBEcE on the Deaduood Central Rail.
road, near Deadwood, South Dakota, caused
by frosty tracks" which prevented tho
brakes acting, resulted IN the killing Of one
man and fatal injuries 70 another,
ANDREW LUDWIG and Peter Whnlcn, ls.
I.Ynrs. a. t4. LN.s.F fIIg..ayH EH..N ~. "a
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
FLOODS AND FIRE.
A Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost in
Pennsylvania Oil Region.
MILLIONS OF PROPERTY DESTROYED

Overlooking streams Covered With BlaH-
Ing OIL at TitusvilIe and OH Ctty--The
Greatest Disaster I'm the State Since the
Johnstown Flood.
The oil regions of Per nsylvania we're visited
~ a disaster OF FIRE aud water that Is only
'e,ipsed in the history Of this country by the
memorable flood OF Johnstown just three
years ago. 1t is impossible at present TO give
anything like an u ate idea Of the loss OF
lie and property. as chaos reigns through the
devastated region and a terrible conlagraiion
still RACES in Oil City. II is safe to say that
not less than $50 lives have been lost. Nearly
lt0 bodies have already been recovered and
many people are still missing. The number
may far exceed l5l, but this is regarded as a
conservative estimate,
The property loss will reach far into the
millions. At Titusyille the loss is estimated
at 81, 500, coo; OH City, 1890. 600; Cory. $780,
o0; Meadville, $3.50 600, and surrounding
country probably n million more.
For nearly . month it has been raining
throughout Westera and Northern PennsYl-
vania almost necessarily, and for the past
three or four days the downpour in the de-
vastat,d regions has been very heavy.
Inc constant rains had converted all the
small streams into raging torrents, SO that
wien the c.oudburst came the streams we're
soon beyond Their boundaries. and the great
oody OF water come sweeping down OIL creek
10 litusyille, which is is miles sou h OF It's
source.
the lower portion Of the town was soon in
undated. The flood came so quickly that the
people had not time TO reach a place OF safely.
The water soon swept n number Of oil tanks
do"n the stream and in some way not known
they were ignited. In less time than II takes
TO tell the story the flames spread TO the sur
rounding buildings, and before they could be
tubiued five blocks had been burned.
The oil from the scores of broken tanks ran
into the creek and was ignited by floating del
brls. In a few m nutes the creek was ablazd
from shere TO shore, aud it was carried down.
the stream. Death and destruction followed
In its wake. (
Everything inilammahle took FIRE and by
the time it reaehedOl City all the tridges
between the two points were consumed. OIL
City is eighteen miles from Titusyi lie. The
town along the creek are Broughton, Miller
Farm, Pioneer. Petroleum Centre, Rynd
housewife and MeClintock willie.
Housewife has about /, 900 inhabitants, and
the other towns about 200 each. Oh creek
lows through a narrow gorge all the way, and
as the " are mostly situated on the bills,
1t is hoped there is no loss o.. life. Commuui-
cation has been cut of from these places, how.
ever, aud nothing is definitely known.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
Ant Hills of Pr.cieus Sto,ea

A French scientist has rattle | a state.
ment OF Pliny's by observation of a
species of large American ant. The
Roman naturalist said that the Dlrdes
of India stole gold from ant hills when
the animals had retired TO their holes to
escape the heat of the day, the little
creatures having extacted scales oil metal
from the earth, The American ant is
said to show a similar disposition. Wnen
it has built a hill or dom above its gal.
ieries it ccvers it with small fragments
of minerals which are fitted together as
a sort of mosaic, thus better RESISTING
the action of wind and rain, aud the
crush of a chance football. In the search
fer minerals they often 90 down a yari
below the surface, and as gold sometimes
occurs in the regions where they work.
it happens that specks of gold are found
on their little house tops. Ants of this
kind are no longer known in Asia, and
it is now inquired if if Pliny had heard
OF those in America. New York Sun.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.


Uh JOHN TYsDALL. the eminent scientist,
began his career IN 1913 "a an assistant on the
staff Of the British ordnance survey at 20
sbillings a week
JosEPH ARCH, the pioneer in tho %agricul.
iural laborers' moyem ut In England. is IN
very bal health. He Is only 60, but no is
said TO be quite broke down.
HERBERT sPEScEa was rendered, but
d elined, y nomination for Alderman in
London. Had he been a resident Of New
York or Chicago be would have known
better.
GEORGE w. ESTES. who recently died IN
salem, Mass, At the sge Of S7, was said 70 be
the first man who ever played n snare DUN
by note. lie oAiciated as drum msjor a. Tho
funeral Of President william Henry Harrison
in 1871.
YAsILt VEREsTcuAGfN. the famous Rus
an painter, as bitten ia the leg recently
By q mad dog Although the Injured aesn
was cut away Immediately u is said that g..
Nefestchngin will place himself under tho
care Of DR.. Pasteur, Ia Paris.
SENATOR HANsBR0UGH lows iizht opera
and Is letter pleased u near the ''Miksd0'
than any other piece Jon the musical stage.
This may not be refined aud %culiured taste,
bot it IL one which a few millions Of melody
lovers will forgive.
Mrs. CRAWFORD, who attained noioriety
IN con nection with the scandal about Sir
Charles Dixie. became "a member Of ths
Roman Catholic Church SOM time ago. and
now deyotes much Of her time - IMPROVING
The condition o. The London poor.
EMILE ZOLA may secure q seat among the
lmmor;ais Of France alter al. ~ The last
fessiOn Of the French Academy Camille
Doueet read a letter ireai the popular
novelist, announcing his can idscy ior tho
seat made vacant by the death or Admiral do
Ia Grasiere. Pierre Lott being out Of the
say. Ip's. it is said, believes that bis election
vii be eer sin.
Miss jULIA WARD HOWE T. tho subject Of
= pretty story. Whep she was a child Of only
. Size ives 50 charmed wih the melody Of the
ltaI an language a. she heard il hi a cIass Of
other girls that sbe secretly procured =
gramwnr and studied by herself until she hsd
gained saficlent f~seility 70 write the Iiai an
tfgcher 3 letter IA his own tongue, asking
permission to join his class.
RIcHARD NJ. YATES, whom the Illinois
Republicans hsye nominated for Congre f.
mHn-at-Large, il n soB Of Governor Yates, fhs
States former War Executive. Young Mr.
Yates is % years Old, and has been Tor eight
yesrs n las yer in coed practice at Jackson
vile. He has displayed considerable talent
Of the bnr an ia politics. 10 personal ap-
peArance he is tail, sie der, and stoop-
shouldeTsd. he is an agreeable speaker, and
POSSESSES a great charm Of manner.
JOHs D. RocEEFEILER makes It a custom
10 open his morning mail At the breakfast
table. The letters from unkn0sn writer's are
distributed among the children. who peru o
them aud mark upon each envelope the
disposition which should BE- made Of the ease.
Afterward Mr. Rockefeller h mseif goes over
the correspondence and revises the work, but
10 one unaequainied with such matters the
accuracy Of judgment displayed by the little
ones in passing IN the merits Of begging
tqqests can be nothing less than startling.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
Where Lightning Strikes Ofteuest.

From records in the statistical office at
Berlin, Germany. it appears that houses
with matched roofs are struck by light
ming about seven or eight times more
frequently than ordinary slated dwell.
ing houses. Country houses are also
more frequently affected than those in
towns. This is due to the greater amount
of vegetation in the country, plants hav-
ing more power to induce destructive
discharges than other substances.
Though this is the case, there are, of
ours great differences in electrical
characteristics of plants, which increase
in some and decrease in Others the liabil-
ity to destruction by Lightning.
For instance, if the risk to the beech
be taken as one, that to a pine Cir or
spruce is fifteen, to an oak forty-fve,
and to most other deciduous trees like the
ash, sycamore, ETC., forty. The compar-
alive immunity of the beech is said to be
due to the fact that its leaves are fringed
with numerous short hairs which all ow
the electricity collected in the substance
of those organs to escape quietly into the
air.
Rocks and soils also have great iniu-
ence on the risk run by localities from
destruction by thunderstorms. Thus, if
a limestone rock or limy soil be taken as
one, that for a sandy soil is niue, and for
natural moss or swampy land, eighteea
to twenty two.
During a thunderstorm in Scotland
heavy rain most frequently, aud generally
only, occurs; but in some parts of Eng
land, and in many places abroad, hail
is of quite as common occurrence as rain,
and far more destruction to property is
wrought by these little pellets of ice than
by lightning; so much SO, that crops,
ETC., i'll those parts, are regularly insured
against its power of devastation.
With regard to hailstorms in England
a curious fact is known. but cannot be
satisfactorily explained-viz., that in
Huntingdonshire and in the bordering
portions of surrounding counties the
damage done BY hail is very considerably
greater than that wrought in any other
part of England over a similar area
Yankee Blade,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
WORK N WORKERS.

PETROLEUM Of a good quality has been
struck at Bonn Bay. Lew oundland.
ATHE 400 employees Of the New England
Granite Works at Concord, New Hampshire,
are on strike.
ONE hundred tone rnticrs, employed on
the new locks at Sauit Ste. Marie, struck for
"A a day of nine hours work. The contrac-
tors refused 10 grant he demand.
WoEK was resumed in The Oxfor'l Iron and
Nail Campany's Works At Oxford n. j.. a ter
an Id eness Of six months. The puddiers have
promised 10 make six heats. Some Of the
striker threaten 10 interfere.
THE Durham EGG coal.mine owners ard
their miners lie d n meeting ami ended the
strike. The miHe-oWners have agreed tomake
only a rfdnetion Of 10 per cent. Work Will
be resumed immediate'y.
The Iron and Steel Wage Committees OF
tie Analeamated Association OF Iron and
Steel Workers met in Pittsburg and prerartd
tue scales FOR the com ne year. II is probable
that the pres Mt scale will be continued.
The Iron and Sheet Steel manufacturers
Assoc alton, the Galvanized Iron Manufac-
tnrers Association and the Tin Plate Manu-
ihctuFers' Association. the interests Of which
organlz ttions are identical, held a joint meet
ing In P%ittsburg md agreed rpon n wage
seAie 10 lie presented 10 the AnalgamAted
association az its meeting this W ek. A scale
satisfactory TO all present was prepared.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
coNFLAGRATIoN AT OIL CITY.
The city sim Burning-List OF the
Dead and Wounded.

The city sim B~urning-List OF the
Dead and Wounded.
At HAS A. NJ, q shifting engine set fire to
oil dripping from a leaky tank car on a siding
Of the Western New York and Pennsylvania
Railroad. halfa mile north Of the centre Of
OIL City. The tank exploded and the burn.
ing oil over-spreado Oil creek destroying about
thirty lives and burning thousands Of dollnrs'
worth Of property. 1t was the greatest dis
aster that ever occurred N the oil regious.
Oil creek is not usually more than n foot
deep at tht' point, where it empties into the
Allegheny river, aud about 100 yards wide.
Directly at its mouth is the iron bridge Of the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.
About two "a lares further up the stream Is
the lion and wooden bridge Of the city con
uecting the thru ward with the c " proper.
On the east side Of the creek "a Trinity
Method st Church on one side OF Center street
and tie Derrick Office aud Oh Exch nge
opposite. Across the creek aud built up
squarely from The waters edge vas the hotel
and livery stable Of }. h. keinbold and the
furniture hous OF Paul SONS. these build
ings ~tre butt on a marrow strip between INC
creek and the hills which rise precipitously
immediately bac Of them.
The flames swept over the entire upper part
Of the city when was flooded by the oily
waters OF the creek, and men, women aud
children who were moving from their houses
were caught by tue deadly flames. and il not
burne to death outright we're drowned in Inc
raging flood.
At this cad Of the city vas another iron ana
wooden bridge, whica went down five minutes
after the ire st Ited, the huge iron structure
being broken aud swept away like SO mu IA
kIndl %ng.wood. From this Diidge tout ward
FIR Il quarter Of a mile the entire town vas
destroyed.
Tau Il Sons furniture house, a foursiory
immense buIlIing, was swept sway, win
5000 o worth OF stock, furniture. &c. Rein
bold Hotel and stable were destroyed Ia a
few minutes, and Mr.. Reiubold aud two
othe s, who have not been identified, were
burned TO death.
People IRE panic-stueked all over town,
and a / AFTERNOON mothers have been running
madly u out looking Tor Their lost children.
Faith, rs OF families arr searching for their
children an tndeaYori x to let fLem all
together Ia a plaee Of safety.
The loss Of property is esumated from
$780, 100 to n million. Up To 8 4 NJ. iron
fifteen 10 twenty bodies have been recovered
and identified and the do tn list VII ngurs
W much larger, some placing it as b h as
fifty. TIT tbird i'm from seneca street
bridge to within nearly a square oislhe Lake
81. re Depot Is as level rs "A neid.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
CONVENTION HALL.

TO unite tomorrow. Our differences should
end at the con, ention doors, AMI W II end
there. When this convention shall hava
conc uded its labors We shall have but one
choice, and that the nominees OF this onven-
ton; but one purpose, their election.
The nomination does not end the cam
paign; it begins it. The camp ign which is
to be made viii! not be the campo en of the
can idate by the candidates and for the can
%didates, hut OF all The party, by all tie party
and for all the party in the interests of the
W ole people. With malice, then, toward
none, but with a veueration and respect
toward ali, each of Us, according to his light,
as God gives him TO see the light, should
subordins ta all mer ly local and persona
consideration to an earnest endeayor to secure
the best interests of the Ecpublican p rty
throughout The entire s'sterhood Of states.
None of our trusted leaders are weak; all of
them ore strong. Some may be stronger than
others.
The history ofour party since 1856 is the
history of cur country. There is not a sing e
page but shines brighter for some oct or some
"NAN u ooibI bAIoN JAtpuUIlthB. COunt over
our chosen whom we are teaching or chill
den to love, emulate and reverence, aud you
shall name Republicans-Lincoln, Seward
Grant, Sherman, Garfield, Logan, Harrison
and Blaine. These are a few Of our Jewels
and We may proudly turA TO our Democratic
friends with Il defiance, Match EN- These
men we're greet through their belief and al
vocacy of the enrolling and inspiring doc.
trines of the Republican filth. Name me over
the great masterpieces Of construction and
progressive 3e5 Station enacted since the civil
war, and there one by ono, their authors aud
fnishers will be found Il publicans.
THAT a free people should cast a free vote
and have it honestly recorded and returned.
is the usual dream end determination Of the
Republican party and tie despair and night
mare of the Democrat. 1t is the pride Of the
Republican party that it never yet has com.
mitted an assault upon the freedom Of the
Aoflat
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
SPEECH OF CHAIRMAN FAssErT.

Mr., Fasse t said; For the distinguished
honor which you have conferred upon me |
am very i%rateful. l assume the duties of
pres ding officer with extreme diff lence. and
am sustained ty a release upon your gener-
osiiy, forbearance AMI cooperation. 1t is
eminently fitting that 4 Republican conven-
ton shou d be he'd in a temple erect d for
the display Of prophets of protection to
American industries, and in this beauti al
city of Minneapolis, the joy ami the p ide OF
the giant West. This city, win ch just about
equals in ags the Repub lean party, with it's
prosperous mills and factories and workshops
ald its generous and happy homes, abounds
in object lessons, teaching clearer than in any
words tho 5 und wisdom of Republican
doctrine. We ir' met to cxerc Sc oae OF the
h CHEST privileges of our citizenship. As
trustees of several millions of voting y nh.
licans, gathering from every state and terri
tory in the I'm on, it becomes our duty to
formulate Tor tae in pee ion Of tae people t c
belief aud purpos S Of our party relative to
all the living p ! / cal questions of n tional
importance, an to choo e that man for
leader under whose gui lance We feel we shall
be most sure 0, establishing III S b lief in the
form of laws. We ere here not a warning
faction, struggling to win supremacy under
~iavorite leaders, but as com mbe S of one
great party seeking 10 select from the roll Of
our honored great m n III type of statesman
who shall be regard d as the most comp etc
embodiment of cardi a. doc rines Of our
uarty.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
two Boys Will Robbing a Birds Ne,
Meet Swift

two Boys lille Robbing a Birds Ncsr
Meet S wifi ~Retribution.
An unusually Fl rec thunder storm passed
over Scranton, Pa, the other evening. The
lightning flashes were continuous and thunder
'eals were deaiening.
While the storm was at its height two Pol
sh lads. brothers. Casmir and Joe Tiehon,
axe 9 and Is years. climbed up a tree IN the
outskirts OF the city TO rob a birds nest.
While they we're in the tree ii was struck by
lightning. Joe ichon was instantly killed,
but Casmir, though literally roasted, was
found alive and WIS hanging to the three
when the persons who witnessed the occurr-
ence reached him.
There was apparently nots place on his body
which Was not burned. This was due to his
clothing catching FIRE. Had help arrived a
little sooner bis life might rave been saved.
He cannot r. cover.