Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-02-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChrOnicIed.

VI " AoI ~ % Wei dS NtAlt NC EADEtltfl.
Governor Higgins when urged to re-
turn to a direct state tax instead Of
finding additional sources Of indirect
revenue said: my position on the qnes-
ton Of taxation has not changed There
will be no return to a direct state tax
SO long as the supply Of blue pencils
holds out"
Four more supposed wives Of Johann
Hoch have been discovered THE total
is now twenty-nine, not counting two
in Brooklyn, regarding whom the police
have heard only rtunors. The new
wives" are Mrs. Loughken-iloch, said
to have welded the prisoner in San
Francisco four years ago and to have
died suddenly; Mrs. Iulda Aagel-Hoch,
St. Paul; Mrs. Henry Bartel-Hoch and
Mrs. Fred Doess-Hoch, both of Cincin-
natl.
Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Walter L. Cohen, a negro, will be re-
appointed as register of the land office
at New Orleans.
Helen Newell, the seventeen-year-old
daughter Of Peter Newell, well known
illustrator, has disappeared from her
home at Leonia, N. j., and the police
have been asked to find her.
Mamie Rayburn, singer, at Cincin-
natl, rushed out of her dressing room,
her clothing aflame, and ran screaming
through the theater. The girl was
burned from head to foot and is dying
in hospital.
The Adirondack ice carnival, which
will last three days, has opened at Sar-
anac Lake, N. Y. The streets are like
fairyland scenes, with arches of ever
green and all of the residences and
business houses being gayly decorated.
At meetings of boards of directors of
Vanderbilt lines held In New York w.
III. Newman, president of the New
York Central, was elected president of
the Michigan Central and also of the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis.
Mrs Patrick Campbell, the English
actress, who has been a patient at the
University hospital, Philadelphia, since
the night of Jan. 2, when she injured
her knee cap by slipping on the step
of her carriage, has left the hospital
entirely recovered.
While on the way to the bank In
Hartford, Conn, Miss Agnes Long. a
confidential clerk for p. Berry & Co.
was knocked down by highwayman
and robbed of bank deposit amount
ing to $4,000, $1,000 of which was in
cash. The thief was arrested.
Senator Daniel A. Campbell, Repub-
lican leader in the Illinois senate, was
struck in the face by former Senator
Riley in the upper room. Much excite
ment followed, and two of Senator
Campbells colleagues, Mueller and
Brown, and the sergeant at arms eject
ed Riley from the chamber and after
ward arrested him.
Tuesday, Jan. 81.
The jury in the Hotailing case at
Binghamton, N. Y. has returned a YER
dict of manslaughter In the second de-
. gree.
Commodore e. G.. Benedict of the
ANNN IVih uNhl Niup anu lis SdSStS
have reached New York, having com
pleted a pleasure trip of 10000 miles
on the Amazon river.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided against the packers
in the case of the United States versus
case, charging conspiracy.
w. V. DAILY, a mining engineer and
mine owner, just arrived from Minas
Prietas, Mexico, says that the Yaqui
outbreak in Mexico is serious. There
are probably 800 Yaquis out, divided
into some fifteen bands.
Golden Kimball, general secretary of
the first council of seventy and prom
inent Mormon, in a speech at Logan,
Utah, is reported to have strongly de-
Tended polygamy and predicted that
congress would be unable to stop the
practice.
Monday, Jan. 80.
Negro troops from Georgia will not
be allowed to attend the Inauguration
of President Roosevelt on March l..
Governor Terrell will not grant permits
sion to the colored troops to leave the
state.
President Roosevelt has directed at
tention through letters to Secretaries
Taft and Morton to the desirability of
encouraging by jiu jitsu methods and
by every means possible the physical
/ development of cadets at the Military
and Naval academies.
A story of thirteen days of suffering
in an open boat and a rescue just when
cannibalism had been decided on was
told by one of three of the thirteen sur
vivors of the wrecked steam dredge
Texas. who arrived at New YORK on
the Cunard liner Etruria.
Alonzo ]. Whiteman, one Of the most
resourceful and dangerous criminals
ever known to the police in this coun-
try, has been recaptured in the home of
his mother in Dansville n Y. White
mans latest exploit was his leap from
a fast train to escape from custody.