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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
Washington.

PRESIDENT HARRISON issued a procla-
nation declaring the higher rate Of duties
under the reciprocity clause of the tariff act
in force on products from Colombia, Hayti
and Venezuela.
THE fifth birthday of Benjamin Harrison
Mckee, the Presidents grandson, was cele-
brated in the White House. The full Ma
rine Band was stationed In the corridors
playing selections for his thirty boy and girl
guests. They came laden with presents.
REPRESENTATIVE CHAPLIN, of Brooklyn,
n. Y, has been appointed State Railroad
Commissioner of New York by Governor
Flower at salary Of 5000 per year.
SECRETARY ELKINs issued an order Great
ing for the War Department a Bureau of
Information such as the Navy Department
has long found of the greatest usefulness
and profit.
DR.. MOTT SMITH, the newly accredited
Minister from Hawaii, was formally pre-
scented to the President at the White House.
THE Senate, in executive session, con-
f1rmed the nomination of Judson c. Glenn
ents of Georgia, to be an Interstate Com
missioner, vice Bragg, deceased.
GENERAL PORTER, Minister to Italy, has
/ been ordered to return to Rome. and it was
announced as probable that Minister Fava
would return to Washington.
AFTER i've uOuEs spent III seGEct Se>slOn tHS
Senate confirmend the nomination of Will
lam A. Woods, of the Indiana District bench,
to be additional Circuit Judge for the
Seventh Federal Circuit. Seven other of
the new circuit judges appointed under the
provisions of the Evarts act of March g.
1891, were then confirmed without opposi-
ton
SECRETARY ELKINs issued an order de-
failing Colonel Robert Williams, Assistant
Adjutant- General, to special duty in the
newly created Division OF Information.
THE President sent to the Senate the nom
ination of Charles S. Aldrica, of Illinois, to
be Solicitor-General, vice W. H. Taft, re-
signed.
SECRETARY ELKINS has amended Army
regulations so as to provide that no person
under the age or twenty-one years shall be
enlisted or re-enlisted without the written
consent of his parents or a legally appointed
guardian.
The National bank note circulation is now
$l6l, 600, 600 an increase of nearly $50 600, 900
since July last.
The President signed the commissions of
the nine new Circuit Ju iges and ordered
that they be for warded to them at once SO
that there may be no unnecessary delay in
their entering upon the discharge of their
functions
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
MARY1ANp Is fulI Of wIld dnoks.

MARYLAND is full Of wild ducks.
THERE are over 5000 silos In Wisconsin.
THE great lakes are open for navigation.
YELLOW fever is raging at Brazilian
ports.
The financial condition of Italy is i'm
proving.
The number Of postmistresses in the coun-
try is $685..
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. is having a natu-
raj gas boom
The Tiber has inundated the lower parts
of Rome, Italy.
THE Bengal Gndial cotton trade has al
most collapsed
Two armed United States cutters are to
be placed on the lakes.
The Yaquilas Indians, of California, are
again on the warpath.
The annual revenue from salt in the East
Indies is about 49,, 900, 900.
THE foot and mouth disease is spreading
among the cattle in Belgium.
GREECE is reported TO be ia a state of pop
ular excitement bordering on revolution.
THE plot to assassiuate ths Sultan Of
Turkey has been traced to Russian sources.
TIE Southern California orange crop is
total failure owing to frost and heavy winds.
THERE are at present thirty-four vacancies
of cadetships at the Annapolis Naval Aead-
envy.
GESERALO. o. HOWARD, who is making
a tour Of Mexico. says the Cara insurree-
ton is a small affair.
A WHALE BAcK' steamer 500 feet long,
to carry passengers, Will be built for the
Worlds Fair, Chicago, III.
The Governor-Ge neral Of Canada issued
q proclamation enfranchising the Indian
population in British Columbia.
EIGHT German publications have been
suspended for commenting on Emperor
Williams Brandenburg speech.
SECOND army Of locusts from Chile has
been frozen to death in its attempt to cross
the Vica Mountains into Bolivia.
DISTRESS by the drought is increasing in
lnnia. 10 many districts the water is fall
ing and the condition of cattle is serious.
PosTMAsTER-GEsERAL WAEAMAKKR nf-
fers gold medal 70 the railway postal clerk
in each of the seven divisions VINO makes the
best record In 1892.
ACCORDING to official reports, no less than
ffty-two schooners have cleared, or are
about TO clear from Victoria, British Co
lumbia, for the purpose Of capturing seals
in our forbidden territory.
TIE Senators and Representative wh1
went to Kentucky to attend the funeral Of
the late Congressman Kendall we're COM
pe.ied to ride twenty-five mles through
8inding snow storm over a mountain road
aai wade through streams in weather 50
old that their foo was frozgn. Their lives
we're often in peri.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
An Ossified Man Dead.

Edward Emmons, the ''ossified mans OF
Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, is
dead Although an ossified man and living
curiosity, he never exhibited himself,
although he tried to get the museum man
ayers TO show him. The three ossified men
known to frequenters OF museums are iona.
than Bass, William Sapp, and colored man
named Monroe.
Emmons's death was caused by the grip
He was born in Port jefferson thlrty-eight
years ago. When quite young he went to
sea and was taken Ill with typhoid fever.
He got over the fever, but it left him very
weak. When twenty-five years of age he
was taken ill with rheumatism, and on his
return voyage home he suffered severely
He never left the house again, but lay in bed
for sixteen years. and his flesh gradually
became ossified. For several years his suffer-
ings were terrible. His body was rigid ex-
cept one arm, which he could use, and his
jaws were set. He was fed through a hole
in the mouth, where a tooth was broken out.
Several years ago Emmons's pain ceased.
He could read, articulate after a fashion,
and was slightly deaf.
Emmons's father was afflicted the same
way, but the trouble did not come upon him
till late in life, and he died before his joints
were entirely set. All the family. which
now consists of mother, brother, and four
sisters, are afflicted with rheumatism, except
the mother
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
THE LABOR WORLD.
rnE crede lcol.l minor GO. o a dnr.

The Crede tCol.) miners get s. day.
THERE are 80. 900 cash girls In New York.
sIEMENs steel is to be manufactured IN
India.
GREAT BRITAIN produces 100000 tons
OF furnace Stag annually.
A FORGE and gun company nc San Fran
cisco, Cal, will employ 1000
THE European Powers have taken meas
ures for the relief OF the unemployed.
The shoemaking business in California IL
controlled almost entirely by Chinese.
IN is said that there are 1000, 900 women
In Germany who earn their own living
TBE New York Central Is soon to build
car shops costing 5000 at Buffalo, n. Y.
MANY iron and steel furnaces in Pittxburg
Penn, are being cooled off, owing 20 the
overstock.
THERE txist IN Russia no laborers' associ-
ntions comparable to the trade unions OF
other countries
Mr.. WINANs, the Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction m Kansas. was formerly a
hricklAyer in Atchison. He built his own
fortune.
RAILWAY schools for children Of railway
employees are maintained ty the railway
companies Of India at a very small expense
TO the pupils.
STATIsTICIAN has estimated that every
worker in an American factory consumes
over 500 worth Of American agricultural
produce in a year.
THE woremen employed 10 dig out the
ruins Of a cheese factory destroyed by fire At
Pittsburg Penn, struck for higher wages
because Of the bad smell.
THE wheat harvest in the Argentine Re-
public this season is said 10 be 80 great that
much difficulty IS being experienced In Oh
tanning labor 70 gather IL.
liz Germany 7,4s5 children between
twelve and fourteen years WORKED In the
factories in 1890; in England 81, 100 under
thirteen years were employed.
WORKING days are Of very unequal
lengths IN Russia, varying from six 70
twenty hours, the average given in the re-
port as an estimate being not less than
twelve hours. The rue is 20 indefinite,
ho5 ever, that there is never any claim OF
overtime possible.
INTERESTING information upon the I'M
willingness Of the working class 10 subscribe
in early life Tor an oid-age pension Is afford.
ell by great English hrm Of cotton SOM
ners. They offered 20 subscribe 5000 70 a
pension fund on condition that the work
people subscribet upon an scturiai scaie,
but this propotal wss rejected by vote Of
more than two y on.
Much suffering has been caused IA Queens
land by stasnation Of in usiries. In ons
day 900 women ana children besieZed the
Labor Bureau in Brisbane begging for re-
let. The crush was 20 great that many
tainted. Husbands have gone into tho
country seeking worS, leaving their fam
lilies destitute, and the women and children
are dependent upon the Government Tor
food to keep them alive.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The Attorney General of Pennsylvania
has filed at Harrisburg bill to test the le-
gality of the Reading leases.
LACEYvILLE, Wyoming County, Penn,
is almost wholly wiped out by fire.
The Rhode island Republicans met in
State Convention at Providence and nomi-
mated ticket headed by u. Russell Brown
for Governor.
The steamship Missouri sailed from New
York for Russia. Slowed away under her
matches were 5, 900, 600 pounds of breadstutfs,
the voluntary offerings of the American
people to the starving peasants of Russia.
This, it is estimated, will he sufficient to save
and preserve 10000 people for one year.
The boiler of engine No. 303 exploded on
the Catawissa branch at McAuiey, Penn,
killing two men and injuring three others.
FRANK JEYRTLLE, of Altoona, Penn,
threw lighted lamp at his wife Mollie and
she was roasted to death.
CHAREs SHAW, Of Portland, Me-, widely
known as 'Steeple jack while repairing
the spire of a church at South Livermore,
fell from the top and was instantly killed.
THE Secretary of the United States Treas
ury, Charles Foster, returned TO New York
from his trip abroad, much improved in
health
THE restriction on the anthracite coal
production agreed upon in New York has
commenced. The largest collieries in Penn
sylvania are being shut down.
THE heaviest snowfall of the season de
layed traffic considerably in New York City.
THE Supreme Court of Connecticut de-
cided the case of the State against Con-
troller Staub in the States favor.
The carrier pigeon loft at the United
States Naval training station at Newport,
R. l., which was established three or four
years ago by officers Of the station since
transferred, has bean abandoned, as the
Government failed to become interested.
FRED MILLEY, a mill watchman of Pitts
burg, Penn, killed his wife and himself
His wife was jealous and upbraided him.
TIE new British bark Windemere, bound
from Milford Haven in ballast for New
York and Calcutta, ran ashore at Deal
Beach, N. j.. about mile north of Asbury
Park, during binding snowstorm. The
crew were rescued, but the ship and cargo
will be total loss.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26

The correspondence between Secretary
Blaine and the Canadian delegates to the
recent conference at Washington was
transmitted to the Dominion Parliament at
Ottawa.
AN avalanche occurred at Belluno. Italy,
by which eight persons were killed ami con-
siderable property destroyed.
ABRAHAM WANoLA, found frozen near
Winnipeg, Manitoba, was lost in a snow
storm four days, during which he carried
neighbor, Mrs. Rainage, until she expired.
In the British House of Commons the
Irish members made strenuous attempt to
secure separate Irish exhibit at the Chi
cago Fair; it was voted to give $50 900 for
England's exhibit; the Folkething of Den
mark appropriated see, 600 for the Danish
exhibit at the Fair.
GENERAL REINA BARRIos was inaugu-
rated President of Guatemala with much
ceremony. The country is in perfect peace.
JOHN Il. STEUART United States Consul
to Antwerp, Belgium, died few days ago
at Paris. He was one of the Oldest officers
in the Consular service. In President
Grants first term he was appointed Consul
to Turks Island, San Domingo.
THE identity of the Liverpool England
murderer and his victims has been dis
covered. He is Frederick Deeming, a
member of good family residing in Birken-
head England.
AT Duisburg, in Rheinish Prussia, the
boiler of the tug boat Heinrich, plying on
the Rhine exploded. The deck OF the tug
boat was shattered. Six men, including the
captain, were killed.
A THREE-sToRY house in course Of erec-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26

expedition. He was tied fast and
had to cut him loose with my knife.
AS soon as released the body foated
upward, and the men told me that it
fioated out to sea with the tide, riding
on the surface like cork.
Evening was now drawing near, and
further search was abandoned until
another day. After breakfast next
morning l descended again, and with
in two hours had the treasure out of
the wreck. l found it, not in the
captains stateroom, but on the floor
of the main cabin-the diamonds were
in cast-iron box about as large as a
child's savings bank, and the gold in
stout wooden boxes, and left nothing
behind.
From the treasure being found
where it was l argued that there had
been a mutiny before the storm, and
that the captain had been tied in the
cabin and the crew was making ready
to divide up the spoils. Perhaps after
driving over the reef and striking the
rock one had been cast ashore to tell
the story, and it was on bis informa-
ton we acted. If so, however, the
| fact was not admitted. l learned no
more than have told you. Not one
of the crew knew the value of our
find, and, sailorlike, asked but few
questions.
When the treasure was safe aboard
we returned to Rio. For four days
not man was permitted to leave the
vessel. Then l received the sum
agreed upon, with a considerable in
crease, the men were made happy
with a snug sum of money counted
| down to each, and we were all bundled
aboard steamer bound for Cuba,
each giving his promise to say nothing
OF the wrecking expedition to anyone.
[ learned later on that Government
vessels searched for weeks for the
wreck, and that the Rio banker had TO
flee to England for safety, but that
only added to the strangeness of the
adventure instead of clearing up the
many mysteries.-[M. Quad, in St.
Louis Republic.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
EATEN BY ANTS.
The Horse Thieves Thought Shooting
Too Good for Their Prisoner.

nv AAoESC 1hASfCS AhouEht 6uOOtlOR
Too Good for Their Prisoner.
The Indians have always been known for
their inhuman ways of torture, but it has
remained for band of Mexican bandits to
beat them.
Henry's band of horse thieves raided
Henry Withers's ranch on the Garrita River,
in Arizona, recently. driving away all his
STOCK Withers started after the band
single handed and succeeded in shooting
down three of them from ambush before
they discovered that only one man was pur-
suing them. They succeeded in capturing
him as he was trying to get away
Death was his sentence, but shooting was
too easy death. Withsrs was taken out
on the hot sand beds and left 10 lie naked
for six hours, fully exposed to the suns rays,
This was not enough, and he was then car
ried, still nude, to bed of cactus bushes
where he was laid on the sharp points.
He was bound tightly to a stake, and then
a large ant hill which was near was torn
open with sticks and he was left TO his fate.
The insects swarmed out and over Withers's
bo1y. and within two hours he was dead from
their bites. The ants did not leave him
alone, however, until every particle of flesh
was eaten from his bones.
A prisoner of the band was taken where
be could witness the whole affair and was
afterward turned loose and told to tell the
people that that would be the future punish
meHt OF all who tried to kill member OF
the band
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
FIEND STRANGLED.
His Death fastened blythe Hangman
Pulling at His Legs.

His Death fastened by the Hangman
Pulling at His Legs.
Frank Schneider, who with his wife, as
saulted and murdered many servant girls,
has been executed at Vienna, Austria.
Schneider was gibbeted after the Austrian
manner.
He was entirely broken down as he was
led from the cell to the scAffoi1. As ne saw
the stake and spike, from which he was to
be hanged, rising above it, his saliow faca
turned a grsenish hue, and ne had
almost to be carried to the spot. 1ne stake
had fixed in the top of it spike about six
inches long.
There were three steps to lift the doome
criminal up. He was lifted to the spike, an
the back OF his neck hell clocs to it. Then
cord was passed around his NECK, fasten-
ing it tightly to the Spite, and he was
strangled TO death.
To hasten his end the executioner pressed
his arms around the mouth and nostrils OF
the dying criminal, while one assistant held
and pulled Schneider's arms, and another
pulled his legs. The wretch died in four
minutes. The body was LETT suspended TO
the stake.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
A New Use for Gas.

A field in which gas is likely to
play an important part is to heat boil
ers and raise steam. The system has
been at work in large establishment
in London, England, and the results
obtained are simply astounding.
Burning about 800 cubic feet of gas
per hour under foot boiler, steam
is said 10 have been raised to so
pounds pressure in 40 minutes. Gas
and air are supplied under pressure to
pipes that run parallel with and I'M
der the boiler, and furnaces and chin
neys are dispensed with. -TGas
World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
South and West.

A SEVERE blizzard, accompanied by a
heavy fall of snow, prevailed throughout
Southern Illinois.
WALTER A. SNYDER, an insane clerk in
Tifiin, Ohio, shot and seriously wJul lei
two of his enpioy erS AMI a w-c,er6, a11
then killed himself.
SENATOR DAVID B. HILL, of New York,
made an address before the Mississippi Lag
islature, at Jackson, in which he advocated
the repeal Of the Mckinley tariff and Sher-
man silver laws.
PROFESSOR CLARENCE o. DocKERY, aged
twenty-seven, Principal Of the Alexandria
Ha.) Business College, engaged in friendly
scuffie with P. Gallagher. Dockery's foot
caught in bracket and he fell to the floor
and broke his neck.
SENATOR Hill, of New YORK, spoke to
big crowd at Birmingham, Ala. At the
conclusion of his address, James w. Ridg-
way, District-Attorney Of Kings County,
New York, made brief speech. In the
evening Senator Hill and his party were the
guests Of the Hill Club at banquet. Sena-
tor Hill and his friends them left for At
lanta, Ga.
DELEGATES to the Republican National
Convention were elected by the Iowa State
Convention at Des Moines. They were un-
instructed.
SENATOR HILL, OF New ork, spoke at the
banquet of the Hibernian Society at Savan-
nah, Ga.
REPORTS from various points in the West
show that winter wheat was less hurt than
might be expected, and ths crop may reach
within fifteen per cent. OF the phenomenal
one of last year.
WHILE officers were conveying Helm and
Dye, colored, murderers of an old woman in
Fareuhar County, from Warrentown to AL
exandria, Va, they were met by a crowd at
Haymarket who overpowered them and
carried the prisoners to the woods near by
and lynched them.
DURING quarrel at Rosebury, Oregon,
A. Hansbrough. brother of Senator Hans
brough, of North Dakota, was stabbed and
killed by Nicholas Jones.
THE heaviest snow storm of the season
prevailed in Virgi mia, Tennessee. Alabama
and Mississippi.
THE Rev Fl. D. Benjamin, of Portsmouth,
Ohio, hanged him self while suffering from
dementia.
THE extensive tobacco factory of Liggett
& Myers in ST. Louis. NO., was damaged
by fire to the extent of s345, 600.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
A CRY FOB FOOD
Twenty Million People Dying OF stat
walton in Russia.

Twenty Million People Dying OF star
walton in Russia
The following piteous appeal has been
cabled from st. Petersburg 10 this country
by the committee OF American citzsas sent
to Russia: II the American people knew
the extent Of the suffering in the famine
districts Of Russia they would egeFyuaere
com TO the rescue. Twenty mill
ions Of people are affected and in danger os
daath from starvation. Typhus fever is
raging in many provinces. AMI horses an
cattle are psrIshlng Of huags-
Does this not appeal 70 ths nsarbs OF tiloss
able to heps
Russia is deepy grateful TO the American
people for what they nave doa.
The distribution ot sas plies Is IN Ter the d.
rection of tue American sinister and m ex-
celient committee. S0liins viii 1e waste I.
Every particle o. 700 viii b. properly d.
tribubed. Help us Rudolph Bianseb5ars.
A. j. Drexei, Jr., AiexaaIer W. Biddls,
Committee.
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His Head Under a Hammer.

Frederick Hengle, aged forty, committed
suicide at Philadelphia, Penn, by placing
his head under steam hammer at the es.
adjustment Of Pearce, Kirsch & Co., man
ufacturing jewellers, Thirty-sixth and
Market streets. He was employed as
a gold beaten. When tine whistle
blew for dinner he went with another en-
pioye for dinner. Upon their return he
left his companion and went down into ths
cellar, where the engines and boilers are
situated. William Watson, the engineer
went down soon after and saw mans body
on the block on which a 500-pound trip
hammer struck.