Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-10-14
THE COUNTRY N GENERAL
A Summary Of Happenings ar
Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
A Review Of What Has Transpired
of Public Interest

Madrid. Oct. 11.--Premier Silvela.
who has returned from San Sebastian.
announced at diplomatic function
that there was no ground for the rumor
of an alliance between Spain and Great
Britain. He added: 1.-THE country's
role should be confined at present to
arranging the budget on satisfactory
| basis"
Perth Amboy, n. j., Ocr. i1.-An
ante Revolutionary building in this
place. known as THE Barracks" was
partially destroyed by fire. 1t was oc.
cupied previous to the year 17T5 by
British soldiery and until recently was
used as the city poor-house. AT the
time of the fire 1t was filed with
Italians. some of whom escaped with
difficulty, losing most of their belong
| ings.
] Phoenix, A. t. Oct. u.--Gau,hlers OF
| this city are jubilant over the fact
| that they were robbed in the good old
/ style. Three men entered the faro
gambling room at the Palace, and
while two covered the crowd with their
| pistols the third shovelled up the heaps
of coin. The proprietor, Gus Hirsch-
field, shot at the one. and others shot
at the crowd. and all escaped with sew
eral hundred dollars. Nobody was
badly hurt.
New York. Oct 1.-THE fourth at
tempt to make the first race between
the Shamrock and. Columbia, was
abandoned soon after the hour for the
start. as the heavy fog which hung
over the city in the morning still OBJ
scured the view at sea. and the wind
was very light and unpromising. The
yachts will try again on Thursday and
thereafter every day till the match Is
concluded
| New York, Oct 1.-Two arrests have
been made in connection with the muir
der mystery which has occupied the
attention of the police since last Satur-
day. The arrested men are held in the
West Twentieth street police station.
They have not been taken to court al
though they have been in the police
station for the last twenty-four hours
in fact one of them has been there
since shortly after midnight on Mon
day
Havana, Oct. 11.-To-day is q Cuban
national holiday in celebration Of the
anniversary of the beginning Of the
Ten Years War. As protest against
Mayor Lacosies recent order that the
Spanish flag could only be raised over
the Consulate building the Spaniards
have decided to display the American
flag everywhere, over their houses,
clubs, etc. This will surely make the
is said to be the object the Spaniards
have in making the display.
Ohio Falls, Ind, Oct. 12.-During the
past week 40 marriage licenses have
been issued by Clerk Goodwin. thus
| breaking the record. Fourteen eloping
couples were married In one day. five
another, and so on during the entire
week.
Hamilton. o., Oct 12.-CIara. the
nine-year-old daughter of Lawrence s.
Scheben, of Puthoff street fell from a
| chair and the blade of pair Of scissors
the child held in her hand pierced her
left eye, destroying the sight and ii Is
| feared that she will lose the sight of
the other eye.
Albany. y. ". Oct. 12.-The Court of
Appeals has handed down a decision
which grants a new trial to Howard G.
| Benham. the Batavaia banker convict
ed and under sentence Of death for the
murder of his wife. Benham has been
confined in Auburn prison for more
than two years.
ChilIicothe, Ohio, Oct 12.-The big
Herrnstein planning mill plant in this
city has been leased by the Horrocks
Desk Company, of Herkimer. n. Y.
which will take possession of the plant
the list Of January and manufacture
here certain parts ofatheir desks which
are now being made in the East
Trenton. n. j., Oct. - There IS ex-
citemnet here over the discovery on the
farm of Henry Stout, three miles from
this city, of copper ore. The yield Is
from 3 TO Is per cent. of pure copper.
Stout has leased his farm, and min
ing company, with capitalization OF
$4,000, is being organized to develop
the ore.
Bowling Green, o. Oct 12.-.Tohn Il.
Swartz, a well-to-do farmer of Luckey,
was killed at Lime City by Toledo
and Ohio Central passenger train. He
was hard of hearing and drove on to
the tracks. This Is the fourth man
the same engineer has fatally knocked
off the track in Wood County the past
Is months.
Loganport, Ind. Oct. 1.-THE North
ern Indiana and Southern Michigan. as
well as many Ohio English Lutherans,
closed their annual synod here. The
following Directors to Wittenberg Col
Iiege, at Springfield, Ohio. were elected:
Rey. A. J. Douglass, of Columbia City,