Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-30


stopped quarreling'
/ NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, September FL.
/ The great strike of English coal miners
Is about to end in decisive victory for
the masters.
The Hamburg packet steamers will ar
rive and leave at Cuxhaven ON account of
the cholera.
All but $500 OF the $4,000 stolen from
the Mineral Range railroad in Michigan
on Friday was recovered.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Dunlevy are in Jail
at Easton, Pa, charged with setting fire
to big barn near Nazareth.
While in a Buck Mountain saloon Will
4 lam Brislin was kicked down stairway
and received injuries which caused his
death.
John McNeese, who pleaded guilty at
Media, Pa, to setting fire to Farmer
Bonds barn, was sentenced to 10 years in
the Eastern penitentiary.
The Hungarian maneuvers in and about
Guens were continued. Heavy fighting
| took place and the mimic warfare resem-
bles in every detail actual operations.
At Mays Landing, N. j., several Allan
tic City hotelkeepers were held for court,
charged with obtaining liquor licenses by
| forging signatures to their applications.
Friday, September 22.
Receivers took charge of the business of
the Lombard Investment company.
Vassar college opened under brighter
prospects than ever, with total enroll
ment of 40 pupils.
Thirty miners were entombed by the
collapse of a shaft in the Doleoath mine.
in Cornwall, but all but eight escaped.
Comedian Seabrooke OF the Isle of
Champagne fame and Manager Lederer,
owing to disagreement, have parted com
pany.
The negroes of South Carolina will hold
a meeting ut Sumter, S. c., on Sept. 25 to
consider the question of emigrating to
Africa.
The farmers in the vicinity of St. Louis
are looking for lone highwayman who
has held up and robbed 20 of them within
a few weeks.
The mimic warfare at the Austrian ma
n9uvers at Guens, Hungary, was con-
tinued the imperial army of the north
winning the fight.
The eighth annual reunion of the Veter-
ans Association of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment, New Jersey Volunteers, was held on
hhtlCtetln bitbltHSlu.
Saturday, September 90.
The husband of the once famous dancer,
Carsa, is dying in New York.
Hundreds of unemployed Huns and
Italians are leaving Wheeling.
Action of tinid depositors will prob
ably prevent the bank at Toronto, o.,
from resuming.
Eugene West, a prominent physician of
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charge of causing the death of Miss Addie
Gilmore
With view to checking riots at Prague
an order has been issued forbidding stu
dents to be out of their domiciles after
O'Clock at night.
The West Virginia NJ f. conference has
decided not to try j. T. Chenowith for i'm
morality He will be allowed to with
draw from the ministry.
Leo Percy shot and killed Daisy Mon
tague, London theater dancer and her
escort, Samuel Garcia. Leo then COM
mitted suicide. Percy and Miss Mon
tague were lovers, but had a quarrel.
At Trenton J. A. Roebling & Sons will
reduce the wages of their employees from
10 to Is per cent in their large wire rope
mills, and the New Jersey Iron and Steel
company will also reduce salaries Be-
tween 5000 and 1000 are affected.
Monday, september 20.
Pomeroy (o) rolling mills have re-
sumed
There have been riots in the Spanish
province of Almeria over the distribution
of flood relief money.
An Ohio River railroad freight train col
lision at Benwood, w. Va, fatally in
jured j. Ryan. tramp.
The most notorious moonshiner in West
| Nirnirin Willard 10 in iai1 Mt
WEIGH. He defied arrest for Is years.
Nine prominent business men of Butte
City, Mon, and Niobrara. Neb, have been
arrested for wholesale cattle thieving.
While on his way to a wedding John
Mullen, Connellsville street car conduc-
tor, was fatally injured by falling from
car
Adolph Demke of New York was bitten
by a mosquito 10 DAYS ago. Blood poison
ing set in and Demke will lose his leg and
possibly his life.
A boiler explosion at the Connolly Gas
Engine works at New Castle, Pa, wrecked
the building and several employees were
hurt by flying bricks.
In a college rush between freshmen and
sophomores at Princeton a number of
the participants received broken limbs
and disfigured countenanees.
Tuesday, September SO.
Louisville and Nashville strikers are be-
ginning to return to work.
Sixty eight members of a secret society
at Bruenn were arrested for being impli-
Gated in Anarchist plots.
Colored citizens at Waycross Ga, have
called a convention for October Ia, to form
an association to prevent lynching.
L. A. OFT, nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor on the Populist ticket in Iowa, re-
signed, his age. % years, making him incl
lgihle for the office.
The mob that surrounded the thicket in
I which the murderers of the Wratten fam
/ lily, near Washington, Ind, were hiding,
failed to get their men and disbanded.
Spanish Anarchists made an attempt to
kill Captain General Martinez de Campas
at Barcelona by throwing a dynamite
bomb The captain general was injured
and one soldier was killed and five fatally
/ hurt.
A letter received by Charles p DAILY, of
| New York. president of the American Geo
logical society, from Lieutenant Peary,
the explorer. states that the latter is well
satisfied with the progress OF his expedi-
| lion.
The attempts Of Emperor William to
\ become reconeiled to Prince Bismarck are
/ likely to prove a failure, as Count Her
bert's influence and the ext hancellor's ir-
/ tltatlon at being considered dying man
Ire opposed to such results.
Wednesday, September 20.
There are l25 cases of typhus in Berlin
| hospitals.
Carmaux miners in France voted against
4 strike.
United States Vice Consul Root, at
| guaymas, Mexico, is suicide.
The Riverside glass works at Wellsburg,
! w, Va, will resume operations Oct. 9,
| The Milwaukee National bank has been
permitted by Comptroller Eckels to re-
! sumo.
| Owing TO the drouth cattle are being
! driven by the thousands off the Texas
/ ranges.
/ The coal mine strike which began in
Belgium is only partial. Only 5000 men
/ are out.
| The D. d. Merrill book house in st.
Paul, the largest In the northwest, has
assigned.
Two men sandbagged Night Manager
| fseipman and looted q Buffalo branch
Western Union telegraph Office
Italy is believed to be ON the verge Of
1 financial panic, compared with which the
recent depression in this country was
nothing