Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-30
THE NEWS.

DIR. Frank r. Billiard was arrested in
Seattle for completely in the Radloff insurance
conspraey.--TheC Colorado Silver Leagues,
IN state convention, pledged themselves TO
support only free coinage candidates FOR presl-
dent and vice president. &C. Q. Whitman,
professor in zoology in CLARK University,
Worcester, Mass, has accepted cali to the
head professorship in the department of
biology in the University of Chicago. - Fire
destroyed the building and stock Of Smith d
Farwell, one of the largest retail houseiur-
nishing establishments in ST. Paul. Loss on
stock $4,000, on building SO, coo, insurance
on stock SO, 00;.-A tramp killed Mr.. Cot
ton, a wealthy Louisiana planter, and was
lynehed. Colby Academy, an Old educa-
tional institution, Of New London, was burned.
Loss S75, 900; insurance $50, 000.-Five hun.
dred employees of the Patterson Coal Company
are on strike, at Mount Carmel, Pa, the re-
suit of the refusal of the company to pay
$50, 600 due the miners for work done during
| the past two months. The Credit indemnify
Company of New York, through Marvin 7.
Wood, its president and William Isle, its
secretary, assigned 10 Francis T. Burrows,
without preferences. The bodies of The
miners drowned by the llooding OF Lyle
CoIiery. in Pottsville, we're recovered -
| About 5000 bales OF cotton of the steamer
Pawnee's cargo was damaged by fire and
water while near Savannah. The damage is
estimated at $4,000 The damage to the ship
is very slight. The owners are Phelps Bros.
Il Co, Of New York. The cargo is entirely
covered by insurance. casualties.
resulting in the death of three men, occurred
in the vicinity of Reading. George Whitman
was run over by Philadelphia and Reading
pusher, at Pottstown, and killed; Cyrus
Munich, Reading, was ground to death in
clay -cTusher in a brickya-d, where he was
employed, and Jacob Smith, carpenter, tcll
from roof and was k;.iel.
frightful explosion at Thompson's saw.
mill, about four miles north of Fremont, Col,
occurred, killing Clark Dilldine and possibly
fatally injuring James Groves. The explosion
took place about four o'clock.-Spratt Bros
sapphire ground near Helena, Mont, has
been sold to the Sapphire and Ruby Company
OF Montana, an English company, for s., 600. =
600. The land sold embraces 5000 acres OH
both sides of the Missouri river, reaching
nearly fifteen miles along lis banks.-Two
large barns burned in California, and John
hanJ, teamster, and sixteen horses were
burned TO death. Andrew Sanders. while
trying TO make peace between Lucy Foster
ana her husband in Houston Texas, was shot
by the woman.-Miss Grace Flemming was
Killed at Park City, Utah, by her uncle for
going with young man to whom he objected.
Fire destroyed Walter Stickney' 8 elevator
IN Warren, ILL.,, a large amount of farm ma
chinery and II, 600 bushels of wheat, causing
loss of over 81 ,00); insurance about s.. 600.
At Adamstown the ceremony of striking
the first pick for the new Reading, Lancaster
and Baltimore Railroad took place. Over go
Italian laborers were put TO work Immediately
thereafter. The road is to extend TO Chess
peake Bay, Baltimore and other Southern
points.-The Che, hire Dairy Farm at Park
vile, l.. l., was burned; loss about $4,000.
George Moore killed his wife in Dennison,
O., shot Edward McClelland and himself
Two explosions of natural gas took place at
the Summer Glass Works, Steubensyille, o.,
fatally burning Sadie Crawford, packer and
dangerously injuring Lawrence Christensen,
another employe.-William I. Dickerson,
OF Lewis, Del. aged ssyenty-six, of intemper.,
ate habits, was found dead at his house in
wilmington with throat cut and a bloody
razor lying beside him. 1t is supposed to be
case of suicide
( Charles Winterbers, tailor Of Egg uarbof
| City, n. j., missed 500 which he had buried
/ in his cellar, being afraid of banks, and ac-
: cused Sebastian Winderman, his manager, of
stealing the money. Windermsn was arrested
the grand jury failed to ndict him, and he
I brought suit for damages, the jury giving him
a yerdict for Sl.-The holy of young
man found floating in the Ohio river, near
/ Bromley, Ky, was identified rs that of Miss
Myrtle Sturtevant, who disappeared from her
| home, in Columbus, 0ho-The steamer
( Conemaugh sailed from Philadelphia with a
large cargo Of breadsufis and general pro-
visions for the Russian poor.-Floods in
I Illinois and Indiana washed out hundreds of
acres Of farm lands. The drying kiln aud
%, 900 feet OF lumber of the Standard Dried
Lumber Company, at Norfolk, were burned.
Loss s25, COZ. y. Madison Walker a motor
ious horse thief, who had been operating in
/ Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
was captured by two farmers boys near Hun.
tingdon, PA rogue. pretending 10 be q
member of the Odd Fellows, has been swlnd-
ling lodges in different parts of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware. The police
searched the homes of three men in Wohns-
vile, Reading county, Pa, discovering lot
! counterfeit fve-cent pieces in their posses
sion, and crude wooden mould and die
Mrs. Joseph Elliott died in great agony at her
home near McKeesport, Pa, from the effects
| ofa dose of csrbolic acid given by her physi-
! clan, Dr. Frank Mcclure, in mistake for ergot
/ -. X. Hockaday, q real estate dealer at
Roanoke, Va, was shot in the face by young
man who was engaged to his daughter
Several persons were terribly crushed by the
falling of an iron girder during the exercises
/ of laying the cornerstone of a Y. NJ. C. A..
building at Holyoke, Mass. during the
/ last week 16. 240 immigrants were landed at
/ New Iork.-The United States Car Com
pany was incorporated at Trenton, n. j., to
manufacture, buy, lease and repair rolling
stock. The capital stock is placed at S. 800,
/ 000.--By the collapse of brick house in
course of removal at Chicago, three persons
| were fatally and q number of them seriously
/ hurt.
| Coleman Blackburn was executed in Fay
cite, Miss, for wife murder Burglars
broke into the National Bank at Mountvile
/ Pa. and hleM off The vanlt dnnrs with dvna