Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-04-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of The VIDE world
Briefly and TersrIy Told.

i ne transport kOSfffdns HIS feittitA
San Francisco from Manila.
New York capitalists are TO build a
mammoth new theater in San Fran
cisco.
Minister Conger in an interview de-
4 tends the conduct of missionaries In
China
Cuban customs receipts for January
and February, 1901, show a decrease
of $22G.0s1.
Work is to be begun soon on the new
department OF justice building at
Washington.
Senator Frye on his return from San
TO Domingo said that country was IN a
deriorable condition.
Indiana miners en- route to Kentucky
.coalfields to inaugurate a strike were
stopped by the sheriff.
The president has appointed Edward
b. Moore Of Michigan to be assistant
commissioner of patents
Governor Odell has signed bill pro-
viding for Sunday closing of butcher
shops in New York state.
George w Marion has been appoint
ed deputy assistant treasurer of the
United States at New York.
Methodist ministers at the New York
east conference declared women unit
to act in legislative matters
At Frankfort, Ky. the jury has ac-
quilted Captain Ripley of completely
in the murder Of Governor Goebel
The president has appointed Charles
O'Neil TO be chief of the bureau of ord
nance, with the rank of rear admiral.
The Thirty third and Thirty-fourth
volunteer regiments, recently returned
from Manila. have been mustered out.
General John c. Gilmore of the adj
jutant generals department has been
placed on the retired list of the army.
In the Grout historical Grafton prize
contest at Colgate university Samuel
Howard Archer, colored, won first
prize.
The United States supreme court has
denied the application of former Cap
tain Oberlin NJ Carter to be admitted
to bail
The Lowell (Mass) Democratic club
has pledged itself to work for the nom
nation of Richard 0lney for president
in 1904.
The big mills of the American
Worsted company at Fulton, n. Y.
have been closed. and 1000 employees
are out of work
The Ballston q. " Daily News
printing house aud plant, Cole x Burn
ham, proprietorS, have been completely
destroyed by fire.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
just concluded the sale Of 100000 acres
of its land grant in Minnesota to a
Boston land company for 81 an acre
1t is reported that $4,000 has been
bid for Il seat ON the New York Stock
Exchange 1t is announced that four
Stock Exchange seats have been sold
at $4,000 each.
Comptroller Colers report for the
year 19e0 just made public, shows that
New York city for running expenses
and improvements spent last year the
sum of $l35.000,0O0.
1t has been determined to increase
the regular army to approximately
10000 men and to leave it at that num-
Der unless conditions in the Philippines
should make more troops necessary
The act establishing provincial gov
eminent in Cebu has been passed. Jul
lilo Llorente, justice of the supreme
court of the Philippines who is ma
tive of Cebu, was appointed governor.
Albert T. Patrick has been indicted
for murder in the first degree. the New
York city grand jury charging him
with causing the death of William
Marsh Rice. the millionaire recluse
Mr.. Emil l.. Boas, the American gen.
eral manager of the Hamburg Ameri-.
can line has been created a knight of
the royal Prussian Order of the Crown.
founded by the emperor's grandfather
in 1861.
The division of insular affairs of the
war department announces that the
internal revenue collections in the de-
partnent of northern Luzon, Philippine
Islands, for the calendar year 1900
were S1o679l.
A thousand troops in the island of
Cebu are unable to accomplish the sur
render or capture of the 200 insurgent
rifiemen who sclq are out. Colonel Me
Clernand says the terms offered by the
insurgents are impossible.
Former Governor James S. Hogg of
Texas, who purchased small tract of
oil land south of Beaumont about ten
days ago for $4,000, has had an offer
of 100000 cash for the property. He
declined the offer Mr. Hogg is now
rated as millionaire.
Applications for the new war loan of
S3o0.COO,OO0 continue TO pour into the
Bank of England. 1t is estimated that
the loan was subscribed for six or sew
en- times over and it is expected the
list will b. closed today, as it is not de-
sired to lock up too much money.
The navy department has received
4 letter from Rear Admiral Remey,
in command of the Asiatlc station,