Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

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General Ludlow, late military governor
of Havana, has left for the United States.
Mayor James NJ Seymour Dem.) has
been reelected mayor Of Newark, n. j.,
by 1000 plurality.
Richard Peck, secretary Of the New
Haven Steamboat company, is dead IN
his eighty fifth year.
The wire mills Of the American Steel
and Wire company in the Pittsburg dis
trict have resumed work
-Four men were killed and two others
wounded in q drunken quarrel at Wind
Der, Ia, on Sunday night.
The presbyteries Of Binghamton and Of
Detroit have petitioned the general as
sembly for a new and shorter creed.
Alexander Cooper private in Compa-
my G, Thirty-eighth volunteer infantry,
was beheaded by the Filipinos on March
%.
Former President Harrison left Indi-
annapolis for New York to preside over
the ecumenical council, which opens Sat
urday.
The engagement Of Miss Alta Rookie
Teller, daughter of John ID. Rockefeller,
to Il. Parmalee Prentice of Chicago has
been announced
State Chairman Franklin Murphy will
succeed the late Vice President Hobart
as Republican national committeeman
from New Jersey.
The distinguished French artist, NJ.
Chartran, has been in Washington some
time, engaged in painting portraits of
Admiral and Mrs Dewey.
Ebenezer Burgess Ball, the nearest sur.
viving relative Of George Washington,
has died in Washington. He was 81
years of age and unmarried.
Mrs. Rebecca Barnes, widow, aged
Sc, of Torrington. Conn, has been burned
to death by her clothes accidentally COM
ing in contact with bonfire.
Alfred +. Morrison. the teacher Of Ian
guages at Mount Vernon, n. Y, who shot
his wife while in a dream on Dec. 2S last,
has been acquitted of murder.
George Manager, aged 50 years, commit
ted suicide in Jermyn, Pa, by blowing
out his brains. The aged man had been
IN i'll health and was Respondent.
A complete steel house has been ship
ped from Philadelphia to Prince Yoshi-
bito at Tokyo, and 81 locomotives and
tenders were shipped to Russia.
BY the death of John Halstcad, a re-
tired tea merchant of New York city,
Cooper Union has been made n residuary
legatee Of his estate of over 100000
The Manila American of March II con-
tains an account of the burning Mt the
stake of three American prisoners in the
hands of the insurgents of Panay island.
Miss Mary Field French. aged %, a
cousin of the late Eugene Field, for
number of years his guardian, has died
suddenly at her home at Amherst, Mass.
James w. Phillips, Sr., one of the origi- |
nal California gold miners and a, gradu- |
ate of West Point Military academy. has
died at Middlegown y. Y, aged GS years
Captain Dodd's troop of the Third cav |
airy trapped $50 insurgents near Ben
guet. Fifty-three rebels were killed and |
IA taken prisoners The Americans had |
one man wounded.
The United States government has /
awarded to the Oceanic Steamship com
pany ten years contract at 81 a mile |
for carrying the Australian and English |
closed mails across the Pacific.
The Delaware and Raritan Canal com
pany has manufactured an electric ma |
chine on the pattern of an automobile |
which is designed to take the place of !
mules and horses on the towpath.
The First parish church in Concord |
Mass. has been destroyed by fire. The |
church was on the site of the famous |
structure built in 1912. in which the first |
provincial congress was held in 1175.
General Young reports that 300 insur- |
gent riflemen and bolomen attacked the |
American garrison at Batoc, province of
North Ilocos, but were repulsed, losing |
JOG. The Americans had no casualties.
Professor Arthur c. McGiffert of |
Union Theological seminary, who has
lust had his name erased from the roll o.
the presbytery of New York, has taken |
steps toward becoming a Congregational |
list.
Two St. Louis girls, one Is years old
and the other Is, have fallen heir to ST.
600 600 each. The money is part of the
estate of Ludwig Fischer, who died in
Holland nine years ago, leaving large
estate.
Lieutenant Colonel Webb c. Hayes of
the Thirty-frst infantry, son of President
HAYES. has been discharged honorably
from the United States army at his own
request. He has been serving in the Phil
ippines.
In the breach of promise suit brought
by Miss Nellie Lewis against President
Sam Strong of the Free Coinage and 9TH
er Cripple Creek gold mining companies
the jury awarded the plaintiff $4,000
damages.
3 The strike at the Merrick (MassD
thread mill has ended 10y the machine
fxers returning to work. the management
having agreed to their demand for SO
"a day. an increase Of % cents on the old