Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-02-04
THE NEWS.

John G. Boak, the largest retail furniture
dealer in Austin, Texas, assignee. The liza
bilties are about $50 900; assets not known.
A suit has been filed in San Francisco to
foreclose mortgage for $4,000 on the
North Pacific Coast Railroad. The plaintiff
is the Standardization Investment Com
pany, and a mortgage was given for the
money used in the construction Of portion
of the road, which is now overdue. --War-
ner & Swaser have completed big-tele-
scope for the naval observatory on George
town Heights. Clarence q. Harmon,
cashier of the Cory, Pa, National Bank,
was arrested in Ruffa o. on the charge of de-
falcation -. w. Mitchell was arrested in
New York city on evidence collected by
Newark detectives. He is known to be i'm
plicated in thirty robteries of houses in
Bloomfield, Montclair, Roseyille, Orange
and Newark. The amount of the thefts will
reach several thousand dollars.--The
striking boier-makers of the Chicago and
Alton shops in Bloomington surrendered.
Some were taken lack A heavy snow.
storm has been prevailing throughout the
NOIbHhtSl------ 9hditlu tHIlsNlusT, Oh NE
chanicsburg, Pa, exdeputy sheriff, ex-reg.
lister, and ex-deputy internal revenue col
lector and a leading Democratic politician,
was arrested at his home by Chicago de-
toctive, charged with big amy, and taken to
that city .-Ths eight-story building cccu-
piei by the American Book Company, in
Cincinna' J. was partially burned The loss
tc al Ut 1dicn,,
and hi, son are supposed to have persisted in
their burning home at West Newberry,
Mass.
A nolls prosequi was entered in the Crimi-
nal District Court of New Orleans in the
case of Judge J. c. Baumann and Dennis
Richardson, colored arraignei for the muir
der of Judge IL nry Long. The sawmill of
G, w. Favors & Co, near Columbus, Ga,
was destroyed by the explosion of the boiler
of the engine. Win Griggin, white, aged
fourteen, aud Titus Heath, colored were
killed; Sandy Tinsley, John Grant and
aaron Watson were fatally injured and four
others painfully hurt.--Jefferso Shank Of
Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on the charge Of
numbering his wife.-Baron Shultz, who
was 1hS hdopSuu VI Lazy Auud DlsnOp, Iuo
once famous singer died of typhus in New
York, va. abond The body of Bishop
Dwenger was buried in the Catholic oeme-
terry in Fort Wayne, Ind.-Frank Duffy,
at ono time a well known politician in New
York, shot and killed George Cunningham
in front of saloon kept by Duffy in Fort
Hamilton. Whitley & Co, S mower
and liOhaf. IRA 10
company to be known as the Whitley Ma
chine Company. 1t has been Incorporated
under the laws Of New Jersey, with a cap
italization OF $t0), 00-Charles Burg
called at this residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Waldo Whipple, in Butte, Mont, and cal
ling them to the door, shot both of them and
placed the pistol to his mouth and blew his
brairs out. No cause can be assigned for
the deed.-Mrs, Sarah johnson, aged fifty
one years, living in st. Louis, was burned to
death in her home. Mrs johnson was
paralytic and while alone in the house, in
some unaccountable way her clothes caught
fire and in her helpless condition she WAS
burned to death before discovered.
Madison G. Whitaker, famous old Texa.
hkhbVAy 10 utdtl.---- Inc .ht6
City" so called, in Rutland county, Vt,
was visited by the most disastrous fire in
its history. The fire spread to a dozen
buildings, and caused 10 of over SO 600
john A Davis, of Chicago, said to be
one of the heirs in the famous Mon ana viii
case, fell down the stairway of lie Driand
Hotel, in Victoria B. c., and is supposed TO
I.a 4 f-,,,. II
s. J, Henry aud c. j. Bend the colored por.
ter and conduc or of the seeping-car "Sal-
mon River" were arrested at Buffalo for
opium smuggling. Forty packages of opium
were found under one of the seats in the car
on its arrival The car is n Torouto-New
York sleeper. "A masked rob Ter shot and
killed Jefferson Thompson, store-keeper
near Newport Arkansas--MisS Maggie
Twomy, music teacher, was outraged and
then murdered in Fort Worth, Texas.--
man registering as George b. Taylor, OF
London, Ont, commit suicide at the
Mansion House, Buffalo, by taking poison.
From papers found on his person he is sup
posed to be r. G. Haun, of Orangeyille,
Ont, county treasurer and manager of a
bank at that place. The United States
Banking Company, with branches at juno
ton City AID Sheridan, in Oregon, suspend
ell payment
George G. Grover, B ti,h royal commits
soner TO the Words Fair, died suddenly Of
heart disease in Chicago hotel-Repre-
sen atiyei of the railway brotherhoods met
Mt Lehigh, Pa, to consider the question OF
fa1aTl tiop al II.
to death BIZ thor sei run hing in froat OF a
fire engine at Worcester, Mass Thieves
attempted 10 murder Samuel Well and
Aaron Moog, storekeepsrs in Baldwin county
Ala-A suit involving millions was begun
IN the Summit county court Ohio, against
Judge Stevenson Burke and others involving
the interests Of the Canadian Copper Com
pany.-John Michae's, his wife and three
children, were found frozen to death in a
hutin Putnam county, w. Va The United
States Pipe Line Company will reach tho
seaboard by the way of Athens and Wilkes.
barre Pa, and through New jersey. The
Columbia Straw Paper Company has at
sorbei forty mills in different parts Of
the country.-Goyerno Crounge, OF Ne
braska, in message to the leg stature OK
planned the connection OF the stale banking
board with the failure Of the Capital
National Bank.-The Erie Car Works
limited, were seized by the sheriff OF Fri.
county Pa, upon executions amounting to
10000. $. Kelley, of Springfield, O.,
has sold his patent on the overhead electric
trolley to the General Electric Company OF
New Nork.-Six blocks OF buildings in
Oakesdale, Washington, were burned Los,
$4,000
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.