Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-12-22
NEWS OF THE " EEN.
Happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

The Taft Philippine commission has
passed a liquor license law for Manila.
Deputy Attorney General Edward T..
Coyne Of New York state has resigned
The Alaskan aud klondike gold output
for the year is estimated AZ $50, T25,OOD.
General Wheaton reports that $50 ia.
tiyes have entered Callahan for registra-
ti0n.
Oswald 0ttendorfer, editor OF the New
York Staats Ieitung, is dead after many
years Of suffering
The Order Of CEtscn Friends, a frater-
nal insurance association doing business
in 80 states has failed
In New York city Alexander Stewart
a 14-year-od boy. was sentenced to 70
years ia prison for murder
The jury IN the case OF Jessie Morrison,
on trial az III Dorado, Kan. for murder
Of Mrs. DIN Castle. disagreed.
Orleans county. n. ", harvested this
year the biggest apple crop in its history,
q full million barrels being put up.
Paddy Ryan, ex-champion heavyweight
pugilist Of the world, who was defeated
by John T. Sullivan, has died in Green
Island. n. Y.
John Addison Porter, former private
secretary to President Mckinley, has
died al Ponfret, Conn, after an Illness
of several months.
Mgr Keane. former rector Of the Ro-
man Catholic university IN Washington,
has been appointed by the pope archbish-
op of Dubuque, la
Telcphoning without wires was sue
cessfally accomplished at Minneapolis.
The distance was over 900 feet across
the Mississippi river
The antique golden vase given by or
phans Of Lima, Peru 10 orphans of the
Galveston food reached New York and
will be exhibited for sale.
Reports to the New York state forest,
fish and game commission show that hum
tiers Killed more than loo deer III the
AdirondaelSs during the season just
closed.
Representative Boutclle's physician an
iounces that lie shows improvement, lead
ing to the hope that he may be taken
home. but that he would never be fitted
for work.
The Tenney House in AsbuIy Park y.
j.. has been destroyed by fire. The
flames spread so rapidly that the guests
had barely time to escape. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Most of the time of the Philippine com
mission is now devoted to the tariff bill.
Judge Taft said that, generally speak
ing, the new rates would be about 40 per
cent Of the existing rates.
In various recent attacks and eXpedik
lions in southern Luzon the insurgents
have lost eight killed. seven wounded and
about 20 captured. The Americans have
lost one killed and two wounded,
At Selersylle. Pa, Isaiah Hunsberger
of Soude ton and Joseph Bownawitz of
Telford were killed by dynamite ex-
plosion while the former was thawing
out some frozen sticks Of the explosive.
John +. Do thy, the disbarred attorney
of Rochester found guilty of grand lar
ceny in the second degree. has been sen
fenced by Judge Sutherland 10 three
years and nine months in Aupurn penn
Tertiary,
Hamilton Harris. former New York
state senator and for many years counsel
of the New York Central railroad has
died in Albany. Mr.. Harris was proba.
bly, one of the best railroad attorneys in
the estate.
Charles G. Beaman of the law firm of
Evaris Choate Il Beauman in New York
city is dead. When Young man. he was
private secretary to Charles Sumner and
In 1874 married the daughter of William
NJ. Eyarts.
The Greenough mine between Shame
kin ard Mount Carmel. Pa, aud owned
by local capitalists has begun operations,
with 80 men and boys employed On
Jan. ] 800 more names will be added to
the pay roll
A cable message from General MacAr-
thur, at Manila, announces that Captain
Montgomery u. Parker Of the Eighth in
fantry died in the military hospital at
Manila on the 18th inst of dysentery and
liver trouble.
Chancellor james Il. Day of Syracuse
university has received check for the
university for $4,000 from "a friend"
Another from woman for 81 900 and
$500 from Theodore Irwin of Oswego
Were also received.
Two men were badly burned and sew
eral paintings, valued at $4,000 were
destroyed by a fire at 1872 Broadway.
One of the burned paintings is Crosses
masterpiece. The Last Meeting" which
has been on exhibition there. Ii was val
ued al $200 600.
The appraisement Of the estate of the
late III. Walter Webb shows the gross es-
tate to be worth $673, 7257 20. but the de-
ceased gave to his widow $1lS,000, which
was not taxable. leaving the taxable es-
tate $3.50. 10. ~. From this comes $1,000,
she expense of appraisal.
The executive committee of the board
of trustees of Cornell university has
awarded DriscoIl Bros. Of Ithaca y. Y.
the contract for building the new medical
college on Cornell CAMPUS The building
will cost $4,000 and when finished will
be the prettiest on the campus. 1t is to
be completed in 1902.
The Women Relief corps of Iowa has
arranged 90 ect a monument at Gettys-
burg, Pa. u honor of Jennie Wade. the
only woman killed during the battle of
Gettysburg The monument will be
erected in the spring and will be dedicat-
ed on July 9, 1901. the thirty-eighth an-
adversary Of the battle.
Late adyices ftom lloilo announce that
detachments of tha Twenty-siXth yolun-
teer infantry surprised the headquarters
Of Quntin Sofas. capturing considerable