Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-06-06

Prince Albert Raidzwill, son of
distinguished German family, was
married by Archbishop Corrigan. in
New York, to Miss Prudencia Milino,
a wealthy Mexican heiress.
Over two thousand persons were
killed at Moscow on Saturday last
during panic at great feast given
by the Car to the peasantry attend
ing the coronation ceremonies.
The death roll at st. Louis is stead
lily frightening, and there are still
100 people missing. A mass meeting
of citizens has been held to consider
the question of asking outside aid.
The Trial Board of the bait leship
Oregon reported to the Navy Depart
ment discrepancies in the construc-
ton of the ship, for which they hold
the contractors employees response
BILE.
A broken needle imbedded in the
fleshy part of a woman's head was
drawn out by a powerful electric-mag-
net improvised at the electric light
works in Cherryfeld, Me-, the other
day.
1t is said to be the Spanish Govern
ment's purpose to deceive the people
into expecting Russian aid against
the United States, in order to stimu-
late a desire for arbitration by the
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The second week of the trial Of
Alonzo Walling for the murder of
Pearl Bryan is in progress at New
port, KY. Scott Jackson has been
sent to Covington, KY, for safe
keeping.
A miner named Watt Warner and
companion, of Brown Peak, Utah,
shot four meu trying to Jump"
his claim and was killed himself.
One of his assailants was killed aud
two MORALLY wounded.
Advices from Managua, Nicaragua,
state that during the late revolution
airy troubles at Corinto, marines were
landed from the United States gun
boat Alert and the English gun boat
Comus and preserved order.
The alligator never leaves fresh wa
ter, while crocodiles frequently
travel long distances by sea. They
have been seen one thousand miles
from land, and it is possible that those
sea-going crocodiles have given rise to
serpent stories.
A canvass of the House of Repre-
sentatives on the candidates for vice
President shows that of ninety
members who would express their
preferences sixty-one are for Speaker
Reed. OF seventeen Senators polled
seven are for ex-Vice-P President Nor
ton.
The tongue of the cat family is COW
cred with recurring spines. In the
common domestic cat these are small,
but sufficiently well developed to give
the tongue feeling of roughness. In
the lion and tiger the spines are
strong enough to euable the animal
to tear away the skin of a mans hand
by licking it.
Last Sunday a minister gave ex-
preston to the following, which
every girl ought to paste on the mus
ic rack of her piano: do not ask
your mother to wash the dishes while
you preside at the piano. God help
the young man who is so unfortunate
as to marry young woman ignorant
of the practical duties of home life.
There are dangers around our fair
Too many OF our homes
are controlled by the children instead
of by the parents. This lack of home
restraint finds its penalty in the after
life of sorrow and remorse "-Waynes-
burg Independent.
An engineer on the B. & M. railroad
in Colorado, while making his daily
run, noticed repeatedly something in
one of the railroad cuts near Rockford
that glistened like gold. At first he
paid no attention to it, thinking it was
iron pyrites, but his curiosity having
been aroused he had friend get some
that he might have it tested. To his
great surprise the returns showed the
rock to be very rich in gold. He i'm
mediately had his friend locate it for
both, and they are now taking out
some nice ore. 1t may be. that Dr.
Rothermel's theory that gold grows
will apply here, as the ground had
been prospected over many times and
nothing found until the engineer dis
covered it from his cab while running
by at speed Of thirty miles an hour.