Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-11-13
TrLEdRAPnIc TOUCHES.

General Weyler sailed Monday,
from Porto Rico for Spain.
The general assembly OF the Knights
of Labor met Tuesday at Louisville,
Ky.
During the past fiscal year thirty
four railroads passed into the hands Of
the courts.
Horatio David Davies. the new
Lord Mayor, Of London, was installed
this week with imposing ceremonies.
The trial of the Competitors crew
at Havana was postponed owing to
the sickness of the president Of the
court.
The Denver, Col. city council
passed an ordinance fixing license
fee Of s., 900 each for dealers in cigar
cites.
The management Of the Virginia
penitentiary report that the iustitu-
ton made profit this year of S54.
1874. "a.
The Spanish cabinet council has APP
proved the proposal of political au-
nesty for Cuba and the PHILIPPINE
| Islands.
General Blanco has ISSUED an edict
pardoning in full all those who have
been prosecuted in Cuba for the crime
of rebellion.
The case against the Piedmont pulp
mill for alleged pollution of the Po-
tomac river was removed from Cum
berland to Frederick.
The German minister to China and
the captain of German gunboat were
attacked by mob in China and the
German flag was stoned.
Delegates to the international seal
conference, representing Russia,
Japan and the United States, signed a
treaty for the protection seals.
Elkins papers say an effort will be
made to divide Randolph county, SO
both towns, hotly contesting for the
honor, can have county seat.
The town of Elizabeth. in Writ
county, is enjoying a big building
boom in anticipation of the Little
Kanawha railroad to that point.
About December l a delegation Of
Hawaiians will arrive in Washington
to protest against the annexation OF
the islands by the United States.
Waitman Barbe, the hustling field
agent of the university, will move to
Morgantown next week, and expects
to make that city his future home.
The United Mine Workers will APP
peal to Governor Tanner to prevent
the importation of Cinnamon to ILL.,
nois to take the places of striking
coal miners.
The richest prospects for gold hunt
ers in parts of Alaska not in the
neighborhood of the Klondike REGION
are described in recent letters from
Fort Yukon.
Prof John G. Cuttings. Clarks-
burg's gifted poet, is engaged on the
compilation of volume of verse,
short stories and sketches OF travel
soon to be in press.
The threatened crisis in the cotton
industry at Manchester, England. has
been averted by the spinners agreeing
to submit to arbitration the proposed
reduction of wages.
Partridges and pheasants have be-
come very savage and several persons
have been bitten by them. The next
grand jury will give the matter atteu-
ton, says the Wetzel Demociat.
The first free school in West Vir-
GINA was established in Jefferson
county. A photograph of the old log
building az it now stands han gs i'll
the rooms of the state historical So
ciety at Charleston. Years before
Isfferson county was turned over TO
West Virginia there were twenty-sev-
Ell free schools within her borders.
Tucker county has an area Of 500
square miles and in point of size is
the seventeenth county III the State.
From 1850 to 1890 the population OF
the county was more than doubled.
and since 1890 it has increased fully
100 per cent. Her wealth has in
creased even more rapidly and she
cannot longer be classed as back
woods county.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis, who
was interviewed regarding the pro-