Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-08-11
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Happenings of che Wide world
Briefly and TerscIy Told.


Right Rev Augustine Healy. Roman
Catholic bishop Of Maine. is dead
United States Consul NJ Irving shaw
has died at Barranquila. Colombia.
Victor r. Fay OF the United States
forestry bureau, has died nj Pine Bluff,
Ark.
The military road from Port Naldes
Alaska, has been completed for 100 miles
inland.
The new Japanese minister has pre-
sented his credentials to President Nc
KinIey.
Robert Dunlap. head of the hat firm,
has died at Monmouth Beach, y. j.,
aged 90.
The president has appointed 4S enlist
ed men in the regular army as second
lieutenants.
The population Of Providence has in
creased 81 per cent in ten years, being
now $4,000
The National Afro-American council
will hold its annual convention in Indian
apolis on Aug. %.
The Democrats Of New Hampshire
have nominated DR. Frederick Il. Potter
of Portsmouth for governor.
Investigation Of the alleged shortage in
accounts Of three Pittsburg building and
loan associations has begun.
Oliver +. Watson prominent citizen
of Amsterdam. y. Y, was fatally stab
bed by a burglar at his home.
The driver boys ut No shaft Of the
Susquohanna Coal company at Nauti
coke. Pa, have gone On strike.
The extensive chrome works of the Bal
tinore Chrome company at Fairfield,
Md, have been destroyed by fire.
Burglars entered the Stottsvlle y. W
postoflice. blew open the safe and secured
$50 ia money and about 81 worth of
stamps.
John w. Trowbridge, the widely known
newspaper illustrator. has died ut his
home in Englewood, y. j., Of cancer of
the liver
The Addicks faction of the Delaware
Republicans has nominated a ticket in
Guiding several of the regular wing Of
the party.
The census Office has made public the
population of the city of Cincinnati. 1t
is 325,902. an increase over the last cen
sus Of 2S.994.
Eighteen persons near Reading Center,
N. Y, were poisoned by eating ice cream.
Twelve of them were made violently i'll. |
but all will recover.
All the union stevedoreS in Baltimore, |
numbering about 300. are on strike be-
cause the steamship agents refused to
agree to employ no more nonunion men.
Two conyicts have escaped from Au-
burn y. " prison. The men were Al
bert Dean and Edgar Pratt. Dean was
serving u year sentence for kidnap-
ing.
Election returns from North Carolina
al Ia Ia,
gate "a ,G1S and fusion majorities 5.12J,
making the net Democratic majority 80,
BOB
1t is estimated that the apple crop this
year will be the largest in the history of
the United States, exceeding that of
1896 when G0.00o,000 barrels were gath
cred.
The Remington Automobile company,
which has been incorporated in New Jer.
sey. viii have its plant at lion, y. y, and
expects by winter To employ from 200 to
500 hands
Captain Frederick Jerome an old time
sailor who had the credit Of saving more
than 1000 lives during his career, is
dead in San Francisco. He was born in
southern England in 1923.
The division of customs and insular af-
fairs of the war department reported
that the total collections for the port of
Havana for the - working days Of the
month Of June were 81, l13.1S7.
Charles A. Towne, nominee for the vice
presidency on the Populist ticket has de-
clined TO run. He says that conditions
have changed since his nomination, and
he advises the PopUlists to indorsc the
Kansas City ticket
Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador,
has communicated to the state depart
ment information showing that be be-
Iieves a band of anarchists in Paterson,
n. j., conspired to assassinate all the
crowned heads of Europe,
Lloyd Griscom, United States charge
d'affaircs, has renewed his demands upon
the Ottoman government for c0mpeusd-
ton for the losses of American citizens
during the Armenian massacre. ile in
sisted upon prompt decision.
The thirty-tfth annual report of the
secret service division submitted to Sec
rotary Gage by Chief White shows ga
arrests during the year, with 21S conyic-
tiouS. 233 awaiting action of the courts I
and four fugitives from justice
BY an explosion of gas two building, .
On Lackawauua avenue, i'm the heart OF /
the business district of scranton Pa, |
we're completely demolished, and n per |
sons were injured 10y being caught in the /
wreckage or struck 10y flying debris.
Articles of Incorporation of the Poo |
piles Cooperative Ice company of New 1
York city have been filed at Albany. The /
company has capital of 100000 diyid- /
cd into 10000 shares or this stock $780, |
900 is common and 100000 preferred.
Oswceo has thus far furnished two /
victims in the Chinese War-uamely, Pri- /
vatc James McConkcy of the United
States marines and James J. O'Npiu If
Company &. Ninth infantry Several
Osweeouians have been wounded also.
Chicago msat packers have been asked
by the war department at furnish 1000,
600 pounds Of meat within 30 days for
the America soldiers in the orient. This
is said 10 boz the largest requsition ever
ISSUED by tie government of the United