Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-03-04
THE NEWS.

George NJ. Wood.orl, wealthy pump
manu acturer of New YORK, whose invea-
lions were largely used in the navy, died az
h home of heart failure. He was seventy
f,ur years Ct age The revenue tier
Washington while entering the slip at the
barge cfica in New York, was run into BY
Annex No 4, of the Pennsylvania Railroud.
The boat struc the cutter amidshps and
partially sunk her.-A big combine of tan
ner,es is said to be in progress of TO nation
in New York.--Wm. McCradie, ex-teller
of the National Savings Bank of Buffalo, was
sentence to five years in p is IN FOR forgery
and la cany.-A iad wreck clrrei on
the Central Railroad of New Jers'y. A
mixed coal and freight train partei near
White House, and when the front portion
stopped the rear crashed into it. E ghteen
cas- ere piled in a heap across to,h tracks
y. II. Roberts and Bud Whitemore, liv-
ing at Barnardsyille, NC, got int1 an alter
cation and bozan shooting. 'Bi5 Jim"
Whitemore, father Of Bad, ran III to help
bis son and was shot three times, dying in-
sanity. Roberts died of his wounds. Young
Whitemore escaped Major John Wynne
mayor of Lockr1ven, Pa, died of paralysis
aged seventy-six years. His remains will ID
taken to Erie for inter ment.
Joseph ne Kikala, Russian woman, VINO
sal she was abducted from her husbands
ZONE and sent to this country, was found
wandering about New York.-Ju ige Curee
of Briigewater, n. s., was arrested on the
charge of forgery, committed ten years ago
William B. Curtis, ifty-fve years old,
prominent Danbury, CT business man, was
killed and his body terribly nangled by an
explosion of dynamite at Monroe. His head
was literally blown off and one arm torn 70
pieces. -TEe Gladstone Company, N.
posed of Chicago, Boston and Minneapoli;
ptol SITS, with capital of $4,000, has
just completed the purchase OF about SIX
thou and acres OF lard OIL Little Bay d'Noc,
Mich, iaciuding nearly all the unimprorei
lots in the city of Gladstone. TIL. odore
Van Amringe's pumice stone mills. together
with few storebouses adjoining ii uated
about mile from the village Of MONACO
neck, l.. l., WEI burned, causing a less of
$4,000; insured for al out twJ-thirds hat
pnount.-Charles ". Ball, Nortter
Central fagman, was accidentally killed near
York-It is said that efforts are being
made to have the memtegs of tie Missouri
| gislature indicted for gaml ling Her
bert Louthsr, of Lima, Ohio, died in the
Toledo Insane Asylum from paresis Years
ago Louther was an oil operator ia the E ,st,
and had made ali lost several for unes.
Gambling ruined HIN. He came to Lima
during tie oil excitement and ran gam
bling-room, He hai been confined in the
asylum since year ago last October, and
did not leave cent.
George Heintz was crushed to death in a
hog-scrarer vat in Buffalo -Wm. 7. Rod
fern an III , Ditzell, while shoveling snow
prom the oof of the new opera house, in
E!izsbeth, n. j, fell to the street. being car
ried down b. an avalanche OF snow. Red
fern was instantly killed, but Ditzsl was only
slightly injured. 1.-The entire plant of the
j. n. Roberts Manufacturing Company
manuf cturrrs of bas kets and yeneering, at
Poplar Bluff. Mo-, was burned The loss is
pl4cel at $40, G0), with small insurance
Cha les Wil-cn Rowe was convicted in the
United S ates Court, in Philadelphia, #
u,i 9 the mai for the purpose Of defraul-
ing and of conspracj. Sentence vas de-
ferred Rowe's scheme was very comprs
hensive, and he succeeded in swindiing lum-
bermen throughout the Northwest of thous-
ands of dollars -The annual session Of the
Great Cornell of Improved Order of he Red
Men was held in the Mas mic Temple in
Trenton, n. "A verdict of temporary
insa ity Wa rendered by the coroner's jury
in Philadelph a, in the case of Robert j.
Chapman, of tue Chapman Decorative Com
pany who comm tilted suicide by shooting
himself in the head - NJ Xxx Reese, general
met chandis, deael, Of Shenandoah, Pa,
was foun guilty before 1u ige Butler in the
United States District Court, in Philadel-
phia, of the charge of usin, the nails in
carrying en- heme to d fraud.-A
thles-year-old dsu .hter of " llliaTi Gruhb,
who liv ne + Sharpsburg, was boiled to
death in a kettle of hot mix.
Frank Holland was hanged for murder in
I B-azoria, Texas. ]. Chapman,
Chairman of the Chapaan Decorative Com.
pany, limited, committed suci in the CON.
pany's store, in Philadelphia by shooting
himself in the head Capt Gilbert VII
lians, of the Mallory line, d ed in New
York. Cal tain Williams was born at Essex,
CT, fitty-six years ego, He had be-n en-
ployed by the Mallory line for about fifteen
years, laterly commanding the steamer State
Of exas-Rev. jesse Albert Lock, Pro
testant Episcopal Clergyman of New York,
has gone over to the Catholic Church.
John F. Miller, aged twenty three yelrs, the
bookkeeper of the First National Bank of
Columbia Pa, who last June absco lded,
leaving a shortage of Owe $500, AMI who
surrendered himself AMI PLEADED guilty,
after making a tour of the world, with de-
tectves at his heels was sentenced to five
yea S Imprisonment in the Eastern Peniien-
tiary by Judge But er il the Uni ed States
Circuit Court, in PHILADELPHIA The Beau
pre- Mercantile Company, composed of
Beaupre, keogh & Davis, and one OF the
leading Wholesale grocery h fuses of ST. Paul,
assigned. --Leasom & Co. hardware deal
ers in Chicago, made an assignment for the
benefit of their creditors. The assets and
liabilities are each estimated at $40, 000.--
While John Haley aud Dani-l O'Leary were
drinking together at the house OF the latter,
Philadelphia, an old quarrel was renewed
between them, and in the fight that followed
Haley stabbed O'Lsary to death. Haley
was arrested.