Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-11-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NOTES.

The missing link in breakfast can
now be found in any meat shop win
dow.
The Romney institute for the deaf,
dumb and blind has an enrolment OF
about 100 pupils.
Up to Saturday over 500 babies bad
been named for Carrot A. Hobart,
Vice President-elect.
AT Brandtsville, near Carlisle, Pa,
John Grauf lost four children in few
DAYS with black diphtheria.
A colored bootblack at Winchester
drank thirteen glasses of whisky ana
it nearly made corps of him.
Alleged losses on the election will
give many man an excuse for not
buying his wife new fall coat.
A newsboy broke window glass,
yard square, in the Cumberland, Val
ley depot, Hagerstown, by kicking
bundle of papers through it.
At the close of the fiscal year, there
were 70, 500 postoffices in the U. S.
and six times that many people who
wanted to be postmasters.
The 400 pound bell Of st. Paups
Episcopal church, Sharpsburg, that
had been badly cracked, was recast
and is back in position on the church.
The collie dog, it issaid, was named
from the sheep it was trained to care
for on the hills Of Scotland These
sheep had black faces and black legs
and their name was derived from the
Anglo Saxon word "col, which means
black.
The Birmingham mint has just re-
ceived huge order from the Russian
Government for copper coins. The
total mum Der of coins required is over
70, 900, 600. The coins, which consist
of three, two, one, half and quarter
kopeck pieces, are already being struck
off.
The Niagara river is now harnessed
with wire the size of mans little
finger, and the Buffalonians are riding
through their city's streets by the
power furnished from the water that
does not go over the falls. The cables
now up furnish Buffalo with 10000
horse power.
Several days ago an Indian named
Charcoal" on the Blood Reserve,
near Fort Mel. cod, killed four people,
another indian, his squaw and the
farm instructor. Charcoal escap-
ed from the reserve and detachment
of mounted police have been in pur-
suit Of him. They have several times
been held at bay by the desperate.
Two policemen have been wounded
and Saturday Sergeant Wilde, while
attempting his arrest, was shot dead.
The orders now are to shoot the Red
skin on sight.
John Newport and his wife, Wolcott,
N. Y, are the parents of nine children
at only three births. Eighteen years
ago they were married, and six years
thereafter George Washington and
Robert +. Lee Newport were born.
After another interval of six years
James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
and Ulysses. Grant Newport followed,
and now bankruptcies have arrived,
the Tuesday preceding election. Mr.
Newport voted this year for Bryan.
Mrs. Newport, however, remains true
to her early political faith, so one of
the newcomers has been named Nc
Kinley, while his three brothers were
called William, Jennings and Bryan,
respectively. They are fatand healthy.
Calvin Robinson has achieved the
reputation Of being the boss bear hun
ter and trapper in southern Pennsyl-
vania. Last week he caught five
bears in the mountains in the vicin-
ity of Burnt Cabins, Fulton county,
north of Hancock. The bear party
consisted OF two old ones and three
cubs. A party of hunters who were
stopping at Appleby's farm came
across the trap and shot and killed
one of the old bears. They were max
ing away with it, when, to their sur
prise, Mr.. Robinson appeared on the
scene quite indignant. He had heard
the report of the gun and at once di-
vined the situation. The hunters,
profuse in apology, gave Mr., Robin
son $25 and were permitted to take
the bear away.