Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-09-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

George w Vanderbilt viii exhibit
Jersey cattle, hogs and poultry at the
Hagerstown, Md, fair.
Secretary Root has bought near Lex
ington, Ky, fine saddle horse, which
is en- route TO Washington.
Wayne MacVeagh, counsel of Capt.
Carter, had a hearing before the At
torney-General at Washington.
A new temperance society has been
started In Chicago. pledged to secure
100000 votes for the Prohibition
party.
Mr.. II. r. Benjamin entertained Sir
Thomas Upton and other gentlemen at
dinner at the Allenhurst Inn, Allen
hurst, n. J.
burglar entered the residence OF
Secretary Gage. ut Chevy Chase, but
was frightened off after he had got a
So check #
The New York Central directors, at
their meeting at Albany. deferred until
November 16 taking action on the Bos-
ton & Albany lease.
The revenue cutter Grant returned TO
Puget Sound. after an unsuccessful
search in Alaskan waters for the lost
steamship Pelican.
Attorney General Griggs has selected
George =. Post, OF New York. as arcli-
tect for the new Department of Justice
Building in Washington.
Superintendent Prichett announced
that next season wireless telegraphy
would be used to determine the lati-
tude Of certain of the Aleutian Islands.
The assessment on the Pullman
Palace Car Company's personal prop
erty was increased from S1.I50,00O to
SS.a00G00 by the Board of Review ut
Chicago.
Republican caucuses in hassaclu-
sets resulted in a victory for John l..
Bates over Gen. Curtis Guild. Jr,. in
the contest for the Lieutenant-Goy-
eriloIship nomination.
The Rev Lewis Pumpkins. for forty
years Baptist clergyman at Scottsboro,
Ala. has been sentenced to ten years
In the penitentiary for torturing his
little grandson with fire till the child
died
Lew Houk. once a notorious gam
bier and criminal, died at Durango,
Mexico.
The earthquake which recently dis
turhed the Alaskan coast were also
felt at sea.
4 new steamship line between Port
land, oregon. and Manila. has been an
oncnd Mt the former place.
During II terrific storm at Saratoga,
lasting thirteen hours. nearly fiee and
one.half inches OF rain fell
Tie Potts Creek iron ore property in
Nest Virginia. has been sold for 5000
zoo To the Valley ore Company.
In memory of Frances e. Willard.
national agitation against saloons has
been planned to begin in Chicago.
Two trainmen and tramp were kill
ed by q collision on a New York Cen
tfal branch line near Auburn, n. Y.
Corn brought from Porto Rico and
planted in Wisconsin in June has
reached q height Of nearly fourteen
feet
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
CHASED the Manhattan Oil Company,
lis largest competitor in the Lima O.,
field.
cial District of New York have nomi-
IHttti -NlNtiA " HtNtH loi Nupitiilt
Court Justice,
The Navy department viii at once
prepare to put the Kearsarge into com
mission and She will be temporarily
attached to the North Atlantic squad
ron.
Postmaster Gordon. of Chicago, said
he thought President Diaz, of Mexico,
might yet find himself able TO attend
the Federal Building ceremonies mt
Chicago.
The President accompanied by Mrs.
Mckinley and the members of the Cab.
met. viii leave Washington October 4
ON his Western trip. He will be gone
abont two weeks.
The indications ut the London agency
of the Transyaal Government point to
the belief that war is ievitabe Pre-
paratiOns are being made for removing
the furniture from the headquarters
and the gloOmieSt impression in regard
to the outcome of the crisis appears TO
prevail
Refugees from johannesburg con-
tinue TO arrive AT Cape Town.
The report that Vice President Ho-
bart'S health is falling is declared by
his family 10 be false.
Gen. Brooke reported artillerymen
and others ready to sail home from
Havana when a transport should ar
rive.
Two hundred Roman Catholics of
Naterville Me. began a pilgrimage TO
the shrine of ST Anne de Beaupre,
Quebec
Permission has been granted by the
WaZ Department to take the yacht
Columbia into the Brooklyn Navyyard
drydock.
The Swift packing house interests in
Chicago have purchased valuable cat
tie ranches in Oklahoma and the Pan
handle Of Texas.
II is said in Milwaukee that Presl-
dent Mckinley will probably spend the
night of Octohr II there, in the course
OF his Western trip.
The demand of the Cincinnati street
railroad employees for the reinstate-