Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-09-23
THE COUNTRY N GENERAL
A Summary Of Happenings at
Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
A Review of What Has Transpired
of Public Interest

OF Public Interest
Phoenix, Ariz.. Sept. 2o.-Acting
Governor Akers says: II 90 not be-
lieve Arizona has any reason TO fol-
low California in the proposed quaran-
tine against consumptives. The elm
ate her is too dry to fear contagion.
New York, Sept 20.-Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Gould. who have been ex-
changing courtesies with royalties and
lesser dignitaries abroad aboard their
Yacht Niagara. have arrived on the
yacht from southampton.
washington, Sept. 20--Iieut Col
John ID. Miley, Inspector General Of
Volunteers, has died at Manila. His
death was due TO cerebral meningitis,
attendant on typhoid fever. Col.
Miley's rank in the regular army was
First Lieutenant Second Artillery.
Sag Harbor, Sept. 20.--The Hon.
Charles Patrick DAILY, ex-Judge OF the
Court Of Common Pleas OF New York
and President Of the American Geo
graphical Society, was attacked with
apoplexy at his summer home at
North Haven, near here, and died soon
after.
Boston. Sept. 2O.--The Grand View
House at the summit of Wachusset
Mountain in Princeton, a land mark
for many years, was burned to the
ground The guests barely escaped
with their lives and saved few of their
belongings One woman lost jewelry
and clothing valued at $4,000.
New York. Sept. 20.-1'he public will
nave to pay exhorbitant prices for
seats on stands TO view the big Dewey
land parade The indications are that
there will not be half enough stands
TO accommodate those who viii be
willing to pay even a high price for
the privilege of sitting on common
bleachery.
San Francisco, Cal, Sept 20.-Much
excitement has been created at the
Preside by a case of smallpox which
was discovered in ward ~ of the
Preside Hospital The victim Is a
private in the Thirty first United
States Volunteers. whose name the
hospital authorities refuse to divulge.
Wilkesbarre Pa, Sept 20.--W. G.
Young treasurer of the Wyoming Val
ley Trust Company, of this city, and
well known in banking circles, was
striker with paralysis on a Lehigh
Valley Railroad train. while returning
from Harvey's Lake. He was taken
to his home and died in few hours.
He was forty-three years of age.
North Easton. Mass. Sept 90.
Cakes A. Ames, a member of the we'll
known Ames family and a brother of
the late ex-Gov. Oliver Ames, is dead
of heart failure at his home. Mr. Ames
was president Of the Ames corporation
of North Easton, and was one of the
wealthest men in this section. He
was seventy years old.
London. Sept 20.-Prince and Prin-
cess Hohenlohe just had narrow es-
cape from death In a railway accident.
They were ON their way to Balmoral
when the express on which they were
passengers collided with another train
near Perth. Half of the royal saloon
car was demolished. but the Prince
and Princess escaped without injury
Denver Col. Sept. Ell. c. Osgood,
who came here last week with Mrs.
McI<ibben and Mrs Shelgren, the
women for love of one of whom and
hatred of the other Arthur T.. Cobb
shot himself at Rye. ~ y. has sent
card to the newspapers declaring that
Cobb was insane and had been heard
threatening the lives of Mrs. McKib-
ben and Mrs. Shelgren. Mr.. Osgood
adds that the women were nothing
more 10 Cobb than his kind employers.
New York, Sept 2I.-Comptroller
Coler advertises the sale OF city bonds
for S7.269, 1912, to take place on
October 3, with interest at 3l2 per
cent, payable in gold. $1950.0O is
for the new Hall of Records; 81 $40
1922 for street and park openings;
81 100000 for dock Improvement pur-
poses: 100000 Is to pay the Long Is
land Water Supply Company; $500. 900
for sanitary protection OF the Croton
watershed. and $1,500000 is for the
new aqueduct.
New York, Sept 20.-W Walter +. Dur
yea, who underwent the difficult oper-
alton of having fragments OF broken
vertehrae removed from his spinal
cord AT Roosevelt Hospital. is reported
ms doing well. He slept comfortably
all night and far into the morning.
The fact that the patient showed such
remarkable strength and vitality after
such a trying ordeal was very encour-
aging TO the surgeons who have charge
of the case, and they now have hope
that he win derive great benefit from
the operation.
San Francisco. Cal, Sept. 2O-The
memory of the martyred president.
James A. Garfield. was honored here
at Golden Gate Park. Orations were
delivered by United States Senator
George G. Perkins and Representa-