Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-01-05
NEWS OF TIE WEEK
Happenings of tfr wide world
Brscay ard TerseIy Tofa.

The battIcship Wisconsin has bcen
snFned over q the government
The philppinc commission has com
pleted d mGaiciea government hill
The Wen Fargo cotHpaug has opened
reference 'Heaiies for rs employees.
Fony-siA cons Of gold and silver we've
received Ut the seattle assay Office in
1000
The First National bank ~ Chicago
made net profit of $13J,S52 for the
year 1900,
The president has ordered the prefer
ence in the ci4ii service of veterans Of the
war With Spain.
Drain OF Mexican money to China and
India has caused Il crisis ia Philippine
monetary affairs.
Frank james. ex-outlaw and bandit, Is
pushing his candidacy for doorkeeper Of
the Missouri legislature.
District Attorney Baird Of Hawaii has
received orders 70 proceed against the al
legged trusts IN Honolulu.
Not ain application for admission into
the Pringle Memorial home at POUCH
keepsie has been received.
William Westlake, the inventor, has
died at his home in Brooklyn. lie was
born in Cornwall. England in 1921.
Two children were cremated at Shaw
mWt. u Pennsylvania mining town. IN q
fire which also consumed their home.
The Penn Petroleum company's plant
at 1oroapolis. Pa, has been almost com
pletely destroyed by fire; loss, 100000.
lone highwayman held up the stage
near Hot Springs junction, A. IT,, secur-
ing about S.,0 from the private express
box
Samuel MaeDonald, who murdered
Auditor Morris of the war department,
has died in Washington hospital from
self inflicted wounds
DR. r. v. X Montfort, for 40 years
superintendent Of public schools Of New
burg. y. " is dead. He was born IN
Fishkill village in 1889
Select Councilman A. r. Lidstone Of
Scranton, Pa. dropped dead while deliv-
ering an address at the annual banquet Of
Hiram lodge of Masons.
A mail pouch containing 100000 in
negotiable paper and an unknown amount
of money was stolen from the Wyandotte
tMieh1 station Thursday night
Hon Francis b. DeIehanty, judge elect
OF the city court Of New York city has
resigned MS n member Of the New York
state board Of mediation and arbitration.
Henry =. Eastman, the only surviving
member Of Commodore Perry's squadron
that opened the japanese ports many
years ago, has died AT his home in Berke.
ley. Cal
Edgar c. Burnz. who killed and robbed
the postmaster OF Scarsdae, Y. Y, has
been found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree and sentenced TO life i'm
prisonment
Daniel Addison Head. president of the
Home Insurance company of New York
city, has ded suddenly. supposedly OF
heart disease, at his home near West
Orange. n J. He was SO years of age
Senator NJ. A. Hanna fayors a change
= the tenure of Office of the president of
United States and believes single
either six or eight years dura-
re an advantage to the conn
u financial and a moral
roosevelt has pardoned An
4, who Is serving a life SEN |
Auburn prison for the murder of |
.sband, James Walden. a horse
whom she shot and killed at the
II of the house of a woman who had
Jme between her husband and herself.
John Hubbard aged 81 years, an onion
grower living near Florida n. Y. visited
bard that he would not live until New
Years. The information preyed on Mr..
Hubbard's mind. and he drank two
, ounces of laudanum aud died in short
. time.
= DR. ID. X. Pearsons of ChiAgo com
iplcted his great benefactions for the nine.
teenth century, amounting to more than
N,,50Qg00, by mailing a check to Carrie
ton college. Mortified. MINI. The last
4onation makes a total of $4,000 which
DIR. Pearsons has given to the Minnesota
restitution.
!. aeW concern which is to deal in ice
and tiyhs me trust has been incorporated
- New.rk. r. j.. with capital stock OF
x195 900. Ii IL to be known as the Con
s,mars' Zee Company of Newark. The
;ncornorstors are Henry IL. Dyer. Ell
s,aoa = Robbins and Albert j. BackeS,
al of Newark.
The president has ordered that the mil'
..., observation at Nome, Alaska. be |
made n public reservation under control
a. the war department and that the NIL
;,a,.v reservation previously set aside near
~, s.st side of the mouth Of the Nome
river be known as the Fort Davis militia
~ reservation.
Tnaef date Of Shanghai N9y, 2, the
American Bible society aas received "a re-
port from the Rev. John IL. Hykes, its
agent in China, in which he says that the
missionarirs Who are safe in Tai-yuen-fu
are Grrhnai McKie. Miss Chapman, Miss
Way am Mrs. Ogren and child Mir.
Ogren was killed.
Moses Colt Tyler. professor of Ameri-
can history in Cornell university, has died
IN Ithaca after an illness of three weeks.
He leaves q wife and one daughter The
latter the wife ar Assistant Librarian w.
III. Austen asd son, Professor Tyler
WAS con~itieecd ane of the greatest his
torical autho. ,Jes II America.
Jesse II. Davis, Edward o. Dean and
Clinton l.. Marshall. three nurses con
pected with the Mills Training School
For Nurses. have been held accountable
..,1is Ii IIlllIMrl