Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-06-02

Valley between Sayre, IA, ana Jersey
CRY are out on strike They want their
wages increased from S1.20 to s1.50 a
day. The strikers number 100. The
company has served notice that il the
men do not return to work before June
/ new men will be hired.
The secretary Of war has awarded the
contract for the reconstruction Of the
transport Buf0rd 60 the Newport News
Shipbuiding company, which was the
lowest bidder for the work at 1897 900.
The Buford is to be fitted out as a troop
ship for service between the United
States and the Philippines.
Sergeant Berry and four priyates = the
Twenty-seyenth regiment Iescu the
daughter Of the president Of SAL teo
from some ladrones who abduced Ter.
Afterward II ladrones ambusAf tom,
killing the sergeant Three private ,od
off the band while the other seer co re-
endorsements Seven ladrones were Ailled.
~ the track and field contest between
the University Of Pennsylvania and the
University Of California a. Plaw Of Cal
ifornia beat the intercollegiate record by
casting the hammer distance Of 1GJ
feet OF inch lie holds the intercol-
legiate record Of fJ4 feet ~ inches.
made at the intercollegiate games last
week
Because they would not work with
cores made by nonunion coremakers the
molders employed at the various foun-
dries in Buffalo quit their work The
total number Of men involved in the
strike is about 1000 The coremakcrs
demand minimum rate Of $2.21 a day.
The uoprietors offer $2.12lA, which the
men rejected.
Samuel Cupples and Robert S. Brook
ings Of the Cupplcs Woodenware compa-
any OF st. Louis have presented to Wash
ington university. in that city, stock val
ued at S3,00O000. This makes the total
gift of Mr. Brookings to the university
81. 600 600 and Of Mr.. Cupples S1,750,0O0
and the total endowment Of the UNIVERSE
ty about S6,000O0O.
Chief Of Police Ripley Of Chicago has
been notified of the theft Of Is bars Of
bullion weighing 100 pounds each, Of
gold worth about S1,2O0,000, and silver
valued at about $4,000. The bullion is
supposed to be in possession of the bur
glars in the city. The bars were stolen
from car on the Chicago Terminal
Transfer Railroad company's tracks sew
eral days ago.
A million dollar deal has just been con-
summated in Philadelphia whereby the
entire town of Frugality, Cambria coun-
ty. Pa, with all its coal and coke inter
ests, passes into the hands of n company
of capitalists of which State Senator J.
Henry Cochran of Willamsport is pres
ident The purchase was made from
Supreme Court Justice Dean.
The leaders in the house of representa-
tives have decided to reduce the war tax
es at the next session of congress, and
resolution will be prepared today to give
the committee on ways and means leave
to sit during the recess Of congress. The
committee will meet in the autumn to
prepare a measure for presentation TO
the house Immediately after it eonyenes
in December.
Chief Justice Albert Frances Jddd of
the Hawaiian supreme court died on May
20 of cerebral degeneration at the age Of
e. He was born in Honolulu in 1898.
graduated at Yale in 1858 and married
Miss Agnes Boyd of Geneva, \. Y, who,
with seven sons and two daughters. sur
wives him. King Kalakau appointed him
associate justice Of the supreme bench.
His estate is valued at S220,0 900.
Colonel Edward r. Hardin, with three
companies of the Twenty-ninth volunteer
regiment and bluejackets from the gun
boat Helena. landed at Palonog. Masbate
island. under the enemy's fire, routed the
insurgents and after an engagement last
Ing half an hour occupied the town with
out casualties The insurgent command
er, with 20 officers and 30 men. surren-
dered on May %, giving up 100 rifles
Ellen Jane Brown, aged s years, daugh.
ter of James Brown of Amsterdam. y.
Y. was burned to death Monday. She
was pushed into bonfire by colored
boy named Lewis. The boy had built a
bonfire in a vacant let near the Browns
home and requested the child to get fuel
with which to feed the flames. When
she refused to obey his command. Lewis
sncaked up behind her and pushed her
head first into the fans