Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-02-25
THE NEWS.

ceiye1 the formal resignation OF Chier jus
tice Paxton. 1t was accepted aud ordered
filed in the State Department. There is no
hint as to his successor, but the name of
Judge Heydrick is mentioned. Hugh Med.
Henry was appointed a judge of the Supreme
Court of No,a SCOTIA bitte- struggle
between the Evansville Qnd Foundry As
ISOLATION, Indiana Stove Works, kiechie
Brentana & OBJ ,ndorfer and Kahn, Myer-
hoff s. Co., and their moulders, some three
hundred in number, has Leen inaugurated.
"A fire broke out in the headquarters of
the Whskey Trust in Peoria, which occas-
toned only small los The FIRE caught
from defective fiue in the upper story,
near the roof, which was partially consumed.
During the storm, Eng neer McMannis,
of the steam tug S King. towing barges
overheard. Although Cover. or McKin-
ley is bankrupt by the Walker failure, be
says he will not resign the goveinorship.--
Four pa inters were seriously hurt by fall
of scaffolding in q railroad depot in Boston.
Three persons were kill ID AID Twelve in
jured in wreck on the West Shore Rail
road near Palmyra, N. Y.-George w.
Lichtenthaler. the no.ed concholog,st and
marine botanist, died in San Francisco
The 35o-mile telephone between Chicago
and Detroit was opened for use.-Jossph
Benson, employed in the Rankin Wire
Works, at Pittsburg, was fatally injured by
a red-hot were flying out Of the furnace and
passing through his neck.-The arrest Of
Hugh Porter and Charles Stone, lawyers of
New York, was ordered by Chicag judge
for contempt in refusing to turn over the
books of the New England and Western In.
vestment Company to the receiver-A
dozen freight cars were demolished in
wreck on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
near Suffolk, Va.-Mrs. Kate Painter was
acquitted by the grand jury of Greensburg,
Pa, of the charge of poisoning her husband.
The Paragon Mills, of Columbus, Ga,
which were sold under foreclosure of mort
gage to II. H. Epping, president of the
Chattahooches National Bank, for $25, 90
have been resold TO Major Louis Hamburger
representing the Hamburger Cotton Mills
Company, for $4,000. The two mills will
be consolidated O'Donnell was &C.
quilted in Pittsburg OF the murder of Pin
kerton Detective T. j. O'Conner. An
American register was issued for Interna
tional Company's steamship New York by
the collector of the port Of Philadelphip
The bodies Of Mark and Mart Wilson
freighters, Employed in hauling ore In the
Cooks Peak Mining district, n. NJ, were
found frozen stiff The men had evidently
abandoned their teams during the blizz I'd,
aud wera frozen to death before they could
reach shelter. Eds. Oyerton Moore was
shot AMI INSTANTLY killed in Helena, Ark. by
Dr. c. K Shinau,t. Both of the parties to
the tragedy are young and well-known ply
sicians of that city.-Col. Il. C. Yneher,
ex-public administrator G. and recorder Of
Grand Lodge A. o. U. W., quarter-master
general of the Department Of Montana, g..
A. R., and a Leading politician of Helena,
Ark, was arrested on eight indictments
chnrg ng malfeas nee in office, embezzls.
ment and failure to make reports as public
admin strator. Yaeger's embezzlement, so
far as discovered, amounts to $500. The
psl ce Of New York h we captured a negro
who gives his name as VIM. johnson, but
who is thought to b. VIM Schrobia. who
murdered woman in I. eaton in 1891, and
after ing arres' ed broke jail and escaped
Mrs. George Hopkins, of La Pune, Pa,
after an Intellectual attempt to commit sui
eide by cutting her throat, succeeded in end
ing her fe by hanging herself from an attic
rafter. Worry over buSine S troubles and
the excessive use Of morphine are sad to
have lel TO The ?t.--Chief Harris, of Table
quah, 1T, has been ssrved with a writ OF
babeas c. rpus, ordering him to deliver the
murderer Talton to the United States Court
at Fort Smith. The grounds for the writ
were that the Constitution OF the United
States as not complied with in the trial
The show window of Shipper Bros jew.
ehy stoe, in Cincinnati, was robbed !
s., 900 worth of diamonds. S. 4. Shipper,
who was sitting on a counter abou, twenty
feet from the door, was started BY the
crash Of TIE big plate glass widow. Be
fore he coul move foar han S closed on 8
tray of diamond, and in twinkling it We,
gone, two hunters stopf ed for shelter at
tie farmhouse # John Ocst9rmsn, neal
Mahles, Ind. They knocked at the door,
an 7 ce wing no response forced their way
il. Ga the Ted lay the bodies OF Oester.
naa ard his wife, h bad evidently com
mitt d suicide BY tasirg arsenic.-Jsme,
0'Saes, Wilson Ingram and VIM. Carmop
were instantly killed and several others in.
jured by falling rock at niue Is, in Sebas
'-nn co; MY, Ars.--1he house Of Jame,
FIR, man, near Hartvilie, No , was burned
All two Of his ch larer, agtd eight and
Ell ven y. ars, ere consumed in the flames.
Frfemen was a so severel. burned. The
United States Grand Jury at Deadwood, S.
D., found indictments against III Indians
Marks and Too Too for murder Fife de.
stroyed he Wsgman block and two story
brick buidi! g adjoining in Fort Smith,
Ark.