Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-08-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and Tersely Told.

.z@ts4sAtfk III NUD EdDtiScO.
Tfe West Enaia fruit steamer Bermu-
ia sank st her dock in Philadelphia.
Three street railway strikers have been
Nrrested in ST. Louis charged with dy
Agusittng.
Two 9-year-old boys have been arrest.
ri at Victor, Colo, charged with wreck
Iag trains
HonoIulu's death rate has grown until
u qaaran inc against consumption has
been discussed.
4 design las been accepted for a
noaument in Spencer county, Ind, over
iTsa grave Of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Thiee men were killed and four injur-
e. by I He explosion Of a pipe in the New
Xerk Steam company's building on Mon
day
Additional rural free delivery service
Aas been ordered established on Aug
Is at Constableyillc, n. Y, and at Chico.
"a, Pa.
Sand island, one Of the Midway group
ASS been recommended as a landing sta
zion for the proposed Pacific cable to
ahe Philippines,
The steamer Clutch from Skaguay
&rings reports of the discovery Of extern
a5sr coal beds near the Dalton trail, not
lar from W hltC Horse.
Charles Roddig of Lancaster, Pa, aged
xf@ut % years an employee Of the Union
News company, was drowned while bath
Ing 81 the surf at Atlantic City.
Several minor engagements occurred
Rest week Ia Luzon. The rebels used
staokcIess powder which they must nee
sasarily have obtained 10y flibustering.
William Gleason. New Yorker, sery-
Kag four years and six months in Auburn
prison for burglary and larceny, commit
asd suicide by hanging himself in his cell.
At jamestown, o., A. G.. Bingamon
k5Qed his wife aud his son-in-law, James
Bradley, and then committed suicide
3he tragedy was the result Of family
arvables
Bob f'itzsimmons and Tom Sharkcy
Aave agreed to fight on Aug. p before
ske Coney Island Sporting club for
curse Of $4,000. Charley White is to be
Khe referee.
big wallpaper manufacturing con
eprn has been incorporated at Albany
Under rhe name of the Robert Graves
company of New York. Its capital stock
sS 100000, of which $521, 600 has been
gard in
Miss Blanche Fearing. the only blind
NOT in the world, and an author of con
siderable note. is dead. She died at Eu-
TeSa Springs. Ark, after an illness of
several months
-Four additional arrests of men suspect
ed of completely in the dynamting OF
street cars have been made in St Louis
AL are former Employees of the Transit
sOnpany. Three of the men were sub.
seanenty released.
Henry Hoffman, aged f05 years. sup.
posed TO have been the oldest resident of
Pennsylvania. died at his home in Butler
Valley. he was born in New Brunswick,
N ]. Up to within IA few years he was
able to work in the grainhelds.
Articles of incorporation of the Peo-
rie's Cooperative Ice company of New
York city have been lied at Albany. The
Gsnpany has q capital of 100000 divid-
al into 40 900 shares OF this stock $780,
GOO is common and 100000 preferred.
The steamer City of Seattle has arriy-
81 1am Skaguay with 2l5 passengers.
T2.5 OF whom are from Dawson, and
zbout 100000 in gold dust. Skaguay
bad an earthquake Aug. 8, the shock
lasting fully a minute. No damage was
4lone-
a passenger train on the Southern Pa
sssIc road was wrecked at Iowa Station.
Ksa, Sunday evening. Several persons
were killed and many injured The
srucks of the engine left the track, and
kfle satire train was ditched except the
aseepers.
Charles u. Lane, the well known min
sr who has returned from Cape Nome,
where he has large interests. in an inter
view says that from 5000 to 10000 peo-
Sse Mt Nome are facing absolute destitu-
ssan. aud tie only possible relief is through
zhe United States government.
Eke war department has received the
following dispatch from Manila: Colonel
ssrassa, Aug l, in vicinity of Tayug,
Surrendered command to Colonel Free
WAC. Tweuty-fourth United States in
Enutry. consisting of a major, g captains,
u Iieuteuants, 100 men, lOl rifles aud 80
Aolos-'
major Manseu, the British vice consul
at Van. while travelling near Elk, was
Mre& on by Kurds and his dragoman
vrns wounded. The consul got hi, party
SWAY WITH difficulty and his baggage was
aesf The British ambassador has lodged
q strong protest with the Turkish gov
aSEmsnt
Geueral Macarthur has cahlc1 the
war department "a brief statement con-
Rsxning the health of the troops in the
Philippine The number of sick in the
Assnitals is set down at 3,S6S and i'm
Haarters at I .261. making total of 5,l29
a5ck soldiers, or SAT per cent of the en-
slre army in the archipelago
". J. Bryan has promised Norman
T. Mack of Buffalo that he will visit
s3e state OF New York and make several
speeches before the close of the cam
asigl The date of the beginning Of the
asmpaign was not definitely fixed, but
II wiE he between the middle Of Septem-
Rcr and the middle Of October.
Que Of she most disastrous summer
atorms New York has experienced in
years swept over the city Sunday after
noou, leaving death and wreckage in its
wake Esnggeen persons were killed by
drowning, by lightning strokes by heart
sgrokes and by fire the direct results Of
she storm in and around New York.