Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-06
THE NEWS.

Ter, was rescued from the otnceFS VINO Hhu ar
rested him at Pobun, Georgia, by his deaf-and
dumb mother and sister.-Smith Yanhart,
for twenty-five years an engine-driver in the
Trenton Volunteer Fire Department, was
thrown from his wagon in collision and
kiIled.-James Mccullough, the last sur
viving child of John Mccullough, the TRACE
dian, died ia Philadelphia Policeman
Grouse, of Littletown, Pa. was acquitted of
the charge of manslaughter for shooting
Joseph Shodie while resisting arrest.-A
passenger coach on the Lancaster, Oxford and
Sou hern Railroad jumped the track, rolled
down an embankment, caught fire and was
burned up, the only passenger, Joseph Brad
ley, being seriously injured. David Porter
deputy collector of the port of Savannah, Ca,
and an officer ofthe Grand Army of the Re-
public, was shot dead by his son in family
difficulty. Fire destroyed the stables and
cars of the horse railway at Charlottesville,
Waffle Supreme Court OF Oklahoma
Territory decided against the "Sooners. -
Moses Hopkins San Francisco millionaire,
died. Robert and George Abbott, Of Pot
tersville, N. j., broke through the ice. and
were drowned.-A. Dupre, of Montreal put
dynamite cartridges in the stove to melt, and
departed hence, with his two children.
The Lawrence & Brown Colliery, at Ma
hanoy Plane, Pa, the operators of which re-
Gently made an assignment, has shut down in
definitely, aid five hundred men are out of
mployment.-Since the explosion of the
''mogup engine near st. Clair, Pa, all the
engineers in the Polo Alto yards refused to
run the last remaining engine of the "mogul"
class, and the Reading Railroad Company sent
it to be rebuilt.-Rev. f. +. Sherman, of
the Tabernacle Methodist Church, Cape May,
has LETT his home, taking his two older sons
with him and leaving three small children
with his wife. A nineteen-year-old girl, who
had been employed as a servent in his family,
charged him with attempting TO assault her.
Mayor Matthews, of Boston, advises the
revoking of all the licenses of theaters which
print advertisements of the Louisiana Lottery
Company.-Ellen Fitzpatrick, seven years
old, and her brother David, aged four, living
at 1901 North Second street, Philadelphia,
were found dead in bed, suffocated by Ilumi-
mating gas. 1t is believed that the light went
out, and in attempting 10 turn off the gas the
children turned it on full.-Mrs Euslia
Hill and her four-year-old daughter were
killed by an express train on the West Jersey
Railroad near Nor h Woodberry, N. ]. The
woman was walking between the tracks, with
the child in her arms, and on hearing the loco
motives whistle stepped on the rail in front of
it.-John Blair, aged seventy-fve, died at
| Fork Furnace, Pa.-The planning mill of
William F. Garrison was burned at Goshen,
n. J. The loss is S., 900; party insured.
A fire at Tylersport, Pa, destroyed the resi-
dence of George Metz Mrs Metz was the
only person in the house at the time. Her
body was taken from the ruins burned to
crisp. -Pedrick & Rosencrans' confectionery
store at Pitston, Pa, was destroyed by fire
Loss "a, zoo, covered by nsurance.-Thos.
Bell, demented, aged twenty-five, was burned
to death at Nashville in the house Of his
father, r. T. Bell, which was entirely con.
sumed - There is great excitement at
Creole, Col, over the finding of rich silver
ore in the Jack Pot claim.-Tho city of
Omaha is about to begin suit against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company to recover
property decided to the corporation in 1868,
which is now valued at 81, 500, 900. Part of
the property in question lies along the river
front, and the remainder consists of lots in the
wholesale business part of town. 1t is claimed
that the railroad company has failed to live
up to its agreements on which the property
was donated, and that as a consequences the
titles have reverted to the cty.-At Pine
Grove Pa, Filbert's grist mill, with contents
was burned. The mill was Only recently
htted up with new machinery. The loss is
over Sc, 600 Incendi4rism is suspected
John and Henry Schweitzer and Robert
Sherlock, convicted of beating ank kicking
to death William Wiley, an inoffensive man
with whom they picked quarrel, were sem
fenced to five years Imprisonment each at
PHILADELPHIA.
NJ. E. Lowe, the Waterman at factory in
Savannah, was murdered by unknown par
ties.-Elizabeth Senior, aged seventy-three
years, was found by her husband murdered
in their home in Milburn, n. William
Hyer, an embezzler, who, in the custody of
detective was being returned to New York
from San Francisco, escaped from sleeping
car at Pittsburg.-The Associated Temper
ance, Excise Reform, Sunday and Protective
League organizations, of New York city, have
issued an appeal to the people of the state
against the proposed excise legislation at
Albany. They declare that the Society of
Liquor Dealers has presented the most iniqui-
'ous measure ever introduced in any legisla-
tive body in civilized community.--A gang
of tramps took possession of freight train on
the Lake Erie and Western Railroad, and at.
tackled the trainmen, nearly beating Tom
Weldon to death. The conductor dropped a
note as the train sped by a station, asking the
agent to telegraph TO the next station for as
sistance. When the train arrived there the
tramps took TO the woods after a scrimmape
with the posse.-Talton Hall was convicted
at Roanoke, Va, of murder in the first degree
for the killing of Policeman Hylton. Rev.
Joseph F. Garrison, professor of liturgies IN
the Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia,
died at Camden, n. j., aged sixty-nne years.
The Niles and Scott Company's wooden-ware
shops at Laporte, Ind. were destroyed by fire.
Loss $50, 000.-An electric car ran over and
killed two children at St. Paul Minn.-In
collision between two freight trains on the
Iowa Central Railroad near Mid lie Grove
H., Engineer James Edgar was killed, AMI
half dozen other per ons badly injured.