Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-07-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings Of the wide World
briefly nad TerscIy Told.

southern states.
Ground for the New York state build
ing of the p.n-American exposition at
Buffalo was broken.
Native Patagonians have almost de-
stroyed the Chilean town Of PGntas Are
mas, Oh the strait 81 Magellan.
The Chicago India famine relief com
mittee has raised a fund Of over - 600 TO
be sent the famine sufferers in India.
An official dispatch from NizoIsky, dat
ed July i, says that % persons were kill
ed by an explosion of stores Of powder at
Mukden.
The secretary Of the navys has selected
as names for the six submarine boats
Grampus. Shark, Pike, Porpoise, Adder
and Moccasin
There has been talk lately in Switzer-
land of an alliance with the United
States. One paper has even favored join
ing the American Union as a state
Notices have been posted in the plate
mill Of Moorhead Bros. at Sharpsbure,
Pa. announcing a % per cent reduction
Of wages throughout the plate mill.
Soc smoke and very little fire is all
that remains Of the great Standard Oil
yards fire in Constable Hook, \. j. or
the 81 tanks in the new yards four are
standing.
David Hallen and Isaac Braumfne,
both 10 years OF age, were drowned in
the Schuylkill river by a rowboat going
over Flat Rock dam, just above Phila-
delphia.
Six railway men were instantly killed
and between 2J and 81 persons were
terribly injured by the explosion of sev
eral gasoline tank cars in the yards of
the Ohio River railroad at Parkersburg,
w. Va.
Mrs 7. NJ Metzger of Grafton, o., has
received word that her husband, who has
been in Paris two months, has been ar
rested by French officials for leaving Al
sace-L Lorraine when l. years aid without
serving in the army
The Aurore OF Paris learns from a goDd
source that young attache Of the Unit
ed States embassy disappeared a week
ago The police are making an active
search for the young man, who. u is fear
ed has been murdered.
Seven children we're killed tg an ex-
posion of fireworks III the heart of the'l
Italian quarter in Philadelphia on thel
Fourth. Three were so badly burned
that they Will probably die, and about POI
others were seriously injured.
Rear Admiral Barker, now command,
ant of the Norfolk navy yard, has been
selecte0. to succeed Rear Admiral Philip,
deceased. as commandment of ae New
York navy yard Admiral Bankers sue
cessor has not yet been decided upon.
Dr.. Frederick Humphreys, t2et WE'LL
known homeopathic, died at Monmouth
Beach, n. J., in mis- eighty fourth
wear. after a lingering illness. lie suf-l
fered for several mouths from general del
bility, which finally developed into pnea-l
monia.
The boiler in aue of the steam launches
Of the flagship New York burst pecentls5.l
the fireman being badly injured and the'l
remainder OF the crew slightly hurt The
boiler and engiue were completely wreck
ed. Wide the launch was but slightly
Martin Halen, flo nrerly Of Aspen.
Colo; Tom &. G. Gcaine of San Fr;cl
cisco and James Crawford of Benson, A.
T.. have arrived from the placer goEd.
fields Of EowtT California. brir ging with
them over 100000 in dust, taken ou1 inl
eight months.
The inventory of tire PERSONA estate Of
the late ,tarret A. Hobart was fled yith
the surrogate at Peterson, n. J., yestcr
day 1t apprNiSes the Late vice presidents
wealth at S2G2S.9 4G Mr.. Hobart held
bonds in about % corporations and sock
iii more shan 100 other concerns.
Five hundred and forty babies nct yet
u year old died during the week just
closed In Manhattan, Bronx and Brook
Iyn, and 1SS other little ones who had MOI
vet reached their fifth birthday were talk
en- away The intense heat was taFgelyI
the cause OF the Increased mortality.
Electoral colleges met in tha chief
towns and cities of Mexieo ON Monday
and cast their votes for president. The
returns will come, in slowly from the odt
lying sratcs. but great majority OF thr
votes were cast for General Diaz, insui-
ing his reelection for the terr3 of flHIr
years, dating from Dec, / next
The Spanish, schooner Purisima e'on-
cepcion. employed in the cattle trade be-
tween Florida and Cuba, has 0een given
up as lost. The Conception lad a crew
of NINE men. Captain Roman Berga i'm
command she was one of the Spanish
vessels captured off the Cuban coast dur
ing che late war and vas of lG6 toas bur
den.
Ine 81. t-OulS Stlfet car SlTlhe' Dcgiln
again early TuesdaS morning. 1t was or
dered by tire Street Railway Meu's rHion
at mass meeting at the West End coli
seam. The reason assigned was that the
st. Louis Transit company had repeated
IL violated the agreement entered into
with the. union az the tame of the settle
mcut of the strike. July :.
Jean Raptisty- Sipids, the youth who
fred a9 the Prince of Wales on April 1
in Brussels, has eluG-d the police, aud
he has fed 10 Paris. Sipido was recent
" convicted OF an attempt ON the life Of
the Prince OF Wales but the presiding
judge held that he acted without discern
mert and sentenced him to reforma,
tory until ~ years of age.
Use Fog Knowledge Of Spanish,
Americans who contemplate going to
Porto Rico or Cuba or coming to Next