Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. june FL.

Admiral da CANA. the Brazilirn insur-
gent, after being defeated In battle, COM
initted suicide to avoid capture.
Ex-Postmastcr General John Wanna
maker, with his wife and daughter, sailed
from New York for Europe today.
Twenty-Five thousand Epworth leaguers
from all sections are in attendance at the
international convention at Chattanooga,
Tenn. Sessions are held in a mammoth
tent.
When 9-year-old Sammie Woods barred
his back in court at McKeesport, Pa,
showing the evidences Of brutality on the
part of William Woods, his adopted father,
the police hail to fight the crowd to pro-
tcct Woods from lynching
Friday, June as.
During fire at Minneapolis six fire
men were killed by the collapse of a wall.
The Ohio supreme court declared the
law to tax in,ieritances by direct heirs un-
constitutional.
The Dunfee- Moore fight at Bradford,
Pa, last night was declared draw in the
fifteenth round.
The electric locomotive built to haul
Baltimore and Ohio trains through the
DSit Ouhltl III ltifiut LIB ilrst Euu
yesterday, and proved complete success.
The famous Barrett Scott murder case
at Butte, Neb., was concluded yesterday
by the acquittal of Mullihan, Elliott ant.
Harris, the three vigilantes who were ac-
cused Of hanging the defaulting treasurer
of Holt county.
Saturday, June 20.
General Green Clay Smith is critically
Ill at Washington, and his death is ex-
pected at any hour.
The Green Ridge Iron works at Scran-
ton, Pa, notified their 200 employees of an
increase of 10 per cent. in wages.
Specials from western Minnesota and
North Dakota report a light frost. damag-
ing potatoes and garden truck in low
places to some extent.
bad Tom Smith, was baptized in the
Kentucky river yesterday forenoon, and
in the afternoon was hanged. He had
killed nine men in his time.
The Tennessee Coal and Iron company
has announced another advance of 81
ton in the price of southern pig iron. The
company will advance wages on Monday
next.
Monday, July 1.
Ex-President Florano Peixoto, of Brazil,
died suddenly at Rio de Janeiro on Satur-
day, aged 50.
While fighting fire in Worcester, Mass,
Firemen w. f. Brigham and Lieutenant
Doyle We're killed by falling floor.
The discovery of Mrs. John E. Mundy's
body under the Toledo co. house where she
lived led to her husbands arrest for wife
murder.
General Green Clay Smith died at Wash
ington on Saturday, aged 90. He served
with distinction in the Union army dur
ing the war
Robert and William Christian and Vic
Casey, murderers, escaped from jail at
Oklahoma City, o. T. In the pursuit
Casey and Policeman Jones were killed
The Christians got away
Tuesday, July ,.
King Humbcrt, of Italy, has bestowed
the title of prince upon Premier Crispi
At Jacksonville, Ind, Mrs Benson
Bennett widow killed her two children
and herself by poison.
Gerald William Balfour, brother of
Hon. A J. Balfour, first lord of the treas
ury, has been appointed chief secretary for
Ireland.
Advices from Honolulu say there is
strong opposition to the appointment of
w. r. Castle as Hawaiian minister to the
United States.
Five thousand families from Illinois
and other western states have aEranged
for the purchase of IL 900 acres in Georgia,
on which they will settle.
w. Fl. johnson, ex-treasurer of Musca-
tine county, Ia, charged with embezzling
$4,000 municipal funds, has arrived at
San Francisco from Honolulu under ar
rest.
Wednesday, July 3.
Ernest Won Plener, late minister of
finance for Austria, has permanently re-
tired from active political life.
A cloudburst caused the Republican
river in Colorado to overflow its banks,
and great damage is reported
Tho body of Dr. Buchanan, the exc
cuted New York wife murderer, was bur
led in Evergreen cemetery, Long Island,
yesterday.
Charles H. Sturges, the village president
of Saratoga, declares there will be no
gambling ut that famous watering place
this summer.
Because ladies of his congregation per-
sisted in playing progressive euchre Rev.
]. A. Brooks resigned the pastorate of an
influential Memphis Christian church.