Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-08-05
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World
Rt hundred recruits left San
TfnnWscO for ManiIn

Wind ana hail IL said to have dam.
aged Western Mississippi Valley wheat
crop.
Oscar Il. Rice and John Kennedy
murderers, were executed at Auburn
Prison.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague was buried
from her late residence at Edgewood
ID. G.
An American force, aided by the
Charleston's guns. routed Filipinos in
the island of Cebu.
The President received officers of the
newly recruited 26th regiment at
Flattsburg, N. Y
Carl Schurz, who has almost recover.
ed from the effects of fish ptomaines.
left for Lake George.
General Gomezs secretary has issued
q statement that General Gomez hopes
Jiminez viii control Santo Domingo.
Moses Warren. formerly president Of
the Central National Bank. of Troy.
and Surrogate of Rensselaer, County. is
dead.
fseholder Charles Conklin. lead
ing democratic politician of Hacken-
sack, n. j., died at the age of thirty
four
Mrs. James Kelly. wife of n coal
schooner's captain, fell from n gang
plans AZ E,lizabethport, n. j., and was
drowned.
John Ruskin's secretary says the
author knew nothing of the i1uskin
colony in Tennessee until ten months
after its founding.
The yacht columbla's steel mast
broke IN two while racing Defender off
Point judith, throwing her sails in the
water and ending the race.
Several Havana fircmen lost their
lives in a falling building.
France will re-establish diplomatic
connections with Paraguay.
Havana Cubans thrashed a Spaniard
who wore a Weyler button.
The German third-class cruiser Fake
mas been ordered home from Samoa.
The Yosemite left Manila for Guam.
bearing Captain Leary, the Governor
of the Ladrones
A monument to the memory of Ros-
well r. Flower is to be erected ut
Watertown, n. Y.
The Italian officers in Louisiana re-
ported that four of the five men lynch
ed We're Italian citizens
The Yaqui Indian outbreak in So
nora, Mexico. is reported to have as
sulned serious dimensions.
The Marine Hospital Service con-
tinned active measures to combat the
yellow fever at Hampton, Va.
Mrs. T.. b. Croker, Of Sacramneto,
worth 100000. to a local lodge of Elks.
Postmaster General and Mrs. Charles
Emory Smith have joined the Presi-
Dental party at Lake Champlain.
Senator BeYeridge of Indiana, whose
whereabouts We're n mystery. was re-
ported in quarantine at Nagasaki,
Japan.
4. mining expert said line Of Rus
an monuments each containing
chart, marked the disputed Alaskan
boundary line.
Judge Albert H. Sewell of Delaware
County. n. T., has been appointed a
Justice of the Supreme Court for the
Sixth district.
Tile fast mail on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad was wrecked
near Boone. Iowa. -Four tralnnen
were killed and several injured.
The body Of Eugene Tabaquer the
Indian who shot and killed Miss Novel;
in South Amherst Mass. was found in
the barn which he had set on fire
EnIistments for Philippine regiments
have reached 1861.
Secretary Long has left Washington
for rest in New England
The Alaska steamer AK brought
100000 in gold to Seattle.
Remarkably heavy traffic is reported
on the New York State canals for this
season
The tax rate for Jersey City was
fixed at 2S60 on the thousand for the
year 1899.
Lewis Pullerson and Michael Me-
Donald, murderers, were executed at
Sing Sing.
The lava stream from Mauna Loa.
Hawaii, changed its course on July IL,
saving the city of Hilo.
Cadet Kimball, of the United States
ship Enterprise. was drowned while
bathing near Orient Beach, l.. l.
Details of the fire AT Topper Lake,
in the Adirondacks, showed the nearly
complete destruction of the village
Gen. Otis reports the vain attempt
OF the Filipinos to retake Calamba; al
so a victory over bandits in Negros.
Representative Hull, en- route from
Alaska said the United States must
keep all the land bought from Russia.
A blower was burned in the Federal
Steel mills at Joliet Ill. which will
cause a shutdown of the mills for sew
eral weeks,
a pile ~ baggage left too near the
railway track at Paw Paw, Mich, was
knocked by n train among the waiting
passengers, injuring several.
The disease at the Soldiers Home,
Hampton, Va, has been pronounced
yellow fever. There have been forty
eases and six deaths. Vigorous meas
ures We're begun to fight the fever.
San Francisco, Aug. 3.-The trans
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