Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-06-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide Worid
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

ne Ieuefdl quarantine AT San ram
cisco, established because Of fears of the
bubonic plague, has been raised.
Bunker Hill day was enthusiastically
celebrated at Charlestown, five vessels Of
the north Atlantic squadron taking part.
Fire has destroyed the plant of the
Commonwealth Mining company at
Pierce, A. r.. causing a loss of 100000.
The transport Thomas has sailed for
Manila. She carried over 400 recruits
and officers and large cargo Of supplies.
Il. G. Keith, treasurer of the Chicago
India famine relief fund. has just report
ed the receipt of contributions amount
ing to S5,s16.
lightning accompanying severe storm
which passed over Hampstead. n. ",
killed one man near Floral Park and i'm
jured two others.
A jury in the United States district
court awarded Mrs. Phyllis E. Dodge the
S64,000 worth of jewelry seized year
ago on charge Of smuggling
Fifteen hundred recruits for the regular
army in the Philippines are being enlist
ed and assembled in New York harbor
and Columbus (O.) barracks.
Walter B. Duryea of Glen Cove, n
T., whose recovery from broken neck
is regarded as a marvel of surgery, has
left the hospital in New York.
Eight thousand Pima Indians on the
ella reservation, 80 miles from Phenix,
A. IT,, are destitute, and a like number Of
Papagos are on the verge of starvation.
A monument in memory of the organ
izers of the first Presbyterian church in
this country has been unveiled in the Old
Scots burial ground, near Matawan, n. j.
The National Building Trades council
has issued an edct forbidding union
workmen from seeking employment in
several large cities where there are
strikes.
The war department has received a ca
begram from General Macarthur an
nouncing the safe arrival Of the transport
Logan, which sailed from San Francisco
On May 16.
Mrs. Beverage, wife of United States
Senator Albert j., Beveridge of Indiana,
has died in a sanitarium at Dansville, n.
Y, from heart failure She had been i'll
for several months.
The Washington state grand lodge of
Masons has voted not to admit liquor
dealers to membership in the order and
directs present members who are in that
business to withdraw.
John Kruse, aged 80 years, prosper
Gus fruit farmer of Canandaigua, n. Y,
took a large dose of carbolic acid and
dropped dead. Dependency is thought
to have been the cause.
AS the result of last weeks scouting in
I4uzon go Filipinos were killed, 200 were
captured, and 500 rifles, with $4,000
rounds of ammunition. were surrendered.
Three Americans were killed.
Six men were killed and another fatal
~ injured ON a logging railroad at Cam
NAL, Pa. A train jumped the track in
some unaccountable manner and plunged
down 800 foot embankment.
The village Of Moscow, Livingston coun-
ty, n Y, was the scene of a fire on Sunday
which destroyed every business building
in the village as well as the two hotels,
the opera house and a number of dwell
ings.
Private advices state that the steamer
A.. IT. Gustin left Dawson on June 4 for
ST. Michaeps carrying S2,oo0,000 in gold
dust She was expected to connect with
the Zealandia at st. Michael's for San
Francisco.
The recent elections in Cuba passed off
quietly In Havana Senior Rodriguez,
Nationalist, was elected mayor by about
5000 plurality. In Santiago DR.. Tomas
Pedro Grian was elected mayor without
opposition.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of
General John c. Fremont, has met with
a severe accident. In leaving the dinner
table she slipped and fell, fracturing her
hip. Mrs Fremont is 70 years old, and
her recovery consequently win be slow.
Lieutenant Johnson of the Forty-frst
infantry reports the capture of General
Szon. who was General MacArthur's OPP
ponent in the railroad campaign and who
has recently been operating with 1000
guerrilIas in Pampanga and Bulucan
provinces.
3 Edwin G.. Cooley has been elected by
the trustees of the Chicago board of edu-
cation to succeed DIR. Il. Benjamin An
drews as superintendent of Chicago's
public school system. Mr.. Cooley is at
present superintendent of the Chicago
Normal school.
At the commencement exercises of Dem
isOn (O9 university the president an
nOunced that about 100000 new endow-
ments had just been received, including
100000 from John Rockefeller; also that
Denison university and Shepardson COLI
lege were united.
Silver men controlled the Democratlc
state convention in Vermont, and it de-
clared for Bryan and the Chicago plat
form and against the Imperial policy of
the administration and the Republican
party" There was no discord, and great
enthusiasm prevailed.
Mr.. Dawes. the comptroller of the cur
rency, has had prepared a statement
which shows that during the three months
the new financial law has been in effect
there have been received 362 applications
for the organization Of national banks, in
volving "A combined capital Of S16.196,-
600
General Lloyd Wheaton has been pro-
NOTED to be a major general of volun-
teers, and Colonel Thomas III. Barry
who is in Washington, has been pro-
NOTED 10 be a brigader general of vol
unteers. He will leave for Manila at
once to act as General MacArthur's chief
of staff.
Major Frank H. Edmunds of General
Lees staff has died in Havana of yellow
fever. The town of Quemados has been
Quarantinpd against the barracks, and