Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-28

picted Monday afternoon and flowed 100
barrels per hour the first II hours. The
second well owned by the same company
produced 800 barrels the first "a hours
when Oil was struck a few weeks ago.
Right Rev. Tobias Mullen bishop Of
Erie, Pa. Is dead. THE bishop was
stricken with paralysis May 10, 1897,
and mover recovered from the attack.
lie was 50 years old and had labored in
the diocese for 80 years, 30 Of which was
as bishop.
Marie Rosalie Dinsc, a pretty young
woman who apparently has 40 friends in
this conf~y and who became pcnniless,
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge on Fri
day She survived the plunge, and the
doctors Of the Hudson Street hospital say
she win recover.
Secretary Long has undertaken 10 have
n bronze tablet erected in Santiago in
commemoration Of the services of Fred
erick w. Rausdon, who when British
consul in Santiago in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, protected American interests
there daring the siege aud who died at his
post Of duty.
At jackson, Miss, John Horton, a ne
gro. his wife and FIVE children were
drowned in the backwaters Of Pearl
river while trying to escape from the
flood. Their cabin had been inundated
by the high waters, and the family was
endeaYoring to escape in q wagon when
the vehicle fell through broken bridge.
While eating dinner at the Waldorf
hotel, New York city. Lieutenant Her
bert Whipple of the Seventh United
States cavalry found a pearl in a baked
oyster The jewel was placed in the
hands of Tiffany for examination, who
said that the jewel was perhaps the finest
ever found in this country and worth at
least $4,000.
w. #. Criten, ]. J. O'Neil and Robert
Locke have been sentenced to three
years each in the Nashville penitentiary
and fined 800 by Judge Evans in the
federal court for conspiracy to prevent
negro voters from exercising their rights
of suffrage at the election in Louisville
last November.
Arthur II. Paget, who married the
daughter of Paran Stevens of New York,
went to the war in South Africa as the
colonel Of the Scots guards, famous
British regiment. He has been promot-
ed recently to the command of the T, en-
tieth brigade, with the local rank of ma
jor general. and assigned to Lord Me
thuen's division.
Governor Roosevelt has appointed Aus
tin Wadsworth of Geneseo, president of
the new fish, forest and game commits
sion, a member of the state forestry pre-.
serve board to succeed former Commits.
sioner Charles III. Babcock of Rochester
by reason of the expiration of the term
of the latter ms fisheries, game and for.
est commissioner.
AT Thursdays consistory 10 bishops
were made archbishops, including Mgr
Sbaretti of Havana. There We're 10 nom.
nations by papal brief, including Mgrs
Kelly Of Savannah. Grandjon of Tucson
and Orth of Vancouver. The nomination
of bishop for the see of Columbus, O.,
was postponed owing to discussions in re-
gard to the selection.
The division of insular affairs of the
war department makes public the state
ment that the total receipts of the Cuban
treasury for the month of March were
81, $751; 500 The receipts named are di-
yided as follows: Customs, 81 .472, 800;
postal receipts $13,729; internal revenue
receipts, $94 $50; miscellaneous receipts.
$9T $40. The receipts for the correspond
ing month of 1899 amounted to 1903. O33