Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings OF the Wide World
Hrieny and TerseIy Told.


A camel has been born in the Central
park menagerie, New York city
Half the striking miners IN the Pitts
burg district have returned to work.
Nearly 400 new laws were passed by
the New York legislature this session.
The business portion Of Ravenna,
Mich, has been burned with a loss Of
100000.
1t is estimated that the surplus under
the war revenue tax on July / will be
$70,000,000.
Governor Roosevelt has signed bill
prohibiting gambling on New York state
fair grounds.
Serious rioting is reported at San Juan,
Porto Rico, growing out Of the labor
troubles there.
Mayor James NJ Seymour Dcm) has
been reelected mayor Of Newark, n. j.,
by 1000 plurality
Directors Of the Baltimore and Ohio
have voted to issue $6400,000 Of common
stock for betterments.
The New York presbytery has accepted
the resignation of Rev. DR.. A. G. Me-
Giffert from the ministry.
The Kentucky court of appeals has de-
cided against Governor Taylor holding
that it has no jurisdiction
The building trades strikers of Chicago
are said to be living on the cooperative
plan and able to hold out a year.
Former State Senator Richard Higbie
Of Babylon, n. Y, member Of the Re
publican state committee, is dead
Eastern capitalists have purchased
10000 acres of land in northern Fayette
county, Pa, for coal mining purposes.
Six or seven lives were lost in wreck
on the Forth Worth and Denver City
railroad near Claiming, Tex, on Wednes-
day.
A sergeant and a corporal Of Company
i, Eighteenth infantry, were killed in a
severe fight in Capiz province, island of
Panay.
The steamship Knight Bachelor Cap
tain Paine. has cleared from New Or
leans for Cape Town with 1872 mules
for the British army.
The Sans Souci Opera House block
and the Schaffer building at Ballston
Spa, n. Y, were burned Sunday. Loss
$150,000, insurance $4,000.
A complete steel house has been ship
ped from Philadelphia to Prince Yoshi-
bto at Tokyo, and 81 locomotives and
tenders were shipped to Russia.
A few days ago the wife of James Fur
man, a colored man, go years old, of
Washington, \. J.. presented him with a
son. He is, the father of 26 children.
General G.. NJ Randall. U. S. A., com
mander of the department of Alaska has
sailed from Seattle for Skaguay, where
he will select a site for an army post.
The physical laboratory, one of the
In nd hull nf ftrb
university, at Bethlehem, Pa, has been
burned. The loss will probably exceed
100000.
Lieutenant Gordon, with company of
the Sixteenth infantry, while scouting
near Apart, Cagayan province, engaged
go insurgents. Lieutenant Gordon was
wounded.
Robbers shot, bound, gagged and rob-
bed a Waterman and blew open safe at
Mamaroneck. n. Y, Wednesday night
after exchanging shots with a policeman
at Larchmont.
Fire in Brooklyn on Monday threw be-
tween 1000 and 1900 men out of en-
ployment and destroyed several factories.
The damage is estimated at from $780,
600 to 100000.
"Sapho" has been officially declared
which Miss Olga Nethersole and her as
sociates were tried for maintaining a
public nuisance.
The president of the town of Samal
province of Bataar, Luzon, and another
prominent native have been assassnated
because they were known to be friendly
TO the Americans.
The United States government has
l,J hO
pany ten years contract at 81 a mile
for carrying the Australian and English
closed mails across the Pacific
David Hammond, one of the most
prominent hotel men in New York city,
has died, aged about 20. He was pro-
pretor Of the Grand, the Gilsey. the
Bristol and the Murray Hin successfully.
For the second time in three years the
extensive department store of Joseph
Horne & Co. at the corner of Fifth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, Pitts
burg, is in ruins. The loss is over ST.
100000.
The will Of the late Miss Addie d.
Mills of Middletown, \. Y, which has
been filed for probate. hequeathed proper
" worth about 100000 to the Rev.
James a. O'Connor of New York for
mission work.
A tremendous upheaval of land is re-
ported to have occurred ON Nooksack
river. ten miles west of Mount Baker.
Wash What had once been a valley and
bed of the Nooksack river is now hill
20 feet high.
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 pattern shop Of the Carnegie Steel
company at Homestead was burned down
Saturday night. Numerous valuable pat
terms and many armor plate drawings
that were to be submitted to the navy de-
partment were destroyed
The Compressed Air company OF the
borough Of Manhattan, New York city,
with a capitalization of SS,000000, of
which S755,000 is preferred stock, has
filed articles of Incorporation with the
secretary OF state at Albany.
Joseph thinner, 2S years old, former