Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-03-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChrOnfcIed,

~ years d member of the chamber of
deputies, is dead at Paris as the result
Of two shots in the head, self inflicted.
He had long been a victim of melan-
choly.
1t is announced at police headquar-
tiers, San Francisco, that within short
time the mystery surrounding the pres
ence of strychnine poison in the bottle
of Poland water with which Mrs. Stan
ford quenched her thirst on the evening
of Jan. IA at her home there will have
been completely solved and that posi-
bly, one or two persons toward whom
the strongest suspicion is directed will
be arrested.
Wednesday, March ~.
The condition of Jules Verne at
Amiens, France, the aged author, is
regarded as hopeless. kilograms Of
sympathy come from all quarters of
the globe. Many of them are from
children.
Five hundred or more persons, most
ly plantation laborers, have been fight
ing forest fires at Wahiawa, Honolulu
which are now believed to be under
control. About 1000 acres were burn
ed. being mostly land recently acquired
by the United States for military
reservation.
While descending steep hill on the
Lancaster and Southern railway near
Martic Forege, Pa, trolley car bear
ing a funeral party got beyond control
of the motorman and was wrecked
against an embankment at the foot of
a steep hill. Not one of the twenty -one
persons aboard escaped injury.
The amazing fact that 1900 of New
York's women, more or less prominent,
are sun worshipers and votaries of the
Mazdaznans, the mystic Persian cult
expounded by DR.. Ottoman Zar-Adusht-
Hanish, has been revealed through the
arrest of Mrs. Brownie Rathbone
Weaverson, "a disciple of the mysteri-
Gus religion.
Edward L. Cook, justice of the peace
at Madison, N. j., and who has been
the terror of automobolists for many
years, has now decided that woman's
tongue Is a concealed weapon. Mrs.
Parker made complaint against Mrs.
Eva Morse for calling her names. The
justice fined both $40 for carrying con
cealed weapons.
Tuesday, March Fl.
1t is said that members of President
Roosevelt's cabinet believe Secretary
Hay. by reason of his illness, will new
er return to his duties in Washington.
The body of General Joseph X. Haw-
ley, former soldier and statesman, af-
ter lying in state at Hartford, Conn.
were buried there with military hon
ors.
Stuck together with frozen mortar or
on insecure foundations, eleven new,
unoccupied fiathouses in New York
have toppled and fallen since the thaw
came, some of them collapsing like a
pack Of cards.
The estate and summer home Of John
Alexander Dowie ut White Lake, Mich,
called Bethany, has been increased by
the purchase of 200 acres of land. A
choir of $50 voices will go to the
estate this summer and help conduct
revival meetings there.
Monday, March 20.
Fire which Quilted the European hotel
block at Willlmantic, Conn, and par
TALLY burned the Harrington block
caused loss of $4,000 and proved to
be one of the most destructive that city
has suffered for wears
In rounding the southeast end of
Block Island two hours before daylight
the steamer Spartan, Captain ]. o.
Briggs, of the Boston and Philadelphia
Steamship company, on her way from
Providence to Philadelphia, grounded
on the point, sunk until the water was
even with her lower deck, with fif-
teen foot hole in her bow, and soon be-
came wreck.
Saturday, March 1S.
The bargain made by leaders of the
opposing Republican factions of Colo
RADIO to take the governors chair from
Ala Adams and TO seat in it Lieuten-
ant Governor Jesse +. Mcdonald aft
er permitting James III. Peabody to
hold it for one day has been carried to
a conclusion. and Mcdonald is now
governor.
With the president of the United
States dining as the guest of the
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick, the An
Gent Order of HibernianS marching
IN a parade 10000 strong, Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles reviewing the
First regiment of Irish volunteers at
Grand Central palace and scores of
Irish organizations holding banquets
and receptions the observance of the
festival of Ireland's patron saint was
The most elaborate in the history of the
city of New York
Friday, March II.
The marriage of Gug!ielmo Marconi.
inventor of wireless telegraphy, to the
Hon. Beatrice O'Brien. fifth daughter
of Lady Inchquin, widow of the late
Lord Inchquin. and half sister of the
present Lord Inchquin. has been cele-
brated in London
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