Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-27
T%ELEGRAPHIC TICKS
News Notes From Every Part Of
the Civilized World

General Sanger, Military Governor
of Matanzas, has left for the United
States.
Colonel Alfred $. Cooley, q civil war
veteran and wealthy citizen of Yon.
kers. n. u, is dead.
President Frank Thomson. Of the
Pennsylvania railroad Is seriously iii
at his home. Merton, Pa.
Strikers of all classes resumed work
on the docks in Buffalo, yesterday.
There has been no hitch whatever.
The American Railway Equipment
Company has been organized in Chi
cagO with "A capital stock of So, coo.
900. of which $4,000. zoe will be com.
mon and $10,0o0.000 preferred.
Captain James Slower. eighty-two
years old, who played a prominent
part in the great fight between the
Monitor and the Merrimac, is dead at
his home, Navy Point, st. MicIaels
Ind.
AT Whitby. Ont, Howard Elliott, a
fifte%en-year-oid boy. has been SEN
fenced to be hanged for the murder of
William Murray. of Beaverton. The
victim, who was eighty years old, lived
alone and was beaten to death with a
club.
The district convention, Independent
Order of B'Nai Firth, Louisville,
pledged the order to support a hospital
for consumptives in Denver, at an an
nual cost of $4,000. This infirmary
will be under Hebrew officials, but will
be open to all.
The promoters of the movement to
erect in San Francisco a 100000 mon
ument to commemorate deeds OF the
American Navy, especially the victory
of Admiral Dewey, have set TO work
with a will and are confident that the
money will 0 be raised.
Schaefer and Slosson will meet ia
another billiard match. Their last one
which was finished Monday night, re-
suited in a victory for each. A syndi-
cate headed by William III. Myer has
offered to back the Wizard against
Slosson for from $500 to $1,000 a side.
Former Senator German of Mary
land, has announced that he will AXE
an active part in the State campaign.
This is taken to mean that Mr.. Cor
man will also be in the fight for n
place on the national ticket in 1900,
and that he intends to continue as the
leader of his party IN Maryland.
Several Toledo pastors have agreed
to hold outdoor services during .he hot
weather.
The Allen liner Mopgc'i i. just in
from Glasgow, reports ing into
two districts dotted with icebergs.
England was visited by a heavy
snow storm Monday, the Westmore-
land Hills, in the north at Yorkshire
being covered to considerable depth.
Joseph Mullen. convicted in New
York City of numbering his wife, has
been sentenced to death by electricity
during the week beginning July 10,
1899.
Aunt Peggy Bailey, the eldest old
maid in the United States, died at her
home near Huntington, nd. She was
112 years old and had lived in Indiana
for the past 70 years.
In the recent fire at Dawson City, it
is estimated that fully S2,000.000 in
gold nuggets were melted. the greater
portion of which it was impossible TO
recover after the fire.
Al Atlanta. Ga, Miss Anna Horne
was driven insane by a sensational
sermon preached ut a revival service
by Rev. Elliot Stanton, from the eff
fects of which she died Monday even
ing.
BY the falling of a shaft elevator car
in the War Eagle Mine at Rossland,
II. c., four miners were killed. The
dead are w. +. Sheffield. II. A. Honey
ford, James o. Palmer and Thomas A.
Neville.
Miss Edith Taylor, the daughter of a
wealthy resident of Plaifield, n. j..
while occupying IA special car en- route
from a pleasure tour in the West, died
of heart failure as the train was APP
preaching Omaha.
Joe Butler, of Philadelphia, defeated
Ed Dunkhorst OF Syracuse, in tile Ariel
Athletic Club, at Athens. Pa. Dunk
horst was Knocked out in the sixth
round of what was to have been a
fifteen ound go.
The constitutionality of the Inherit
ance Tax law in Illinois has been at
tackled in Judge Carriers court in Chi
cago Ivy the heirs of Albert NJ. Billings,
who died two years ago, leaving an
estate valued at ~SI,5O0,0O0.
The body of George T.. Crowell, n
well-to-do lumber merchant of New
ark. y. j.. who mysteriously disap-
peared on Thursday of last week, has
been taken from the Passaic River ut
Belleville. 1t was plainly "A case OF
suicide.
II. T.. Elliott. of Dawson City, who
is in st. Louis, says the Yukon anu
White Pass railroad will be running
trains from Skagway to Bennett by
July 4 and that then h trip from
Seattle TO Dawson can be made IN
from ten to twelve days.
A dispatch from Toledo SAYS That
EN-President Cleveland lN broken
the record for bass catching at Middle
Bass Island in Lake Erie. He pulled
in 125 pounds of fish, while Captain
Bob Evans caught forty-five bass
from one to two pounds in weight.
! The injury that Captain Haoghton
SDf the Harvard nine received in the
fsame with the University of Pennsyl-
ania in Philadelphia Saturday, has
proved more serious than was antici-
Epated. 1t is uncertain whether his
Yankle has beer strained or broken. but