Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-13
THE NEWS.

Albany, was iooling with a dynamite carl.
ridge. He is lucky to be still alive.-Hal.
lineer. the condemned wife murderer, of
Trenton, was granted respite pending ap-
peal.-At the meeting OF the executive COM
mittee OF the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, held
in Lancaster July IL was fixed as the date of
opening the summer assembly at Mount
Gretna. -Githens & Austin, lumber mer-
chants of Philadelphia, made a general as
Segment to Washington Fighter, for the ben
fit ofther creditors. Their liabilities will
reach $50, 0J0 George w. Tussner, of ST.
Paul, killed himself while insane from grip.
The Mississippi House has passed bill
appropriating s64. 200 year for Pensions.
Mrs. Culiom and Mrs. Arber quarreled in
Lesdyille, and the former slashed Mrs. Arber
badly with knife. The lstter's unborn child
was killed. Mrs. Arber is expected to die.
The Cullom woman has been arrested
Arniza Williams, of Wilkesbarre, who has
four husbands, was arrested Tor bigamy.--
The crossing of electric wires caused the big
FIRE in Memphis. new Methodist
Episcopal church at Alexandria, Pa, was
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $14, 900 -
Richard Clarkson was arrested in Philadel-
phia, charged with swindling A. G. Under, of
Wrightsville, Ca, by means of the green
goods game.
The temperance people of Ottumwa, Iowa,
demanded that stormy" Jordan, the saloon
keeper, shall be quartered in cell, instead
of the shariff's ouortars n. Nbo.o,, c.
Jee, Chinese doctor, was killed by two
Chinese hiyhbinders in San Francisco.
George Williams, Chicago tough, was shot
and MORALLY wounded by Detective Norton,
whom he had assaulted.-It is understood
that syndicate has obtained control of al
the coal lands in the anthracite REGION
Carlyle W. Harris, the medical student con-
victed of poisoning his wife, has been SELL
fenced to death by Recorder Smyth of New
York.-The chief of police of Denver ha.
been asked 10 look out for robbers who got
away with $4,000 Russian money from
Siberia.-R. J. Lee and S. +. Hoisington,
agents of Professor Bainhardt, of Harrisburg,
disappeared with $1,000 of their employers
money.-Hugh Gallagher was arrested in
Allentown, Pa, for attempting to blow up
John Waruvck's house with dynamite. W.
A. Stuart, of Saltville, Va, brother of ]. E.
b. Stuart, the famous cavalry leader, died in
Philadelphia. Mrs. Edwin f. Law, of
Lancaster, while insane from an attack of
the grip, jumped from window and was
fatally hurt.
Miss Kittie Shaw, the daughter of n Pitts
burg physician, dropped dead while dancing
at ball in that city.-The training ship
Portsmouth sailed from Fort Monroe for the
West Indies. -Harry R. Shaw, aged nine
teen years, of Pottsville, Pa, was convicted
of murder in the second degree, for killing
David L. Quinn. Tennessee Packing
Company's packing house, at Birmingham,
Ala, was destroyed by fire. Loss $50, 000.-
The wife of Captain J. w. Moore, of Cleve'
land, Ohio has sued her husband and several
other men for damages, charging a conspiracy
TO secure grounds for her husband to get a
divorce. Samuel Snider, q pawnbroker o;
Omaha, was robbed of s., 100 by gang of
thieves who got him into room and threat
ened to kill him if he did not hand over the
CASH.. NJ. Bacon u Co., coal merchants,
Of Brooklyn, N. Y, made au assignment. -
Elmer Beck, alias j, X. Stratton, was con-
victed in the Criminal Court Of Denver, OF
forging check of $l2,000.-J. II. Ham
brick, a prominent farmer of Macon, Miss,
was assassinated by unknown parties
Michael Mcclure, restaurant keeper of Chi
cago, shot and fatally wounded his mistress,
Lizzie MassangaIe. Packard, six
teen-ycar-o!d girl, of Prescott, Arizona, was
abducted by Indians. Agents of the Nicar-
aqua Canal deny the reports that work on the
canal had ceased. Judge Reed, of the New
Jersey Supreme Court made an order com.
hitting to the State Insane Asylum Mrs.
Emma Warwick, of Atlantic City, who re-
Gently shot her daughter Laura in the face
while the latter was attending her at her
home.-Jacob Fink, q motor man on the
Lebanon and Annville Electric Railway,
Pennsylvania, was badly shocked by live
wire, and completely disabled. The flesh OF
one of his hands was burned to q crisp
The recent cold weather caused intense suffer
ing among the new settlers in Oklahoma,
several women dying from exposure. Hugh
NJ. White, a young lawyer of Knoxville,
Tenn, attempted to shoot Thomas NJ. Persse,
the tenor of an opera company, in dispute
over chorus girl.
The steamer City of Savannah collided
with the Lucy JONES' which sank with two
OF the crew.-Stella Reese, of Lancaster,
"a, died of trichinosis.-E. Goddard &
Sons, hc1r men, of st. Louis, failed
Ialton Hall, of Tennessee, has been sentenced
to hang on March 14th.-The steamship
Venezuela went ashore on the Brigantine
Shoals, near Atlantic City, the captain having
lost his bearings during snow storm
Albert A. Guigues, the morocco manufae.
turer, of Philadelphia, against whom
numerous judgments were issued, made an
assignment for the benefit of creditors to
Morris NJ. Newman.-John Bucknum, aged
eighty years, who held the position of crie- of
the United States Court in Trenton, n. j., for
'wenty-six years, dropped dead of heart
disease while at his post.-An autograph
copy of Poe's "Bells" was sold in Boston for
sSoo-The mangled body of Peter Eckroth,
thirteen years old, breaker boy, was found
in the breaker machinery at Waddell's
colliery, in Luzerne borough, Pa. His left
arm was torn from his body, and he was other
wise horribly mangled. George Stout was
cut in two by a saw at Berwick, Henry
johnson, Sims Brown, Wallace Stewart and
Charles Scott were convicted in Staunton, Va
Of involuntary homicide.