Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-12-08
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Happenings OF tse Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Lieutenant iIobSon. a. >. n, Is III q
New York hospital, threatened with "
phpiu fever
! large ~hiomeu of potatoes. first Of
the kind. will soon be- made from Wash
hlgton 70 China.
The annHtl cost TO Greater New YORK
of the city's police department Is est
mated at ~ li;2.32S-
The Ame 81 Tfansyaal league has is
used an invitation to ex-Pr sident kru-
ger 10 visit this country,
The annual report Of flie New York
state treasurer shows a balance greater
than last years by more than $4,000
600.
All the members Of tkc presidents cab
met except Attorney General Griggs
Rave decided to remain in Office aftei
March T.
After receiving subscriptions for the
relief Of the famine stricken IN India to
the extent Of S2529sS the New York
committee has ended It's work
Robert Wnstet assistant bookkeeper
OF the German National bank Of Ess-
port. Ky, has been arrested for cumpiici-
ty with Frank Brown IN wrecking the
bank.
Julius Scharn Of Norwich, y. ~ has
committed suicide. lie recently pur-
chased a brewery in that village for $40,
900 and his Investment had not proved
good one.
Enraged because Albert Lane paid at
tentions 10 his own half sister, james
Harley. who was in love with the girl,
killed Lane in the woods al Frost Valley
in the Catskills.
The Panama Railroad company has be
gun chartering steamships and seeking
dock facilities at San Francisco in an
ticipation of war with the Pacific Mali
STEAMSHIP company.
The trustees Of Columbia university
have decided 70 authorize the tfnite6
STATE government to offer tuition in Go
iumlia III any school save that of medi-
cine to five l1ilipinos.
The New York court of appeals has get
the week OF Jan. II AZ the time for the
execution by electricity of William Neu-
field who murdered Annie Kronman at
266 West Thirty-ffth street, New York
city.
As result of prosecution by the
Browns Tract Guides association Lieu
tenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff
has paid fine of $3.50 for violating the
game laws in hunting before the opening
Of the season.
Miss Eugena Washington. great
grandniece of George Washington. one of
tho founders Of the Society Of Daughters
eli the American Revolution and president
of til Society of Founders and Patriots
has died in Washington.
Former Governor Joseph W. McClurg
aged IS years, has died at Lebanon, Mo.
OF hemorrhage of the stomach. He was
elected governor Of Missouri as a Repub-
lican in 1868 and served one term. He
served in congress from 1862 TO 1868.
Cornell was defeated at football on
Thanksgiving day by the University Of
Pennsylvania The score was y to O.
On the same day Columbia defeated the
Carlisle Indians II to Is, The Thanksgiv-
ing day games closed the football season.
-Four men and one boy were instantly
killed and Is persons injured by the ex
posion of a boiler in the power house of
the Chicago and Northwestern road ON
Monday at Chicago. Several of the in
j,,red are hurt so badly that they may
die.
The war department has received dis
patch from General Macarthur telling of
the surrender of 2.1S0 Katipunan insur
rectos to General Young at Santa Maria.
Santa Maria is town of 10000 inhab
ftants, situated 10 miles from Nigan, in
the province of Iocas Sur.
Frank Tuscani. an Italian living in
Hudson street, Hackensack, ~ j., was
stabbed to death Sunday by John Gam
bola, fellow countryman. Friends of
the murdered man avenged his death
with stilettos, and Gambola now lies at
the point of death in the Hackensack hos
pital.
The navy department has been inform
ed that the gunboat Manila has left
Cayite with detachment OF marines for
the occupation Of Subig and Olongapo,
which temporarily have been transferred
TO the control of the department. The
Culgoa is being used as "A station ship at
Cavite.
The Jersey Central's New York flier
from Easton, Pa, was wrecked at Nul-
canite. n. j., by running into the rear of
a coal train William Miller, the engi-
neer of the passenger train, was fatally
hurt and Benjamin Burwell. the fireman,
had both legs crushed. The men lived
at Phillipsburg, Pa.
Thomas j. Kinney. prominent among
New Jersey Republicans and former own
err and publisher of the Newark Daily
Advertiser, has died at his residence in
Newark. Mr. Kinney was 20 years of
age He was reputed TO pe worth at
least S2.000.000 and leaves u widow,
son and three daughters.
The British court of appeals has rem
dered decision upholdmg that of a di-
yisonal court in the suit of the attorney
general versus the Jewish Colonization
association claiming estate and success
sion duty upon the death of Baron
Hirsch de Gereuth. The crown by this
decision gets upward of IL ,250O00.
Admiral Rcmey has informed the navy
department that the General Alaya
about which vessel some uneasneSS had
been felt. as it was thought she would
encounter the Guam typhoon on her way
over from that island to Cavite, has ar
rived safely a; Cayite with detachment
of marines and SOME of the Yosemite's
officers.
The division of customs and insular af-
fairs Of the war department has prepar-
ed for publication a statement showing