Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-09-16
THE NEWS In BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

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Cubans protested against admitting
Immigrants while natives could not get
work.
Over 1000 soldiers for or from the
Philippines have assembled at san
Francisco.
a pet parrot turned on the gas in n
room in Washington. asphyxiatlng
Mis- Alice Knott
A. B. Grubb killed Walter Morrow
at the formers grocery store in Wise
County, Virginia.
A Toledo shipbuilding company has
planned TO launch soon second big
ocean-going steamship.
III. Christie, charged with defraudn.
English Klondike investors, was ar.
rested at Donald, Canada.
The Arizona cowboys. who fought
the Mexican guards az Naco, that Ter.
ritory. are quiet again.
Lord Ernest Hamilton. son of the
Duke of Aberdeen has reached Van.
couyer en- route to the Klondlke.
The ten new regiments for Philippine
service have been gaining recruits with
unusual rapidity all over the United
States.
y. Walter Slattery. Of Ardslev. n. r.,
was fatally injured during a race with
a wheelman, by a collision with ear
riage.
The Cooperative Brotherhood Of To.
ledo has secured. ii is stated. the re.
moYal TO that place of Philadelphia
wooden mill.
u was expected in Washington that
the verdict in the Anglo-yenezueIan ar
bitration case would be reached by
October /, at Paris.
The Filipino Congress has refused
with thanks, the American offer OF
autonomy. saying the Americans are
too high-handcd
Ii Is said in San Francisco that Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst would erect ut least Two
Of the new buildings of the University
of California at Berkeley Cal.
The strike of lamp chimney workers
in the Indiana gas belt is assuming
serious proportions. About 100 EN-
ployes of the South Marion plant have
struck for higher wages, while more
are expected to leave
At Pretoria it is said that war in the
Transvaal is almost certainty as
President Kruger shows no inclination
TO recede from his aggressive policy
and will insist upon her demands being
met II is considered but u question of
4ey days when serious trouble Will
y reecipiiated
The it)nster steamship Oceanic, OF
the !te Star |. no. the largest steam.
81 p adoat his arrived in New York
IT, "Trip WAS her FIRST across the Ar
laat'e AID she brought 2.014 passeu-
gers. The Oceanic is 704 feet long
/ The trip from Liverpool to New Yorl;
was made in six days and hours.
The funeral of Multi-millionaire AMI
railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt,
who died of paralysis at the Fifth
avenue home, on Tuesday will take
place Friday. The viii of the deceased
has not YET been made public II is
asserted by hose best acquainted with
Mr. anderlH in his lifetime that ii is
iiiiii6S1s44iha:s. probable that his great for
tune will be left to his immediate fam
ily with the possible exception of "A
few charitable requests.
Gov. Roosevelt addressed crowd az
Middletown, n. Y.
THE battleship Wisconsin will be-
turned over to the Government next
spring.
Five men were named TO represent
New Jersey at the Chicago Trust Con-
ference.
Paul Caperdeyille has been nominal
ed by the Democrats for Mayor of New
Orleans
1t was reported nj Toledo that big
new Carnegie steel plant would be
established there.
A Brit sh syndicate is reported to
have BOUGHT colorado mining prop
erty for > 1000 q.
Devil Anse Hatfield, his son and a
relative were caught without hloodshed
in their West Virginia fort
The steamer Bertha arrived at san
Francisco last night with Sl,2oO,Ooo
from the Alaskan gold fields
Alexander Sheppard, of Washington
has sold his mining properties in Bato-
pila. Mexico, to a British syndicate,
The Peary relief expedition steamer
Diana. from Etah. August %, reached
Sydney. Cape Breton, reporting the eN-
plorers we'll.
The city of Oakland. Cal has &c
cepted Andrew Carnegie'S offer 10 pro-
vide library building. on the cond-
ton that money IS guaranteed for its
support
The transport Senator, with 10 Of
fcers and 900 men, has arrived at Ma
Mia.
The Mayor of linus has disappeared,
and is supposed TO have joined the
Filipinos.
Advices from Venezuela, received at
Havana, confirm the reports that there
is a revolution in progress.
Four Guatemala banks have ar
ranged to lend the government $500
00O IT, monthly installmcuts
Senior Luis f. Corea the new Mica
raguan Minister was presented 10
President Mckinley Monday.
The Mississippi state board of health
has declared quarantine against New
Orleans because Of yellow fever.