Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, reb. 10.

Friday, reb. 10.
Cattle are freezing to death in large
numbers In northwest Texas.
The cold wave has struck as far
south as Florida, and crops are threat
ened.
1t Is said that should the army bill
fail in the senate the president must
call an extra session of congress.
A bob sled carrying a crowd of young
people crashed into a trolley car In
Washington. John Southey was killed
and six others injured, two seriously.
A bill introduced in the national
house authorizes the president to trans
fer Lieutenant Hobson to the line OF
the navy, making II possible for him
to become an admiral.
Major General Wade, Colonel George
w. Davis, Ninth infantry, and Colonel
Gillespie, corps Of engineers, now sta
toned in New York, have been ap-
pointed by the president to investigate
General Miles ''embalmed beef"
charges.
saturday, Feb. III.
The army appropriation bill, as COM
pleted by the house committee, carries
s79. O34,372.
The national house voted a pension
of $50 a month to ex-senator John M.
Palmer, of Illinois.
Yesterday was the coolest day, with
one exception, that Philadelphia has
experienced in 102 years.
Men of the Second Ohio regiment
looted a number of stores at Macon,
Ca, on being mustered out.
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in convention at Providence, voted to
retain control Of bicycle racing.
President Mckinley yesterday at
tached his signature to the peace
treaty, which will now be forwarded to
Madrid.
A report hat the bodies of Professor
Andree and his companions nave been
discovered in North Siberia is dis
credited by other Arctic explorers.
Monday, Feb. 13.
A letter from the Isle Du Diable de-
elares Captain Dreyfus to be in good
health.
In the wreck of the British steamer
Arno off Nab lighthouse, England, it
is believed 10 persisted.
A building of the state insane asy-
lum at Yankton. S. D., was destroyed
by fire and II inmates cremated.
At Silver Plume, Colo, a monster
snowslide engulfed the huts of Italian
miners. 1t is believed that rs were
killed.
A gas explosion caused a $3.50. oOOO fire
in McClurg & Co.'S publishing house,
Chicago. Many valuable volumes de-
stroyed car never be replaced.
Tuesday. Feb. II.
Judge Dellenbaugh was convicted at
Cleveland of illegal practices.
The blizzard of 1899 extends from Sa-
vannah, Ca, to Nova Scotia, and 1000
miles inland from the Atlantic coast.
The cost of the recasting of the navy
under the pending personnel bill will
be $1,000, $50.
Amos Palmer, a wealthy young man
of Providence, murdered his wife after
celebrating their eighth wedding an
niversary.
In a cottage at Marlboro, Mass, a
policeman discovered four people dead
and three unconscious from coal gas
a~sphyxiation.
Agoncillo denies General Otis state
ment hat he (Agoncilo) advised
Aguinaldo to resist the American
troops troops at Manila.
Wednesday, Feb. Is.
The Louisiana bayous are frozen over
for the first time since the civil war.
The Carlists in Spain vigorously OPP
pose ratifying the peace treaty.
Charles Sommers, Philadelphia's old
est letter carrier, was frozen to death
while on his way to work, aged 81.
The governments of the United States
and Mexico have agreed upon a new
extradition treaty, which is retroactive.
Count Tolstoi, the Russian philoso-
pher, declares the cars disarmament
scheme as only worthy of contempt
and derision.'
Playing poker in a shanty near Moss
Grove, Pa. Juan FeTrio accidentally
exploded a key of powder. The shant,
was destroyed and the players blown
in all directions, but none were killed.