Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-03-24

| on account Of the existence of the bu-
| bonic, plague along the Rio de la Plata
Rear Admiral w s. Schley, commander
| in chief of the south Atlantic naval sta
/ ton, has been ordered to proceed with
/ the vessels of his squadron to ports In
northern Brazil, touching first at Bahia
! The Wellman-Seaver Engineering com
| pany Of Cleveland has closed contract
| with the Nickel Steel company of Ham
! ilton, Ont, to design and build what will,
when completed, be the largest steel and
! iron plant in Canada and one that will
| have few superiors in regard to size in
the world.
The war department has made public
| the following statement Of receipts from
customs at all the ports in Porto Rico
for the month of January: Total receipts
SOS, 460; Mayaguez, $6,102; Ponce, $19,-
401; San Juan, $36, 436; Arecibo, 81, $40;
Arroyo, $l,063; Aguadilla, $1S7; Huma
Gao 81, 722.
William Fullerton, for many years a
prominent lawyer in New York city and
in the late sixties justice of the supreme
| court has died at Newburg, n. Y, in his
eighty-third y~xr. He was law partner
of the late Charles O'Conor and engaged
in many important cases. One of them
was the famous Beecher trial
The president has committed the SEN
tence Of William Steele, late cashier of
the Chestnut Street National bank of
Philadelphia, from years months to
Is months imprisonment. Steele was
convicted in 1898 of aiding and abetting
an officer of the bank in appropriating
the funds of the institution for his per-
sonal use.
Before Justice Fursman in the supreme
court at Troy, n. Y, George Herman
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree and was sentenced to Dannemora
prison for life. Herman shot and killed
Rhoda Horton and her daughter, Eliza
Jane Pratt, at their home in Stephen
town. Jealousy of the daughter caused
the murder.
Three women died in New York on
Sunday from burns. Mrs. Bergman, who
was badly burned in a fire on March 16
died in the Harlem hospital. Another a
woman of 80, was burned to death in
Monroe street tenement. The third, a
servant in a cafe on Bayard street, died
in Gouyerneur hospital from burns re-
ceived in fire Saturday night.
The Shelton Street Railway company
of Bridgeport, Conn, has settled the last
of the claims resulting from the disaster
at Peck's mill pond last August. Heirs
of Irving Dorus of Bridgeport received
about $1,000, and Miss NJ. Farrell of
Brooklyn, who lost a leg, received about
$4,000. In all 40 claims have been set
tied without resort to the courts.
Professor Horatio Parker of Yale uni
versity has been commissioned to com
pose work for the festival of the Three
Choirs at Hereford, England. This is the
first time an American musician has been
honored by such an invitation. Profess
or Parker also has been invited to the
Chester triennial festival July % to 81
to conduct a performance of his "Hora
Novissima."
A check for S6,50O,000 has just been
placed in the bank at Colorado Springs
to the credit of w. S. Stratton, the
locator and for several years owner of
the famous Independence gold mine at
Cripple Creek. The check is from the
Venture corporation Qimited) of London.
1t is the final payment on the great mine
which Stratton sold last March while in
London for $4,000 600.
Lieutenant Louis F. Weber of the For
ty-second volunteer infantry, has commit
ted suicide in Manila. He lived at 506
Bedford avenue Brooklyn, at the time Of
his appointment to the Forty second in
fantry. During the Spanish war he serv-
cd in the Two Hundred and First New
York volunteers. first as a second lieuten-
ant and afterward as a first lieutenant
and regimental quartermaSter