Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-06-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of The Wide world
Briefly and Tersely Told.

Inc last volunteer regiment, tHe 4 Or
ty-third, has left Manila.
The United States embassy in Lon
don has issued a passport 70 Filipino
Lieutenant Colonel A1ichler. military
secretary to Lieutenant General Miles,
is dead
William II. Newman has been elected
president of the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad.
Nine companies of the Ninth regi-
ment have arrived at Manila on the
transport Indiana from China.
The Forty-ninth infantry, United
States volunteers, has been mustered
out of the service al the Preside.
The United States Cotton Duck cor
poratlon. with M authorized capital of
S50.000.000, has been Incorporated AT
Trenton.
James G. Stout Of Auburn, former
warden of the state prison. dropped
dead in Syracuse on Thursday He
was about 60 years old.
The municipal council of Havana has
unanimously rejected the Dady bid fol
sewering and paving the city ON the
ground that it is too high.
The census bureau has made its final
announcement of the population Of the
United States as recorded by the cen
sus OF 1900 II is 76.303,3S7.
Rey. Frank w. Gunsaulus. who "A
year ago resigned MS president of the
Armour institute in Chicago, viii again
become the head OF the school.
Chancellor James Il. Day Of Syracuse
university has announced a gift to the
institution of $4,000 from a Syracusan.
whose name is by request withheld.
President Mckinley has had the de-
gree of doctor of laws conferred upon
him by the Albany Law school, from
which the president was graduated in
1867.
Miss Martha Hichborn, daughter of
Rear Admiral Hichborn and reigning
belle in Washington society, has been
married to James G. Blaine, youngest
son of the late Maine statesman.
The National Tube company of the
United States Steel corporation has
voluntarily advanced the wages of all
the workers in the Youngstown (OD
plant, averaging liz cents per day.
The United States transport McPher-
son, which went ashore on the rocks
off Matanzas Feb. 4. has been hoated
and towed into Hatanzas harbor,
whence she will proceed to New York.
Four of the five cadets recently dis
missed from West Point have sailed
for Ecuador, where they will serve in
the engineering corps of the Guayaquil
and Quito railroad, being built across
the Andes.
The Cornell athletes surprised the
Princeton team in the dual meet on
Percy field by administering to the Wis
itors n severe defeat Out of 104 points
the Ithacans took "a, leaving only 40
for the visitors
The navy department has received a
complete set of plans for the rebuilding
of the Reina Mercedes, one of the cap
tured Spanish ships, but it has not yet
been decided whether the proposed
changes will be made.
L
Twentieth regiment. encountered Ser
goyia's band near Paracale, North Cam
airline province. Surgeon st, John was
killed. The insurgents lost five men
killed and had two wounded.
S. b. Coykendall. president of the
Ulster and Delaware Railroad compa-
ny. has sold to New York, Ontario and
Western interests that portion of the
abandoned Delaware and Hudson ca
nal which extends from Summitville to
Kingston.
Justice Lewis of the supreme court
of Minnesota has filed decision which
will result in many Stearns county set
tiers losing their homes, title to which
was contested by Russell Sage as as
signee in trust Of the Hastings and Da-
kota Railway company.
The verdict in the bribery case
against former Captain and Quarter
master Cyril W. King, L. $. A., finds
him guilty, as charged. of receiving
money with the intent to influence his
official actions. The scandal grew out
of harbor work at Mobile
Joshua Hilhnan, aged 2G years, was
Killed and about score OF people were
injured, some probably fatally, in a
trolley accident in Wilmington, Del
Three cars were involved in the smash
up, which was caused by the brake o.
the third car refusing TO work.
Ninety-eisht Filipiuos have arrived
at san Francisco on the steamer City of
Picking, en- route to the Pan-American
exposition, where they are TO display
the manners and customs of their ma
tive lasz. here are Il women and a
dozen child in the party. including
several young girls.
The New York state supreme court
Of appeals has convened in Buffalo for
the first time since 1919, On the calcn-
dar of appeals from orders are 80 cases.
Seven appeal Ia criminal cases are
scheduled for thi- term. Four of them
are in murder cases including that of
Roland Il. MolineUX.