Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-06-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.


Heavy rains have caused disastrous
floods IN the neighborhood of Peoria, Ills.
Tie United States cruiser Albany has
been commissioned at Ncwcastie-on.
Tyne
General Daniel Battlefield has pre-.
scented a portrait Of Washington TO West
Point Military academy.
The New York city committee Of 100
has received nearly $4,000 for relief Of
midas famine sufferers.
a Pittsburg and Lake Erie train in a
run between Pittsburg and New Castle,
made one mile in "a seconds.
A special board Of inquiry at Tacoma
refused to permit large number Of Jap
anese immigrants to be landed.
During a severe storm III Chicago on
Monday two persons were killed and two
seriously injured by lightning.
J. u. Showalter has been renominated
for congress by the Republicans IN the
Twenty-ffth district of Pennsylvania.
The intercollegiate track games at
Berkeley oval, New York city, were won
by Pennsylvania; Princeton second Yale
third.
Fire has destroyed 10 or IL frame
buildings in jamestown. Pa, including
the postotIice and its contents, Loss
$4,000.
Willard A. Cobb editor Of The Jour
nal OF Lockport, ~ Y and president Of
the state civil service commission died
suddenly on Tuesday
The Palisades Paper mill at Eighth
and Grand streets, liuboken. n. j., was
destroyed by fire Wednesday night The
damage is estimated at 100000.
The Julius Brcckwoldt Sounding Boaro
factory at DolgeyIle. y. Y, was totally
destroyed by fire. entailing loss Of $50,
600 and throwing 50 men out of work.
The candidacy Of Representative George
b. Mcclellan Of New York for the Demo
cratic vice presidential nomination has
been announced by hls friends in con
gress.
The intercollegiate championship cy
cling contest III Philadelphia was won by
Princeton with - points. Yale was sec
ond, Columbia third and Pennsylvania
fourth.
John Bartlett and Wesley Rising OF
Lake George \. Y, went into the noun
tains back of the lake and killed 192 fuL
grown rattlers. The smallest was foul
feet long.
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris. have sig
nified their intention to be present at the
national G.. a. X. encampment in Chi
cago in August.
As the result of three serious riots il
St Louis on Tuesday T. persons were
shot, three monally and the others seri
ously. Several of the victims will be
manned for life.
Harry l.. Miles % years old, Of Lynn
Mass, and William f. Stafford, u years
old, of Cambridge, Mass, were killed in
a bicycle accident ut the l.. a. w. meet
at Waltham, Mass.
Rev. Alex Burns, u. D.. late principa
of Hamilton Wesleyan college and ut one
time president Of the Iowa Wesleyan
university and of Simpson college. Iowa
has died in Toronto.
Provost Harrison has announced a gift
Of $4,000 from j. Dundas Lippincott
prominent citizen of Philadelphia. To the
University of Pennsylvania in memory
of Joshua Lippincott, his father.
One man was killed outright, two were
fatally hurt and five others badly injured
by the collapse of travelling crane at
the plant of the Totten n Hogg Iron and
Steel Foundry company, Pittsburg.
Fire partially destroyed the paper mills
of the York Haven Paper company nj
York Haven, Pa; loss, 100000. Origin
Of fire is unknown. About $50 employees
are thrown out of employment Temporal
rily.
Fred L. Newton. the defaulting bank
teller of the Fidelity Trust and Guaran
ty company of Buffalo, charged with EN-
bezzling $4,000 Of the banks funds
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to siN
years in Auburn prison,
David Ward, pioneer, capitalist, lum.
herman and owner of a fortune of up.
ward $50 100000, has died in Pontiac
Mich. He was a native of New York,
self made man of the hardest character
but OF broad culture and education.
The adjutant general has received ca.
BILE message from General Macarthur al
Manila announcing the arrival of the
transport Warren from San Francisco
with rs officers and 4O1 enlisted men
mainly recruits for the signal and hos
pital corps.
Five cases of yellow fever have broken
out in Santa Clara, Cuba, among the
men of the Second cavalry who married
barracks. There are only two cases in
the province of Havana, and there is not
one in the city.
The charges against the % Italian la.
borers who were arrested for melting
riot during the recent strike at the Cor,
nell dam have been dismissed in the
county court at White Plains, \. Y, be
fora Judge Smith Lent The defendants
were all discharged.
c. T. Packer of Chicago, a leader in
church circles and formerly president OF
the defunct Park State bank, is missing
from his home in KenwOod. and city de-
tectiyes. armed with warrant charging
him with misappropriating 1886 in
bonds, are looking for him.
The United States supreme court has
decided Admiral Dewey's bounty claim
against the admirars contention. The
effect is to deprive the admiral and the
men engaged with him at Manila bay OF
half the amount claimed by them Chief
Justice Fuller delivered a dissenting
opinion.
general Wiley, commander in chief of
II { T., g &nupish War has