Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-06-17
THE NEWS In BRIEF
Geographic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

Admiral Dewey has left Singapore
for Colombo, Ceylon,.
DIR. Lawson TAFT, the famous Lon
don physician, Is dead.
The Grand Duke Ludwig Is i'll with
smallpox at his castle at Darmstadt.
Sarah Bernhardt win play Hamlet
al the famous theatre at Stratford- on
Avon.
General Leonard Wood, Military
Governor of Santiago, IS on his way TO
the United States.
president Burroughs, of Wabash
College, has resigned to accept pro-
fessorship at Oberlln.
\ swarm Of bees attacked q train
near Elizabeth, n. j. Several pas
sengers We're severely stung
The President is said to be consider
ing the calling for $4,000 volunteers
Tor service In the Philippines.
The handsome summer residence Of
Lawrence Crandall, at Homestead
Long Island, was destroyed by fire.
Application of the single tax 10
Michigan cities escaped enactment by
the State Legislature by only one vote.
The Pennsylvania State Democratic
convention met at Harrisburg. There
was lively contest over the nomina-
ton for Supreme Court Judge.
general alarm for George W. Dns.
TIN. seyenty-seyen years old. missing
from the Chaplin Home in New York
since Tuesday, has been sent out.
The Oregon regiment and the FIRST
Volunteer Signal company have left
Manila for San Francisco via Nagasa-
kl. they are expected to arrive home
July Il.
The Shah of Persia is said to have
gone insane.
Mexico's gold output this year will
exceed $12,000,000.
The Duke of Marlborough has mr..
chased Whaincliffe, in London.
Ambassador Choate Joined the
nrihce OF Wales at the Ascot races
Tuesday.
1gaier Lexow was killed by a fall
from the roof of No. 54S First avenue,
New York.
General Morris. of the British army,
declares West Point is the best soldier
school in the world.
The City Council of Orange, ~ j.,
has declared in favor of owning its
own electric lighting plant.
CAPTAIN Randlc, of the st. Louis. has
resigned to become vicepresident of
a shpbuilding company.
The first session of the Venezuelan
Arbitration Commission is being held
i'll tie Foreign Office at Paris.
from the fifth floor of No. 10 Lud-
low street. New York, and was killed.
Il. \. Il. men of Geneva, n, Y. will
not celebrate Memorial Day hereafter,
believing it is now merely a day for
sports and pastimes.
The Navy Department has been in
formed OF the safe arrival of the
cruiser Newark at an island off the
coast of Patagonia. m
The War Department announces
that hereafter 1t is proposed to keep at
home one battalion Of each regiment
engaged in tropical service.
A report has been received at Chey-
enne. Wye, that the Union Pacific rob-
bers have been surrounded and are al
most certain To be captured.
Moreton Erewen the English econo-
mist. in an interview at Washington,
predicted a conference of the powers
ON the Chinese situation ut which the
United States would be represented
Trouble between the local committee
and the custodian of the Capitol
grounds may result in the internation-
nj Epworth League convention going
10 some other city than Indianapolis.
fought between Gen. Lawton's whole
force and the tilipinos at Los Pinos
Tuesday. Two companies of the
Twenty-trst Infantry We're surround
ed by rebels and obliged to cut their
way out after being rallied by Gen.
Lawton in person.
Mexico's gold production is estimat-
ed at Sl2,0o0,U00 this year.
Yellow fever was reported unusually
virulent at Vera Cruz. Mexico.
Many people are said to he starving
In the country districts of Germany.
The funeral of Capt. Nichols, of the
monitor Monadnock, was held at Ca
wife.
Negroes at Sardis. Miss, lynched a
legro for assault on woman OF his
own race.
Riots are taking place in the Madura
district, India, and military aid has
been asked
Three people were fatally injured by
a wreck of IA Rock Island express train
at Geneseo, Ill.
Admiral Dewey's salary will b'
$3.50 a year with an extra allowance
for quarters while ashore.
An electric express train between
Liverpool, Manchester, 70 run 1O'
miles an hour is contemplated.
Crops in Albany, SchenectadyT-Sara
toga and Washington counties, \. Y.
are reported seriously damagde by tn
long-continued drought
No news has been received at san
tiago de Chile of the United State
cruiser Newark, bound for Valparaiso
1t was believed that storms had dc
tanned her in the Straits of Magellan.