Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-09-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Geographic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

| SaratOga Lake.
The two negroes, injured by white
men near Rockford, ILL.,, are dead.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley
were warmly received at Alliance O.
New York States mortality during
July reached 1921, big Increase over
June.
J b. Ransdell, Democrat, was elect
eu 70 Congress from the Fifth district
OF Louisiana.
me cruiser Montgomery has been in
ured ia a collision in the harAor of Rio
de Janiero.
John Smith, accused of sending in
fernal machines to two Salt Lake City
men, has been caught.
Mrs. Rich, the American accused of
murder, is reported to be kept incomu-
nicado at Juarez, Mexico.
Fire at Colorado City, Texas, DESTROY
ed half a square of brick business
buildings. Loss, 100000
General Patrick A. Collins has CON
scented to become the Democratic can
didate for Mayor of Boston.
A large Summer boarding house on
the Miller homestead near Paterson.
y. j., was burned. Loss, $4,000.
The report of the defeat of General
Pepin's forces by the Dominican revo-
lutionists has been fully confirmed.
Abig cleanup was reported at Bon
ANA Creek, in the ISlondike. over $50
900 being the result of one weeks
work
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes
said in Chicago that banks all over the
country We're more prosperous than
ever before.
The Railway Mail service has sent
an officer to investigate an all-Ameri-
can railway route from Valdez Alaska.
to Circle City.
A United States Geological Survey
official has started for Arizon;s to in
spect the district proposed for new
National park
The American Iron and Steel Manu-
featuring Company, of Philadelphia.
has increased its capital from $1,000
600 to S20,000,000.
Robert Richards. fifteen years old.
was instantly killed by falling forty
feet from scaffold in st. Clements
Church, East New York
Congressman McCleary, of Mime
sofa, said Congress should repeal the
law forbidding the establishment of
branches of National banks.
w. ]. Bryan, at Winnemucca. New.
said the Chicago platform would be
reaffirmed next year. and that trusts
and the Philippines would be the other
main issues.
The victims of the Coliseum wreck
at Chicago have been found to number
ten.
Captain james r. Eastman, of the
Second Artillery, died at Chasess Lake,
New York
A freight and passenger train came
in collision ut Florence, n. j., but no
person was hurt.
The transport Puebla sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with $50 so.-
diers aboard
Hostilities have broken out between
the Apaches of Arizona and the Zunis
of New Mexico.
The closing exercises of the camp
meeting at Ocean Grove, n. J., We're
held Tuesday.
The report of Attorney Gen. Griggs
on the Carter court martial case is
expected soon in Washington
The detachment of the Eighth Infan-
try, returned from Alaska, has been
ordered to Fort Smelling, Mimi.
A celebration of the anniversary of
the independence of Mexico will be
held at Nogales, Mex, September 10
Mrs. Myrtle Eyer, principal of the
State Industrial School for Girls. at
Trenton, was arrested and gave. a bail
bond for $500.
A new case of alleged treason has
been discovered ut Nancy, France the
accused man being a French army sub
altern.
The contract for printing the official
catalogue of the Paris Exposition has
been awarded the successful bid being
about $4,000.
Christian Springman. while at work
on the roof of a building of the New
ark, ~ j., Steel Works. fell sixty feet
to the ground dying instantly.
The battleship Alabama started from
Philadelphia for her trial trip.
Gen. Otis reported that robber bands
in Negros had been dispersed.
Millions of feet of timber have been
burned in forest fires south of Denver,
Col
The business and residence portions
of the town of Reading, Mich, were
destroyed by fire.
The American Bar Association met
ut Buffalo. ex-senator Henderson de-
livering the annual address.
Labor Commissioner McMackin was
named by Gov. Roosevelt to attend the
trust conference in Chicago.
The burglar shot and killed by
Waterman Peterson at Englewood n.
j., was buried in Il pauper grave.
Lady Yarde- Butler has been declared
mentally incompetent by Judge Hall.
ut Oakland Cal, and a guardian APP
pointed
Valuable copper, gold and silver de-
lposits have been discovered on the
| Canadian Pacific extension in British
Columbia
On account of the Dewey celebration,
In. ~. n,