Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
News Notes From Every Part Of
the Civilized World.

The Yosemite again made a start for
Guam.
u. s. Senator Sewall, of New Jersey,
sailed for Europe.
Insurance men from all over the
country mel in New York to oppose
adverse legislation.
A warrant was issued in Brooklyn
for the arrest of Mrs. Maria Muller,
the alleged faith curist.
The British Venezuela arbitration,
which was to begin at Paris on Ma
"A, has been postponed until June 10.
Chief Justice Chambers, of Samoa,
wrote his brother in New York that
the rebels looted his house last month.
Capt. Coghlan wired the Nevy De
partment that the Raleigh sustained
no damage in grounding off Charles
ton.
Mayor Van Wyck, of New York at
hearing on he Long Island Railroad
Tunnel bill, announced that he would
sign 1t.
The employees on the railroad at San
tander. Spain. have struck, and the
destruction of property is threatened,
Troops have been sent for.
DR.. Il. Il. Andrews. formerly presi-
dent of Brown University. has been
asked TO go to Colorado State Agri-
cultural College as president.
Coy. Roosevelt signed the bills ap-
p%ropriating $780, 600 for Adirondack
land purchases and $4,000 for New
fork's expenses at the Paris EXPOSE
ton.
Rev. ID. j.. Mcmillan said that Nor
monism gained more members last
year In ten Southern States than the
Presbyterian Church did in the entire
country.
AS a result Of a fight over business
affairs. Dan Cannon was fatally shot
through the head by Louis Carroll,
and Carroll received a bullet In the
left breast below the heart, which will
kill him. Both of Dallas, Tex.
The Federal Grand Jury at New
York Indicted the Hecker-Jones-Jewel
Milling Company for "A failure to pay
war evenue tax OF mixed -four pack
ages. The object Is to test the validity
of the law.
A ~cablegram, signed by the Mayors
of San Francisco. Chicago, Omaha,
Denver. st. Paul. New Orleans, Port
land (Ore.), Los Angeles and Seattle.
was tent to Admiral Dewey urging
him TO come home by way of San
Francisco.
German Admiral Won Diedrlchs has
been granted three months leave of
absence.
Digby Bell has been freed by the
Bankruptcy Court at Chicago OF S25,-
600 in debts.
Virulent smallpox is spreading
throughout Germanx.
King Mwanga of Unyoro has been
captured by the British.
President Mckinley is at Hot
Springs, Va, enjoying his vacation.
Chauncy NJ, Depew declares that the
talk of a railroad trust is "all bosh."
The first of the Gruson turrets for
coast defence will be placed on or near
Romer Shoal.
The Chinese Empress has ordered
abe army to be drilled according to
modern methods.
The remains of Colonel III. G. Egbert
who was killed in the Philippines have
reached Washington.
DIR. r.. l.. Benton. of Brooklyn will
superintend the building of the new
naval hospital Mt Cayite.
AT Fredericksburg. Va, Grant Reid
was found guilty of wife murder and
sentenced TO be hanged.
George Conover. of ~Bordentown. fell
under a freight train while stealing a
ride. Both his legs were cut off.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
sailed with o cabin passengers, the
largest cargo of its kind on record.
A British warship has been ordered
to iceland. where Danish gunboats
have been Selling English fishing ves-
sells.
A committee of citizens and minis
ters living in the New Jersey towns
adjacent to the lines of the Delaware,
Lackawanna x Western Railroad held
a conference with President w. IL.
T%rnesddle and presented to him a pc
tition from over two thousand commu-
tiers of the read, asking that the sched-
ule of Sunday trains be altered so as
to give as few trains as possible on
that day.