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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-01-23
NUGGETS or NEWS.

Lucies Dotson, colored, was hanged at
Savannah for shooting and killing JEFF
Coates. another colored man.
John Lafferty, aged 81 years, was found
frozen to death in . field adjoining his
residence at East Nottingham, Pa.
Rev. DR.. Scott, President Harrison's
father-inlaw, yesterday celebrated his 02d
birthday. He Is remarkably vigorous
old gentleman.
The large summer hotel at PSrt Mon
mouth, N. j., owned by Mr.. A. Bowman,
was destroyed by fire. The hotel WIS un-
occupied. The loss. which Is heavy, Is en-
tirely covered by insurance.
A butter merchant named Wittwer. re-
siding ct Schonau, Germany, has been ar
rested upon the awful charge Of numbering
his wife and boiling her corpse in the hope
Of destroying the evidence Of his guilt u
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Memphis, Tenn, died Of her injuries;
Mortie Decko, Farnham, Neb.; Arthur
Bayless, Frank Burns, Newport, MINI;
Kate l.. Strong, Salem. Ore.
Many pairs of braces were unearthed
In the ruins, showing that some Of the
unfortunates, in their efforts to escape,
had unloosened their braces and thrown
them away.
There were 316 inmates in the Duild-
ing, which was labyrinthian affair,
many of the windows being grated to
prevent the juvenile inmates from fall
ing out. These gratings were RESPONSE
BILE for the loss of more than one life.
The loss on building and contents Is
estimated at SIS, 900, covered by So, 00C
insurance.
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4ScEND1ARIns.
Gibbons Gets .te soverest Sentence,
rnciu ing lilo Plllory and Lash.

WIZ. aNCENDIARIEs.
gibbons oem ~ seversst Sentence,
naciu ing tic Pliiory and Lash.
WILMINGTON. Del, Jan. e3.--Judge
Cullen delivered the opinion Of the
court on the matter Of the application
for new trial for the barn burning
conspirators After reviewing the rea-
sons offered the court declared that Il
could not see any reason for granting a
new trial. The judge then started to
sentence the prisoners, when he was in.
terrupted by ex-Mayor Harrington,
counsel for the Clarks. who made an
appeal for mercy for his clients, and es-
pecially asked that the pillory bio omit
ted in the cases If Edward Clark and
his son Joseph. the former owing t.
poor health, and the latter because he
was lame. Women cannot be pillarfea.
William j. Gibbons, who was con-
victed on Dec ii last Of burning the
new barn Of u. |. Dupont De Nemours,
was sentenced 10 pay fine Of $500, to
pay the owners Of the barn $4,000, to
stand In the pillory for one hour ON Jan.
80, and TO be given Fifteen lashes ut the
whipping post and then to serve six
years In Jail.
Gibbons then took place outside the
dock with the Clark family 10 receive
sentence for conspiracy Mrs. Mary Il.
Clark was then sentenced to eight years
imprisonment; Edward Clark. her hus-
band, TO seven years. and Joseph Clark,
her son, to three years. In addition the
prisoners were each fined $500 and the
cost Of their respective cases. Gibbons
was sentenced to four years and the fine.
His sentence, therefore, stands at ten
years, one hour IN the pillory, fifteen
lashes. $4,000 restitution money and
81 900 fine.
The woman was considered as the
head conspirator, and the courtso treated
her.
None Of the prisoners showed any
emotion excepting the boy Joseph Clark,
who began crying Ms soon as his sem
tence was imposed. Tho father md
mother never changed countenance, ex-
cept possibly that the woman looked q
little more defiant.
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A Mothers Awful Crime.

LONDON. Jan. GA dispatch from
Nottingham states that widow named
Castings, who had milliner's shop on
the principal street of that place, muir
dered her two children yesterday. After
mitted suicide. When the bodies were
discovered those of the children pre-
sented sickening appearance. Mrs
Castings had used a coal hammer in
carrying out her fiendish plan, and with
it she battered the heads of her victims
SO that they were hardly recognizable.
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ono KiIied. Two FatalIy injured.

BROOKLYN. Jan. 30. ~ fatal accident
occurred on board the steamer Yictoria,,
which Is lying at the dock 1t the foot Of
Commerce street. Tony Wise and John
Smith, two ilongshoremen, were pfecip-
itated to the bottom Of the lower hold, a
distance Of thirty-fve feet, BY d hatch
stantly killed, and Smiths skull was
fractured Another man, James Gar
ron, was injured internally by the fall
ing hatchway cover. Ii is Thought that
Smith and Garron are fatally injured.
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Choked 10 Death by a Lnnatic.

PITrsBURG, Jan. 90. A. Williams,
an inmate of Dixmont Insane asylum,
choked James McAffee, a fellow lunatic.
to death yesterday. He was in the act
of choking another demented patient
named Brownella, when guard inter
fered and placed him in a straight
jacket Williams was admitted from
Washington county Thursday morning.
He was thought to be harmless, and
was placed in a, room with eleven others
for the night. Williams said his victim
persisted in talking when he wanted to
sleep.
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ouay wins Another Libel suit

PITTsBURG, Jan. 90. The jury in the
libel suit of Senator Quay against the
Pittsburg Post, after being out three
hours, returned verdict at 7:15 last
night of guilty against A. j. Barr, presi-
dent of The Post Publishing company.
and James Mills, acting editor, as
charged in the indictments. The max
imum penalty is one years imprison-
ment and $1,000 fine. The court may
reduce this as low as one hour imprison-
ment and 6 IA cents fine.
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snnncnted br Conf Gas.

BROOKLYN, Jan. sS.-Two men were
suffocated by coal gas in this city. They
were James Cassidy and John Herman,
each 50 years old, and employed ut
Havemeyer's Sugar refinery in Will
iamsburg. The men lived together in 4
furnished room in Jacob Connor's hotel,
Grand street. They got drunk, and be-
fore retiring knocked down the pipe at
tached to the stove. The gas escaped,
and in the morning they were found
dead in their bed. Both men were single.
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scbaefer Defeats slosson.

NEW York. Jan. "a. The match game
of billiards between Jacob Schaefer and
George Slosson. for the championship
cup, a stake of 81 600 side and net re-
ceipts Of the house, was played at the
Lennox lyceuIn last night before bril-
liant audience. The game wassthe fonr-
teen inch ball line. SEQ points mp The
game was brilliant from the start to the
finish. Schaefer won the game in the
thirty fourth inning by score Of 800
points To 5D2 for Slossoa.
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4 Noted College Burned out.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Jan. 20. Erskine
college, located at Duewest, Abbeyille
county, S. c., was burned yesterday,
only a few benches, desks and black
boards being saved from the wreck. A
library containing over 1900 valuable
volumes, belonging to the Theological
Seminary Of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, was destroyed, to-
gether with the college library and fur
niture. The loss is over $22, coo and no
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killed on ais First Trim.

NoRRIsTowN, Pa, Jan. GA brake
man on the North Penn railroad was
instantly killed at Lansdale by the
Bethlehem express. The man was
busily engaged about his train and
stepped on the track in front of the ex-
press, having failed to observe its APP
proach. His name could not be ascer-
tanned. He had but recently entered
the company's employ, and this was his
first trip.
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An Escaping Burglar Drowned.

CHESTER, Pa, Jan. 23.-An unknown
burglar broke into the Sharon Academy
station of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad, and was discov-
cred by Harry Havery, a track walker,
who notified Officer Campbell. The
burglar, hearing his pursuers, escaped
through window and started across
the fields with the officer and Havery in
hot pursuit. At Darby creek the burg
lar attempted to cross ON the ice, but
broke through and was drowned before
his pursuers could effect rescue. The
body was recovered and waits identif.
cation.
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VI Pnsacngcr I,nrned to nanfIt..

Topeka. Ken, Jan. 23. Freight train
No 81. which was standing on the main
track at Clinton, ten miles west Of here,
was run into by the second section.
Eleven cars were ditched. The caboose
and combination cars were burned and
one passenger, named Oldham, was
burned to death. The trainmen escaped
by jumping.
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An Equine Holocaust.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Jan. 90. ~ The
horse and mule market of Sparks
Brothers was totally destroyed by fire
yesterday. Two hundred and ninety-six
horses and mules were burned to death
in the fire and twenty others were so
badly injured that they were killed.
Loss, 100000; partly covered by insur-
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For : Barroom Murder.

WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 23.-James
Carr. a young man, was placed on trial
for killing Antonio Basso, an Italian,
during a fight in saloon. Carr and two
Of his friends quarreled with three Itai-
ians on Nov. II, 1890. in front Of bar.
The result was that Basso was struck in
the head with beer glass, and died in
eleven days from his wounds.
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u I,ocomotiye BoiIer- Explodes.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. pa Reading
railroad locomotive exploded last night
while crossing the Cedar street bridge.
The engine plunged from the bridge to
the street below, carrying with it Engi-
neer Furman and Fireman Walker.
Strange to say, neither were seriously
hurt, though the locomotive Is . wreck.
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JUSTICE BRADLEY
Death Creates Another Vacancy in the
Supreme Court
INDIRECTLY CAUSED BY THE GRIP,

He Had Been a Justice OF the SUI
preme Cou, for Twenty.one Years,
and Cast the Vote That Elected
Hayes President In Youth He
PeddIed Charcoal
: WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.--Justice Brad.
ley. Of the United States supreme court,
died yesterday. His death was not I'M
expected, as it has been known for some
months past.that the distinguished jur-
list was far from being well man, an
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Double Hanging in Vireinia.

DANvILLE, Wa, Jan. 23.-Jim Lyles
and Margaret Lashley, colored, were
hanged here yesterday for the murder
of George Lashley, the woman's hus-
band, IN October, 1890. Lyles confessed
his crime, and declared that he alone
was responsible for the crime. The wo-
man has always protested her innocence,
and died declaring that she had no hand
in the murder of her husband.
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KilIed the Eneineer.y

CREsToN, Ia, Jan. %. by the tear
ing up Of q switch eight miles east Of
here an engine and seven loaded cars
were ditched and Engineer Swanson
killed. Fireman Thomas Holland and q
brakeman were seriously bruised and
scalded. All the injured men reside at
Ottumwa. zig,
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The Chen Championa.

HAVANA, Jan. 23.-In the tenth game
of the great chess match yesterday
Steinitz, after obtaining good position
in two knights defense, committed a
palpable error which cost him the game
after thirty-one moves. Tschigorin now
leads by two games, the score being
four to two and four drawn.
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Froze TO Death in Berlin,s STREE

BERLIN, Jan. 90. The cold has bee3f
30 intense during the past few days us to
cause great suffering among the poor III
the city and much inconvenience to ALI
Three persons We're found by the police
frozen to death in the streets.
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FINANCE AND TRADE.
Industries Remarkably Well Employee
and Crop Movements Still Large.

Industries Remarkably Well Employed
and Crop Movements Still Large.
NEW York, Jan. 23.-R. G.. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says: Nc
news at this season is good news. Open
ing of goods and preparation for yea
Of active trade fill the time, and it is yet
too early to report material change IL
the distribution. Industries are re-
markably well employed for the season.
and the movement of crops is still large.
and reports from every part of the conn
try express even greater confidence than
before in the prospects for trade. while
in some lines definite, though gradual,
improvement is already seen.
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chi
cago and Omaha report improving
trade, while at Minneapolis, st. Paul
Galveston and st. Louis extreme cold
and snow storms have retarded bust
| ness. Charlie ton and New Orleans re-
port slight Improvement.
The output Of precious metals in 1891
has been surpassed in only two years.
according to. Wells-F argo's statement,
amounting to $31 ,975, 994 gold, $60,6l4,
IOU4bHVeT, PlO,NOl,oe0 copper, ana $lS,-
| 1885, $50 lead. The Mexican output of
silver was $43, 100000. The annual re-
ports Of many other industries show
that the production in 1891 has rarely ii
ever been equaled, and the new year be.
gins with no prospect of decrease in any
important industry.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the lasi
seven days number for the United State.
274, and for Canada "a, or total of 32S,
as compared with totals of $50 last week
and 435 the week previous to the last
For the corresponding week of last yeal
the figures We're AL. representing 36t
| failures in the United States and 81 il
Canada.
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attack Of grip last
spring having left him
in a much debilitated
condition. from which
he seemed unable to
rally during the SUM
mer months.
His trouble began
again in November and
made greatinroads into
his strength, and dnr-
ing a greater piiit Of
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Proposed Mammoth whisky Deal.

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-The Times states
that plan for the reorganization Of the
whisky trust is being considered by the
directory Of the trust. It is proposed to
unite the distillers not in the trust on a
basis of capital of $50, 200, 900, and then
unite with the combination the thirty
distilleries now controlled by the trust.
making grand joint stock copartner-
ship company, partly American and
partly English, with capitalization of
$75, 000, 900 or 800, 1000, 900, with an alb
solute monopoly of the handling of spir-
ituous liquor. Another meeting of the
directory will be held at Peoria Feb. 16.
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PHILADELPHIA MARKETS..
Closing Quotations Of the Stock ami
Produce Exchanges.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. q. The stock Inarkgl
was dull and firm, There was little activity
except in Reading, which was steady. Tie
general mortgage Is and the preference IT,
come beads were dull and strong. The is4ad-
ing investment stocks were strong. there balHI.
steady demand for them. There were buy
ing orders In Pennsylvania. I.ehigh Valley,
Lehigh Navigation and Huntingdon aud
Broad Top preferred, and all advanced.
\ Following were the closing bias -
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The weather.

Light rains; warmer; southerly winds
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PICKED UP BY THE LAwKEEPERs

JOSEPH PoNDEXTER was committed to jail
yesterday by Alderman McKenna on the
charge of assault and battery, preferred by
| John Eschrich, OF Penn avenue and Twenty
ninth street. He alleges that Pondcxter
struck him on the face on Christmas. Pom
dexter has been in the workhouse since and
was released yesterday, and re-arrested.
He was held for hearing on Tuesday next.
GEORGE HAYES and Clara Washington, col
ored. got into a fight at a ball held in Incline
Hall on Friday night. During the melee
Clara chewed finger of Georges hand.
He entered suit before Alderman Donovan,
charging her with mayhem. At the hearing
Yesterday she was held for court in default
of bail.
EDWARD HAZARD was arrested yesterday
on his release from the workhouse and COM
mitted to jail to answer the charge of malic-
ious mischief The information was made
before Alderman McKenna by Eliza Sey-
more. of No. 2004 Pennsylvania avenue. She
alleges he broke large plate glass in her
store.
SpECIAL OFFICER FORD went to Altoona
last night to bring to this city William Fin
ney who is wanted here for the larcenv of
watch and chain from S. B. Miller, at Forty
eighth and Railroad streets. The robbery
occurred about two weeks ago.
JOHN AND JAMES HENNEsEY were given a
hearing by Alderman McGarey yesterday
on a charge of larceny, assault and battery,
and interfering with an officer. They were
committed to Jail for court.
PETER DIMINIco, an Italian, was committed
to Jail last night by Magistrate Hyndman
for a hearing on a charge of larceny pre-
ferred by John Sazier.
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A CRANK ON C0FFINS
Visits Beaver Falls and Canvasses
for Queer Invention.
HE HAD ESCAPED FROM AN ASYLUM
A Farmer Near Marietta, Ohio, Dying Of
Rabies From Hogs Bite.
NEwsY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS

BEAVER FALLS, Jan. 23-Thursday
morning of this week a well-dressed, black
| bearded gentleman alighted from an east
bound train on the Fort Wayne Railroad at
this place, carrying small box covered
with canvas. He visited several of the no.
tells, but did not register, and after Wander
! ing round the streets for time finally took
up quarters at Mrs. Simpsons boarding
house, where he gave his name as William
Bedillion, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
He said he was selling on the installment
| plan patent. coffin of his own invention
He unpacked his box and showed the land
lady a miniature sample of the coffin and
fuently explained its advantages She was
astonished, but as agents peddling all sorts
of queer things had stopped at her house,
| she had got used to anything, so she made no
| comment. After dinner, the man with his
box under his arm sailed forth to canvass
the town, and visited several business houses
The coffin WAS provided with false bot
| tom, and this, he said, could be filled with
| ice. In the summer time one could crawl
| into his coffin on a hot day and take nap in
| comfort. 1t was also provided with screen
| to keep off flies. On one side was provided
a neat little pocket which, he said, conld be
| used TO store away half pint of liquor at
| the time of burial, SO that "When Gabriel
| blows, the occupant will be in shape to take
an early eve opener" He asked $40 piece
| for the collins; 81 cash down, the balance in
monthly installments of 81.
When reporter asked him how business
was, he replied, "Not very good. 1 thought
the whisky flash would catch them sure,
but they all say if they have to wait until
Gabrial blows before getting an eyeopener
it would be entirely too long between
drinks"
Yesterday morning he left for New Castle,
and last night two men arrived from Chi
cago in search Of him. They said the mans
right name is William Eustus, and that he
was insane and had escaped early Wednes-
day morning from private asylum in Chi
cago, in which they were employed as keep
ers,and that they had traced him as far a s this
place. They SAID the man was wealthy, and
that some four years ago had been in the un-
dertaking business and had contracted blood
poisoning which had almost proved fatal.
When he recovered he had lost his reason
and had to be confined in an asylum. His
mind seemed to run on coffins, and to humor
him he was allowed tools and material with
which he had manufactured all sorts OF odd
contriyances for the burial of dead persons.
When the men learned their man had gone
to New Castle they took the first train for
that city.
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ass ciation Averages.

LoUIsvILLE, Jan. 23-The American Asso-
citation batting and fielding averages for last
year we're made public to-day by Secretary
Harry Means. 1t has not been possible to
secure entirely satisfactory results, owing to
the lack of returns from 80 games
played at Boston and Is at Colum-
bus. Upon the returns Boston leads in
the club batting and the Athletics in the
club fielding Brouthers has the highest
batting average, $40; Sutcliffe, S47, and Duffy
$40. Dolan is last, 90. Brown made record
of stolen buses, ITO. OF the first bascmen,
Comiskey leads with 9sl. Crooks leads the
second basemen with $50: Shock, the short
stop with 94s third baseman, Mulvey, with
9la. In left field Richardson leads: in center
field, Corkhill, and in right, Wolf; Meekin
is first of pitchers, and O'Connor, of catch
ers.
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baseball Notes.

he is very foolish player. indeed, who attempts
to combat the lnagnates at present.
A CITY LEAGUE would certainly be interesting
to the very young element of baseball PLAYERS.
INDICATIONS are to the effect that the local
interest in baseball this year will be greater than
ever.
SECRETARY SCANDEETT is confident that Pitts
burg has better ball team this year than it had
last year.
FRANK KILLEN stated yesterday that matters
with himself and the Washingtons are still un-
changed,
Ey-MANAGER HANLoN thinks that Farrell will
almost be the best third baseman in the country
this year.
GRIMM. like the gentleman that he is. has re-
turned the $500 advance money he received from
Pittsburg. This is q worthy example to many ball
players.
PRESIDENT YOUNG has maue further ap-
pontment ofumpires. He will not engage Charley
Jones nor Charley Snyder, but the remaining men
will lie selected from Gaffney, McQuade, Hurst and
MahOncy,
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WILL STAY AT HOME.
Joe Don oghue Won't Go A broad to Tackle
the Skaterk

Joe Don noghue Won't Go Al broad to Tackle
the Skaters
NEwBUEG, Jan. g. -fSpeciol Joe Donognue
won all the championship trophies that were
offered to him for skating in 1889 and 1880
while abroad. No opponent was good
match for him and none of them hurried
him much. Last winter all Europe again
begged him to go oyer again but he could
gain nothing and declined to go. At the
same time he wrote Fredericksen, the cham
pion of Norway. who was particularly
anxious to meet Donoghue, that if he would
come over here and skate his father would
foot oil the bills and it would not cost the
Norwegian a cent. When at Christiana,
Donoghue emetFredricksen and beat him one
eighth of a mile in a two mile race, and the
championship of the world being held here
by right, anybody who wants to take it away
must do as the champion did, come here and
take it.
This offer had almost been forgotten when,
a few days since, the champion received
Norway paper giving an account of Hagen's
alleged one-mile record of 2:49 at Hamar, and
beneath was demand for Donoghue to again
go to Norway and beat Hagen's alleged
time before he can claim the championship
of the world. just the same, the champion
will remain not only at home but in posses
sion OF the world sash, the British cham
pionship, and the German trophy until some
young skater and his younger brother, Jim,
took 20-mile spin on the river, and to-day
they duplica ted it. The ice on the river is
in excellent condition for skating, and
among the expected events here in the near
future is a race for one to ten miles between
Mattewan. the former challenging the latter
to the contest.