Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-03-18
mbGRAPH|C NEWS NOTES.
Short Items From All Parts of the
Civilized World.


OF the new Chwang road
Eleven deaths from plague have
occurred in Hong Kong recently.
James Hoppins, professor at Yale
thirty-eight years, has resigned
King Oscar Of Sweden is seventy
years DID, but has recently taken out
a heavy life insurance.
John y. Rockefe.ler's assessment in
Mount Pleasant. n. Y, has been re.
duced from 1861, S75 to 1898, 432.
Oscar Wilde's brother william, for.
merly husband of Mrs Frank Leslie,
is Gead.
British torpedo boat ran aground
and was badly damaged during o
sham attack on Gibralter.
English and Americans will protest
against French interference in the
Shanghai extension.
Supt. John McCullagh is home from
Havana, where he organized a met
ropolitan police force.
In the London House of Commons
the bill to raise the fash point Of oil
was rejected by vote Of pa to 159
julius Krischer, who left CatskilI,
N. Y, thirteen months ago to seek his
fortune in the Klondike, has returned
poor.
Rear-Admiral Sampson urges the
withdrawal Of his name from the pro-
motion list and immediate rewards fol-
the other officers en- it.
The triumph of the civil over the
military power in France was sealed
by the giving up of Colonel Picquart
on the Court of Cassation's order.
The Syracuse Tube Company has
notified its 800 employees that their
wages will be advanced 10 per cent.
on March IS.
Officers, both regular and volunteer,
swear that the beef issued to their
men was rotten, maggoty and unfit for
food.
Mrs. Florence Mcyean, Of st. Louis,
who recently received a box Of pois-
oned candy, was burned and blinded
by a vitrol- throwing woman.
Two letters in divorce suit have
proved of the value of $125 n month
alimony to Mrs. Edgar NJ. Ludlum, at
Pompton, N. j.
Miss Lizzie Tawz leaped from a rail
road bridge Mt Knoxville, Tenn, and
was drowned before the eyes of her
father
Mrs. Abdul lie Mesurler, the wife of
an English Mohammedan, who is now
in London, says that Cingalese wives
are happy and are not slaves.
Five members of the Yale class Of
1898 are conducting services in New
York City for the purpose of promot-
ing interest in foreign missions.
The steamship Porto La Plata sailed
from Newport News for Manila with
four thousand tons of coal for Admiral
Dewey's feet.
August A. Becker, of Chicago, has
confessed that he killed his wife with
a Ratchet, cut her body in pieces and
then boiled and burned them.
Ernest Mckenzie. Perth Amboy.
n. j.. fireman, turned in a fire alarm,
and when his companions reached him
he cut his throat.
The Manchester Weaving Mills will
raise prices for weaving 10 per cent
on April 3. All reductions of wages
made in January, lS9S, viii be re-
stored
Mrs Rosina Baroni has been SEN
fenced to fifteen years at hard labor
in Auburn On. W Prison. She was an
accomplce of her husband in the MUIR
der of Felipe Forestino.
The West Bolyston Manufacturing
Company. of West Boylston, Mass.
win restore wages to the scale prior to
the cut of January, 1898. Three hun
dred men are benefited.
There has been a lage re 1Jction IN
the clerical force of the War Depart
mcnt. one hundred and twenty en-
ployees being reduced in grade and
fifty-nine being discharged from the
service.
Former President Breese was SEN
fenced at Knoxville, Tenn. to ten
years Imprisonment ut Asheville, n.
c., for wrecking the First National
Bank. More than 100000 was unlaw-
fully disposed of by Breese.
Permission has been granted Lieut..
Ferruccio WHALE, military attache of
the Italian Embassy in Washington,
by the War Department, to accompany
United States troops from San Fran
cisco to Manila on Il Government
transport.
About sixty Senators and Represen.
tat,Nes have accepted invitasipllS Tor
a trip to inspect the routes of the pro-
posed Nicaragua and Panama canals
loming home by way of Sa lliago add
other points of interest in the Wtsi
ILdies.
The proposal to attempt to establish
a system of pigeon post on board the
steamers of the Companie Generate
rransatlantique between Havre and
New York, which has been for some
time under consideration, has been
finally approved.
Before the Inquiry Court at Chicago
Lieutenant Colonel Smith testified
that General Eagan was responsible
FOR ordering canned beef for the army.
Representatives of the Swift Packing
House said they never guaranteed
that beef would keep seyenty-two
hours after issue
1t is announced at the War Depart