Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-06
THE NEWS.

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failures partake very much Of the color of
crookedness.--NearM Mitchell, Ind, saw
mill boiler exploded, fatally wounding Fran
els Baker and seriously wounding three
others. The boiler was torn to atoms, throw
ing lumber for several rods.--The Central
Ohio Insurance Company, of Toledo, o.,
went into the hands of receiver, Edward
are si00, 900 in excess of the assets.--The
first box OF California cherries for 1898 was
shipped from Sacramento to the Duke OF
Veragua, care of the managers OF the Calf
forIia exhibit at the Worlds Fair.----ln
Harvey Bros shoe shop, at Lynn, Mass,
pair OF kid button shoes were made complete
and packed in carton in fifteen minutes
record was twenty-four minutes, The shoes
will be exhibited at the Worlds Fair
Jacquez Bicco. the Austrian forger, who
stole $50, 900 from his countrymen, was ar
rested in Cincinnati.
The Reading Railroad receivers decided
ON a temporary restriction in the output of
coal at the company's mines. - Henry Dowl-
ing, wife and child were suffocated by gas
In their home in Chicago. Charles Caid-
well was hanged at Jonesboro, Ark, for the
murder Of Tab Freeman. WIN. Burke,
dissolute fellow, gave himself up to the au-
thorities of Rockford, ILL.,, with the state
ment that he had murdered his mother. The
woman's body was found in her home
VIM, E. Williams, editor of the Manchester
Critic, assaulted A. S. steinbauer, edi-
tor of the Allegheny News OF Allie
eheny. Pa, inflicting serious Injuries.
-Kittrells Hotel, at Kittrells Springs, n.
c.. was destroyed by fire. Loss. 100000.
An attempt was made TO burn the Oak
Street A. NJ. Z. Church at Petersburg, Va.
The Navajo Indians had returned to the
reservation when the troops reached the
San Luis Valley to protect the settlers.-
A mass of earth and stone fell from bluff
in Pittsburg upon two tenement houses. A
mother and her children We're badly injured.
The town of Cisco, Texas, was destroyed
bya cyclone and over a score OF people
killed and hundred or more injured
Twenty thousand Ohio coal miners threaten
10 strike, although the chief officers Of the
union oppose it,-The Marshall Chemical
Manufacturing Company, Of Kansas City,
made an assignment. The assets are $50 eco,
liabilities sIOO, Alexander Cooper,
one OF the founders and president OF Coopcrs
Hospital in Camden, N. J., dropped dead
from heart disease.
Thomas Norton, James Francis, Martin
Cox, Nike Connor, James Norris and two
others. all under sentence to the peniten.
tiary, escaped from the county Jail in Colum-
bus, by cutting hole through the floor
Rev. G. L. Eberhardt, president of the Luth.
eran Theological Seminary, and presiding
officer Of the synod of Michigan, and for
thirty years pastor OF st. Paurs Church. in
Saginaw, Mich, died, aged sixty-two, his
wife having died but ten years ago. He left
no children. Henry Bentley was convicted
in Los Angeles, Cal, of the charge OF MUIR
dering his wlfe.-The old Liberty Bell was
received with honor in indianapolis, whers
the school children had parade, and an nd.
dress was delivered by ex-President Harri-
soH--Albright and simpsons sewer at the
corner OF Union and Lawrence streets. in
Clean, N. Y, caved in, burying Ave Italians
Two Of them were rescued and three killed
Mrs. James Wiley, OF Paterson, N. j.,
cried to commit suicide by hanging herself
Rev. Edward Bell, editor OF the Queens
County Republican Of Long Island City, was
arrested on the charge Of libelling Mrs. Eliza
beth Lee.-The explosion of powder used
for tableaus in a church entertainment in
Wilkesbarre caused panic, and many were
injured. --Benjamin Buchanan, seventy
years old, who, for the past thirty-fve years,
had been an officer Of the Supreme Court OF
New York. cut his throat with razor on the
roof OF his residence and then jumped into
the street. Ha was instantly killed Mr..
Buchanan had been in very low spirits for
some time past, owing to the fact that he
was sufferer from dyspepsia and dropsy.
At church cornerstone laying in Cleve-
land floor gave way, and many people were
injured.-T. C, Haven, married man, OF
Memphis, Tenn. eloped with the wife OF
David LampkiD
Thomas Taylor, representing Roberts. the
champion English biliardist, is in Chicago.
trying to arrange a game with Ives, the
American champion. Captain r. T. Evans
who was supposed to have been lost of the
steamer Ohio in last weeks big gale, has ar
rived at Cheboygan, Mich, with the four
men he took in the lifeboat when he left the
steamer. They were nearly starved when
found by the tug River Queen, at Scammcns
Cove, on COckburn Island, where they had
landed.-Five persons were killed, two fat
ally injured and number of others hurt in
runaway train accident on the Bare Rock
Railroad, near Somerset, Pa.-The Color
ado Fuel and Iron Company's mines, at New
Castle, Colorado, are on lire and the pros
poets are that It will take at least two months
to eKt,nguish the flames. The fire is supposed
TO have been caused by the ignition Of gas.
Nobody has been injured but the loss to the
mines will be heavy. They are the largest in
the West. A large number OF men are out of
employment pending the extinguishlng Of
the flre.-There will be an interesting in
ternational exhibition in Brussels, at which
will be displayed the wonderful development
OF the public press from ancient to modern
times.-The wife OF W. r. Lewis became
infatuated with the wife OF hotel clerk. OF
Greenfield. Ind. and deserted her husband