Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-01-30

Hon. VIM. ] Bryan's new book,
The First Battle. will soon be is
sued in Chicago.
President CLEVELAND removed Joseph
H Bowling as internal revenue col
lector at Cincinnati.
A damage suit for $50, 900 sas re-
Gently settled in Missouri by the pay
ment Of $500, half of which goes to
the attorney.
Gen. VIM. Price craighill, chief Of
engineers, will be retired next Mon
day on his application under the forty
years service law.
The president Of the Nicaragua
Canal Company claims that his COM
pany has complied with the terms of
its contract with Nicaragua.
President-elect Mckinley was visi-
ted by Mississippi colored men, who
asked him to recognize that race in
making appointments to office.
The Times of India says that since
the bubonic plague has been officially
recognized by the authorities 1885
persons have died of it in Bombay.
Idaho Democrats protested against
the interference of Chairman Jones,
of the national committee, in the
Senatorship fight in that State, by de-
feating Dubois.
The buckwheat cropofSouthwestern
Michigan was the largest this season
for many years, and in some localities
the flour is being sold at lower price
than that charged for wheat -four
A meeting in the interest of the
arbitration treaty was hell in Wash
ington. Elk Secretary Foster and
Justice Brewer, of the United States
Supreme Court, were among the
speakers.
| The House committee on military
affairs authorized a favorable report
on the bill to place the four survivors
of the Lady Franklin bay expedition
on the retired list OF enlisted men of
the army.
Mr.. Balfour, replying to question
in the House of Commons, said there
was no probability of the British gov
eminent initiating such movement
as the calling Of an international
monetary conference.
The Spanish government announ-
ces through its minister at Washing.
ton the almost complete paciication
of the Provinces of Havana and Ma.
tanzas, and it is expected the reforms
for Cuba voted by the Cortes in 1895
will soon be promulgated.
General Gracia has written to the
Cuban junta in New York that the
Cuban troops in the Province of San
tiago are we'll organized and that
they are unable to bring on a fight
with the Spaniards unless the latter
have overwhelming numbers,
Sir Henry Haworth announced in
Parliament that he wished to with
draw his amendment to the Queen S
speech proposing censure of the
government for the release OF the Irish
prisoners. The Irish members object.
ed and the motion was negatived.
A jury box still in use in Ports.
mouth, N. H., bears an inscription
reading Province of New Hampshire,
Portsmouth, May 90. 1858. Petit
jurors for the interior courts" The
box is of pine, and has been in unin.
terrupted use since the date recorded
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis has
withdrawn his proposition made at
the last session of the West Virginia
Legislature to give $50, 900 toward a
girls industrial school, to be estab-
lished at Elkins, on condition that
the State maintain it. AT that time
committee was appointed to confer
with him, and this committee was a
few days ago notified of Mr.. Davis
reconsideration.
San Francisco is soon to have the
largest plant in the world for dispos-
ing Of city refuse by fire. The build
ing will be OF brick and iron, with a
huge chimney $50 ieet high for its
most striking feature. There are to
be thirty-two furnaces, with a com
bined capacity for reducing to ashes
400 tons day of material gathered
by the municipal scavengers. The
plant is to be constructed, operated
and owned by private corporation.
In view of the many attacks upon
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