Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-07-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

has resigned and started for America.
Our reciprocity treaties with the
British West Indies have gone into eff
feet.
Because Of the fever the army Of
occupation in Cuba is to be reduced as
soon as possible.
President Mckinley has a $1,000
team OF chestnut horses from wis
consin.
Secretary of War Alger has sent his
resignation 10 the President to take
effect Immediately.
General Gomez has refused to nc
cept presents from admirers. Among
those refused was house
Mrs. William f. Gladstone Is con
f1ned TO her room at Hawarden from
injuries received in runaway.
Jacob Fulover, brakeman. was kill
ed on Pennsylvania Railroad trestle
at Jersey City by falling between cars
Official reports show an appalling
child mortality in Havana. In fifteen
days there have been 373 deaths from
measles alone.
The feud situation in CLAY County
Ky, was reported more threatening
than ever, as more families were be-
coming involved
United States Consul Jenkins has in.
formed the State Department that n
state of siege exists, as the result Of
revolutionary plotting in San SALIVA
dor.
The American Antitrust League.
formed to combat trusts and their
champions. has been organized with
representatives IN every State and
Territory
Perth Amboy, N. j., creditors of the
wrecked Middesex County Bank have
arranged a mass meeting and further
suits against the bank officials are
threatened.
President and Mrs. Mckinley win
leave Washington in about week for
a stay at a Lake ChampIain resort.
The trip is designed to benefit Mrs.
MelSinley's health.
Henry Frankenfield. who has been
in the Allentown, Pa, jail on a charge
of enticing young girls to New York
City and who is dying from consump-
ton has been released in $1,000 bail.
The special counsel appointed by
Gov. Roosevelt found that criminal
proceedings could not be brought
against former State Engineer Adams
or former superintendent of Public
Works Aldridge for the alleged canal
frauds.
Cecil Rhodes was warmly welcomed
on his arrival at Cape Town.
Lord and Lady Curzon will begin
tour of Central India October 20.
Two hundred lives have been lost by
a tornado in the province of Pensa,
Russia.
Tod" Sloan, the American jockey.
has been suspended. for insubordina-
ton, from July Is to August ;.
Three trainmen were killed and three
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Norfolk and Western Railway AT Hav-
eraill, Ohio.
Albert Knowles, a New York Central
conductor, was crushed to death mt
White Plains while attempting a coup
ling.
Mrs. l.. Morris hanged herself with
strips of her dress at No 433 East one
Hundred and Eighteenth street New
Lork, but was rescued.
The steamer Roanoke has arrived at
Seattle, from St Michaels, with about
300 passengers and gold dust estimat-
ell at two million dollars.
An important meeting of the British
Cabinet to consider the Transvaal stu
alton was held in London The latest
adYices indicate peaceful settlement.
The Paris "Matin'' has published a
statement by C0unte Ferdinand Wal
sin Esterhazy saying that he wrote the
boFdereau by order of Col Sandherr.
Admiral Cervera wrote to Ports
mouth, \. H., denying that he was
coming 10 take back to Spain the
bodies of the Spanish soldiers who
died at Seacey's Island.
Willis j. Abbot ana eX- Governor Alt
geld had n conference at Chicago. 1t
was understood that they decided to
join forces TO win the New York and
Illinois delegations to the next Demo
cratic National Convention for Bryan
and silver
Roumania has established a leper
colony in the Debrugea, an ancient
nonastry.
Lake Seneca's famous sea serpent
has been captured 1t is an eel thir-
teen feet long.
Oliver IL. Payne's new steam yacht,
the Aphrodite has arrived at Havre
from this port.
Secretary Wilson in an interview ar
Seattle said that expansion would he a
great aid TO the trade of the Pacific
coast.
Dr. Edward McCorn. who shot Cliff
ton White. a Long Island boy cherry
purloiner has been refused admission
10 bail
The Conwell-Wilcox Iron Company,
Of Fishkill Landmg. n. Y, voluntarily
granted "A 10 - cent. increase in
wages.
All the tin-plate mills in the country
nave started as a result Of the wage
scale agreement. This means work for
d. GEO men,
Burglars blew open the safe in
MOTEL office at Demarest n. j., and car
ried away seven hundred dollars
worth of plumber.
serious collision between trains of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
lord Railroad occurred at New Haven.
No one was killed.
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