Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-08-19
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED

Friday, Aug. IL.
Ex-Minister Egan, of Chile, has arrived
home
Five acres of buildings werr;destroyed
by fire In Milwaukee. Loss sl2 9oo0.
Lawrence T. Neal. Of Chiliispthe, was
nominated for governor by tie Democrats
of Ohio.
The resignation of a number of principal
examiners and first assistant examiners in
the patent office lave been requested.
The crew of the schooner Helen Blum.
twenty-five in all. were drowned by the
in the Pacific.
Saturday. Aug. IL.
In Naples yesterday there were ten new
eases of cholera and ten deaths.
The Khedive OF Egypt is again quarrel
ing with his ministers, and a crisis is i'm
minent.
Commander in-chief Weissert, Of the
Grand Army of the Republic. left San
Francisco for the east yesterday.
The further hearing of the trial of Actor
Curtis for the murder of Police Officer
Grant, at San Francisco, has been post
poned until next Monday.
A Bucharest dispatch says that In the
twenty-four hours ending yesterday noon
thirty-siX new cases of cholera and eighteen
deaths were reported in nearby towns.
Monday. Ang. IL.
The yacht Colonia o the Goelet cup,
with yigilant a close second aud Jubilee
third.
George Bradley. of Pittsleld, Mass. 81
years old. committed suicide by disetn-
boweling himself.
Yesterday was probably the last ''open"
Sunday at the Worlds fair. There were
only ls,oJ6 visitors.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed s., 000, 060
worth of property, including 200 houses,
and rendered 1900 homeless.
The betrothal of Prince John, nephew
of the king of Saxony. to Princess Maria
of Wur;em berg is announced.
Near Lnfraeombe. q fashionable resprtia
England, a e,.oh filled with passengers
fell over a 100 feet precipice. Strange to
say, only eight were injured. but four may
die.
14,sday, Aug. IL.
Frost was reported yesterday near Round
Lake, n. Y.
General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley died
suddenly from heart disease in London,
Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle and
Postmaster General Bissell have returned
to Washington.
wife murderer. will be e~lectrocuted in the
week beginning Oct. 2.
DR.. j. b. Furneson's bug Ky game Into
collision with a runaway farm team at
Saratoga, n. Y. The doctor was killed
and Farmer Kee;e had three ribs broken.
DIR. Glen A. Fenton, a graduate OF the
Philadelphia college, and who belonged TO
a fine Baltimore family, was found dead
in his room in Dallas. Tex. Whisky and
cocaine was the cause,
Wednesday,, Aug. ID.
The pempsey7Burge fight is of, owing
to Dempsey b ing Ill,
James II, cunt, special commissioner
to Hawaii, has returned to Washington.
The second annual session OF the con-
gress of fraternal and endowment orders
is in session at Atlantic City.
The vital statistics OF Havana for July
show 126 deaths from yellow fever. The
total number of deaths was FOL.
Statistics shaw a great inc, ease of crime
in Russia; Thele We're 2,0oi murders last
year, Including f6a infauticides. The sui.
cides numbered ] f3d.
Thursday, Aug. II.
Jean Martin Chacot, a distinguished
French physician. died Tuesday In Morvan.
While at work at a st. Paul fire last
night Michael Clonan was killed and
several Other fremsn hurt
Indss llslsf. VI .he state eireait court at
Charleston, S: C., has rendered u decision
sustaining the dispeasary law.
A tiny babe was foun1 by the side of the
pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail
road track at lima, o. 1t had doubtless
been thrown from a train. The babe died
shortly after being found.