Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-06-22
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

DIR. johnson has pronounced Mrs. NC
Kinley out of danger.
A cyclone at Delaware. O., has caus-
ed considerable damage.
The cruiser Newark has reached Suez
On her return from Manila.
The torpedo boat Stockton broke
down on trial trip near Fort Monroe,
Va
Winter and spring wheat is reported
in good condition throughout the coun-
try.
Alcedo owned by Louis V. Bell. won
the Suburban handicap at Sheepshead
Bay
William Giles, an ex-slave, who cook
ed for U. S. Grant during the civil war,
Is dead.
The battleship Wisconsin made 1876
knots for two consecutive hours on her
trial trip.
Maurice b. Perkins, professor Of
chemistry in Union college, has died at
Schenectady.
A combination has been proposed OF
coal mine owners of five states with II
capital of S30O.O0O0O0.
The appellate court of New York
state has dropped the case 10 compel
Sunday closing at the Pan-American
exposition.
FORMER Governor r. G. Cheney OF
New Hampshire Is dead at the home Of
his son-inIaw in Dover. He was 10
years of age.
no % tafa hu
rived at San Francisco from Manila
with 81 officers and $40 men of the For
tieth volunteer infantry.
A special session of the Porto Rican
legislature has been called to act on
abolshing the tariff between the Unit
ed States and the island.
1t has been announced by New York
Central officers in Syracuse that, begin
ming next Sunday, the Empire State
express will run Sundays.
New York State Senator Thomas +.
Grady has recovered his health and has
left the sanitarium in Canandaigua for
his summer home at Mamaroneck.
John Biddle, charged with the rob
berry and subsequent killing of Grocer
Thomas u. Kahney in rittsburg, has
been convicted of murder in the first
degree.
Willie Anderson of Pittsfield. Mass,
has won the open golf championship OF
the United States anderson beat Alec
Smith of Scotland one stroke in the Is
holes. the totals be NJ 50 to So.
An order has been issued at the war
department directing the organization
of five batteries of field artillery and
three companies Of coast artillery in adj
dition to those now in the service.
The Russian imperial government
has, it is reported. purchased from Jul
Illus Fleischmannhis celebrated stallion,
Halma, by Hanover and Julia L. and
the price paid is understood to be $780,
900.
The steamship Hawaiian. which has
arrived at San Francisco from Homo
lulu, brought the largest cargo of sugar
ever sent out of the Hawaiian Islands
1t consisted of 5000 tons valued at
S750,0O0.
The city council of Havana has re-
iected the bid of approximately $14,-
Mcclellan for the sewering and paving
Of Havana and will readvertise the con
tract for three months.
At meeting of the board OF trustees
of Cornell university President Schur-
man presented a letter from John j..
Rockefeller donating $250,o00 to the
university on condition that an equal
amount be contributed by others
The jury in the case of Richard +.
Loper. charged with conspiring with
Cashier John S. Hopkins to defraud the
Peoples bank Of Philadelphia of large
sums of money by direction of the
court has brought in verdict of not
guilty.
The senate committee in the Ila-
waiia legislature has returned a report
recommending the entire abolition of
the national guard The report sug-
gests that the military paraphenalia lie
put aboard n scow, lowed out TO sea
and dumped overheard.
Announcement is made of the pur-
chase by the Everett-Moorc syndicate
of all the street railway lines of Toledo
and other negotiations in progress
when completed, win give the syndi.
cate control of all electric railways be-
tween Detroit and Cleveland.
Secretary of the Treasury Gage. act
ing for the government. has accepted
the United States mint I'm Philadelphia
which has just been completed at a
cost of more tan S2,000,000 ana is said
TO be the HLest and hest equipped
building If Sc kind In the world.
The Minc;al Springs hotel at West
Baden. Ind. The largest in the state
has been burned. The fire broke out in
die bakeshop mt tie south end of the
building and ned rapidly The loss
is S500000; iusu7gnce, 100000 Two
hundred and rgr' y-iiye guests were
registered ~ the hotel. Most of them
lost their effects but no one was hurt.
Colonies Infante and Guiyara, repre-
xuura tix-ns of (,anaral CtoillaG bova. ian