Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.


The Spaniss cabinet has been reorgan-
lied because of continued dissensions.
John Hughes Of Syracuse shot and kill
ed his wife as she was leaving church.
Michael Cudahy has given $4,000 to
the Roman Catholic university of Amer,
lea.
The transport Sheridan is to be repair.
ed and altered at cost Of about $780,.
600
Automobiles valued at $4,000 have
been shipped to the Hawaiian Islands
from Chicago.
II is announced that the bubonic plague
has completely disappeared from the Ar
gentine Republic
Colonel David Colson has been ac.
quilted Of the killing Of Lieutenant Scott
at Frankfort Ky.
Richard Peck secretary Of the New
Haven Steamboat company, is dead in
his eighty year.
The ecumenieal conference on foreign
missions was opened Saturday at Carne
gle hail. New York.
Cockfghtiug viii be prohibited through
out the island Of Cuba after June / mex,
under penalty of $500,
Frank l.. Campbell Of West Virginia
has succeeded Webster Davis as assist
ant secretary Of the interior.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com
pany has awarded contracts for work tc
cost approximately 81 ,650.000
Westchester county officials have offer.
ed a reward of $500 for the arrest of th,
assassin of Sergeant Douglass at Croton
dam
The United States supreme court has
refused to grant a writ of certiorari in
the case of former Captain Oberin NJ
Carter.
DIR. A. y. Allyn. prominent physician
of Chadron, O., who was badly injured
few days ago by being shut up in a fold
ing bed, is dead
Late arrivals from Alaska report the
probable murder by the same Chilkat In.
dians that killed Mr.. and Mrs. Horton OF
four prospectors
Mrs. Sarah l.. Wright, daughter OF
Judge Ebenezer Peck, in whose house
the first Lincoln cabinet was made up
has died in Chicago.
Alfred +. Morrison. the teacher Of Ian
guages at Mount Vernon, n. Y. who shot
his wife while in a dream on Dec - last
has been acquitted of murder.
General Thomas II. Hubbard of New
York has presented Bowdoin college
with S150O00 to be used for the. con
struction Of a new library building.
James H. Clark, one of the earliest pro
fessiona baseball players in this country
who was famous as a catcher with east
ern clubs in the sixties, is dead, aged 81
years.
Chancellor Alexander T. McGill has
died ut his residence in Jersey City He
had been i'll for about year. suffering
from general breakdown, caused by
overwork
Mrs. Anna Louise Lottridge has been
freed from custody and eXonerated from
all blame for the death in Chicago OF
Millionaire Rufus Wright by the coro
ner's jury.
Captain Dodd's troop of the Third cav
airy trapped $50 insurgents near Ben
guet. Fifty-three rebels were killed and
A taken prisoners. The Americans had
one man wounded.
Meyer Guggenheim and his sons have
given 100000 to Mount Sinai hospital
for the cree don Of one of the proposed
new buildings. The gift is for memorial
to Mrs Guggenheim.
Another new high record has been
made in the price of Stock Exchange
seats. A membership has sold for $40.
500 plus the initiation fee of 1000,
making the total S41 800
Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill
providing that the primary day to select
state convention delegates in presidential
years shall be the tenth instead of the
seventh Tuesday before election.
In fight at Sorgogon, Albay province
on April 16 three companies of the For
ty-seventh infantry, Captain Gordon
commanding, routed large force of in
surgents, mostly bolomen, killing SO.
Mrs. Harriet Grouse one of the
wealthiest residents of central New
York, has died at Fort Plain. She was
the widow of Henry Grouse. whose muir
der seven years ago has never been clear
ed up.
lie Journal announces the arrival in
Paris of James Francis Smith. the Amer
lean District Telegraph boy who is hear
ing TO President Kruger a message OF
sympathy from Philadelphia and New
York schoolboys.
Colonel Charles Page Bryant, United
States minister to Brazil, has obtained
an official assurance from the Brazilian
authorities that American coal shall be
used on the Brazilian railways and in the
vessels of the Brazilian navy.
ID. Appleton x Co. have resumed the
publication of books. 1t is understood
that the inventory which has been in
progress will show most satisfactory re.
suits The assets are said to exceed the
liabilities at the ratio of two to one
Two burglars. one white and the Other
colored, broke into the residence of Mel
son Smith, an aged farmer, at Living
ston, y. j., Sunday and carried away
considerable booty after having nearly
killed Smith and his granddaughter.
The fifth cold blooded murder that has
occurred within the past four months at
Spruce Creek, Pa, where the new work
on the Pennsylvania railroad is being
done, was committed Tuesday afternoon.
and, as before, the murderer escaped.
George Wright, aged 30, convict III
the state prison at Trenton for nearly
year for assault and battery on his wife.
who lives at Camden, has inherited Sl4..