Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-12
THE NEWS

Green Campbell was tried in the Criminal
Court of Birmingham for wife murder.
verdict of guilty was returned and the punish
ment hxedat death.-Dinah Hogan, aged
1l5. died in otteryille, Ill.-Suit was in.ti-
tuted against the city Of New Orleans by the
families of the unnaturalized Itaiahs who
were killed after the Hennessy assassination
Edward Drew. who shot his wife dead
and then shot himself, died in Lowell,
Mass Before he died Drew admitted that he
shot his wife.-The annual meeting of the
stockholders of Pennsylvania Railroad was
held in Philadelphia. Coon, OF Fair
lax, S. c., was swindled out of $500 by the
green goods game in New York.-A charter
was granted to the Wilkesbarre and Eastern
Railroad Company, with a capital stock Of
So, coo, 000.-Colonel w. w. Greenland was
appointed adiutant general of Pennsylvania.
-Four highwaymen bound and gagged two
B. & o. Railroad employees at Finleyville,
robbed them, blew open the safe in the office,
but was frightened of by the arrival Of some
trainmen. III d. White, brother of the
General Superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, was arrested in Dubuque, Ia, on q
charge of robbing the mails.--Charles Wall
was hanged for wife murder in Wikesbarre.
The Cochrane Cotonseed Oil Mill and Fer
tilizer Works, at Rock Hill, S. c., were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss So, 000.-Rey. I. C.
Bailey, editor of the Biblical Recorder; Bap-
It's paper at Raleigh, N. c., was paralyzed
Just after preaching sermon-The govern.
ment has secured six acres OF ground on
bluff overlooking Vineyard Haven for mar
Inc hospial.--Sidney Green, a farm hand
at Elgin, Minn was taken from his bed by
whitecaps aud tarred and feathered and rid
den on a rail.-The second trial of DR.. J. A,
Baker at Abingdon, Va, for the murder Of
his wife, resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
Patrick Carroll, car inspector of the
Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail-
road, was killed on the track near Richmond
Mrs. Jefferson Davis began suit in the United
States Court, New York, against the Bedford
Publishing Company, alleging breach of con-
tract.-Nelson +. Evans, one of the direc-
tors of the looted Spring Garden Bank, of
Philadelphia, was arrested, charged with EN-
bezzlement.-A large apartment house in
West Superior, Wis, was burned, and many
women and children made narrow escapes
Richard Seaman, New York baker, killed
his iGithess wiie.-Fremont b. Knight, of
indianapolis, charges that o, Is. Wallace, who
is trying to prove him insane, has betrayed
bis onfdence.-Wiiliam Bender, promi-
hent Springfield citizen, has been discovered
to be a sort of Mr. Hyd William Murrack
Wilkesbarre, Pa, miner, was killed.
While a performance was being given on the
upper stage at the Eden Musee in Omaha, a
fly was pushe tooclose to agts jet, and the
fire that resulted destroyed the building and
contents. Loss S25 000,--Mrs. Jennie Nc
Cracker, OF Richmond, Va, committed sui
eide.
Fire at Pottsville, Pa, destroyed Jacob
Deans flour mill and other property. Loss
Sl0O00.-P. D. Armour, of Chicago, re-
ceived bottle of wine purporting to come
from his friend Potter Palmer but which he
had been warned was poisoned, friend hay
ing overheard two men plotting to send it to
him.-United States authorities are quietly
investigating the method OF the Cordage Trust
NiiNl % M ihc Shsc Vi thC w HlShty Trust,
prosecution may result-Charles Engle
and Nathan Cleary were drowned in Pigeon
river, near Newport, Tenn. They were ex:
ploding dynamite to kill fish, when an over
charge blew up the boat Charles and John
Stuart, United States revenue officers, were
shot in ambush by moonshners near Duck
town, Tenn.-Amos Trexler, one Of the
pioneers of the slate industry in Berks and
Lehigh counties Pa. died in his eighty-fifh
year.-A number Of prominent business men
Of Marine City, Mich, were charged with
smuggling goods from Canadn.-Miss Anna
Ward, of Ridley Park, Phi adephia, shot
and seriously wounded Michael Gallagher.
aged twenty-four years, whom she charged
had ruined her.-Two- Of the Mississippi
train-wreckers were arrested. bud Harris
a fve-year-old colored boy, of Columbia, s
G., killed baby.--Bo5 Curria, of Tonnes
see, shot Sarah Washington, because she ie-
iected him.
Martin Bruggerman's brewery, in Vest St.
raul, was complete y destroyed by fire. Loss
b69,00O, and no insurance Two brakemeD
were killed in railroad collision near Dams
vile, Ala,-Alice Blades. young girl of
Anderson, Ind, WAS fearfully abused by two
glass blowers. -Clarence Greaves. aged
twenty-five years, while standing on the roof
OF his home, in Harrisburg, watching q fire
near by. was seized with an apopectic fit and
tell to the ground, breaking his neck-The
two-year-old strike in the Wellington coal
mine has been ended.-Noah Porter. ex.
president of Yale, died at New Haven, aged
eighty. The damage to property at Nan
tasket Beach by the storm is much larger than
at hrst supposed. Theodore Jones, aged
sixteen, employed on the farm of James
Lippincott, near Mt Holly, Pa, committed
suicide. Lillian Weeks, of Wilkesbsrre.
Pa, died from excessive exercise in rope jump
ing
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