Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-09-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Geographic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

AhS StcdlheI 1llld Oil I0Fin0 Is q
wreck on rock in the harDor OF Rio
Janeiro.
An employee of the Nelson's Bank.
OF Montreal Is accused of a $4,000
forgery
The q. A. r. annual business meeting
an Philadelphia discussed pension COM
plants.
The State Department has been in
formed that revolution has broken
out in Venuzuela.
a fierce prairie fire is raging near
Atoka, Indian Territory, and much ike
stock has been lost
Nat Reed, New Yorker was be-
Heyed TO have been drowned while
canoeing in Saranac Lake.
The strike in the Cumberland Glass
Works. at Bridgeton, n. j., Is endde.
and work has been resumed.
a rich vein of gold quartz has been
discovered on Lookout Mountain about
six miles from Chattanooga.
Three million acres OF land in Nueyo
Leon and Tanaulipas, Mexico. have
been sold to IN american syndicate
An official call was issued for the
STATE Commerce Convention at Utica.
n. T., beginning on October 10.
Three hundred union carpenters in
Omaha have struck for thirty-five
cents an hour, an increase of five cents
Mayor Gwynne of Salem. y. j.. re-
signed because the City Council refus-
ed to confirm his suspension Of two
policemen.
a homing pigeon released at Denver
reached Grafton, w Va. thirty-one
days later, having Travelled 1850 miles
Vnd broken the worlds record for long
light.
The strikers at the Anderson, Ind,
tin plate mills returned to work. II be-
ing understood that the strike at Eli
wood with which their action was in
sympathy. will be arbltrated.
The Perth Amboy Savings Institu-
ton has resumed business
Chicago has begun efforts to prevent
unnecessary noise and din in the city
streets.
One hundred members of the Dicsin-
son family held a reunion at Verona
Lake, y. J.
Chicago has planned to have hotel
corresponding to the Mills hotels in
New York.
Ohio coal operators raised the price
sof their product above that of the
Pittsburg district.
The result of the Cabinet meeting
was determination to force the fight
ing in the Philippines.
Under new treaties twenty-five adj
ditional Japanese ports have been
opened to foreign trade.
President Mckinley reviewed the
parade of q. A. r. men at the National
Encampment in Philadelphia.
The American Bankers Association
met in Cleveland. with delegates from
all over the country present.
Charles Custer. nephew Of General
Cluster. died at Toledo, O., from a bull
let wound, accidently received.
The Thirty-tlard volunteer Regiment
has been ordereG 20 start for Manila
from Fort Sam Houston. Texas.
Tho corn crop u the United States,
for 1899, has been estimated mt $500
! 100000 bushels, a record harvest.
Lewis Mettler. "A New York lawyer,
died at Trenton. n. j., from a gunshot
wound. The weapon was discharged
.acs.dently.
The first-class battle ship Kearsarge
left the yard of the Newport News
Shipbuilding Company for her builders
trial trip.
DURYEA'S Zouayes, the Fifth New
York Volunteers. held a reunion about
the statue of General Warren, at
Gettysburg.
Thomas j. Drum, Denver lawyer,
has died in Chicago hospital from the
excessive uSe of strong cigars, after ~
ing unconscious three weeks
A passenger train on the Erie rail
road was wrecked AT Miller's Station,
Pa. and Ruben Arnold, George Schatz.
and Henry f. Shafter, were killed.
Several others were seriously injured.
The United States transport Morgan
City is aground near Nagasakl, Japan.
More gold than usual was received
during August at the Boise. Idaho, as
say office.
Gov. Roosevelt sent cordial mes
sage to the Canadian foot guards visit
ing Albany.
1t has been arranged TO start 4,5OO
soldiers for Manila from San Francisco
between September Il and Is.
A group of Sunday school pupils
were knocked senseless in Rochester,
N Y. by running into live wire.
Chief Justice Chambers, of Samoa,
and DR.. Bedloe, United States Consul
at Canton. have reached Washington
Five American soldiers captured a
Filipino outpost near POrac, with loss
of one man killed and one wounded.
Special Policeman Farley, of North
Bergen. ~ J.. was Knocked down and
beaten by two men and shot both of
them
Naval Constructor Hobson reports
that the two Spanish war vessels sunk
in Manila Bay are probably not worth
raising.
The American Equal Wage Union, an
organization to prevent woman from
doing mems work at low wages. has
4oeain formed in Kansas City.