Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-11-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings 81 the Wide world
nrssns and Terseiy Told.

HRppcnSnGS OF The Wide world
safisas and Tersely Told.
Ses Root sailcd for Cuba, q he
absegt ESQ weeks.
TIE aonitor Arlsansas has been launch
I'd At tae Newport News shipyard
YaI, university funds have been in
creased during The last fiscal year nearly
S430DOti
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has given Out orders for 3.4tn ears with
III h week
Fourteen men were Killed ID an expIe-
sion % Saturday IA coal mine at B'r-
ryshnrg. W VA.
Henry NilIa.d. railroad magnate and
5naseier, has died n his country home at
Dulylts Fairy. NJ "
Il iseesti,nated that hml @1.500.000 to
SAL ~ 10 Changed hands ia Wall street,
New York. IN election bets
Ilie Nome gold output for the past sea-
son Is estimated at S5.0oDe0D. as com
pared with $2000.O00 in 1879
The main building Of Cornell university
veterinary college. at Ithaca, has been
partially burned, with a loss Of 10000.
The First National bank Of Nashville
has been robbed Of $4,000 by business
man with the aid Of bookkceper in the
bank
The California dry wine product for
1900 will amount to from 13,J00.000 to
15,O0o.oGO gallons and the sweet product
to 7.eO .osi;
pIesiieai Mckinley has sent life saw
ing me il Is the Danish sailor Glsson,
who saved ~ members Of the crew OF an
American schooner.
Major Henry O'Connor once attorney
general Of Iowa and later connected
with the state department under Sore-
tary Blaine, is dead.
Thirteen insane soldiers from the Phil
ippines have been sent from the Preside
hospital at san francisco to the govern
meRt asylum at Washington.
A syndicate of Danish and Swedish
bankers has begun negotiations with
American bankers for Il $4,000 600 loan
for the Copenhagen municipality.
Fire destroyed upward of - houses at
Biloxi, a well known Mississippi summer
resort near New Orleans, causing an es-
timated loss Of more than 100000.
Special Treasury Agent Tbeobold in
New York city has arrested three Span
iards and charged them with smuggling
the Macmillan gems, said to be worth
$4,000.
The transport Thomas left Nagasaki
for San Francisco Nov. 10. having on
board the remains of Colonel Liscum.
commander of the Ninth infantry, killed
at Taku.
Patrick j. Fitzgerald. once champion
six day walker of the world and still
holder of the 100 hour go as You please
record. is dead az his home ia Long Is
land City.
Jerry Lynch. aged - the last sur
viving member Of the crew of the Con-
federate cruiser Alabama. has died at
his residence in Inman Park. Ca He
left large estate.
Charles III. Pinkham, proprietor and
manager of the business department Of
one of the largest proprietary medicine
enterprises in the United States. has
died in Lynu. Mass.
William Haywood. United States col
Iector of internal revenue at Honolulu,
sent his resignation 10 Washington. 1t is
said he will represent Hawaiian business
interests al the national capital.
The drug store Of A. NJ knowlson. on
Broadway, Troy. \. y, was broken into
early and robbed of $40 in cash and
many pieces of valuable silverware.
There is no clew to the thieves.
Three hundred kegs of powder and
dualin blew up and wrecked II frame
dwellings at Bear Valley colliery of the
Pennsylvania railroad near Williams
town. Pa The shock was heard for Is
miles. None was killed.
Y Captain John -. Hart of Cuban tlibus-
tering fame has died in Philadelphia.
During the year 1896 two of his vessels.
the Bermuda and Laurada, made fire.
ouent trips To Cuba with arms and am
mnnition for the Cubans.
The first pension for the war in China
has been granted TO the widow of Cap
tain III. j. Reilly of the Fifth artillery,
who was killed in the attack on Picking
on Aug II last. This pension was put
through in record breaking time and was
granted under the Spanish war pension
act.
Commodore Frank II. Stoit, head of
the wooden mill firm of G. Ill. X +. III.
Sfott. at Stottvile y. Y, is dead at his
home in StottYille He was one of the
best known manufacturers in the textile
trade aud personal friend aud business
associate of ex Mayor Strong of New
York
X. g. Dun, for Al years the head of the
mercantile agency of II. q. Dun x Co.,
has died nj his home, 26l Madison ave-
nue., New York. Mr.. Dun had been in
failing health for about l. years past,
and at Narragansett Pier last summer
he was known to be in Il serious condi-
ton from dropsy.
Mrs Zeralda James. widow OF Jesse
James. the noted southwestern bandit,
has died in Kansas City. Mrs. James
was a Miss Mimnis. She was born near
Kansas City IN 1874 and was married to
James at kcarney, Mo, in 1874 They
had one son. Jesse, Jr., who is now in
business in Kansas City.
General Macarthur telegraphs the war
department that the transports Grant
and Port Alder, have arrived at Manila.
The Grant si'led from San Francisco
Oct. 16 with six officers and 6l5 men. re-
eruitS. hospital corps and signal corps