Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-11-12
THE NEWS.

Sixteen lynchers were indicted for murder
in Washington county, Ala, and eighteen
men for assault and battery. MIR. and
Mrs. Fred. Take, Swedish settlers on q
claim three miles from Okarche, Infian
Territory, were found deal in;ide their
house Both had teen sho', ard the sur
roundings Indicate murder. The couple were
agei fifty-four and tifty-two, respectively.
The jury in the Iams case in Pittsburg
brought in a verd ct of not gu .-Ear-
ne Trietle was shot in Orange, \. j., by
Nathaniel Williams, private secretary to
William Steinitz, the champion chess player
The shooting, it is said, was an accident
Mrs. Levy was driven crazy in New YorA
by the appearance f a synagogue janitor il
his night robe-W. G. Pollacs, diamond
salesman, was robbed and nearly killed on
Sioux City and Pacific trail 1.-Mrs. Par
melis's Wri Int died in Benton Harbor,
Mich, aged one huEdred and two years,
She retained her mentai faculties TO the last
Mr.. Wri hi was bora near Fairfax CourS-
house, Va, and often met Gen. George
Washington Thos. ], tfegson and other noted
men at that time United States cruiser
No 6, was launch at the U ion Iron
Works, San Franci-co, and christened tha
Olympia a Carrie Par5on, aged sixteen
years, eloped with her uncls, Herbert Hos
kin, aged sixty years, from Minden, Mich.
Fire destroyed Il e Stewart Ho:e book,
the finest in San Bernardino, Cal, including
the San Bernardino National Bank. The
5000 n1O arf1u ipsurad
The cause of the fire is unknown
The Mel can government furnishes an off
cial account of the trouble with the Aztec.
-Attorney+fener Miller confirmed the
report that he would retire from the Cabinet.
The W. c. T. U. Convention, which has
been in sess on in Denver, adjourned "A
collision occurred in the Rice Tunnel, five
miles from Ga!ena, on the great Western
Railway, between construction train and
regular freight train. Both trains and en-
gines were completely demols shed Two
dremen We're fatally injured, one man in
stantly killed and several other trainmen
seriously injured. recent gales on the
great lases were very destructive
Sarah SHEPPARD one hundred and four years
Of age, and the Oldest woman in Indiana,
was fatally burned in Brazil, Ind Her two
stepsons left her alone in the house, and
when thy returned, found her lying on the
floor fearfully burned. A carload Of
6ripples left Dubuque for Canton, Mimi, to
be cured by the vision of the Virgin and
Child in the chm oh window the.e.-The
blnghamton Trust Company was appointed
permanent receiver OF the Iron Hall funds
in New York. ~ he General COMMITTEES of
Church Extension of the Methodist Episco
pal Church convened in Philadelphia
The ma ufacturers of Fall River voted to
increase the wages Of weayers Z per cent
The American Axle and Tool Company's
works in Beaver Falls, Pa, were destroyed
BY fre.-Judgo John Collier one Of At
lanta's pioneer citizens, and one of her most
prominent men is dead.-John II. Rupp,
the yardmaster of the Reading Railroad
Company to whose carlezsness the coroner's
jury decided was due The fatal coll sion at
Manayunk on October cath, was arrested
under the statues andtaken to the Norristovn
Jail, where he gave bail for hearing
The Women's Missionary Society of tie
Methodist Church South elected officers and
adjourned. The body of Cornelius s.
Hoover, of LaLc1ster, was found lying be-
side the "a lroad track near Conestoga
bridge. His injuries indicated that he ha
been struck by train. He had been work
ing recently in Phi adelph William
Gsrlach, Philadelphia broker, was declared
solvent by the R)ard of Governors of tts
STICK Exchan O.