Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-12-24
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED



has been issued for the arrest Of Count
Esterhaxy.
The pension appropriation bill was
rushed through the national house in
twenty minutes.
Calvin S. Brice. ex-United states SEN
ator from Ohio. died Of pneumonia in
New York. aged IS.
A wreck on the Florida Central rail-
road near Madison. caused by cattle on
the track. Killed six persons.
William ]. Bryan thinks volunteers
should he promptly discharged and an
army of occupation enlisted.
In FIRE at Chicago Firemen Meyer
and O'Brien were killed by a falling
wall Nine others were injured.
The American Federation OF Labor
convention at Kansas City, Mo-, voted
against increasing the regular army.
saturday. Doc. II.
General Merritt and bride arrived at
New York from London.
The ANA team peace commissioners
sailed fronVsouthanpton for home.
Dewey declares that. he Is now ready
to hold Manila against the whole earth.
The bin to incorporate the Interna-
Ilo0Al AiaHittAA hafih wits 1NA&0eNN -
congress by los 10 liS
The new tarin for Cuba. which goes
into effect Jan. /, is lower than the San
tiago emergency tariff
Mrs. Johanna Newell lost her life in 4
Chicago fire, She was safe, but went
back for her 2-year-oid daughter. The
child WIS saved.
Explosion i'm gas works at Pough-
keepsie. N. Y. killed Louis II. Eurhyte,
fatally injured James McComh and
broke Patrick Gallagher's leg.
Monday, Doe. 10.
Hospital ship Missouri left Savannah
with 500 tons OF medical supplies for
Cuba,
General shafter declares that "Cubana.
are no more fit for self government than
gunpowder Is for hell
Baron Ferdinand James de Roths-
child. Of the famous banking house.
died in London Saturday.
The anti anarchist conference in
Rome declines TO recognize anarchist
outrages as political crimes.
Twenty lives were lost in collision
between the British steamers Pierre
mont and llios In the North sea.
Mrs Mary Tut Throckmorton
leader in washington society in earlier
years, was asphyNiated by escaping
gas in the capital, aged So.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
run on an unboyed rock In Santiago
run on an unbuoyed rock in Santiago
| harbor. but was pulled off without seri-
Gus damage.
Tuesday. Dec. 20.
In the two football games with
! Princeton and Harvard Yale's team
cleared $25,5O5
From New York to Mare Island the
distance is 1900 miles. From New
York to Manila, 11.0oo
Explosion on the Clyde line steamer
Fanita, In Havana harbor, killed En-
gineer Geer and injured three others.
Fire in Terre Haute. Ind, did $1,000
900 damage and seriously injured sew
eral persons. one young woman fatally.
In the Mcgowan kidnapping case in
Cleveland the judge decided that a
parent cannot be convicted of stealing
his or her own child.
Theodore Heine, Berlin artist has
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for caricaturing Emperor Will
Jams trip to the Holy Land.
The jury in the case Of Senator Ken
ney, on trial at Wilmington, Del, for
aiding and abetting Boggs in looting
the Dover bank, failed to agree and
were discharged.
/ Wednesday, Dec. FL.
Rear Admiral Francis M. Bunce will
retire for age next Sunday.
The president has returned to Wash
ington from his southern tour.
Captain Charles e. Hawley United
States navy, retired, died in Whining
ton, Del, aged SIS.
Senator Butler. Of North Carolina,
I will introduce an amendment to the
pension bin to pension ex-Confederates.
Powder explosion in the Chinese
camp at Hang Chow killed 5000 sol
diers and leveled a square mile OF
| houses.
Fire in the mansion Of Charles III.
Raymond, in West Seventy-first street,
New York, resulted in the death of
Mrs. Raymond and her sister, Mrs.
Underwood, of GAINESVILLE, o., and Har-
riet Fee, a servant. Several were in
tured, including Mr.. Raymond.