Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-27
TIE NEWS.

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Leod was submitted. The directors of the
Ives, Blakerslee Il Williams Company, Of
| New York, applied for the appointment OF
receiver. F. Carver, seventy
years old, a guest at the Hotel Bristol in
New York, plunged fro n foarth-story
window of that house and was almost in
stantly killed. -Breithauft's sole leather
tannery in Listowel, Ontario, was destroyed
by fire; loss $50, Three children
named Brouillet, between two and nine
years of age, were burned to death in tene
ment house in Gareau lane, Montreal. Their
parents were filling bedticks with straw,
when one of the children put a match to it.
and in a few minutes the house was in fans.
The mother escaped, but the three children
persisted. The father and fourth child were
SO badly burned they had to be taken to the
hospital. IA telegram from Captain Good
man to I. Langford Il Son reports the fish,
ing hooner Lawrence A. Monro was
seized at Magdalene Islam Is by Canadian
cutter and towed 10 Gespe or violation of
the fisheries law alleged to have been COM
mitted last year at Canso by Captain Monro,
who was in command of the schooner at the
time
Arrangements have been made for Pearys
Arctic trip The spool mill of ]. W. Ben
nett, at Gilead. was burned.-E. N. Mer-
riam, cashier of the ogdensburg, N. Y, Ma
tional Bank, died at the age of eighty-one.
Fire at Rock Creek, Mimi, destroyed
two general stores and five residences
Prof. II. 1. Thorp shot and instantly killed
Thos. r. Mason for slandering his wife, at
Peasant Plains, Ark. -A-Incendiary fire de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property in St.
Louis, burning the building occupied by the
c. NJ. Crum Livery Compa 1y-Charles H.
Weidner. while crazed by liquor and jeal-
ousy, killed his wife at her home, in Dayton,
Ohio, and then committed suicide.-The
postoffice at Bartlett, Kansas, was entered by
burglars and robbed of 5000 in stamps and
other property Postmaster Lane who lives
in the Luilding, was aroused just as the bur
glars were leaving with their booty. He fired
three shots at them, one of the burglars be-
ing wounded in the leg. Tho honorary de-
gree of D. c. l.. will be conferred On the
Governor General Of Canada and Bishop
Potter, of New York, at the centennial con-
vocation of Bishop College, Lennoxville,
Quebec, shortly. -Augusto Nolli shot and
killed Tircardo Prginano, in Scranton, Pa.
The Salem, Mass, Register (semi-
weekly, established in 1900, and conducted
by c. W. Palfrey and E. n. Walton, has an
nounced its suspension in an editorial notice.
Tha senior aditnr 10 Ill
He had been in active service fifty-fve years,
and the junior editor since 1855, beginning as
a reporter.
The schooner Pelican foundered off Ashta-
bula, Ohio, and three of her crew of seven
men were drowned.-Five men persisted by
the sinking of a dredge in Lake Erie, near
Conneaut "a boat belonging to the life
saving crew at Cleveland, Ohio, capsized in
Lake Erie, Just outside the breakwater, and
four men were drowned.
heavy rain storms caused floods at numer-
GUS points in Pennsylvania and Ohio. At
Newcastle, Pa, several planning mills and
houses were washed away, and at Meadville,
Pa, considerable damage was done
1ramps took possess on of place on the
DOtiOit ufcu anu nllNduhtt hal
road, and held up the residents. A pitched
battle followed, which ended in the capture
of three tramps.-Wiliam Cox, burglar,
who escaped fro n the Hudson county peni-
Tertiary, at Snake Hill, N. j., tweve ye re-
ago, was recaptured at Jersey City, just as
he landed from a steamship.-By an ex-
plosion in G. 1. Pope's glucose factory, ct
Geneva, Ill. six men were killed and one
seriously injured Mrs. Mcbride, of Mem
phis, testified that Judge Duboise, tried to
hug her.--A New York syndicate, backed
by mil ions, has secured control of the bank
Iupt Sheridan Coal Company, at Sheridan,
o., one mile above Ashland, KY, and will
reopen the mines at nce--The South
Carol na Supreme Court has decided in favor
of the state in the Chester liquor case. The
points in the case did not touch upol the
constitutionality of the law, but simply as to
whether the City of Chester should not be
co npelled to issue licenses for a year, in
stead OF x months. The decision is looked
upon, however, as practical y settling the
legality of the dispensary law.-Judge
Pardee, of United States Circuit Court
Of New Orleans, has appointed r. J. Lowery
and II. NJ Conner receivers of the Savannah
and Western Railroad.
Ed ;ar Thomas, a prominent luGiberman OF
Gan sboro, Pa, and a brother n-law OF W.
A. Croffut, editor OF the Washin gton Post.
die suddenly o heart diseas e-The body
of Mrs. Julia Huss was stolen from the grave
In an Omaha ee netery.--F Forest fires de-
stroyed lumber camp near Lake City,
Mich, and ten men were burned to death -
Franz E. johnson, the husband OF variety
actress IN Spokane, Wash, wdo recently APP
piled for a divorce, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the police court, where
he had been arraigned on charges preferred
by his wife. George Lalkford of Mari
eta, O., killed his wife AMI himself The
hot personal campaign between r chey and
Broddus, candidates for the clerkship OF
Page county. Va, has resulted in the with
drawal OF the former from the eonte t and
ehal enge to Broddus to publish the threat
ened letters.-Cheers greeted Rev Dr.
Talmage when he made the announcement
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle that the bull ling
was free from floating dsbt.-Eugene V.
Debbs, of Terre Haute, Ind, has be in
New York several day, consulting lends
and old time associates concerning the or
ganization of the American Railway Union,
new labor order. Mr.. Dehs was secret AIRY
and ire isu or OF the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen for a dozen years, but
though I'm lnimously reelected last tall re-
signed. Many valuable bio ks of pr perry
In Saginaw, Mich, were destroyed by fire..
Loss over 81, 500 COZ; insurance 800, oo0.-
DR.. Theodore Hartridge, for many years a
leading Florida planter, died at Jacksonville.
The Pioneer Furnace, owned by the Cleye-
land Chf Company, in Negaunee. Mich,
will close down permanently. This is the
oldest furnace in the Lake Superior district.
1t has turned out over go. $50 900 worth OF
pig iron, and been in operation forty-one
years. Its closing down will leave only one
charcoal furnace of nineteen in the upper
peninsula arrival of the United
states ship Mohican at Port Townsend. Ore
gon, completed the feet ordered for duty In
the Behring Sea.--Jchn Wilson. while alb
Quoting Myrtle Summers, his niece. from
Mulberry, Ark, was killed by the girls
father, who was discharged subsequently by
the eoronsr's iury.--George Harris mother,
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