Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-08

and broke both legs.
John Torpey, seven years old, was
run over and killed by a trolley car in
Philadelphia last week.
There wouldn't have been any milk
in cocoanut if some dairymen had
had the construction of it.
Already some who swore off snok-
ing are using their turned over new
leaves for cigarette papers
Miss Helen Gould has sent a check
for IS, 600 to Vassar College to found
scholarship in memory of her moth
er.
Hugh Dempsey. the Honest cad
prisoner was released from the peni-
Tertiary last Saturday, at Pittsburg,
Pa.
Geo. D. Todd. Republican, was
elected January 81, as mayor of Louis
vile, KY, to succeed the late Henry
S. Tyler.
One of the ironies of life is the fact
that the man who has money enough
to pay as he goes, can get all the cred
it he wants.
The Methodist church choir at
Verona, N. j., has disbanded because
each soprano singer wanted a solo
assigned to her.
Pittsburg gets the National Prohi-
bition convention, Chicago the Demo-
cratic. St. Louis the Republican and
Populist conventions.
If woman gets what she wants to
wear and man what he wants to eat,
there's no reason why they shouldn't
live together and be happy.
Samuel Evans, of Decatur, Ind,
spent the SIS, 900 received from his
fathers estate in IS days, and is un
der arrest for forgery beside.
OF the West Point graduates who
served in the Federal army during the
civil war one-ffth were killed in ac-
ton, one-half were wounded.
A college is to be located at Elkins
through the efforts of Senator Elkins
and ex. Senator Davis. 1t will be un-
der the control of the Presbyterian
Church.
About 90 feet of the sidewalk of 5oth
street near 9th avenue, New York
City, caved in Sunday, but no one was
hurt. The cave-in was caused by a
broken sewer
A trolley car was run into by a
Pennsylvania railroad train near the
Trenton, N. j., depot Tuesday. The
car was smashed and two persons were
badly injured.
Banker Maurice L. Wormer, of New
York, will be sued by David Dams
and others, who claim 500, 900 for be-
ing accused of having robbed the Wor-
mer residence.
A rich gold discovery is reported at
Flint Creek, Montana, Sam Snyder a
Butte prospector finding the ledge.
The report has causeda stampede into
the new district.
The girls in Wellesley College at
Boston have voluntarily agreed to go
without butter for month if the fac
ulty will devote the money thus saved
to the suffering Armenians.
Scott Jackson was arrested Wednes-
day night at Cincinnati for the MUIR
der of Pearl Bryan, near Fort Thomas,
last Friday. Officers are searching
for VIM. Woods as an accomplice.
Cape Horn is one mass of black
rock without vegetation or birds.
The sea always runs off it with tremen-
dous force, and rounding the cape is
considered by sailors one OF the rough
est OF passages.
Krout, the Wells Fargo express
agent at Colorado Springs, Colo, who
robbed the company of SIS, 900, was
sentenced Wednesday to FIVE years
Imprisonment. All but SIPS of the
money was recovered.
There was a shoemaker in a west
ern town. whose name was Alfred
Poor. Not knowing much about
punctuation, he put up sign as fol-
lows, "a Poor Shoemaker" and
then wondered why he had no custom
ers.
The machinists and boilermakers OF
the Mexican International Railroad, at
Eagle Pass, Texas, who went on a
strike last Saturday, were joined Mon
day by the blacksmiths. They want
rs per cent raise, which was refused. |
All workers suspended, but every
thing is quiet and orderly.
Anton Hull, deputy sheriff, was
returning to Clarksburg, Monday from
tax collecting tour, with 5000 in a
satchel in his buggy, and was STOP
ped by three masked highwaymen
and robbed of $3.50. The robbers miss
ed $3.50, which was under some papers
in his satchel.
In carload of lumber received by
the Ensign Car Company, at Hunt
ington, few days ago, from Georgia,
was hen which had come all the
way from her Southern home. Three
eggs were found in the car, which she
had laid during the journey. One of
the lumber inspectors now has charge
of the feathered emigrant.
The Time for Building
Up the system is at this season. The
cold weather has made unusual drains
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