Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-06-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings OF the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.


70 Jacob NJ Sacs who was run down BY
: brewers wagon
! Yale university has conferred the hon
, ofary degree Of doctor OF laws upon Iii
hu Root, secretary OF war;
;. The federal quarantine at San Fran.
cisco, established because Of fears Of the
bdbpnic plague, has been raised.
Gus Rubin knocked out Tom Sharkey
n the fifteenth round u a hard fought
battle at Concy Island On Wednesday
night
The Democratic state convention in Hi
lois nominated Samuel Alschuler Of Au-
ora for governor and Endorsed the Chica-
60 platform.
The jury in the case Of Il. II. Roberts
Of Salt Lake City, ION trial for unlawful
rehabilitation, returned a verdict Of guilty.
Roberts was fined $3.50.
4 The honorary degree Of doctor Of laws
aas been conferred by Harvard universe
" upon Sir Julian Pauucefote, the Brit
ssh ambassador to the United States.
Amos H. Allen Of Alfred, Me, who
was elected last fall to fiji out Congress
man Thomas b. Reeds unexpired term,
has been reconstructed by acclamation.
Joseph S. Chamberlain and Walter
Dittmar Powder and Chemical company's
plant at Maxim, \. J., on Wednesday.
i The Chicago Brcklayers and Stone
Masons' union has withdrawn from the
building trades council and will return TO
work, thus practically ending the great
strike.
Mrs. George Dewey has bought Big
Fish island at Chester basin, where she
4 h,,fJ
! is Summer resort about 40 miles from
Halifax.
! Fifteen thousand dollars has been re-
ceived from the Kansas India famine re-
lief committee and cabed to the inter.
UNCONVENTIONAL missionary committee at
Bombay.
-Four persons lost their lives in Chicago
On Wednesday through the heat and five
were Frustrated while on the streets or
at work. The mercury reached 81 ON the
street level.
The steamer Cottage City has arrived
Mt Seattle from Skaguay with 100000 in.
gold dust and drafts and number of
passengers from Dawson. The latter left
/ Dawson June 6.
A fire in the heart of the business dis
trict of Pittsburg Friday afternoon caus-
. s7-.f'sbpt
j threatened to wipe out an entire block
of handsome buildings.
The Republican state convention in
Maine nominated Or. John +. Hill of Au-
gusta for governor by reclamation by
rising vote. \ platform was adopted in
dorsiug the national administration.
Nine of the insurgent leaders, including
Generals Pho del Pillar, Conception, Gar
Ella and Alvarez, have been released in
Z Manila upon taking the oath of ale
glance to the government and renouncing
all forms of revolution in the Philippines.
j Martin j. Russell. one of the proprie
tors and editor of the Chicago Chronicle
and for many years identified with the
management of Chicago newspapers, has
died at Mackinac island from complica-
ton of diseases.
/ William j. Pollock, formerly promi-
nent Republican politician of Philadel-
phia and one of the ''306" who endeavor-
ed to secure the nomination of General
Grant for third term, has died sudden
ly at his home in that city.
John S. Mathis, a member of the firm
of Morris & Mathis, shipbuilders, of
/ Camden. \. j., was taken suddenly i'll
while swimming in the Delaware river
opposite the shipyard and died after be
ing carried out of the water
Solomon Scruggs of Chicago and Philip
/ Hilpot Of st. Louis, rival drummers for
farming implement houses, quarreled
over the distribution of trade at West
Portal. y. J. Both drew pistols and be-
gan firing. Both were killed.
Bishop Doane of Albany has received
the honorary degree of ID. T.. from Trini-
ty college, Dublin, which is regarded as
even higher distinction than similar
honors from Oxford ana Cambridge,
which he has already received
IL. *. Duflield. Chicago board of
trade broker, was robbed by pickpockets
Of $4,000 while riding ON Cottage
Grove avenue cable car, The money
was in bonds. mining stocks and deeds,
which Mr. Dudeld was taking to the
bank.
Three years ago Howard Curtis Ben
ham was placed on trial in Batavia for
the murder of his wife, Florence Tout
Benham, and was afterward convicted
and sentenced to death. On Thursday an
other Jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty.
CARPENTERS. hotel at Ballstou Spa, \.
Y, has been burned. The building was a
frame structure owned by Ohed Brown.
$1,000. Joseph Carpenter, who conducted
the hotel, last $1,000 on fixtures; insured
, for 81 900
The secretary of she navy has author
lied the following names for the new bat
tleships and armored cruisers; Rattle
ships-Nmginia, Rhode Island, Maryland,
Colorado and South Dakota. Armored
cruisers st. Louis, Milwaukee and
Charleston.
The Republicans of Chautauqua eoun-
ty. n y. mt their conventions in the First
and Second assembly districts Endorsed
Hon 5. Fred Nixon, speaker of the last
. assembly, for governor and instructed
DELEGATES to the state convention to en-
: deavor to secure his nomination.
: Senator Platt authorizes the announce
, meat that General Francis Ninton Greene
, is to be president of the Republican coun-
tx committee of New York, according to
the original programme. National Com
l mittpemao Frederick s. Gibbs has re-