Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-02-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Briefly and T'erseIs Told.
The first class at West Point has
been graduated.
On the New York Central at Aiken
N. 81.
Another force of Filipino insurgents
will soon be depoIted to the island OF
Guam.
Mrs. stevens. president Of the Ma
tional w. g. 4. o., has indorscd Mrs.
Nation.
Addicks has gained four votes In the
Delaware legislature for the short
term s~enatorship.
The stockholders of the Westing-
house Electric company have decided
to increase the capital stock 10000
600.
The three story brick building at Nos.
Sc to 81 Merwin street, Cleveland, in
which John ID. Rockefeller started In
the oil business, has been burned.
DIR. William ii. Egle, a noted geraal-
ogist and historian, formerly state IL
brarian Of Pennsylvania. is dead at
his home IN Harrisburg of pneumonia.
The Coplay Cement company of Al
ientown, Pa, has sold out to a New
York syndicate for over $1,o00,000. The
names and details are not o'stainable
here.
Il. Il. Vandeusen, superintendent Of
the Remington Typewriter works at
IIion, N. Y, died very suddenly at his
home there Wednesday evening from
heart failure.
Reports from the gold mining district
of northern Luzcn are encouraging. A
find Of $500 gold was recently made
in a single pocket in Lepanto~ province,
about 10 miles north of Manila.
Joel G. Rumble has beer sentenced to
Sing Sing for life for the murder Of
rthur Morgan In July last In the
fen n Of G~recnville. N. Y. Rumble Is
IL .. airs old and a veteran of the civil
war.
Mrs. g. Henry Barnhart of Middle
town.. n. X, announces the recovery Of
her eyesie1.'t through the ministration
OF Christian Scientists. She had been
blind since Oh rlstmas as the result Of
grip.
In Freeman, Steuben county, N. T..
the house in which Mrs. Cora Fish re-
sided with her three children was de-
sfroyed by fire. and MIS-. Fish and her
daughter Annie, aged 4 years, persisted
in the flames.
Connecticut, Louisiana. Tennessee
and Washington have beenSselected as
the names of the four warsllips au-
thorized by The house and the bill for
the construction of which is now pend
ing in the senate.
DR.. William Rice. one of the oldest
practicing physicians In Trenton, died
suddenly at his home there on Wednes-
day night from heart trouble, aged 63 1
years. DIR. Rice was mayor of Trenton
in 1870 and 1880.
Captain Nehemiah III. Dyer, who
commanded the cruiser Baltimore dur
ing the battle Of Manila Bay, May 1,
1898, has been placed on the retired
list of the navy by operation Of law
on account of age.
Fire has swept Silver Greek, a sub
urb of Sugar Notch. adjoining Wilkes
barre. Pa, destroying Is houses. 1t
threatened the Sugar Notch town han
and other buildings. Many families
are made homeless.
Alexander w. Longfellow, a brother
of the American poet. Henry w. Long
fellow, has died in Portland, Me-,
aged SO years. Death was due to old
age. He is survived by a widow, two
sons and two daughters.
IL nalt.L III,f fpo%ar.nifr Of Gapnnil
university has purchased the home of
j. Collin Forbes, "A wen known portrait
PAINTER, who resides on Stewart ave
nue. in the heart of the fraternity dis
trict. The purchase price was $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$4,000 to build a library at Mount Yer
non. n. Y. on condition that the COM
mon council secure a proper site and
set aside $500 annually toward the
support of the library. The offer viii
be accepted.
The New York state assembly has
passed the single headed police bill for
Buffalo by a vote of 81 to 80 after an
amendment to strike out the clause
affecting veterans had been defeated.
The bill is similar to the New York
city police bill.
General Macarthur has Informed the
war department that the transports
Hancock and Fitzpatrick have left Ma
Mia for the United States. The Han
cock has the Thirtieth volunteer infan-
try on board. and the Fitzpatrick carries
400 sick soldiers.
A verdict Of manslaughter In the first
degree has been returned by the jury
In the trial Of Frank Hamilton, the
newspapce reporter, for the killing Of
Leonard II Day. a young millionaire,
in the billiard rooms of the West hotel,
Minneapolis, Nov. % last.
At Rocky Hin, n. j., burglars enter
ed Williamson & Griggs' general store
and wrecked the safe with dynamite.
The men then set fire TO the store and