Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-02-24
:LlANEous NEWS.
the Week Told In a Few
Words.

ada at Vancouver and Victoria, com
pared with 2l75 the year previous. a
good many Of these came into the
United States.
The Populist National Committee
has decided to call the National Con-
yention to meet in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota on May O. The Middle Of the
Road faction which bolted the com
mittee meeting On Monday night, be-
cause some of their delegates were
denied seats also issued call for
National Convention, to meet at Gin
cinnati May 8.
The Maryland Senate has by vote
of 20 to 4, rejected bill, which had
for its object the compulsory sale OF
six street car tickets for Is cents by
the United Railways Company, Of
Baltimore city.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has ruled that a special tax
stamp held by It corporation as
liquor dealer cannot cover the same
business carried on by any other per
son upon the ground that he had been
a stakeholder in the corporation at
the time of it's dissolution.
The Massachusetts House has de
feated a woman suffrage bill by vote
OF ia 10 %.
Municipal elections were held Tues
day throughout Pennsylvania. Nor
ristown with a Republican majority
of 500 elected a Democrat Burgess by
275. and gains were made by the Dem
ocrats in Council Simon Shissler,
Democrat Mayor Of Lancaster can
didate for reelection, was defeated oy
DR. III. Il. Muhlenberg. In Reading
the Republicans made gains in Coun-
ellis, and will have control by two
votes on joint ballot.
The President has signed the proc
lamation making public the Samoan
treaty.
Most of those who started from
Dawson for the Cape Nome gold
fields are making a detour to the re-
Gently discovered diggings on the
Koyokuk.
Judge West, at Lansing, Michigan,
has denied the motion to squash in
dictments found by the Grand Jury
against Colonel Eli r. Sutton and
General Arthur f, Marsh, of the State
Military Department.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry r. Brink
erhoff Eleventh Infantry, has been
appointed Treasurer of the Island of
Puerto Rico.
The bid of g. Coffin, of Boston of
$4,000 for the revenue cutter Corwin,
has been accepted by the government
officials at Seattle. 1t is believed the
Corwin will be put on the Cape Nome
run from Seattle.
Of
the American Unitarian Association,
VINO was recently called to the pastor
ate of the South Congregational
Church, Boston, as successor of Rev.
DR.. Everett Hale, has declined the
call
A cold wave is doing considerable
damage in the coast country of Texas
to truck farming and fruit Strawber
ry farmers have suffered the greatest
After a week Of slow improvement
Il. J. Phelps, who has had severe
attack of pneumonia. is now practical
IN out of danger
Two men who were caught in an ice
foe mt Yonkers, n. u, were rescued
off Fort Lee. after being exposed to
bitter cold for ten hours
Wedding presents sent to the Hon.
Lillian Pauncefote, daughter of the
British Ambassador, have not been
equalled in Washington since the Cur
zon marriage there.
During the recent blizzard a negro
was frozen to death at Admission, Ala.
At panic in circus in London
England, two elephants ran amuck
and killed a keeper
Michael Davitt wo resigned his seat
in the British House of Commons ms
a protest against Great Britain's poll
cy towards the Transyaal, starts for
South Africa this week for the benefit
of his health
Six hundred Finlanders have sailed
from Liverpool for Canada, making
about 5000 who have emigrated dur
ing the past six months.
Three Massachusetts, soldiers, men,
bers of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, are
renorted to have been captured by f i
ipino insurgents, and tortured ana
murdered in the public square at Boil
mag.
The annual report of the Maine De
partment of the Grand Army Of the
Republic shows a loss of 4Ol men,
bers, OF whom ga died.
Major Mills, of the Sixth Artillery
commanding at Honolulu reports that
the plague situation is encouraging,
and predicts that if existing condi-
tons (Feb p continue the quarantine
may be raised within the succeeding
twenty days.
Senator McLaurin of South Carroll
ma, has been offered by the President
a place on the new Philippine Com
mission.
The Western Packers Canned
Goods Association and the Atlantic
States Packers Association in Detroit
decided that the time was not oppor-
tune for a petition to Congress to re-
wise the tariff Oh tin plate.
AS the outcome of fight in the Bel
GUM Chamber OF Deputies, M. Demb-
lon. the Socialis. Deputy who was re-
moved by force from the House, VIII
he prosecuted for assault