Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-09-16

THE NEWS.

Advices from the Third District
indicate livelier Congressional and
Legislative canvass than was at first
expected.
The Randolph county democrats
have resolved to have no convention.
Every man for himself and the devil
take the hindmost.
The republicans of Wayne county,
Pa, have nominated Geo. G.. Waller
Tor Congress from the fourteenth dis
tIice.
A boy named Dolan was choked to
death at Cherry Ridge, Wayne coun-
ty, Pa, by a bean which lodged in
his throat.
A Los Angeles, CAL, dispatch says
that klingen Smith, Mormon wit
ness of the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre, has been captured in Mohave
desert and brought back to that city.
Five Cooperite clubs have been or
ganized III wood county within the
past week. 1t begins to look as if
the entire county was for Cooper.
Judge James Ferguson delivered a
temperance lecture in Charlestown,
Jefferson county, to a large and APP
preciative audience ON "Wednesday
night last. The judge is a candidate
for the legislature from Kanawha
county.
A general order has been issued by
General Sherman, by order of the
Secretary of War, which publishes
for the guidance of army officers the
instructions of the Attorney General
to United States Marshals published
a few days since.
While the republicans at Lancas-
ter, Ohio, were raising pole at that
place Saturday evening, two hundred
and fifty feet high, the rope broke and
he pole fell, killing Charles Drinkle
Geo. Fink and Charles Hoffman,
Several Others were dangerously in
jured.
Gov. Hartranft has signed the
death warrants of Thomas Munley,
James Carroll, James Boyle, Hugh
McGhan and James Roarty the Mol
ly Maguires recently convicted of
murder in Schuylkill county, Pa
The execution is set for the 31st of
October.
The Sioux Commission arrived at
the Red Cloud Agency on the 9th
inst, and were met by General Mac
kenzie, commanding the DISTRICT
There were twenty or thirty lodges
at the agency, bnt great depression
existed among them, as an impress
sion prevailed that they would all be
massacred when sufficient force of
troops was collected.
The Acting Governor of Louisiana
offers $4,000 reward for the arrest of
the assassin of DIR. Dinkgrove, tax
collector of Ouachitta parish, and
ST 900 for the arrest of the person
who attempted the life of Wester,
clerk of the court of Red river par
ish.
A Wyoming Territory dispatch
says that on the 9th inst. Harvey
Beacher, at Kane's Ranch, Pumpkin
creek, near Sydney, was fired on by
three Indians, one of the balls pass
ing through his chest. He returned
the fire. His wounds may not prove
fatal. Five hundred recruits arrived
at Cheyenne Saturday.
On Thursday, in the town of Will
mington, Conn.,, two girls, Rosie
Green, IA years old, and compan-
ion, Miss Shurtleff, IL years old, took
striychnine with suicidal purposes
Miss Green died in four hours. Just
before her death she stated as her mo-
tive that no one cared for her; that
her dead mother was. calling her and
she was tired of life. Miss Shurtleff
is alive yet, but still in great dan
ger. Two young men were PRESENT
when the fatal dose was taken, and
were urged to partake of it, but re-
fused, although they thought the
whole thing wos joke.