Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-11-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings os the wide world
Briefly mud TerseIy Told.

eler and piundered his store, which is
near police headquarters.
Governor John Crepps Wickiffe Beck
ham of Kentucky has married Jean Ra-
phaG Fuo''a. a daughter Of an old Ken
lucky family.
Complete returns from the state elec-
fions in Idaho show a plurality Of 1,s9S
for Bryan electors. Hunt, fusion, has a
plurality of 2 233 for governor.
The population of Hawaii as announc
ed by the census bureau is 154,00i as
against 10000 Ia 1896 This is an in
crease Of 44,9S1, or 41.2 per cent.
The population Of the state Of New
York as officially announced il 7.26s. 0l2
as against 5,997 ,s53 in 1890. This is an
increase Of 1,270,13 or oil per cent.
shipment Of 900 tons Of pig iron
has been made from Florence. Ala, via
Brunswick, Ga. to Bremen. This is the
third shipment made in 60 days TO a for.
eign port.
The New York court of appeals has
granted a new trial to DIR. Kennedy, the
dentist who was convicted Of the muir
der of dolly" Reynolds at the Grand
hotel in New York city.
Frank Wilson, who was arrested with
Henry Zeimef and two women in con
nection with the divorce mill exposures
in New foik. has pleaded guilty to three
indictments charging him with perjury.
The Baltimore Sun announces that DR.
Daniel q. Gilman. who for nearly -
years has been president Of the Johns
Hopkins university. has Signified his in
tention Of resigning that position and re-
firing to private life.
The second trial of the new torpedo
boat Stockton has been held in Chesa-
peake bay. With 360 revolutions of the
propellers per minute the vessel attained
an average speed of 26 knots per hour.
her contract requirement.
Brigadier General James f. Smith of
San Francisco has been appointed collect
or of customs at Manila. General Smith
went to the Philippines as colonel of the
First California volunteers and is now
governor of the island of Negroes.
A pork packing plant is to be built in
Bellevue suburb of Schenectady, n. Y.
Schenectady business men have subscrib-
ed the capital stock Of $4,000. Over 80
men will be employed from the start
The concern will be ready for business
in the spring.
The 300 men and boys employed at the
Colbert coIliefy at Shamokin. Pa, who
went on strike Monday because several
of the mine workers were discharged for
attending a funeral have returned to
work. The company reinstated the dis
charged employees.
Police Commissioner james A. Me
Carthy of Newark. ~ j., has died of
typhoid fever. MIR. Mccarthy served two
terms rs member of the council. He
was appointed police commissioner by
Mayor Seymour in April. He leaves n
widow and one child.
The official count of Omaha and
. Douglas county, Neb., has closed. show
ing one Republican senator and seven
representatives elected. This gives the
Republicans the organization of the
house and senate. II votes on joint bal
lot a constitutional majority of five.
The population of the state of Penn
sylyana as officially announced by the
census bureau is 6.302. 10 against 5.25S.-
Oh in 1890 This is an increase Of 1044,-
10t. or 1913 per cent Tue population in
1880 was AS, S91. an increase of 9T5,-
123, or 22.I per cent, from 1880 to 1890.
General Burlington, chief of the ord
nance bureau, in his annual report shows
an expenditure on coast defense guns of
S162I0. 7S5 out of SO. 1916, 7SS appropri-
for our coast defgses and new smoke
less gunpowdcr. which has proved sue
cessful.
Walter McAllister, Andrew Campbell.
William Death and George Kerr, indct-
ed for the murder of Jennie BoSscheiter,
the Paterson u. j. mill girl, were ar
raigned on Friday before Supreme Court
Judge Dixon All pleaded not guilty.
Judge Dixon set Jan. II as the date on
which the defendants are TO be tried.
The postmaster general has designated
Postofliee Inspector John Il. Harrison,
now postmaster of Havana, as the acting
director general of posts in Cuba pend
ing the absence of Director General Fos
mes. who is convalesclng in New York
from yellow fever and pneumonia. Mr..
Harrison is from the St. Louis division.
The collections of internal revenue for
the month of October aggregated S21,-
AGA, 495 against SIG, 147 446 for the same
month last year. The receipts are CLASH
fed as follows: Spirits, $1l .093.550; to-
bacco. 81, 400, 1888; fermented liquors, So
491. ASS: oleomargarine. 1921 BOG; special
taxes. S53,571; miscellaneous, Sill $50.
The United States surveying corps
found over 100 dead bodies in swamp
lust west of Galveston on the island
where they had been deposited by the
storm of Sept. s. The unburied dead
were in an out of the way place near the
county road and had not been discovered
by the burying parties sent out after the
storm
Duferin Putelle. chief clerk of the
gold commissioners Office at Dawson. es-
Inmates the past seasons Klondike out
put of gold at S20,000,000 as against
S1T,000,0OO for 1899. Next years gold
output of the Klondike. he thinks, will
reach So. 100000 or this years ship
ment of gold United States Consul Nc
Cook has records of $14,000000.
The pardon clerk of the federal depart
ment of Justice has made his annual re-
port TO the attorney general 1t shows
that for the year ended June 30 the de-
partment had before it I2O cases. OF
these 3J1 were acted upon by the preSi-
dent, who denied the application in 131
aaSns and nvtaudad clpppucV in pOO