Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-03
THE NEWS.


another advance in prices The village of
Wonamie few miles from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, was partially destroyed by fre-Be-
cause two of them were discharged, the
Italians working on the Pennsylvania Rail
road extension at William Penn Colliery,
near Shenandoah. Pa, attacked Contractor
Robert McAdams and Foreman Gillian, beat
ing them with clubs, picks and shovels, and
would have undoubtedly killed the bosses
had not some miners gone to their rescue.
john A. Casey S refining works at Brook
| Ign were burned. Loss, s135, 090-Wm
Knee, cashier of the National Bank at Mount
jackson, Va, under arrest on the charge of
overdrawing his salary to the extent of soc,
committed suicide.-A Sister of Charity
was almost killed by her being caught be-
tween an elevator and a flooring in Lancas-
ter, Pa.-Four employees of the Northeast
ern Road in New Orleans and one striker
were shot-Edward Becker who operated
stone quarry in Alsace township, Pa, was
crushed to death by the giving away of an
embankment and twenty-five tons of stones
and cart falling on him Three convicts I
u iCQ W Oli llit AlltnSdn DenlIHn-
tiary. Two were shot down and the the
third surrendered
The death Of Colonel E. c. Smead, chief
Engineer Of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, promises to lead to sensa-
tional law suit.-Millville N. j., was Wis
tied by destructive Enthusiastically
outbuildings, together with the crops stored
therein, of the Mercer county almshouse, a
short distance from Bordentown, N j., were
struck by lightning during storm and
burned to the ground. The loss will reach
S., 00O--Diamonds and Jewels valued at
s15, 600, were stolen from the purser of Pa
cific mail steamer, to whom they had been
entrusted.---A syndicate of New York and
Philadelphia capitalists has been trying to
secure legislative agents to assist them in
promoting the passage of bill which will
give them the right to bull an elevated
railroad in Boston and its STANDARDIZATION
the Western express on the Pennsylvania
Road was being made up at Pittsburg sew
eral of the Pullman cars crashe IL into another
section of the train. Five passengers were
injured-Rchard Babcock was arrested in
Paterson, N j., charged with abducting the
daughter of silk manufacturer.-The
United States rand jury began its work OF
investigating the riots in the Ceur d'Alene
mines A week may elapje before the trials
begin The men indicted will be brought
down from the mines as they are tried
JAS R. Morton was hanged in the county
Jail at Camden, N. j., and pronounced dead
five minutes afterwards. -At a meeting of
the executive committee of the International
Conference of State Boards of Health at
Indianapolis, it was suggested that the Presi-
dent be requested to stop all immigration to
this country during the cholera in Europe
Grand Master Sweeney of the Switch
mems Union Left Buffalo, followed by the
execrations of the strikers, who are now un.
able to ge- their jobs back.
Augusta, Ga, was visited by a $780, 00U
fire. The Chronicle Building in that city
was destroyed. John and Martin Lynch.
brothers, miners by occupation, while lying
asleep on the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road tracks below Mahanoy, Pa, were struck
by freight engine, and both will doubtless
die. John is a married man, and has wife
and five children. WIN Deiberte, one of
the oldest residents of SchGylkill county,
died at his home at Landingville, Pa, aged
eighty two years. He was for many years a
prosperous boat builder, and was closely
identified with the early history of the
Schuylkill canal.--Two sections of a freight
train which had been ''cut' on the Schuyl-
kill and Lehigh Ra lroad on the outskirts of
Reading at midnight, when brought together
struck each other with such force as to de-
rail several cars and front brakeman Charl S
Backus, of Tamaqua was killed--Gabriel
Renyille chief of the Sisseton Indians, is
dead.-The Metropol tan Opera House, in
New York, was destroyed by fire-The
Whitney glass works at Glassboro Nj, will
start up with non-union men, the company
having failed to come to an agreement with
the I'm on.-The report of the New York
Bureau of Statistics show an increase of over
6,0G0,0 paid in wages and s31, 600 100 in
value OF production during S91.-The So
cialist Labor party held a national conven- !
ton in New York, and nominated Simon
Wing tailor OF Boston, for president, and
Charles Ii. Matchett, carpenter of Brooklyn
for vice president
John T. Kennedy, WHO was stabbed in
brawl with Jas Madden al Steelton, Pa,
few days ago, is deal Maiden is an uncle
of his victim aud is in jail,-The railroad
agents at Birmingham Ala, have been adj
viscd the usual raise in pig iron rates, which
takes place October 1, will not go into effect
but the present rates will continue until Oc-