Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-10-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Thursday. September as.
Burglars stole 500 from Lesner's house
near Nineveh, Pa.
Murderer Julien has been seen limp
ing through the Louisiana swamps.
Mcclellan Peterman was drowned in
I1akemont lake. near Altoona, by sail
boat capsizing.
Tho demented woman found near
Greensburg. Pa. came from Chicago.
Her name is Franciska Sulezka.
The Count of Paris and his son dined
at Copenhagen with the king and queen
of Denmark and the car and czarina.
The Jim Grow" car law goes into effect
in Kentucky Sunday. and the railroads
are preparing to COMPLY with it. Race
riots are feared
Hindoos and Mohammedans in Calcutta
came near rioting over the question of
Strengthening n cow, but were persuaded
to settle their differences.
Emperor William left Swimmunde for
Gothenberg on board the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern. He goes in response to an
invitation of King Oscar to attend an elk
hunt
President Cleveland has authorized the
statement that he has no knowledge OF
the Sc, 600 campaign subscription James
J. Van Allen is reported to have made last
fall to the Democratic campaign fund.
Friday, September 20.
Italian laborers were mobbed at Martins
Ferry, O.
Aeronaut King will test his balloons
fitness for warlike purposes.
A successor to the late Congressman
Chapman will he elected in Detroit. Nov. I.
An e -.
ing at Export. the new town ON the Turtle
Greek Valley railroad.
A Springfield co. woman poured gaso-
line into boiling washwater, and her death
is expected at any time.
John Carroll died at Batavia. O., from
drinking water from well in which three
dead babies were found
Colonel Clark Royce, treasurer of the
Veterans home. San Francisco. was found
guilty of ENLIGHTENMENT of 81 900.
Attorney General Hensel has decided
that factories which employ men only are
not subject to the inspection law.
A Dunbar boy picked up revolver and
examined it to see how it worked. The
gun went off, and the boy was killed.
A negro and Hungarian woman tried
to sell 3-year-old boy at Greensburg for
$500, claiming they wanted to build a
house.
Saturday, September 80.
Alexander Sorenson. the alleged dyna-
inter. was arrested at Stockton. Cal.
John Neal of New Philadelphia, o., was
given three years in the penitentiary for
bigamy.
F. w. Smith, the Cronin jury briber, has
been sentenced in Chicago to two years
in the penitentiary.
Texas Jack of the Dalton gang kicked
the traces and was murdered by his pals
in the Indian Territory.
A Chinese merchant at Seattle. Wash.
Louis King, has been denied naturaliza-
tion by the United States court.
Jackson coal district miners, in Ohio,
have struck because operators changed
from semi-monthly to monthly pay
day.
Theodore Davies. the English guardian
of Princess Kaiulani. is again in Wash
ington looking after the political interests
of his ward.
Captain Lyles, merchant and postmas-
ter at Midway. La, was killed by con-
cealed assassians who fired through his
Office window.
Judge Barker of the supreme judicial
court of Massachusetts, has forbidden
newspapers to report a certain law suit or
to comment upon it.
Monday, October 2.
Agitation AGAIN.. the English house Of
lords has abated.
Residents of Muncie. Ind. have asked
for state aid in the fight OF the town
against smallpox.
Mrs. l.. l.. Griffin of Tampico. Ills, and
her mother-in-law, were killed by the cars
near Fort Edward. N. Y.
DR.. Foglesong has been sentenced TO SOL
itary confinement for life. at Hillsdale,
Mich. for poisoning his wife.
France has rewarded the officers and
men who distinguished themselves in run
ming the Menam river gauntlet at Siam.
j. c. Thomas, superintendent Of Cincin-
natl parks, has been arrested on a charge
of selling stone and other city property.
Mrs. McCafferty. relative, at Washing
ton, Ind, has offered 81 600 for the arrest
and conviction of the Wratten murderers.
William Hunt fell headlong into a well
near st. Joseph, Mo. striking George An
derson. The skulls of both were crushed.
Mounted Englishmen are on the way
from the Transvaal to suppress the
troubles among the natives in Mashona-
land.
Austria has restricted the press, right OF
public meeting and trial by Jury on ac-
count of renewed agitation by young
CZechs.
Tuesday, October 8.
Mrs. Edward Parker Deacon arrived on
La Bretagne, at New York. from Havre,
The police stopped an anarchist meeting
in Manchester, England, and arrested
four Of the leaders.
Emperor William has returned to Der.
lin after brief period Of recreation in
Norway hunting elk.
1t is stated on good authority that Tam.
many is scheming for the location Of the
new mint in New York.
Benjamin Hodgson and Mrs Ellen
Howard were burned by the explosion of
coal oil and gasoline in Camden, N. J.
President Williams OF the Chemical
National bank, New York. says 1t Ia gen.
orally believed that the repeal bill will
be eventually passed by the senate
At the Monument Street Methodist
Episcopal church, Baltimore. the choir
went on strike because the pastor re-
fused to allow them to select their own
music.
Electrician Edison suggests, as a solu.
tion to the currency question, that a
bushel of wheat be made the m oney unit.
and that dollars be made out of hard com.
pressed wheat.
Wednesday, October 4.
Musical Director Neidlinger of BROOKLYN
is said to be in Dakota, looking for a
divorce.
Champion Bicyelist Howell Of New
York has challenged a race horse to a 20
mile race.
At Malone, N Y. Cleveland and Hill
factions held separate conventions in the
same hall simultaneously.
A heavy northeast gale has prevailed in
New Brunswick for several days. The
loss to farmers will be great.
Mrs McKeever of New York has sued
her father-in-law for $4,000 for the alien
alton OF her husbands affections.
A strike and boycott against the Ann
heuser Busch brewery has been decided
upon. 1t is likely other brewers will be-
come allies of Mr.. Busch,
Three Chinese gardeners living about two
miles from Butte, Mon, were murdered.
One was literally riddled with buekshot.
Six hundred dollars were taken.
A dispatch from Zanzibar to Berlin il
to the effect that Major Von Wissman,
leader of the German South African
forces. defeated the Arabs near Lake
Tanganyika,
LBERT.