Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Happenings OF the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.
The steamship Umatila brought ST.
5000 of kiondike gold to San Fran
cisco
w. X. Vanderbilt. Jr.. won the auto
mobile championship in the series OF
races near Newport. Il. |.
Governor Roosevelt began his western
campaign in Detroit on Thursday even
ing. addressing a large and enthusiastic
audience.
Priscilla Higgins. II years old, swan
across the bay from Fort Hamilton to
st. George. \. Y. eight miles, in two
hours and five minutes.
American miners in disputed Alaska
territory received notice from Secretary
Hay of protection under the Anglo
American modus viyendi.
State Senator Samuel A. Losch of
Pennsylvania is dead. lie was - years
old. Senator Losch was prominent in
Republican politics of the state aud also
in &. A. X. circles.
Three persons have been poisoned in
Chicago by drinking ice cream soda.
The victims are Clarence Smith, , years
old. condition critical; Mrs. II. c. Smith
and Mrs. Il. Smith.
William j Bryan completed n three
days campaign tour in Maryland and
West Virginia on Thursday night at
Wheeling, where was gathered great
audience to hear him.
Demands of the Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal miners as formulated and pre-
scented by the Mine Workers union have
been refused by the producers, and a
general strike is threatened.
One man was killed and, seven others
seriously, some perhaps fatally, injured
and number OF others slightly hurt by
the bursting of four inch steam pipe ut
the Baldwin Locomotive works in Phila-
delphia.
The population of the city of Camden
n. j., a. officially announced is: I'm 1900,
1895; in 1890, 5S,313. These figures
show for the city as a whole an increase
in population of 17,G22 or 30.22 per cent
from 1890 to 1900.
The population Of the city of Utica. y.
Y, as officially announced is: In 1900,
56,3S3; in 1890, 14,00T. These figures
show for the city as "A whole an increase
in population Of 1886, or 2S.12 per cent,
from 1890 to 1900,
Robert Il. Campbell builder of the
Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts, is dead
at his home in Neadon. near Philadelphia,
having succumbed to neuralgia of the
heart. Mr.. Campbell was born in Blairs-
vile, Pa, in 1892.
The population of the city of Bing.
hamton, y. y. as officially announced is;
In 1900, 39,647; in 1890. 35,005. These
figures show for the city as a whole an
increase in population Of l.642, or 1920
per cent from 1890 to 1900.
The one hundred and twenty-third an
niversary of the battle of Brandywine
was celebrated Tuesday ON the battle
field where on Sept. II, 17T1, for the
first time the Continental army carried
the stars and stripes into battle.
The Whitehall and Granville Railroad
company of Washington county, \. Y.
street surface railroad to be operated
by electricity or other power except To-
comotves capital S75O,00O, has heen in
corporated. The road will run from
Whitehall TO Granville a distance OF
about 11la miles
John III. Stearns, farmer of Cazeno-
via, ~ Y, died in Syracuse of cancer OF
the stomach. He had been attended by
Francis Barnes. who claims to be a
divine healer. DR.. l.. f. Weaver, coro-
ner Of Onondaga county, has made com.
plant 20 the district attorney with a
view Of prosecuting Barnes and putting
an end to faith cure practice in that To-
cality.