Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-05-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings OF the wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.


Heavy frosts for two nights damaged
The fruit crop In western New York.
Fifty large postofices' showed an ag-
gregate increase in receipts during April
Of S250.000
Brown university has announced the
gift Of five $4,000 donations from Prov
idence alumni.
Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill
salary schedule
Disastrous forest fires raging in north.
prn Pennsylvania have damaged oil well
interests extensively.
The number Of fish planted in the wa
tiers Of New York state during April
amounted to 10.2S6,020.
Admiral Hichborn reports that work on
the battleships Kearsarge and Kentucky
is practically completed.
The presbytery Of Washington city has
voted 10 petition the Presbyterian general
assembly for a new creed.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
have voted to buy the jefferson Davis
home at Montgomery. Ala.
Seven thousand employees Of the
Standard Oil company have had their
wages raised and their hours Of work re-
duced
Five passengers on Northern Pacific
local freight train near North Yakima,
Wash, were robbed Of 5000 by six high
waymen.
Five New York corporations have serv-
ed writs of cert0rari on the state tax
commission 10 test eonstitut0nality of
franchise tax law.
Burglars entered the First National
bank of East Brady. Pa, and dynamited
the safe, taking everything in sight, in
Guiding the pennies.
Mrs. Elinda Bonner Hunt, colored
woman who lives in Ravenswood, n. Y.
celebrated her one hundred and eighth
birthday on Thursday.
Dunstin and Frank Shaw, the Vermont
outlaws. have been captured after fight
with their pursuers, in which one of the
Shaws was mortaly wounded.
Former Chief Justice Magic has been
sworn in as chancellor of New Jersey.
Former Supreme Court Justice Depue
has been sworn in as chief justice.
The employees of the Evansville (Pa)
Iron works, 300 in number. have been
notified of a per cent increase in wages,
the increase to count from May !.
lightning struck loaded trolley car
on the Hoboken- Passaic line and set it
atire 4 boy and woman were slightly
burned. but no one was badly hurt.
Fred w. Atkinson, principal of the
Springfield tMass.) high school has been
elected by the Taft commission superin-
tendent of instruction in the Philippines
Two rebel attacks on the American
garrisons i'm the Nisayan islands recently
have resulted in the killing of 80 of the
enemy and the wounding of two Ameri-
cans.
Herman Brucks of Newark, n j., aged
81 years. employed in the English plaster
mines at Oakfeld Corners, n. Y, was
crushed to death beneath seven tons Of
falling rock
Edward Clifford, after six respites, was
hanged in Jersey City on Tuesday for the
murder, committed i've years ago, of Will
liam G. Watson, superintendent of the
West Shore railroad
General +. o. Bragg, formerly com
mander of the faTnous Iron brigade"
was thrown from his horse ana seriously
injured at Fond du Lac, Wis, Wednes-
day. He is "a years old. 4
Fire has destroyed the plant of the
Reed Fertilizer company Of New York
at Eastwood. The plant employed about
% men and was valued at about $4,000
-Four freight ears on the side track were
also burned.
Or. John Stockton Hough. a retired
physician and one of the best known men
in New Jersey because of his activity in
all movements for the securing of good
roads, has died at his home in Ewing,
near Trenton.
Frank e. Bundy. the dcfauIting for
l. L.. II, g y
pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Bundy
embezzled S9,932 90 of city funds. JUS
tice Sewell sentenced him to six years
and to pay fine of $1,000.
A tornado swept through San Antonio
Tex, Monday and caused loss aggre-
eating over 100000 No loss Of life is
reported At Fort Sam Houston the gal
Ieries of three barracks were demolished,
and the officers quarters were unroofed.
a three story brick building in the bust
ness center of Kansas City collapsed on
Monday burying seven persons in the
ruins. 1t is believed none of the injured
will die John w. Moore aged 10 years.
former mayor of Kansas CitN was most
seriously hurt.
While crossing the Western Maryland
railroad tracks at Milbrook, Pa, Jacob
q Hcgc of Marion, who was driving
milk wagon, was killed by IL train Strik-
ing the team, Heges young sranddaugh-
ter who WAS also i'm the wagon. was huH-
ed iu,o field, but WAS not injured.
G., f. W. Medley, chief fiuancial agent
OF The United States postal department
in Cuba and one ot the most prominent
government officials in Havana. has been
held ina $4,000 bail by Commissioner
Shields ina N4v- York qitv mn % t.byr,y, ,,f