Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-12-16
THE NEWS In BRIEF
Ielcgraplljc Gleanings From All Part
of the World.

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The bonds purchased under the re.
cent offer OF the Secretary of the
Treasury SO far reported amount to
$1S,9S1 $50.
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A receiver has been appointed in
Baltimore for the Monumental Trad
ing Company. fruit importing con.
Germ, upon the application of ]. M. Ce.
oaiios a. Co., whose claim is 100000.
Ex-senator Allen has been appoint
ed by Governor POINTER, of Nebraska
TO the seat in the United States Sen
ate made vacant by the death of NJ
l.. Hayward
The President has sent to the SEN
ate the nomination OF William ID. By
mum, Of Indiana, to be General Ap-
praiser of Merchandise.
Rev Robert Cosman, Jr., pastor OF
st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church, Boston, has been elected Bis
hop OF Maine.
Stockholders Of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad Company, the Ra-
leigh and CASTOR Railroad Company
and the Baltimore Steam Packet Com.
pany have presented to r. >Curzon
HOFFMAN, former president of the Sea
board Line, a costly set of silver, ''in
honor of integrity. fidelity. capacity
and courage, which won esteem and
achieved uurraSr
In the United States District Court.
at Springfield, Illinois, Eugene Hack
and Anton Simon, brewers of Vim
cennes, Indiana, pleaded guilty to vio-
lating the Federal laws regulating the
shipment OF malt liquor. and were
fined $500 and costs each
The Sons of Veterans OF Knoxville
have set on foot a plan to erect
monument to Gen. w. p Sanders, who
was killed in the battle of Fort San
ders during the civil war.
The tobacco growers of North Caro-
lima have begun movement to raise
the price of the product throughout
the south. District conventions are
to be held in the tobacco growing
states In January for the purpose of
appointing delegates to a convention
to be held in Raleigh January II, to
organize company to buy the entire
crop of bright tobacco and crowd out
the trust.
The Secretary of the Navy has re.
quested Congress to appropriate $780,
600 for the purchase of the Mission
Islands in San Francisco Bay. in an
ticipation of advanced judgment
against the Government in the ltiga-
ton now in progress over the title
to the islands. They are needed for
a coaling station.
The transport Sedgwick from Ha-
yana is due in New York with 95 pas
sengers, $1,250.000 funds of North
American Trust Company S10S.445
postofiice funds, ~ tons general car
go and tons OF ordnance.
The Sioux City and Northern Rail
road was sold under foreclosure at
Sioux City Dec. IL for s1.500,000 to
William and Robert Tod, of New
York.
Dan McCook's brigade of the Fed
eral army in the Civil War has pur-
chased Cheatham's Hill, south of
Chickamauga, to be used as national
park.
A freight wreck occurred on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. east of Prince
ton Junction Tuesday morning, in
which Charles Stigler, Herman Hen
nicke and Hetman Zackbaum, train
hands, were killed.
During cyclonic storm which
swept over Illinois late Tuesday night,
the Christian Church at Cooksville
was demolished and the school house
badly damaged. At Saybrook roofs
We're blown from business houses and
chimneys were wrecked.
Snow drifts fifteen feet high have
resulted from a sixty-hour storm in
Minnesota that has just terminated.
Public highways are INSTRUCTED and
trains tied up.
Snowstorms are impeding traffic in
England. The temperature Tuesday
was Is degrees below zero in Berlin.
All wagon roads reaching into
Chippewa Falls, Wis, are impossible
after the storm. From 6 o'clock in
the evening until sunrise the wind
blew at velocity of forty miles an
hour, and the snow has drifted in
many places to depth of four and
five feet Traffic on the Wisconsin
Central Railway from Chippewa Falls
west is suspended
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that aerated dis
titled water is exempt from tax even
IL advertised as remedy or cosmetic.
Henry Fuermann. German waiter.
who went to Chicago year ago. has
<AOntund a from Mnninh
Germany, informing him that he had
fallen heir to an estate valued at ST.,
100000.