Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-12-30
THE NEWS In BRIEF
Telegraplic Gieanings From All Part
Of the World.


Gpmmerc Teachers F'eaeratioA De'
gan ii Cnicasp on Tuesday night.
THE Boston ansi JsIbany s4oekholde1s
hase voted III favoi ii tlae Lease 81 thc
rOad t0 tbs New York Centlal.
During 4 Christmas entertainment
at Union Methodist Church whining
ton Ilel. Wednesday night q tempcF-
AIRY stand caisansed throwing twenty
FIVE children Is the Door Benjamin
hlncher George iilhbsrd William
THOMPSON ana Annie Hays were SET
yerely injured.
The Ottoman Legation Ia Washing
ton announced that. by 4 recent decree
81 tie Porte Hltch arms as are 0e-
barred from Importation into Turkey
NtM De ccnfscafed when they arrive
III this custom houses uf Tho Turkish
Empire
Mary Saunders has been found dead
II her h0me ~ GLASGOW, Delaware,
and the house farsacked Il is sup
posed she WIS murdered.
Cincinnati bill noss men have start
ga movement 80 secure the Demo.
cratic National Convention for that
city.
The Caaaalan Government has ap-
proved q contract entered into by the
Montreal iinrbof Commissioners with
the Corners syndicate for building ele-
vators at Montreal,
The Missouri State Teachers tAsso-
citation has urged Congress to cstab-
fish fn the Indian Territory q system
OF free public schools
Seven Canadians including two wo-
men, were drowned a few days ago
west Of Ashcroft, British Columbia,
by the upsetting Of canoe III watch
they we're attempting to cross the
Thompson river,
The directors Of tho Great Northern
Railway Company have awarded the
contract for the construction at Que
bee of a million bushel elevator. at
cost OF $250,o00, to Chapman x Co, OF
Buffalo.
The special Grand Jury to consider
the election frauds in New York has
found 1870 indictments. OF these TWEEN
ty-Sayen cases have been tried and
twenty-five convictions secured.
A general treaty of trade, nayiga-
tion and immigration between Mexico
and China was signed in Washington
the other day.
The John T.. Lowell Arms Company,
Of Boston. has made an assignment.
The Misses Stokes made q gift to
Yale University Of a building to cost
about 100000.
The Utah Consolidated Gold Mines
shareholders have begun movement
to compel the Standard Oil interests,
controlling the property, to make a
financial statement.
Senator William A. Clark has just
received information from Montana
which conyinces his friends that the
bottom has fallen out of the contest
against him.
Custom House employees in Havana
Cuba, arrested for conspiring to de.
fraud the government We're released
on bail. They will be vigorously
prosecuted as an example to others.
The Southern and Atlantic Coast
Line railroads are to build union
station at Columbia. South Carolina,
at a cost of 100000
General Leonard Wood says he will
at once begin work of repairs on the
Cuban highways The school system
viii be reorganized and changes made
in the judiciary
George b. Eyre. OF Chester. Pa, has
been missing since Thursday last,
when he crossed the Delaware river in
skiff on hunting trip, and his rela-
tives and friends believe he was MUIR
dered.
A strike of coal miners in France
may involve other industries and
swell the number of locked out work
ers to 100000.
Royal Christmas celebrations were
held in Windsor Castle by the Queen,
and at the palace at Potsdam by the
Emperor of Germany
President Mckinley and his cabinet
indorse the action of Secretary Gage
in making the National City Bank or
New York distributing agent for in
ternal revenue receipts.
Gardner Harris, a wealthy coffee
planter of Guatemala City, whose
daughter Heloise. nine years old, was
kidnapped by an actress, found after
two years search, that the abductor
had taken the child from Chicago a
few hours before he arrived there.
Ivan Deniszewicz. chosen by nihil-
lists to remove" the Gear of Rus.
STA. committed suicide in San Fran
cisco rather than obey the mandate.
William James Berry acknowledges
that he is authority for many of the
rumors now current in Wall street
concerning Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
In letter to William f. Sheehan he
demands the $4,000 reward recently
offered.
Secretary Hay, for the United
States, and the Mexican Charge has
signed an agreement at Washington
extending for one year the operation
of the treaty providing for the deiin-
ition of the boundary along the Rio
Grande.
The Postoffice Department has de-
eided upon an issue of stamps com
memorative OF the Pan-American ex.
hibition at Buffalo next year. The
stamps VIII be of the same size as
those now issued
The Danish West Indian Islands are