Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-06
The NEWS

SUPERINTENDENT Barnes, ofthe Hot Springs
pol C fore, committed suicide. &c neral
Speed s.. Frye, SUI erintenden: OF the Soldiers
Home in LOUSY lie, is dying. a band of
robbers seven In number were shotin Santos,
Mexico. preparations have been
made in Philadelphia for the burial o Boat
swain R'ggine. L. Frontm n OF the
firm # Frontm n, tailey & Bauphy, of New
York committed su cile 10 Philadelphia -
The satellites OF Mars were observed at the
Wa ner Observatory in Rochester. The
Northampton County Court (Pennsylvauisl
denied the motion for receiver for the Le
high Valley Railroad and a preliminary in
junction-Louis Troutman, of New York, com
mited sui ide In hotel in Philadelphia.
Ex-Jui9e Thomas Psrramour, Aecomac Va.
drowaei himself in Fol y Creek.-The cot
ton firm of BE IL ham & Moore, in New Or
leans, has fate THE su ito te. t the legal
ity of the last allege! geslymander in Wiscor :
sin was begun at Madison. when c. E. Ester
brook served Jon Attorney General O'Con-
Lor the prelm'nary papers in the proceedings
The Governor OF Michigan has called a
special session o! the leg stature for purposes
of appor The eection in Ala
bama resulted in the e.ec ion of the straight
out Democra ic ticket. a transfer of busl.
ness some magnitude from one company 10
another took place in New York. Up to now
the express business on the lin of the St.
Louis and an Francisco Railroad has been
conducte | by the Adam; Express Company.
The whole business has been transferred to
Wells, Fargo & Co., the Adams Company re.
firing.
=. very successful test was made or
armo-plate at the proving grounds of the
Bethlehem Iron Company.-Charles Harri'
son, we'll known editor and newspaper
writer of Pittsburg, died at Good Samaritar
Hospital, Cincinnati. Judge J. c. Normile,
OF the st. Louis Grim nal Court sued the edi.
tors of The Post Dispatch civilly and Grimm
ally for libel.-The commissioners appoint.
ed by the republic OF Brazil to represent that
country at The World, Fa r arrived in New
York by the steamer La Touraine.-Joseph
f, Baker, the Oldest clothing manufacturer i'll
indianapolis. has failed fot $4,000. His
heaviest creditors were the firm of Murphy,
Hobben e. Co., 10 whom be owes $40 000.-
Associate justice Bigbee, of the Cherokee Su.
preme Court, died at Tahlequah The
Toledo Electric Company was entirely de-
s.royed By fire, originating it is supposed
from Defective insulation of a wire. The to-
tai loss On tullding and machinery is SIS, 900
with S61. 500 insurance. This company has
,,Ira To- i;n,tt , r.
half the city. The company will rebuild at
once.-T The West Superior wis. wool IN
mills have assig e iori9 900, brought on by
attachment by the Farmers National Bank
of Portsmouth, o tic, where they formerly did
business. The proprletors say they are SOL
vent and will resume business. Marshall
Field d Co., took the entire product of the
mils.-Near Evansville, Ind, Charles
VIM and William Atwell had a fight. and
both were fatally hurt he jury at Mem
phis declared that Alice Mitchell was Insane.
She was taken back to jail, chatting as she
went-Fire destroy the jer elry store Of
Charles F. Rudolph in Wilmington, Del
Six boys were drowned near Winchester, KY,
by the overturnin9 OF a SIX Il. 1.-Two trains
collided at Union Station in Milwaukee. kill
ing oGe man Outright aud iniuring a numter
Of others.
William Kurtz murdered John Robinson In
Evansville, Ind.-Two men were killed and
four badly hurt by boiler exp osion in Paris,
Texns.-The Philadelphia, Reading and
New England Railroad Company was incor-
porated in Albany.-A boi er in the shingle
mill Of Hnrtnell & Smith, on Otsego lake,
blew up, killing Our men, fatally in.uring
one other and demolishing the mill.--The
CHINA and Qleei W re factory Of i. G, Evans
d Co., in ittsburg was des royed BY fire.
=. C. L, rgo, of the National Express
Company. and II. C. Julier, of the Amer can
Express Company, are in consultation wi h
hilbert Cheney, Of the Canadian Express and
l.. }. Sargent, of the Grand Trunk, with a
view to the amalgamation of express interests
Fire in the lard refinery Of the Minnesota,
Packing and Provision Company, in St. Paul.
damaged the two lower floors. Los $4,000
to SIS, O00.-The coroner has begun an in
Vestiga1 II into the explosion at the York
Farm colliery. Judge jackson overruled a
petition for habeas corpus made by attorneys
for IL. Clay King, the condemned murderer
oil David Ii. Posten. The case will probably
be carried to the Supreme Court.--James
Sweeney, OF Pttsburg committed suicide be
cause of his wiie's infdel .ty.-Five men
were killed in NJ chisau by the explosion of
shing.e mill.--Ten thousand laborers are
wa ted to harve,t the great wheat crop in
Dskots.--The test of armor plate at the
Beth chem Iron Company's new proving
grounds was most satisfactory.
At q bull-fght in San Louis Potosi, Mexico
the bu killed the mat4dor and bsnderillo.
The council committee of Sioux Fall.
will recommend the es ab'ishmeut of six Sc.
looms under city control-Tae merchants
OF Fargo boycotte the Northern Pacific or
failing to CARR ont prom se'.-Louis Ma.
poleon was arrested in Chicago and sent TO
New York 10 he extrsdited France. E.
B. Tichener was appointed assistant PIT ofessor
OF psychology in Cornell UNIVERSITY.
James McKenna, a shoe finisher of Philadel-
phia, was killed in freight wre at Sham.
rocG.-Ed. Wolcott was arrested In Sioux
City for untarfiting -The Gre in Slss,s
ton, COL, was chrcked after nearly a score Of
storJs aud residences wer completely de.
stroyed. The total loss will exceed $4,000.
Rev. John Murphy. vicar general of lie
diocese ofPortland, Me-, died frem the effect
of being throwllout of carriage. Thorn :
Kildarry was shot by fagm n James Reilly,
near Chatham, Mass, WHO then killed hin.
self--Julius Wise, colored, ives executed at
Lexington Courthouse, :. c., for the murder
of smother negro.--James Vance, who shot
aud killed Town Sergeant Thorn pson of Mont.
gomery, at Giuley Bridge, W. w., tire,
weeks ago. and made his escape, is still al
large.
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