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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
wyomIng,s Mineral Riches.

The tin of the Black Hills extendt
into Wyoming. The State has some
extraordinary soda deposits, some II
these being actual lnkebeds of soda
Copper is found all along the Norfl
Platte River. Lead appears at least
twice in large quantities ia a survey oil
the State and kaolin fire clay, mica,
graphite, magnesia, plumbago, and
sulphur are more or less abundant.
Gypsum is found in almost every coun.
ty, and plaster of Paris in being made
of it at Red Buttes, on the Union Pa
cific Railroad Marbles some Of them
very fine and beautiful-are being
gathered in every county for exhihf
tion at the Worlds Fair in Chicago.
They are of all colors, but the only
white marble is found in the Sibylee
region, where, by the way, is another
undeyeloped agricultural section Of
great promise. The GRANTEES of The
State are very fine, and the sandstones,
which are of unlimited quantity, in,
clude beautiful varieties for building
purposes and for interior decorating
work
Petroleum, aprear. !, severol nloce.
in the stat Thore arc vols a. sai,
Creek in Jobnson Comfy THO on,ah.
Comnonv have aowing wells A ~.
nanza in another part of the county,
and this oil whose f,ow ia stonned <,
the companv isa snleodid illnminant
A mile away ia q snrino carrying oil an
its surface Near lander sonth ~
the Indian reservation are more than
two dozen borinos XII have aowed
and all nre now cased bnt there /, !
tbree.ecre Lake of leakaoe from tbem.
There are sions Of oil elsewhere IN ths
o..
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
A Queer Australian Animal.

1t is less than a century since the
European hunted the Platypus to his
lair, the first published account of him
having appeared in the Naturalists
Miscellany of London, in 1893. 1t
would be interesting to know the effect
that was made upon the first discoverer
of this animated paradox than which
nature furnishes nothing more anom-
olous, in its combination of duck-like
mandibles and webbed feet THE latter
further equipped with spurs like the
game fowl, and claws like the. true
burrowing quadrupeds), mole-like eyes
and otter-like fur, body OF musquash,
and tail of beaver Our earliest, aud
in fact, almost our sole accounts of the
Platypus are confined to bald and lit
eral descriptions of his sppearnce and
habitat, from which we learn that he
is confined to Tasmania and the south
ern districts of Australia; and al
though his race has been thought to
embrace two or three species, it is now
generally agreed to consist of only
one.
You may repair many times to the
favorite haunt of the Platypus before
you see him, aud to discover the re-
treat to which he modestly retires ON
observing your presence is task i'm
possible, except by accident, to any
other than black fellow. To these
cunning hunters, however, there are
no secrets of beast or bird; their I'M
erring instinct tells them when the
Platypus, diving near the edge of the
stream, is in quest of food, or when
he is seeking the submerged entrance
to his burrow; and they will advise
you either where to point your gun in
expectation of the animals reappear-
anee, or where TO dig in the bank in
confidence of striking the grass lined
nest wherein he dwells and rears his
remarkable family -Scribner.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
DI ASTERS AND CASUALTIES

The body OF Schafrne-, the missing Chi
cago banker, was found in Lake Michigan,
near Chicago.
HARRY BOYD and Fred. Mcdowell were
drowned in the Allegheny river at Pittsburg
Their boat upset.
FIVE men were injured, one fatal Y, by the
wreck of a freight train on the Nickel plate
Road at Hamburg, n. Y.
The French Catholic Church at st. Anne.
His, was struck by lightning and damaged
to the extent of $50, 900
VIM. FISHER, Albert Greene and two un
known men were killed by the explosion OF
boiler in mill at st. Johnsbury, Vermont
A LOSS of about $500. 900 was caused by
IRE which partially destroyed the Merton Il
Morgan Paraffine Companys works at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
The brake of an Ashland avenue, Chicago,
street ear broke on steep grade, and getting
beyond control, crashed into fireplug Five
persons were injured, one fatally.
CAPTAIN JOHN GoRHAM, and n crew OF five
men, from the fishing schooner Pluribustah,
OF Marblehead, were lost in the fog while in
their dories. The cook took the schooner to
Boston.
The body of Edward Slavin, aged "a years.
was found lying on the tracks of the VIII
mington and Baltimore Railroad at Whining
ton, Del. The head was completely severed
from the body.
AT Morayia, Iowa, while Mrs. Patterson's
son, aged is years, was cleaning his rife. the
weapon was accidentally discharged. the
bullet piercing his mothers heart, causing
instant death.
A PASSENGER train on the Delphos branch
OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Railroad collided with IN electric car at Day
ION, Ohio. Four people were hurt, one eying
subsequently.
WHILE at work on top OF pole, at ST.
Louis, S. c. Love, iineman, fell into net
work OF live electric light wires. and was
burned TO death before his fellow workmen
could extricate him.
The steamboat Cepheus struck rock In
Flushing Bay, Long Island, and had four
holes stove in her hull. The 500 passengers
IN board were safely landed and the boat was
run ashore TO prevent her from sinking
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
A Paper Match.

1t has lately been proposed to sub
stitnte for the ordinary match novel
kind of paper arrangement described
as resembling i'll its general construc-
ton the coiled tape measure used by
tailors. The coil thus employed is a
roll of paraffined paper enclosed in a
metallic case, one end of the paper
projecting after the manner of the
tape measure, and at regular intervals
on the paper are small points covered
with an igniting substance. In prac-
tiee one has only to give the end ofthe
paper small pull, bringing the ignit-
ing point in contact with small steel
plate, and light isstruck which burns
slowly and evenly. and, ON the roll be-
ing thus exhausted from use, fresh
one can be inserted in its place.
Matches of this description can be
manufactured with great rapidity and
at very small cost New York Tele-
gram,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
A Beaver Dam.

So long ss warm weather lastA, the
beaver lives an easy life, disturbed only
by the ungainly moose that wades ont
and shares his crop Of lily-stems, But
in country where the winters are se-
we're and the snow piles up six to nins
feet on level, he must prepare for the
future
A family Of beavers, consisting, per-
hsps, Of pair Of old ones and thor
children, have eaten everything in the
way Of bark thst can be- eaten, and
must change their quarters. Selecting
a stream where food is abundant, they
will build dam for ready made
pond like the one Just described is, 81
course, not to be found every day.
On these northern brooks. alders
spring up wherever they find foot
hold, often quite choking the stream.
Usually mere bushes, they sometimes
attain height Of twenty feet and .
diameter % six inches. and take entire
possession. Such places beaver loves.
for they furnish an abundant building
material, and help to hold their dams
in place. At the point chosen for the
dam. sticks are cut Of varying sizesud
laid in the brook, butts pointing dorn-
stream. Others are Laid on top Of these,
not always parallel, but r. every direc-
ton, yet moderately smooth on the
lower side. Dirt, sticks and stones arc
piled on top, then more sticks, untii
there rises an irregular, narrow pile Of
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
The Army OF Railroad Workers.

There is an army of men employed
upon ths railroads of the United States,
all army of 7s4. 00o They are not en-
gagged in idle maneuvers. dress parades,
barrack drills or preparations for war
fare, but by their diligence, energy
and toll contribute immensely to the
wealth. well-being and development of
the country, the interchange of its
products, the diffusion of information
aud the prompt transportation of vast
numbers of passengers with remark
ably low percentage of casualties. The
number of passengers carried last year
was $50, 900. 600 The number of pas
sengsrs killed was 293. Chicago Her
all.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A Bookkeeper Kills His Wife and Then
Himself,

Ambrose s. Arnold, head bookkeeper for
Benton Bros, grain commission merchants,
Leavensworth, Kan shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife and then blew his brains
out
The family had just finished their Sunday
dinner when Mr.. Arnold in an excited man
ner demanded that his wife accompany him
to his room upstairs as he wished to talk to
her Mrs. Arnold took alarm at her hus-
bands actions, but finally consented to ac
company him to his loom. Ar iy there.
Arnold accused her of infidelity. Mrs. Ar
mold Indignantly asserted h innocence,
but her husband raising a revolver thr at
ened to shoot her. She cody folded her
arms and dared him to carry out his threat.
Leyeling the weapon Arnold fired two shots
into his wife's body, and then b ew out his
brains with the same weapon. rs Arnold
is MORALLY wounded and male an ante
mortem statement of the facts of the tragedy.
She has always been highly regarded in
the community, and no one be ieves her hus-
band had grounds for belief that she was I'M
faithful to him. Two gir.@, aged years
twins, will be left alone in the world as re-
suit OF the tragedy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
CURIOUS FACTS.

China has many stone bridges 5000
years old.
The tomb OF Mahomet is covered
with diamonds, sapphires and rubies
valued at $40, 900, 900.
Twin mules are claimed to be owned
by Platte City mo- man. Twin
mules are of rare occurrence.
Paris now gets its water supply from
six great springs, which travels through
eightv-three miles of aqueducts.
A sugar dish owned by Mrs. l. K.
Smith, of Roswell, Ga, has been in use
by her family for over 100 years.
Miss L. J. Whitton, of Topsham,
Me, has hair which measures eight
feet q inches. 1t has been growing
ten years. .
In Europe, the etiquette of street
walking is to ''keep to the left. In
the United States, the rule is keep to
the right
In Middle Smithfeld, Penn, there
is chestnut tree the trunk of which
measures nineteen feet in circumfer-
cnee, breast high
William Gardenio was the first per.
son entitled doctor of medicine, he re-
ceived the degree from the College of
Asti in the Fourteenth Century.
From an observation tower on the
Broken, in the Harz Mountains, Ger
many, eighty-nine cities and 66S vii
lagos can be seen in clear weather.
There is a church at Kirkwood, Ga,
owned by a Presbyterian, with Methc
dist pastor. aud the seats were origin.
ally owned by Baptists and donated b.
Episcopalians.
70 The term 'tabby cat comes from
the word Atab, the name Of famous
street in Bagdad where live the manu-.
fncturers OF silken stuff called Atibi,
which has markings resembling those
of tabby cat.
Two lost hogs were found by their
owner at Lone Jack, Mo-, the other
day in such place that they must have
been without food or drink since they
were first missed, four weeks previous.
Soon after their rescue one of them be.
came the mother of six healthy pigs
superstitious idea of the middle
ages still exists in many parts of Eng
land that when the death of person
is imminent the fastenings OF the door
of the death chamber hinder the de-
parture of the soul from the body, thus
making final dissolution doubly painful.
BY some misadventure, note for
one penny stamped with the ''promise
to pay" of the Bank of England got into
circulation in 1918 and for many years
gave the cashiers much trouble with
their accounts. About fifteen years
ago it was brought to the bank, but
the owner, not unwisely, would not
take penny for it, and the bank set
tied the transaction by giving him S25.
There are two words in the English
language which contain the vowels il
their regular order. viz. Austen.
ious" and ''facetious. The following
words each have them in irregular
order: Mendacious authoritative, dis
advantageous, encouraging, efficacious,
instantaneous, importunate, nefarious,
Objectionable, precarious, pertinacious,
sacrilegious, simultaneous, tenacious,
unintentional, unequivocal, undiscov-
cradle and vexatious
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
WORK AND WORKERS.

The miners at the Patterson Collierv,
Shamokin, Pa, accepted the company's
terms aud resumed work
FULLY half OF the employees of the Peperell
and Laeonia hills, at Biddeforj. Maine. went
ID strike
The Standard Oil strike at Whiting. Illi-
nois has been declared of. and 400 men will
resume work, with nine-hour day.
FIFTY weavers of toe Richard Borden
Manufacturing Company Of FAN III YER Mass.
struck against an alleged cut in wages.
The ilremen at Hayemeyer's su ar refinery
st Brooklyn, \. Y, struck for shorter hours
during the summer months, tying up the en-
tire plant
The foriy-1rst annual convention OF the
International Typographical Union was be-
gun in Chicago with 80 accredited delegates
in attendance.
Ii is reported that the factories of the
American Wheel Company at Crawfordsyilie
Ind, Memphis, Tenn. Paducah. Ky, and
Humboldt, Team, have shut down for an in-
definite time.
EMPLOYEES OF the Central Railroad OF New
Jersey are dissatisfied with the reception by
President Maxw II OF Their state nent OF
grievances. They say they are thoroughly
organized and Will push their claims.
THREE men are known TO have been kiile
In the riot at Romeo, Ill.,, between strikers
drainage contractors. 1t is believed that
three or four men were fatally wounded.
The locked out lumber showers at Tona-
wanda, New York, have aceeded to the de-
mand Of the employers tina. they withdraw
from the National Union. They will retain
their local organization and PROBABLY resume
work soon.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
CABLE SPARKS.

Prince BISMARCK favors an increase OF the
artillery in the German army.
TEE present su ar crop Of Cuba will be at
least 20 per cent. smaller th1n last year
FIVE THOUSAND iron workers and miners at
h'ando. - miles frosl Prague Bohemia. are
on strike
AT Chatham, Eng, a barge smashed to a
hoaiioad OF soldiers, crushing and dto ming
three OF the latter
JAMES GoRDcN BENNETT. Of New York. who
was injured by falling from coach In Paris,
Is improving rap iiy
NINE deaths from diseass OF a ehoIeraie
nature occurred at Alas. Department Of
Cart, Southern France.
HoS. Po~ER FRENCH. who has twice served
In different capacities in Washington. ID. c..
has heen appointed British minister &c
Mexico.
The leaders oflhe rival winl of the Irish
parliamentary party are unable to agree upon
plan looking to the release Of the IRISH fund
held y a PARIS tanker.
The NeCarthyite ct ion OF the Irish Par
iiamentary party reseiaded the resolution
which led to the withdr 81 OF Thomas Sex
ton from the House OF Commons.
IT is reported that tine Italian government
In order to obtain an incl eased income wifi
grant monopoly OF the life and fire insur-
anee companies Of that company.
sIScg the japanese Parliament in Febru-
airy a., subsidized national steamship lines,
arrsn semen;s have ben made 10 establish
last lines TO Europe and Australia.
coUSr GRUESsE. commander of an army
corr : il tAe middle Bohemian military dis
trict. was attacked By an insane medical stud
ent while walking On street In Prague
DEBATE on the fourth clause OF section
OF the Irish home ute bill, forbidding the
making OF laws By the proposed Irish lie is
lature bearing upon religious matters, was
begun IN tbs House of Conmons
COUNSEL representing Great Britain before
the Bersng sea tribunal Of arbf ration have
asked the our to md tina. the searches and
seizures In Boring sea OF British ships were
made ty authority Of the United ST ties.
LAwYEE in a number OF Spanish towns re-
moved the names from the cause list as q
pro Is. aga INST the proposed action OF the
Span sh government to abolish distrset crimi-
nsi eoarfs- As result cases pending before
The courts are undetsndsd.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
How q Shark Was Scaral

In the annual report OF the Royal
Humane Society there is, as usual, a
long roll of heroes who have won tes-
timonials of various kinds by acts of
bravery and self-sacritice during the
past year. Foremost in the list of re-
cipients of the Stsnhope medals is
Thomas McDermott, of Her Majesty $
ship Swallow, who, while sailing off
Uzi Island (coast of Zanzibar saved
two of his comrades from imminent
peril Of being deyoured by shark
The two men were bathing and had
Owed out of boat, when a large shark
was seen within six feet of them and
making toward them. Without an in
stant's hesitation Mr. McDermott, with
dl his clothes on, jumped overheard
right over the shark. and by the splash
created frightened the fish from its
prey, thereby giving time to his com
rades to regain their boat. The general
court has for this daring act awarded
Mr.. McDermott the Stanhope gold
media. London News.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Rev. SAM JONES, the evangelist, is a brother
of the mother of Porter Stocks. who was
convicted last week of manslaughter in kill
ing Alpheus Cassin, of Atlanta, Ga. In the
course of sermon Mr.. Jones bitterly de-
nounced bar-keepers of Atlanta, and used
the Stocks murder case as an illustration. He
declared that every bull-necked bar-keeper
ought to be hung. The declaration caused
much comment, in view of the fact that it is
well known that the one man on the jury 10
whom Porter Stocks owes his life is a bar
keeper named Martin, who was for aeqnit-
ting Stoc Is from the flrst. and it was due to
his stand that the compromise verdict of
manslaught was finally agreed upon.
The contract for grading and laying the
rails of the Abbeyille Southern Railroad to
intersect the Alabama Midland near Dothan,
Ala, has been let to S. G. Pruitt, OF Mont
gomery Col. b. Durham, general superin-
tendent of the Alabama Midland, has been
elected chief engineer. The line viii lead
from the Alabama Midland Railroad to Able
vile, Henry county, and penetrate some Of
the finest farming sections In Alabama.
liz the United States Court at Charleston.
S. c., Judge Simonton denied the motion eff
the State to remove to the State courts the
suit now pending to forfeit the charter Of the
Port ROYAL and Augusta Railroad on the
ground that it was operated against the in
terest OF the people OF the STATE, having
passed into tho control Of the Central OF
Georgia competing corporation.
DEAL has been made at Tampa, Fla, for
some property said to be in the interest of
the Louisiana Lottery Company. 1t is be-
leved that the company will remove from
New Orleans to Honduras and continue bust
ness there, running a line of steamers and
controlling a cable line between this port and
that country.
NEARLY every school building in Macon,
Ga, has been entered recently by burglars,
who invariably carry off the clocks. The
thieves take various articles of small value
from the desks of the pupils, but She clocks
are never overlooked. IT is believed the
thefts are all by the same persons.
JUDGE VIM IRnY HuDsoN died at his home
in Hamilton, Ga, aged seventy years He
was a member of the present legislature.
MOSES 0DwELI., charged with the murder
of Policeman Parker on February Sth last,
was acquitted at Atlanta. Ga. Only circum-
stantiai evidence was introduced by the State.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
Tropical Railways.

Apropos of the projected Pan-Ameri-
can Railway, it is to be noted that not
only is the first cost of railway con-
struction in tropical countries very
heavy, but the annual maintenance of
way is expensive to degree which
cannot be appreciated by those who
have had no experience in this connec-
ton. The Antioquia Railroad, in
Colombia, says Charles P. Yeatman in
the Engineering Magazine, cost in
single year for repairs Of track and
bridges $2266 per mile. The Cauca
Railroad, in the same year, cost $3S37
per mile. These two roads are in
Colombia. and are sometimes men,
toned either as future feeders of the
Pan-American Railroad or parts of its
main line. On the Antioquia Road, if
the underground were cut at the be-
ginning of the rainy season, less than
two months rain was sufficient to form
an arch of green trees thirty feet high,
leaning over the track so as to shade it
completely.
The constant change from dryness
IN the day to soaking moisture az
night, even in the dry season, would
soon ruin the best of timber, but ma
ture furnishes still quicker means Of
getting rid Of it, in the shape of an ant
or wood louise, which is careful not to
mar the outside of his domieile, but
will patiently honeycomb the inside,
until what looks like solid twelve-by-
twelve stick is but a shell from one
eighth to one-fourth inch thick, filled
with dust and ants. The native timber
suffered so much from the inroads of
these pests that, upon hearing that
yellow pine was used in Panama to
avoid them, trial of it was made on
the Antioquio Road. Georgia pine
had to be shipped by way of New York,
at cost of nearly 800 per 1000 feet,
board measure, when put in place.
When / left there the first of my yell
low pine trestles was being replaced.
1t had been built less than four years.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-24
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

THERE are 1853 periodicals and newspapers
in Russ n, which cont ins populai on OF
100, COO 900. According to statistics Of 1892
taere were 1913 In tn country and pop
ulation OF ny $500, 900. The newspapers
in Russia however, are m.sna led. They
dare not print the news.
MR. Won MUM, formerly OF the German
legation at Washington, but sincs trans
ferred to Bucharest and then to Rome, Is a
jealous amateur photographer. Among the
pictures carried away by hi as mementos
OF his Washington sojourn was collection
of portraits OF near every girl prominent
In Washington society for the lat nalf-dozen
years.
Ex-SRSAroR WADE HAMPTON. nov United
States Railroad Commissioner, Is In San
Francisco, VIII ther he has gone on jour
ney Of Inspection Of the Pacific roads. He
has with him party Of about dozen people.
inc uiing his two daughters. he will go
from San rancis TO T.cofna, and from
there begin an examination eastward OF the
Northern Pacific.
The venerable Robert G. Winthrop who
everything considered, IL the most distin-
guished citizs OF Massachusetts,, is one OF
the summer eottagers at Nahant. Comment
ing on the fine old mans sprgbtliness 1T
eighty four a Boston journal says THE man
who takes the hand OF Mr.. Winthrope to day
taxes the mana thht " H. WORDSWORTH grasp
ed, that was shaken by Samuel Rodgers and
that found its way With acceptance into the
hand Of the Duke Of Wellington. OF what
other American can the same be said?
CAPTAIs A. G.. THossts. commodore Of
ThiDgyaila line, has been knighted by the
King Of Denmark for his long and distin-
guished service AS merchant comman er.
Captain Thomp ems title Is knight of Dan
nebrog. The sailor-knight Is now in com
mand Of the ThingyallA liner Amerika. The
new knight has made 1926 transatlantic yoy-
ages, and has never lost a life. He Is genial,
OF middle ge, with a curling brown beard
and lwinkling eye. rather below the medium
stature, but sailor all over, and popular
one at that.
The scientific department Of Yale Unirer-
sary has just come into possession OF big
meteor. II fell from the heavens last year in
the Canon Diabio and was bought for I'll $50
by some friends Of the late Prof. LOOMS,
the late astronomer, who Intended 10 have IL
inscfihet. In his II emory. Pol. Newton says
that KAN inaflcR Of the meteor disclosed the
presence specimens Of blsck and white
dian onds ] h. other components Of the
meteor are iron and niekle, nth rodules os
graphft and triiiite. The meteor wedghs
635 pounds.