Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and Tersely Told.


red on Tuesday on street ear lines IN 81
Louis. No one was hurt.
Ten people were injured in a street car
accident IN Toledo on Sunday, one fatally
and two others very seriously.
A rohher Monday night got $40 aud
escaped from the Central Railroad If
New Jersey station at Newark.
Congressman William u. DAILY Of Ho-
boken n. j., died at Far Rockaway, u
T., on Tuesday from a stroke of apo
plexy.
Under an assumed name Mortimer u.
Shaw, who conducted the great tele-
graphers' strike in 1883, died in 81.
Louis.
The census office has made public the
population of tbs city of Cincinnati. II
is 325. 1902, an increase over the last cen
sus Of 2S.994
Treasury department statistics show
that for 1900 the balance Of trade in our
favor is $544,471,T01. the most prosper
Gus year in our history,
The Rev Horace Porter. first Assist
ant pastor of Plymouth church, Brook
Syn, is dangerously i'll in a sanitarium az
she result of a bicycle accident.
Captain John Little of the subsistence
department, L. $. A.. has died on Gov
errors Island of typhoid fever. He was
46 years old and native of Tennessee.
Traces Of gold have been discovered
on the farm of John Benton, near Parks
vile. Sullivan county. n. Y The speci-
mems are being examined by an assayer.
The runners and drivers at the Della
ware and Hudson mines at Scranton,
Pa, struck for increased wages. -Four
mines there and three at ELEPHANT are
now idle
The North German Lloyd steamer
Main has been raised from the mud off
Weehawken, \. J.. by means of pom
toons by the Merritt-Chapman Wrecking
company.
Commissioner of Patents Charles II.
Duel is to resign his office. Mr.. Duell's
purpose in resigning is said to be that he
may be able to devote his entire time to
his patent business.
Princess Cantacuzene. granddaughter
eff the late ex-President t. S. Grant
and daughter of Brigadier General Fred
erick Dent Grant, L. S. A, gave birth
10 daughter July u.
The island of Cuba has been divided
into two military departments, and Colo
uel Samuel Whitside. governor of San
tiago, has been appointed commander Of
the department of the east.
4 bad break in the Erie canal at
Frankfort, n. Y. has stopped traffic
FROM Utica TO Little Falls. A large force
is engaged in repairing the break but it
will be several days before 1t will be re-
paired.
During last weeks scouting in the Phil
ippines 10 Americans were killed and Ii
wounded. One hundred and eighty Fiji
ptaos were killed and 90 were taken
prisoners. Forty insurgent rifles were
captured.
james j. Corbett and kid" Mccoy
have been matched to fight before the
Iweutieth Century club, New York city.
on the night of Aug. 80, The men viii
go % rounds under Marquis of Queens
berry rules.
? New Orleans had a race war last week, |
started by a crazy negro who killed two
officers, A complete list Of casualties
shows that six negroes and four whites
were killed and ten negroes and 20
whites wounded.
The police of Buffalo believe they have !
discovered evidence of a plot to liberate |
WASH. Dallman and Nolin, who are serv- |
ing sentences of life Imprisonment in |
&dndii iOl u y IilS u biUN UP LOCKS oil /
die Welland canal.
Senator Mark Hanna with a party of |
II, including his family, has arrived at |
Elberon, n. j. In the five weeks that the !
seaator will be in Elberon he will go to |
New York daily and start the national |
campaign in the east.
The schooner Pretoria, the largest /
wooden boat ever built, has been launch
Il In, T,I- NI3uHtpo, Ill u
carry 5000 gross tons of iron ore, or 49,
600 bushels of wheat. The boat is $50
feet long, 451a feet beam and ~ feet
deep.
) The forthcoming annual report Of the |
commissioner of pensions, II. Clay Evans,
win show a grand total of 993. 500 pen
sioners on the rolls on July last. The
figures on which the report will be based
are now complete and ready for incor-
porsthsn in the report.
Ten persons were injured, two fatally.
by the premature discharge of the even
ing gun at the Illinois national guard en-
Camp Lincoln. near Spring
field, on Sunday. A small boy threw a
dgiIted cigarette into Il sack of powder
standing near the gun.
The steamer Alameda, from Australia. (
81, 100000 in English sovercigns. which
have been taken to the San Francisco
mint to be euiued into s. pieces. This
rs the largest cargo of coin ever brought
here from the anipodes.
!. Estes G. Rathbone formerly director
of posts in Cuba, who has been practically
under arrest ever since he was removed
from office, has been formally arrested as
4 result of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow report duplicating him
IN the postal frauds in Havana.
!. TwelNe persons were injured in a head
pnS collision between trolley cars on the
DAYTON and Xenia 90 Traction line on
Monday. 1t is alleged by the railway
officials that some one tempered with
she electric signals. The, cars met at
fun speed on a sharp curve.
Yhe steamer Clutch has arrived at Van
CONVEX FROM Skaguay with nearly $3.50
nO0 5r gold dust on board Her most
nrsrninent passenger was p. G. Senkler,
(. Tf commissioner at Dawson, who Is |