Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

The strike OF the machinists at Column
bus, o., has been settled by compro
mise.
An interoceanic canal company with
S100,000,000 capital was Incorporated at
Trenton.
The Carnegie company win expend be-
tween S1,500,000 and $2,000O00 in inn
proving Conneaut Ohio harbor
The employing plasterers Of Minneapo-
lis have locked out their men pending the
settlement of their dispute as to hours.
Mrs, Wood, wife of the governor gen
eral of Cuba, became the mother of ten
pound girl at the palace at Havana on
Thursday.
Fourteen thousand people have engaged
passage from Pacific coast points for
Cape Nome, Alaska on the first fleet Of
steamers which sails, about May /.
Three thousand two hundred and forty
Japanese laborers have arrived in this
country since Jan. /, 1899. Seven thou
sand more have obtained passports.
a few days ago the wife of James Fur.
man, colorsd man, 60 years old, of
Washington, n. j., presented him with a
son. He is the father of 26 children.
The Rev. Thomas A. Hendrick of
Rochester was chosen regent of the Uni
versity of the State of New York to sue
coed the late Father sylvester Malone.
Admiral Watson has sailed from Ma
Mia for Hongkong on the cruiser Brook
Ign. 1t is expected that he will transfer
his command to Admiral Remey at that
port.
Theodore Reynolds of Monson, Mass,
who was reputed to be worth almost
S10,000,000 and third largest stakeholder
of the Boston and Albany railroad, is
dead.
A Tacoma dispatch says Captain Con-
radi of the transport Garonne, arrived
there. declares Aguinaldo in disguise at
tended a masked ball at Manila on New
Years night.
Webster Davis, assistant secretary of
the interior, who has just returned from
South Africa. intends to tender his res
ignation He will lecture in the interest
of the Beers.
The amount of bonds received Mt the
treasury for exchange for the new , per
cents to March 80 is $1S4, 924 400, Of
which $40. 735, 900 is from individuals
other than national banks.
movement has been started in Mas
sachusetts to secure funds for the widow
of the late General Guy V. Henry, and
many prominent gentlemen have consent
ed to act on the committee.
BY the death of a brother at Dawson
City Mrs Narcisse Tereaux. the wife Of
a poor laborer at Champlain, \. Y, be-
comes heir to one-third of his fortune
which is. estimated at $l,000,000.
The city election in Hartford resulted
in the election of Alexander HARRISON
Rep0 by majority of 5000 over Will
liam Waldo Hyde lDemD. General Har-
bison carried every ward in the city.
The spring prices of the anthracite coal
companies for coal to tidewater will 90
into effect on Monday. The prices will
show an increase of from 10 to 10 cents
a ton over the spring rates of last year.
William Jones of Washington, the
avenger who shot at Guiteau, the assas-
sin of Garfield. while Guiteau was being
taken to Jail has been found to be insane
and turned over to relatives from Geor-
gia.
A lockout of carpenters, masons and
plumbers has begun at New Brighton, n.
Y. One hundred and eighty men in the
different trades are now out, and the
number will probably be increased TO
260
Forty-eight young women were gradu-
ated Thursday night from the women's
law class of the University Of New York.
Miss katherine Reed, daughter of ex-
Speaker Thomas b. Reed, was one of the
number
William H. King tDemD is elected over
James T, Hammond Giep) by probably
1000 majority for the place in the Utah
delegation to congress left vacant by the
expulsion from the house of Brigham H.
Roberts.
Colonel Julius Fleischmann. million
aire Hebrew, has been elected mayor Of
Cincinnati on the Republican ticket He
is only % years old, but very popular
For years he has successfully managed
large interests.
The Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
conference, which represents Delaware
and a portion of Maryland, has adopted
a resolution condemning the army can
teen aud the use and sale of liquor in
new possessions of this government
Norman r. Young, assistant sporting
editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, is
dead. He was IL noted writer on college
sports, more particularly football and
aauatics. He was b years Of age and a
graduate of the University of Peunsylya-
MIA
decided to make no official report upon
the incidents of his eight months captivity
in the hands of the Tagals at this time,
but probably will make his experiences
the subject of a series of magazine arti-
Giles.
The ffty-seventh annual boat race be-
tween crews representing the UNIVERSE
ties Of Oxford and Cambridge was row
cd over thc usual course from putney To
Mortlake and was won by Cambridge
by about % lengths. The official time
was Ism. AS.
Through the efforts of the New York
Athletic club the body of Deerfoot, the
renowned Indian runner, now rests in the
historic Indian plot in Forest Lawn Gem
etery in Buffalo beside the bodies of Colo
mel Parker Red Jacket and other famous
Seneca Indians.
A terrible fight between a band Of out
laws and a posse Of public officers took