Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-08-12
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED



During reception given by Boston
boat club balcony fell and four people
were killed.
Nine German sailors were killed on the
warship Baden, at kiel, by the bursting
CT a grenade.
Dr. McGlynn, the recently red ored New
York priest. has been authorized to say
mass for one month at st. Finbar's church
Bath Beach. L. l.
If the testimony of Joseph Duggan before
the Chicago grad jury be true, the Colo
Storage building horror was caused by al
organized gang who had been stealing
from the building for months.
Saturday. Aug. s.
General Fitxjohn Porter has been ap-
pointed cashier in the New York postof-
fee.
Logan f. Blecklcy. chief justice Of
Georgla's supreme court, IS years old, wa.
married in New York to Miss Chloe Her
ring, q handsome woman of IS
The steam yacht Rachel ran into q
sunken pier in Lake George, New York
state, and sunk. Nine of party of twenty
nine summer boarders bound for dane,
were drowned.
In the battle between the forces of Kin
Malietoa and Mataafa, the pretendt
twenty were killed and. twenty-nin,
wounded. Mstaafa surrendered ON the
! demand OF the American, British and Ger
man consuls
Monday, Aug. Y.
George Herbst, Baltimore letter car
rier, is in Jail for stealing letters. He con
fessed.
The Chicago grand jury adjourned with
out bringing any indictments In connec-
ton with the Cold Storage building hor
| ror
BY the bursting Of dam of the Port
land (Me.) Water company 10000, 600 gal
Ions of water were released in fifteen min
utes. Two dwellings were crushed and
four persons drowned.
BY wreck on the Lake Shore road near
Fremont, o.. three railroad men were
killed and sveral passengers injured.
Among the most severely hurt is Professor
] Emerson, of Amherst college.
Ling Sing, the Chinese cook of Captain
Roth, of the revenue steamer walcott, ha.
been arrested at Port Townsend, Wash
! for smuggling opium. He has been bring
] ing the stuff in on the Walcott for years.
1 TUESDAY, aug. o.
By the sinking Of pleasure boat of
Port Talbot, Wales, twenty-five wer,
drowned
General George b. Bingham, veteran
of the war and prominent G. A. r. man
died at Westboro, Mass, aged 70.
President Smith, of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, has issued circular
notifying employees of sweeping reductions
in wages.
1t is reported that William r. Horn.
blower, Of New York, will succeed the late
| Associate Justice Blatchford, of the SUI
| preme court.
In the prize fight between George Dixon
and Eddie Pierce at the Coney Island club
last night Pierce was completely knocked
out in the third round.
| Wednesday. Aug. o.
The Valkyrie will race no more until she
contests with the crack yachts ON this side
of the ocean.
BY an explosion of metal at the Besse
mer steel works in Cleveland five work men
We're fatally burned.
! In October next, at Denver, DR. Graves
will again be tried for the alleged poison.
ing of Mrs Barnaby.
The Catholics of Columbus, o., yester.
day celebrated the twenty fifth anniver.
sary of Bishop John A. watterson's labors
as u priest. The bishop is a brother OF
Hon. Henry Watterson.
Thursday, Aug. 10.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt
in California yesterday.
The mother of Senator Jones, of Nevada,
died at Santa Monica, Cal.
Escambia, Fla, has yellow feverscare,
and l,5oe people left the place hist night.
Lucien a. Holmes, an electric lineman
| of Mobile, Ala, WAS killed by a shock
while climbing pole.
The county court house at Isabella, Ga,
was destroyed by fire, with all the records
Incendiarism suspected.
Three gingham mills at Fitchburg
Mass, employing LOO hands, will for the
present run but three days a week