Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-08-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings of the wide world
Briefly and Terseiy Told,

rec NM / NESidF on Slittt CIT lliltN IA 49,
Louis. No one was hurt.
Ten people were injured IN street car
accident in Toledo on Sunday, one fatally
and two others very seriously
robber Monday night got $40 aud
escaped from the Central Railroad of
New Jersey station at Newark.
Congressman William y. Daily Of Ho-
boken. ~ j.. died mt Far Rockaway, n.
Y. on Tuesday from stroke of apo
piexy.
Under an assumed name Mortimer y.
Shaw. who conducted the great telr-
gFaphers strike in 1888, died in 81.
Louis.
The census Office has made public the
population Of t.s city Of Cincinnati IL
is 325.902, an increase over the last CEN
sus Of 2S,994.
Treasury department statistics show
1hat for 1900 the balance Of trade In our
favor is $544,471,7Q1, 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 as
she result Of a bicycle accident
Captain John Little Of the subsistence
department. U. S. A.. has died on Gov
errors Island of typhoid fever. He was
40 years old and a native of Tennessee.
Traces Of gold have been discovered
on the farm Of John Benton, near Parks
vile. Sullivan county, y. Y. The speci-
mems are being examined by an assayer
Tue runners and drivers ut the Della
ware and Hudson mines ut Scranton,
Pa. struck for increased wages. -Four
mines there and three at Olyphant 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.
Duell is to resign his Office. Mr. Duel's
purpose in resigninG is said to be that he
may be able to devote his entire time to
his patent business.
Princess Cantacuzenc, granddaughter
Of the late ex-Presidcnt t. s. Grant
and daughter Of Brieadicr General Fred
erick Dent Grant, L. S. A., gave birth
to Il daughter July 81
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.
A bad break in the Erie canal at
Frankfort, y Y. has stopped traffic
from Utica to Little Fails. 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
ippiues 10 Americans were killed and II
wounded, one hundred aud eighty Fill
HtnoS were killed and go were taken
prisoners. Forty iusurgcut rifles were
captured.
James ]. Corbctt ana kid" Mccoy
have been matched 10 fight before the
Iweutieth Century club. New York city.
on the night of Aug 80. The men will
90 - rounds under Marquis of Queens
berry rules,
? New Orleans had race war last week, !
started by Il crazy negro who killed two
officers. \ complete list of casualties
shows that six negroes and four whites
were killed and ten negroes and 20
whites wounded.
Tue police of Buffalo believe they have
discovered evidence of "a plot to lihcrate
W2ash. DalIman and Noliu. who are serv- !
ing sentences of life Imprisonment in
Canada for trying to blow up locks of
the Welland canal.
Senator Mark Hanna with partg of
II, including his family, has arrived at
Eibegou. \. j. In the five weeks that the
senator will bc in Elheron he will 20 to
New York daily and start the national
campaign in the east.
The schooner Pretoria, the largest
wooden boat ever built, has been launch |
ed ia Lake Michigan The Pretoria will
sarry 5000 gross tons Of iron ore, or 49, /
coo bushels of wheat. The boat is 800 /
feet long, 1919 feet beam and - feet
deep.
, The forthcoming annual report of the |
commissioner of pensions, II. Clay Evans /
viii show a grand total of g93J29 pen /
sioners On the rolls on July l last The +
figures on which the report will he based +
are now complete and ready for incor. +
QoraCn2n in the report.
Ten persons were injured, two fatally. .
by the premature discharge of the even
ing gun at the Illinois national guard en-
campiHeut, Camp Lincoln, near Spring /
field. on Sunday. \ small boy threw a /
dghted cigarette into sack Of powder .
standing near the gun.
The steamer Alameda, from Australia. ,
brought on her last voyage from Sydney
81. 100000 in English ~overcigns, which I
have been taken to the san Francisco
amt % be eUucd into - pieces This .
Is the largest cargo of coin ever brought I
here from the antipodcs
2 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 .
a resgIl1 af Fourth Assistant Postmaster |
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