Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-03-11
THE NEWS.

DOM Lowell, an aged hermit ana misef,
living three miles south Of Lebanon, Oregon,
who was known to have considerable money
score. ed in the house, was found murdered
in bed. Everything in the house was torn
to pieces, the walls being broken and the
flo ,r torn up in search for money.--Ann
May Lesion. ffteen-year-old girl, living in
Chardon, Ohio, committed suicide by taking
arsenic bee iuse of quarrel with her lover,
a lad OF seventeen.-A succession OF severe
earthquake shocks were felt in UMatilla,
Ore on, spi eading fear and CONSERVATION
among the citizens. Buildings were violent
ly rocked. has been made
felony in Oklahoma Territory. President
Harry Temple, Of the First National Bunk
Of Lexington, Neb., and wife are fatally III
the result Of eating poison, which their child
playfully placed on meat afterward eaten by
its parents.--Over tn 90 hundred families
have been rendered homeless and destitute
in Mississippi by the destructive cyclone. -
Tn, bark Carrier Dave arrived from Homo
lou with advicss. Admiral Slerritt reached
the Islands with explicit instructions. The
Queen is not permitted to enter the palace.
The barracks are said to be prepared to
check any uprising. So far none has &C.
Cured. explo sion occurred in an oil
we'll, at Marthaville, Dat. James Duncan
and his engineer were XII led, and another
man, named Mackenzie, fatally injured. -
Lee Multer, teller OF the Farmers Bank, OF
Spi ingfeld, N. Y, has abscondel and is
Al. n
Multsr was an exceedingly popular young
man, and, apparently, ate lded strictly to
his bank duties, and was implicitly trusted.
1t now appears, however, that he was an in
veterate card player, and a patron of the
Louisiana lottery. and lived high.
Henry A. White, the KaI sas Populist
leader, is missing, and his wife has asked
the police to assist her in searching for him.
The certificate holiers OF the defunct
Iron Hall are clamoring for a division Of
the large fund in the auds of the receivers.
The scheo Ter Ella NJ. Watts, for Phila.
de'phia, for Cardepas, struck on Cape Hen.
op in a snow storm.-A cyclone struck
the town Of Marion, Miss, and did great
damage In other neighboring towns. Many
pc pie were XII led and in ured Several
unfinished bu ildings OF the New York State
Insane Asylum, at Point Airy, near Ogdens-
burg was burnei. Loss $50, C00-Lee
Mantle, Republican Mayor of But g, was ap-
POINTED by Governor Richard, United States
Senator from Montana. Bertha
Hall was drugged in her room at Chicago
I II 3
monds.-Hugh F. Dempsey and Rot ert j.
b atty were each sentenced to seven yea s
in the penitentiary for poisoning non-union
workmen at Homestead. Gallager and
Davidson rec, ived FIVE and three years sen.
fences The Marine Engineer Association
sent a petition to Presi lent Cleveland TO
prevent the Ec,rsing of British subjec's as
engineers on the new Americanized steam
erj New York and Paris.-Iu a duel hs-
tween George ADKINS and John Gilkinson,
III Wayne county, w. Va, the former was
lied Policemen Frank McGral OF
Elizat eth, N. D., was shot and seriously
wounded by burglar whom he found rob-
b ng the house Of Jacob j. Coyne.
Dr. W. Day, of Highland, ILL.,, died at
Weehawken from the effects of an overdose
Of antipyrine. NJ. Bishop, ex-governor
of Ohio, died at Jacksonville, Fla Calvin
Hancock, who has been on trial at Smith
port, Pa, for the murder OF Frank Wagner,
Decem / er 10, was found guilty by the jury
Of manslaughter.- Hethering-
ton shot Miss Emma Klaus, of Bridgeport,
Ct, who had refused to marry him, and
then kill ID hims :lf.--The Olympus Theater
n Anderson, Ind, was burned. Lo &c.
100. Theater was usel as the armory Of the
Columbia Rifles, which loses all its gun
md all o.her paraphernalia. The fire was
caused by gas jet igniting the scenery on
The stage.-The Kickapoo Indisns are re-
ported to have gone on the warpath and to
Lave massacred some Mexicans.-A FIRE
which occurred-at Constable Hook, n. j.,
destroyed seven buildings and rendered Fifty
families homeless. The fire originated in one
Of row Of frame buildings used for stores
and tenements, the occupants being mostly
Hungarians.-Gsneral Superintendent Law
If tn, Fort Wayne Road, was indicted by
The h;cago grand jury for murder.-The
slfe in the WeasGn Maryland Railroad Office
at Getty sburg. Pa, was bro-en open ty
thieves and so s.o,en.-Ths steamship
City Of Paris of the same iius as the New
York, YVES entered upon the American Iesis-
try at Pniladelphia. Several workmen
were injured by the sudden collapse Of
bull ling they were engaged in tearing down
In indianapolis.
Brigadier General 7. r. Freeman, com
mandrr Of i,ads in the Confederate
army, died at Nosho, No, azsd si1ty-three
years.-John H Willis. a well-known
Visor sin newspsp-r man, and the husband
of Raw. Olympus Brown, prominent In
National Woman's Suffrage affairs died IN
Fscina.-Cyrus Lee, his sister and brother
and S wife and child persisted in their
urning home, at Grsenvile, Ky.-N ne
hundred vorkmsa OF the Garage and
wagon manufactures in Chicago are on
strise.-Ar order was filed in the United
States Court at Char eston. S. C., indefinite
" postponing the sale Of the Carolina, Knox
vile and Western Ra lroad.-At Spring
field, H., j d e Norman u. Broadwei
prominent lawyer, died, aged sixty-seven,
from a str oke of paralysis received at the
close of . two hours argument in the SanSa-
mon IN Circuit Court.--At Cedar Rap d.
La, warrants were sworn out charging
Mayor Thomas Davis. Recorder Buel Evans
and Alderman Wilson, of Central City, with
violating the new Australian ballot Law ap-
plying to cities. At Benton, small town
near Clarksville, Tenn, Bud Garth became
involved in difficulty with two negro
and shot them 10th. One is dead and tbs
other dying.-A private cablegram from
Lon len ia S Judge Henry =. Sherman, .;
Cleveland. died aboard the steamship Lain