Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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Records found at Lancaster, Pa, show
that Barbara Frietchie, Whittier's her
oine, was born Dec 3. 1866.
Justice kcnefick. in the supreme court
ut Buffalo, has declared the Ford fran
cllise tax law constitutional.
Burglars secured $1,000 from the vault.
of the Bank Of CoulterviIe Ills, q pri-
vate institution. and made their escape.
Governor Roosevelt has signed the met
ropolitan election district bill and the
Elsberg amendment to the civil service
law.
Colonel Winfield Taylor Durbin Of An
derson was nominated for governor Of
Indiana by the Republican state conyen
ton
Peter Marvin, aged %; Dennis Swee
ney, aged %. and Lawrence Quigley
aged -, Of Englewood n. j., were
drowned in Overpeek creek on Monday.
Freddie Tomlinson. years old was
burned to death ut Trenton as "A result
of playing with matches. The mother
was badly burned in trying to save the
child.
A forest fire Mt Elwood, Atlantic coun-
ty, y. j.. has rendered ten families home
less besides running several thousand
acres Of timber land and score Of
farms.
Michael Murray. a prominent politician
Of Yonkers, y. Y, and formerly mem
Der of the board of aldermen, received
fatal injuries IN a runaway accident on
Wednesday.
Burglars broke into the postoffice at
Campbell, eight miles from Corning, n.
y, blew the safe to pieces with dyna-
mite and secured about 500 in money
aud stamps.
Amos Stanley Douglas, president of the
First National bank Franklin Delaware
county y. Y, and insurance adjuster
and inspector of New York state, has
died, aged - years.
BY the explosion of a portable boiler
belonging to Drake IL Seatton, contract
ors at Rankin. Pa. five men were terri
bly, injured and eight others cut. bruised
and slightly scalded.
The plant of the Troy Pa) Knitting
company has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. One
hundred and twenty-five operatives are
thrown out Of employment.
The Dunfce theater in Syracuse has
been burned. The damage will be $10-
900. Captain Philip kantz was seriously
injured by falling into the cellar of the
burning building and may die.
Orders have been issued by the war de-
partment for the arrest of Lieutenant S.
&. Hazard, a graduate of West Point
and an officer of the First artillery, on a
charge of absence without leave
In fight at Sorgogon, Albay province.
80 IL. ~
ty-seventh infantry, Captain Gordon
commanding, routed n large force of in
surgents, mostly bolomen, killing 50.
Pine Run mine at Toms Creek, Wise
county, Pa, is on fire. -Four men have
been found suffocated, and two others are
known to be in the mine. The mine has
been flooded in the hope of extinguishing
tie fire.
Walter Fellows. the whistler in Anna
Held's company, has obtained verdict
for $4,000 against the Third Avenue
Street Railway company of New York
for being THROWN from car by a con
ductor.
Two special trains left Chicago on the
Santa Fe railroad hauling IS Armour re-
frigerator cars filled with 100000
pounds of timed and Grated bacon CON
signed to the American soldiers in the
Philippines.
The First battalion of the Fourteenth
United States infantry. which has been
in quarantine at San Francisco has land
ed at the reservation wharf of the Presi-
dio after two years of continuous fighting
III the Philippines.
A cloudburst, accompanied by a high
wind, descended upon Waco, Tex, on
Friday, aud the result is that eight per
sons are known to have persisted and
property valued at many thousand dol
lars has been destroyed or damaged.
James :. Mexican, president of the
Union Trust company of PittSburg is
dead. He was postmaster during Pres
ident Harrison's administration and was
one of the acknowledged leaders in Re
publican politics i'll western Pennsyva-
mia.
President Mckinley will he in Can
ton, O., on July 4, and preparations are
being made by citizens for big cele-
bration. Invitations have been sent to
Governors Roosevelt and Nash, Sena-
tors Hanna and Foraker, Admiral Dew
ey and others.
Mrs. William Lynch has conveyed to
her only daughter Mrs James !. Coo
gan. all her real estate holdings in New
York city. Fhey are estimated to be
worth several million dollars. and many
of them have been in Mrs. Lyuchs fami-
~ for generations.
Samuel c. Secley, who stole S354 900
from the National Shoe and Leather
bank, New York city, has been released
from the Kings county peuitentiary aft
or serving "a sentence of eight years
which through good behavior was reduc-
ed to five years and four months.
Oberin NJ. Carter, late captain in the
United States army, is now iu the feder-
al prison an Fort Lcavenworth, Kan. His
prison number is 2,G94 and he is the oc-
cupant of cell No. 40. Carter viii be- a
prison bookkeeper in the harness room.
shoe repairing and carpet weaving shops.
The boiler makers, machinists and 9th.
.er expert iron workers employed by the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at their
shops in Parkersburg, w. Va. have been
notified that beginning on May l their
rate Of pay would be increased 10 SD
a day. This is the highest scale since