Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED



The Watts steel and iron syndicate at
Middleboro, KY, has voluntarily increased
the wages Of its employees 10 per cent.
Pugilist Dob Fitzsimmons, charged
with killing his sparring partner, Con
Riordan. during bout at Syracuse, n Y,
was acquitted by the jury.
Miss Bessie Harris confessed in court at
Ramirona, Tex, that She and her father
had murdered Henry Blackman, her lover,
by hanging. She was jealous.
The Fourth of July parade of patriotic
societies precipitatcd riot in East Bos-
ton, Mass, owing to the exhibition on a
float of the little red schoolhouse, emblem
of the American Protective association.
J. w. Wills, IL spectator, was killed and
two others seriously wounded.
Friday, July 8.
At Louisville, Ala. lightning killed
Postmaster Edward Bryan, his wife and
baby. One boy survives.
"Parson" Davies issues a challenge on
behalf of Joe Choynski to fight Steve
O'Donnell, and has deposited 81, 600 to bind
q match.
In a fit of temporary insanity Frederick
Holman, of Chicago, murdered his wife,
his four children and himself by gas as
phyxiation.
Monday, July s.
Falling from cherry tree in West Man
chester, Pa, aged Joseph K. Fishel was
killed.
The steam launch Dispatch was wrecked
in Lake Geneva, Wis, and six people were
drowned
The Pullman Palace Car company has
advanced wages 10 per cent. at the Pull
man shops.
Francis Clark, who succeeded the late
John Brown as Queen Victoria's personal
attendant, died in London yesterday.
A girl baby was born to President and
Mrs. Cleveland at Gray Gables last even
ing. The first daughter, Ruth, was born
Oct. 3, 1891
The trial trips of the new American
yacht Defender have been satisfactory in
every respect. She shows great speed an
der every condition.
The Merchants Elevator company, of
st. Louis, has entered suit against its ex-
president and manager, d. P. Slattery,
for ss32, 900, said to have been appropriated
to his own use
Tuesday. July 0.
Eight persons were killed in cyclone
which swept over Baxter Springs, Kan
The khedive of Egyptis now in Alcxan-
dria He will start for Constantinople on
July l5.
The collicries of the Philadelphia and
Reading company will work three days
this week.
Sanger, the cyclist, announces that he
will hereafter only where money prizes
are offered
The British parliament has been dis
solved and writs for general election
have been issued.
Won der Abe, of the St Louis baseball
team, refused an offer of s25, 900 by Mack,
of Pittsburg, for Breitenstein. Peitz and
Ely.
BY the caving in of ditch which work
men were digging for water pipe in st.
Louis two men We're killed and three fa-
tally injured.
Wednesday, July 10.
Henry Clay England, a we'll known law
yer Of Rockville Nd, was killed by an
electric car in Washington.
Three hundred employees of the Pull
man shops at Ludlow, KY, have received
al increase of ten per cent. in wages
Near Oneonta, N. Y. Seymour Smith, OF
Plainfleld, N. j., 10 years old, was accident
ally shot and killed by John Stern berg.
Cornelius N. Bliss, leader of the anti
Platt element in the Republican party of
New York city, has resigned from the Re
publican county committee.
The first act OF the new Servian cabinet
was to release all the Radicals who were
convicted of conspiring with the royal fam
lily in connection with the Cebinats trial.
Thursday, July IL.
Owing to fresh political crisis, Count
Inouyi, the former Japanese resident, re-
turns to Corea forthwith
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, de-
MES the published statement that he is
out of the race reelection to the United
States senate.
George w Weeks, leading insurance
agent of Marshalltown, Va, prominentin
church and society, is under arrest charged
with embezzling $780,
Rear Admiral Curtis, of the British
navy, died suddenly yesterday while re-
turning to London from visit to the
italian man Of war Spithead
The negro Robinson was convicted at
Berryville Va, of attempted assault on
Miss Maggie Nails, and was sentenced to
eighteen years imprisonment.