Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

horses.
Colonel Albert f. Childs, until recently
4 chief clerk Of the census bureau, has died
in Washington.
Secretary Long has accepted the T. A.
NJ. Craven, the torpedo boat built by the
Bath Iron works
The United States supreme court has
sustained the constitutionality of the
Texas antitruct law.
The auxiliary cruiser Badger will be
transferred to the army transport service
and renamed Lawton.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck A Lake Shore train at Olmsted
Falls. O., on Sunday.
Ten passengers We're severely injured
Monday night in rear end trolley car
collision at Newark, n. j.
Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Mrs.
Hetty Green, is reported to be engaged
TO the Duke de la Tore Of Spain.
Twelve persons were hurt in smash
up on the Ninth avenue elevated road in
New York city early Sunday morning.
A $10,000,000 ice deal is announced in
| the purchase Of the Knickerbocker Ice
company by the American Ice company.
| DR. Joseph Price, well known physi-
elan in southern New Jersey, was killed
| by an express train at Woodbury., n. j.,
on Friday.
Six persons were killed at Columbus,
! o., on Friday by an explosion which re-
| suited from an attempt to start fire
| with gasoline.
The Western Union Telegraph compa-
| ny stockholders have authorized the issue
of 100000 600 of AZ per cent 80 year re-
| funding bonds
| One man was killed and two men were
injured by the premature explosion of a
blasting charge in the copper mine near
| Someville, n. j., on Friday.
BY the fall of hang" at the Monon-
| gahela furnace at Mckeesport, Pa, one
man was cremated, two fatally burned
and two others badly injured.
Secretary Root has authorized General
Davis, at San Juan, to give employment
upon public works to surplus labor in
| Porto Rico to relieve the famine.
| Judge Taft, president of the new Phil
ippine commission, has notified his fellow
commissioners that the commission will
| convene in Washington March 27.
The Anglo-American joint high COM
mission will reassemble at a date to be
given out shortly and possibly Ottawa
will be the scene of the conference.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
railroad has been sold at Joplin, Mo, for
$12,5OO,00O to the representative of the
Philadelphia reorganization committee.
Miss Eliza A. Starr of Chicago has re-
ceived Il medallion from Pope Leo as a
recognition of her recent book, "The
Three Archangels and Guardian Angels
In Art"
A fire originating in an explosion de-
stroyed block of stores Mt North avenue
and Larrabee street. Chicago, Saturday
evening and caused loss estimated at
$15S,000.
Kansas will have big exposition in
1904 in celebration of the fftieth ami
versary of the organization of the terri
tory of Kansas. Steps in that direction
have already been taken.
Lewis Say, who was at one time IA
nous professional baseball player, has
! been sent to the house of correction for
! ten months by Judge Phelps of Baltimore
! upon the charge of larceny.
The unveiling of the monument dedi-
Gated by citizens of Key West to the
| heroes of the battleship Maine who died
! in Havana Feb. 10, 1898. and were bur
| led there took place on Thursday.
The fast mail on the Plant system was
| wrecked near Ozark, Ala, on Monday.
| A number of passengers were injured, of
! whom William Kellar of Savannah will
! die. Conductor Reed also was fatally
! hurt.
The miners employed at the various
works of Coulter & Huff in Grecnsburg
! Pa, will be given an advance of 10 per
cent on April /. There will be about
| 5000 men affected. The advance comes
/ unsolicited.
Thirty employees of the Blakeley Print
ing company in Chicago were injured by
an elevator falling from the third floor
of the Blakeley building 1t is believed
that none of the injured will die, al
| though several were badly hurt.
The monthly statement of the collec-
tons of internal revenue shows that for
the month of February, 1900, the total
receipts from all sources We're S20, 800
| $50. an increase as compared with the
same month in 1899 of S1,l60,6J9.
Great excitement prevails in San Juan
county. \. NJ, owing to the discovery by
John Hardie. 5. Il. McCorkell and ]. l..
Fraser Of quartz gold assaying $201 to
| the ton. Hundreds Of prospectors have
rushed thither and staked off claims.
The Pacolet Manufacturing company
of Pacolet. S. c.. has bought $50 acres of
land at Gainesville Ga, on which will be
| erected Il 81 100000 cotton mill The
mill will operate 10000 spindles and
make standard sheeting for export only
A colony of 400 Missouri farmers is to
be established in the valley of the Con
cho reserve, in Mexico. The promoters
of the colonization scheme have purchas-
ed 200 700 acres of rich valleys, and n
few Of the colonists have already arrived
there
Lieutenant Commander Seaton Schroe.
der at present secretary Of the naval in
spection board has been selected to sue
coed Captain Leary as governor of the
island of Guam. 1t is stated at the navy
department that Captain Leary is coming
home at his own request.
Major General Otis reports that he
has appointed Brigadier General William
A. Kobbe, L. S. v, military governor Of
the province of Albay, Luzon. and of the