Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-07-29
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Geographic Gleanings From All Parts
of The World.

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Oscar Girard. an American actor. is
dead at Adeiaide, Australia.
No further steps in the Alaskan ne
gotiations have been made public.
The tughodt Riba sprung leak at
Jersey City and sank at her pier
The Eastern Cable Company is ready
to connect South Africa and Australia
-Four incorrigibie Ohio convicts have
been put in steel cages In the Columbus
penitentiary.
The eco mouiders in Youngstown. o..
foundries bad their wages raised ~
cents a day.
The race between Columbia and De-
fender, SET for Saturday az Newport
has been postponed
Arrangements have been made to
start the Third Cavalry from Seattle
for Manila about August 20
Twenty masked men carried off John
Doyle engineer of Cripple Greek
mine, for no known reason
Georgia militiainen reached Balm.
bridge IN time TO prevent the lynching
OF Williams, the negro prisoner
More returned prospectors from Kot.
zebue Sound and other Alaskan points
brought tales Of privation and want.
William II. Perot, of Baltimore. sail.
Ell for England TO regain possession of
his granddaughter, abducted by her
mother.
Queen Victoria's eyesight. after a
ten-Weeks' course of treatment wi,
ifof. Pagenstecher, Is no longer In
danger.
The Naval Order of Saint Louis has
been incorporated at Albany. n. Y. by
the officers Of that auxiliary cruiser
during the Spanish war.
Boston merchants have protested
against the collection of duties on inn
ports from Porto Rlco--a part OF the
United States now. they say
Swarms Of big beetles extinguished
the new electric street lights in George
town, British Guiana, until the lamps
We're protected with wire gauze.
The plague is increasing in virulenee
IN the Po0na district Of India.
Mr. Root consulted Secretary Alger
about War Department affairs in
Washington.
Scenes of great disorder marked the
anti-Goebel Democratic convention at
bowling Green. Ky.
DIR. Peter Storms. of Russia. has in
vented a wireless telephone. which has
been tested with success.
John Kerr. sixty-four years old of
Burlington, n. T.. is dead as the result
OF "scorchins on his bicycle.
Havana merchants fear great dis
order following the proposed with
ff3NNul al \ t1ntsif9s, tpannx,
The bones of prehistoric lizard
seventy feet long have jus; been found
by scientific expedition in Wyoming.
Colonel james Hendricks. a we'll
known insurance man. died suddenly
nj his suburban home near Albany.
George Baider. twenty years of a.e,
OF No 1851 First avenue, New YORK /
committed suicide at his home by
hanging.
More serious charges concerning The
Manila censorship were made bf waT
correspondent in private letter re
teived in London.
Armour Influence has restored 4. j. |
Valentine to the Chicago Broitd Of
Trade from which he was suspended |
last year for twenty years.
A recent meeting of Cuban vptrrats
IN Havana passed resol 1tions calling I
on the jnited States to declare It's in |
tentons regarding the island.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua. will |
1aeet President Terencino Sierra. Of /
Honduras. to arrange treaty of al |
lance between the two countries.
Il is rumored in Washington that |
4ien obs will be relieved OF one
I.
liIies before the active campaign re-
opens
y high Canadian official gave out IL
statement ut ottawa claiming that |
Canada had done everything poSsibe |
10 arrange an arbitration plan tor the
Alaskan boundary dispute.
Gen. Wheeler has sailed for Manila
from san Francisco.
Don Carlos. the Spanish pretender.
las left Venice.
Hayana's health report for the past
two weeks was the most favorable
ever known.
A lieutenant and four men were kill
ed by a boiler explosion aboard the
Austrian torpedo boat Adler.
The bachelors of Hesse are to hold
a great convention at Mayence to pro-
test against "A special tax on them.
At New York twenty-five passengers
of the City of Washington, from Ha
vana. were sent to Hoffman Island for
observation.
1t was stated in Washington that one
of Secretary Roots first duties will be
the consideration of a plan of govern
ment for Cuba.
An explosion in the coal mine of the
Redstone Coal Company, near Browns
Vile, Pa. killed two men outright and
entombed seventy others.
The entire military force of Cleve-
land has been called out to preserve
order during the street car strike.
There has been two cars wrecked with
dynamite.
rhe President has received invita-
tons to reception to volunteers at
Lincoln. Neb., in September, and 10
reunion of Conferedates and t'ederals
at I,vauuViIla Ind i'm DatOhar