Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-10-21
BRIEF PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
Interesting News Items From All Owe
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BRIEF PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
Interesting News Items From All Over
the World.
Colorado ramps infest Texas.
Mississippi cotton has been nipped by
heavy frosts.
Baldwin Locomotive works are again
reducing thair force.
Union Poetic shops are now working
full weeks If six days.
Strikers have closed all the mines but
one in Macon county, Mo.
The infected ship Russia was released
from quarantine in New York.
A new search for Lanes body will be
begun by Pittsburg detective.
Prince Bismarck has grown much
stronger since his arrival at his castle
The Norfolk and Western railroad is
cutting down its force all along the line.
Recent heavy rains in Washington
state destroyed 5,00O09) bushels of wheat.
Mcleod is after the Lehigh Valley rail
road to annex to the New England sys-
TEN.
The New York Republican state COM
mittee selected William Brooktield, chair
man.
The Rio Grande Western Railway COM
cent
Charles B. Etna was shot and killed by
Anton Schuch at Kansas City. Both were
printers.
The Hungarian diet at Budapest de-
feated motion of mo confidence" in the
government.
Coal freights in coast cities have adj
vanced on account of the severe storms on
the Atlantic.
Nineteen people were drowned at Mag
nolia Beach, near Georgetown, 5. G., in
Fridays storm.
The Princeton faculty passed sentence
upon seven sophomores convicted of the
Leopold hazing affair.
At Princeton n. j., Judge Albeit
charged the grand jury to investigate the
Leopold hazing incident
Three ferryboats were swept away by
a flood on Yellow river, China, and 100
passengers We're drowned
A freight wreck and a landslide near
Huntingdon Pa, blockaded the Pennsyl
vania railroad for four hours
The confederate flag that was draped
about the old locomotive General" at
the Worlds fair, has been stolen.
Christie Kroys, a domestic in Brooklyn,
died from taking seidlitz powder. She
became choked and burst an artery.
1t is reported by Berlin paper that the
czarwitch of Russia was formally be-
trothed to Princess Victoria of Wales.
The Kentucky and Indiana Bridge COM
pany at Louisville, bonded for 81, 900, 900
has passed into the hands of a receiver.
There was general resumption of coal
mining in the various districts in England
that have been on strike for so long time
Chicago and Southeastern railroad EN-
ployes may strike The company is three
months behind in the payment of wages.
The Logansport Qnd.) Brewing COM
pany, which last year erected a $50 coo
malt house, is in the hands of a receiver.
man whose mutilated remains were
found in the Cherokee strip was J. B.
Polk, a well known civil engineer of Den
yer.
Marcus Koenighen, wealthy pawn
broker of San Antonio Tex, was found
murdered at his home His safe was
rified.
Miss Nellie Whitley of 1925 North
Second street, Philadelphia, fell out from
a third-story window and landed unin
jured.
The French have made great prepare
tions for the reception of the Russian fleet
at Toulon and Paris is quite gay in conse-
Quence.
A Prospect Valley CIV. Va fisherman,
Marshall Ogden, accidentally dynamited
himself. lie was badly injured, bat will
recover.
George O'Brien. an actor of Philadel-
phia, with the Arthur Lloyd company,
committed suicide by hanging himself in
Albany.
Hiram Stern of Harrisburg was held up
by three thugs while walking along
street in Chicago and robbed of all his
valuables
A skeleton of what IL believed to be
murdered woman was found under the
kitchen floor of 1850 North Eleventh street,
Philadelphia
John Paulus was killed by an electric
car at Charles and Clement streets,
Baltimore. He was the thirty-first victim
of rapid transit
An Italian aeronaut who tried to cross
the Alps in balloon with his wife and
two friends was killed by the balloon
striking a glacier.
Four hundred miners, who have been
out on strike for two months in the Coal
Creek and Bricey.lle districts, Tenn, have
returned to work
John J. Schrecker of Pistsburg who
was so brutally assaulted by Edward
Sloan, is reported better. His physician
says he will recover.
The wholesale cigar firm of C. Coin G.
Co. has failed with liabilities of sS5, 900
Among the heavy creditors are Lowenstein
s. Levy of Cincinnati.
Perry, o. T., was shot through the head
and killed by sneak thieves who were at.
tempting to rob his tent.
At Ashley Mrs. Milton Green eloped
with jefferson Lahr, a former sutton, The
husband had warrants issued, but CON
stables failed to find them.
Three boys of Quincy, Mass, left home
for the west after one of the boys had
drawn $500 of his fathers money from
the savings bank on forged order.
The fetes at Toulon, in honor of the
visit of the Russian fleet, reached their
climax in the battle of flowers. which
surpassed the annual affair at Nice.
james 1 Q Connqr of Westville, Camden
county, n, j., was killed at Cioverdale by /
being struck by an engine on the Camden, +
Gloucester and Greenlock railroad
The French papers attack the English. /
accusing the government of fomenting
the trouble in Morocco that led to the at
tack OF the Moors on the Spaniards at
Melilla,
AZ kgg Harhqr City, n j., August +
Klein failed to appear at the houE set for /
his wedding. and his fiancee, Miss Adele I
Seaman, married the best man, Harry +
Shaefer.
The Spanish government, in view of the /
news that the kabyles have sworn a war of I
determination against Spaniards, has (
sent an additional force with So guns to [
Melillia
A party Of Somerset people attempted to /
ford the Capon river. near Romney, w Va,
the vehicle upset and Edith Coffroth,
years old, and Miss Mae Coffroth, an aunt, /
30 years old, were drowned,
In the United States court at Atlanta.
Judge Newman has issued an order fixing
the date OF the sale of the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad for Nov 20. This
road has 100 miles in Georgia and 10 in I
Tennessee.
Frank Parish, q laborer residing In Port
Huron. Mich, has been arrested on the
charge of robbing the mails He Is be-
lieved to be implicated with Charles Ford. /
who was arrested there early this summer
In the act OF robbing the mails
A deal has been concluded in New York
city by which the Edison Electric Light
of St. Louis has absorbed the
other electric light companies OF that
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