Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-10
THE NEWS.


A runaway locomotive ran into an express
train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, killing two people. Cook and
employ of the Kansas CITY, Fort Scott and
Memphis Railroad, were killed at Memphis,
Tenn. They were riding on the footboard
of an engine when the rails spread, and the
engine, jumping the track, buried its front
deep into an embankmen.. Both men were
caught beneath the engine and crushed into
the earth. Sergeant o'Leary was shot and
MORALLY wounded by Private Roberts, in
Spokane, Washington.--Twoh hundred and
fifty employees at the Standard Oil efnery
at Whiting, Ind, struck.-Colecto Logan
finished the examination of five hundred
Chinese brought to Portland, Ore from Vie
toria, by the steamer Danube. One hundred
and eigh y-two were refused permission to
Iand. These will probably apply to the
courts for writs of habeas corpus.--Firs
destroyed the schlep wagon and carriag,
factory, Levee and Carr streets, st. Louis.
Damage to stock, $4,000; t. machinery,
$25, 900 to building, $4,000; total, 900, 600
Fully insured. Satione Ma,tela was electro
cute in Dannemorra, N. Y, for numbering
Giovanni Parella. Six robbers armed with
Winchesters, entered the Peoples Bank at
Little Rock, Ark, and compelled the cashier
to hand over $40, O0o An alarm was given,
and number of citizens attacked the thieves
as they were leaving the bank, shooting and
woundin two of them. Several of tbs citi-
zens were also wounded.
President F. T. Day, OF the Plankinton
Bank. Milwaukee, made an assignment
The furniture factories in Cincinnati closed
down because of thr atened labor troubles,
and f1se thousand men were thrown out of
work. John b. Cleveland was Apo nted
permanent receiver OF the Augusta and Knox
vile and Por Royal and Westsrn Carolina
Raj roads. courts postponed ac-
ton on the Worlds Fair Sunday clos ng case,
and the Fair was again ope Sunday. Two
men were killed and two wounded in fight
at primary cleo ioa in Pineville. Ky
Captain C. D. Cox, of the Omaha FIRE depart
ment, was killed, and several flremen fatally
crushed by falling walls at a FIRE caused by
lightn ng-The Board of Control of the
/ Worlds Fair sanctioned the change in the
awards system to meet the demands of the
foreign exhibitors -Four PERSONS were
burne to death in fire in a New York tine
ment.-Robert J. Hoerner, ofPennsylvania,
who was with his brother Edward when the
later shot and killed green-goois ran, George
Phillips, in Brooklyn May 18th last, was dis
cl aged from Gus ody.-Edward Hoerner
is now under indictment of murl in the
first degree.-As Christian Nelson and
john Mckay, OF Shelburne, N. s., were re-
turning from North East Harbor in a boat
loaded vita salt, squall struck them, and
the boat was caps.zed. Both were drowned
Nelson had a wife and six children.
The south ound passen er train on the
! Iron Mountain Road jumped the track near
Mill Spring, Mo-, and about dozen passen-
gers were injured. Two trains colliied
near Red Cur, Mo-, enta ling a loss Of $780,
000,--The property OF c. A. We sebach, a
clothing and shoe merchant, in Chicago. was
seized by the sheriff. Execution was made
on judgments aggregatin $4,000, confessed
in the Circuit Court.--Jerry Laughlin and
Thomas Kneebone, two COW cts the branch
state prison in Marquette, Mich, escaped by
/ sealing the wall. There was no guard on
the wall, as the convicts were in side. Laugh
lin and Kneebone were taken out in charge
OF a keeper to bring in the conv.cts' suppers.
They ran. got over the walls, and were out
Of sight in the brush in two minutes
John C. Mining, town treasurer of Fort Jen-
nngs Ohio, has disappeared with $500
cssh, and an additional shortage of $40, 900
has been discovered. He left his iimi y who
profess not to know his whereabouts.
The Office OF the Hustler, "a local option paper
in Iattlesburg KY, was blown up by dyna-
mite The westbound limited on the Penn
sylvania Road due at Lima, Ohio, at 6 IA A.
n, stopped on q sliding at Van Vert to take
on dinin gear. An eastbound freigh', COM
ing around the curve, ran into the obserya-
ton car, smashing it considerably and de-
railing number of freight cars.-The pas.
sengers were greatly alarmed, but no one
/ was injured.
/ Ex-Governor Chase and Zimri DwiggIn.,
! OF Chicago. haze been summoned before the
Indianapolis g-a ID jury to tell Whist they
know o; the affairs of the Greentown Bank,
and the cashier, now under ARES, promises
| to make clean breast of the whole matter,
intimatiny that he was simply the victim of
| his superiors, and that they are the real cul-
! priis.-Harry Hill, who is wanted in At
lanta, Ga, for forgery amounting to 800
600, W arrested in Chicago by detectives.
| He is about thirty years old, and belongs to
one Of the est a1i!iIs in the South. The
| forged notes bore the name Of Mrs. Porter,
| wife OF the president OF the Merchants Bank,
| who, for years. had beer a stauneh friend OF
his.-Harry X. Webster was appointed re-
ceiver of A. ]. Ames' broken bank at Beres-
| ford. Iowa. His first statement shows liza
| bilities of 49, 900, with assets, par value,
! $40, OOO.-Lew W. Baker, Of HoytvilIe,
Pa, eomnitte suicide. Charles Jones' OF
North Adams. Mass, shot himself dead viii g
his wife and two sisters were trying to pre-
| vent it.-John vii is, an emp'oye of the
| Buffalo Furnace Company, accidentally
| locked himself in furnace and was suffo-
Gated The Thorp 4 Martin Manufacture
ing Company, manufacturers of typewriters
and other light machinery, in Boston, as
signed to George Z. Adams and Edmund n.
Tablet. The liabilities are reported to be
100000. with nominal assets about the same.
The Diamond Plate Glass Company of 10
komo, Ind. closed its works OF account oil
the demoralized condition of the market