Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happen nFS of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

i iie IEtslA UufnBeI OF .Sf'iDUS hltti
American control in Porto Rico this year
is 7s6
Il. s. ChafeId's foundry in Addison.
n. y, has been totally destroyed by fire;
loss, $4,000: no Insurance.
MIR Martin c. Fosnes, who succeeded
Mr.. Rathbone as director geperal Of
posts of Cuba, is i'll of yellow fever.
Much annoyance has been caused the
presidential household mt Canton, O., by
bascless rumors Of plot to Kill Mr.. Nc
Kinley.
a jury has been completed to try Hen
ny Il. YoutSey on the charge of being
principal in the shooting Of Governor
Goebel.
The postoilicc at Argusvillc. y. Y. was
entered Saturday night by burglars. The
safe was blown open and some money
and stamps taken.
The census bureau has announced the
population Of Delaware as 1874, 135 as
against los 1913 in 1890. representing an
increase since 1890 of 1922, or 9.6 per
cent.
Benjamin H. Campbell a well known
attorney of PttSburg, has died in Cali
fornia aged rs years. Judge Camp
bell sank the first oil we'll ever put down
in the United States.
The steamer City of Seattle has ar
rived at Seattle from Skaguay with ST.
100000 in klondike treasure and 317
passengers. The Yukon river will be
open until Oct - or longer.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn, U.
S. ~, has been awarded diploma and
gold medal for the Franklin life buoy,
Hchhorn turret and models of war YES
sells exhibited at the Paris exposition Of
1900
Negotiations between the five Yaqui
Indian cnissarics aud President Diaz for
the settlement Of hostilities now existing
between the Yaquis and the Mexican
government have failed to accomplish
anything.
William Mott of Norfolk shot and
killed Mile Alberta. ralmist, with
whom he was travelling about the coun
try, aud dangerously wounded Mrs.
Elizabeth Steinbaucf. with whom the
couple boarded at Columbia, Pa.
The treasury department gives notice
of the discovery Of new so silver Ger
tihcate. series of 1891, with portrait of
Hendricks The counterfeit is described
as a Photographic print, without the silk
fiber and of inferior workmanship.
Rev. MorrelI Theodore Hill, a promi-
nent Methodist minister who had served
as pastor at many points in New York
state and who during the civil war was
member of the Christian commission
at Harpers Ferry and Fort Monroe, is
dead Mt Adams, ~ y, aged 10 years.
The total customs receipts for the is
land of Cuba during the first eight
months of 1900 were $10,672 ,02963 as
against 50 493, 0SS.46 for the same period
of 1899, according to statement given
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sular affairs of the war department.
The transports Sumner and Venus have
sailed for the island OF Martinique, off
the west coast of Lu2oa, carrying two
battalions. The former has already ar
rived there The transport Logan will
re-enforce the Tweuty-ninth United
states infantry, now in Martinique.
The condition of the treasury. divisions
of issue and redemption is as follows: Re
serve fund. gold coin and bullion, S150,-
000,U00; trust funds. division of redemp-
ton, S736. ia. $40; division of issue, $780,
775.6T9 general fund, S227. 526. 01J;
available cash balance, St39. 205, 40,
]. H. Roberts. Mark Williams, vii
liam Sprague. Mrs. Spraguc and Miss
Virginia Murdoch, missionaries to Chi
ma arrived at New York ON the City Of
Rome They escaped from the Boxers
with their lives by flight across the des-
ert of Cobb, suffering great hardship.
General Macarthur reports to tie war
department that the transports Rose
Grams and Argyle arrived at Manila on
the 18th inst. Light Batteries c and NJ,
Seventh artillery, Major g. G.. Green
ough commanding, were on the Rose
Grams. having sailed from San Francisco
on Sept. :.
Rev. Charles Bcattie, l.. II. has just
completed 3G years of his passionate Of
the Second Presbyterian church OF Mid
dlctown, ~ Y. During this time Ii has
delivered 5000 sermons ana made 5000
other addresses and 2G,Gt0 pastoral calls
This church is Or. Beattit's FIST and on
by pastorate.
The New York state board of health
bulletin for August shows that 1Ol7
deaths occurred. which is nearly the av-
erage Of the past years and is decrease
of 600 from the reported mortality of .Iu-
ly The death rate is 1873 against 1873 IN
July. No smallpox has existed In the
state since July.
Robert T. Hill. who has been on trial
in the county court at Camden, y. j.,
for wife murder, has been found guilty in
the first degree Hill, who was extreme
~ jealous Of his wife Mary,,on June I
shot her four times and then shot him
self The woman died soon afterward
but Hi recovered.
Fiipnos killed Lieutenant Max Wag-
ner of the Twenty-SiNth regiment of vol
unteel- near Pavia. island of Panay. on
Monday night. \ detachment of the For
ty-fourth regiment. Mt Bohol island. one
of the Ni~ayan group. has encountered a
force Of the enemy. killing 80 of them
OneSAmcHcau was killed.
Eddie Mcbride, 4 years old. met
horrible death al Trenton at the hands
of his piaymateS He was burned alive
at the stake. His CON uanions. who were
playing he was AN Indian captive, built
fire under han and then attempted TO put
ii out and threw gasoline, which they
mstouk for water ON the flames.
AT the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the American Bicycle company the