Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-22
THE NEWS.

combine that includes thirteen of the most
vania has been organized under one manage
ment, with capital stock of 81, 900 900 with
Cincinnati as a distributing point. All the
preliminaries to the combine were finally
arranged through Cincinnati and New York
brokers.-The principal business block of
Plymouth, Mich, was destroyed by fire. Loss
about $50, 000.-A destructive hail, wind
and rain storm passed through Indiana,
cleaning strip about two hundred yards
wide entirely across the country. The town
of Gravelton was wrecked. 1.-The boiler OF
]. C. Kelch's saw mill, near Brook, Ohio, ex-
ploded with terrific report. The mill and
machinery were blown to pieces. A number
of the employees were badly injured, and two
Of them, Charles Peck and Edward McClerg.
instantly killed.
Elex. W. Quarter, OF Charleston, W. Va,
and Miss Ella Young, of Missouri, went boat
ing, and both are believed 20 be drowned
Peter Spence, of Sentinel, Arizona, has killed
five Mexicans in ten days-all, he claims, in
self-defense. against VIM. H.
W. DAutdu anu udIoid SlCultut, VI NEW lOIk
for the misappropriation of shares of the
Wabash Railroad Company, were finally dis
missed. 1.-The Lake Shore Railroad refused
to reinstate the engineers who went out at
the time OF the recent troubles. West
Michigan Lumber Company's yards at Dia-
mond Lake were destroyed by fire. Seven
million feet OF lumber, half million bundles
each of shingles and la.h and ten freight cars
were burned. The loss will reach Sl00, 900.
John D. Burton died in Dover. Del
Several more Of the persons who were injured
during the cyclone in Missouri and Tennes
see died.-The Indiana Natural and Iilumi-
mating Gas Company was Incorporated in In
dianapolis. Its capital stock lie 81. 900, 900 and
1t is Incorporated by G. f. Dierlech. Z. ].
Jerszmanowski, E. C. Benedict, A.W Brady,
Samuel Thorne AMI A. b. Proal OF New
York, and John r. Pearson, of indianapolis
The incorporation is oonsammatiea o. a
deal for a consolidation of the artificial and
natural gas companies of Indiana, which was
begun some months ago.-The grip of a
North Side cable train became entangled in
broken strand Of the cable in Chicago, and
halfway down the tunnel under the river
crashed into the rear of another train, wreck
ing the rear car and itself The towboat
John Dana, at Point Pleasant, w. Va. was
burned at her wharf and the crew narrowly
escaped with their lives.-Major J. H.
Bristor, prominent citizen of Maninsburg,
W. Va, was kicked to death by his horse
Tho Argentine Republic declined to de-
liver Jabes Spencer Baifour. NJ p, refu-
gee from England to the British Govern
ment.-The A. s. Holmes oil refinery, COW
ering twelve acres of ground on Seneca
street, Buffalo, was destroyed by fire to-
gether with twenty freight cars and a train
of oil cars side-tracked near the works.
Thirty thousand barrels of oil stored in the
works were also burned. The FIRE was
started by an engine dropping coal in some
oil which was running ON top Of the water in |
little ditch. Fred B. Lighthall, postal |
clerk whos1 run is between Syracuse and |
New York, was arrested by inspectors james |
and Coates, charged with robbing the mails.
On being accused he seemed da2ed, andafter |
handing over ninety-one letters then in his |
pocket made confession. DR.. Thaddeus |
S. Gardner, a prominent physician and |
banker and treasurer of the Altoona Iron
Company, died at his residence in Holiday |
burg, Pa, aged Atty four years. For many |
years he was connected with Phillips, Nimick |
4 Co., the Pittsburg iron firm, and was sur
geon-major OF the Seventeenth Pennsylvania
Cavalry in the civil war, being the youngest
full surgeon In the Army of the Potomac.
The passenger train on the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railroad ran into q pile Of
trees which had been blown across the
track near Meredith, Aich. The engine was
dismantled and the baggage car and pas
senger coach were completely wrecked.
BY the falling of part OF the :oof IN che
Champion Mine at Woods Run, Pa, james
wilbrom, aged ;hirty-flve years, and Dell
Butler, aged nineteen, were killed. The
investigation by Trustee Duss into the finan-
cial condition OF the Economic Society
shows that the liabilities are S609 $3.50, and
assets 81, 500, O00.-Prairie fires In uode-
man county, Kan, destroyed farmhousts,
barnes and eattle-The Brown segmentai
wire-wound gun was tested at Birdsboro, Pa,
and withstood pressure which would blow
any other gun to pieces. Mr.. J. 8. Harris
accepted the presidency Of the Reading Rail-
road Company. C. Brastow, superln-
tendent of Jersey Central Railroad, died of
pneumonia at Wilkesbarre, Pa.-The Citi-
zens' Industrial Alliance, composed of dele
gates from labor organizations in Western
PENNSYLVANIA, issued an address TO labor or
CARNATIONS throughout the eauntry asking
them to band together in political move
ment against monopolies. Hogan
Manufacturing Company's works at Louis
Vile, KY, were partly burned, and four per-
sons injured by one of the walls being blown
out by an explosion OF yarnish. Loss $780,
o00.-Drunken Hunsarians and Poles en-
gagged in u cght at Plymouth, Pa, as a result
of which oas man died of a fractured skull
Millionaire Mackay lost suit to recover
one hundred thousand acres of land in the
vicinity OF Corpus Christi, Texas.-A strike
of the Ohio mine operators is imminent,
their recent conference with the operators
having been unsatisfactory steamer
Nellie BLY, blew up near winomae, Ind. and
eight persons were iniured.-It was re-
ported In Chicago that the Leslie L. Kelley
Company will sell the bi-chloride of gold
cure for drunkenness to New York syndi-
cate.
A fouIeen-year-old girl, in boys clothing.
accompanied by boy Of her own age, was
arrested il Richmond, Va They had come
from Washington. Emil Otto Noting ona
of the most prominent Germans in Virginia,
died in Richmond. The citizens OF Sher-
man, Texas, are greatly agitated over the
discovery OF a conspiracy TO asssssinafs sss-
eral county offcials.-Frank Lerode, who
murdered his little stepdaughter at Pitts
burg. was sentenced to twelve years In the
penitentiary. Mechanics Savings
Bank and Trust Company, of Nashville,
Tenn, made an assignment 1.-Two men
were killed and several injured In collision
on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michi
gan Railroad, near Farwell; Mich.-Fire
did considerable damage to cotton in the hold
Of the steamer Chatham, which arrived at
Boston from Baltimore; loss so, eo0.--A
strike OF the shopmen on the entire line Of
the Union Pacific was begun. John john
son, a convict in the Auburn prison, stabbed
and killed two other ecnviets man
was killed and three fatally injured in
boiler expIosion in a grindstone factory near