Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-12-02
THE NEWS.
SATURDAY, Nov Is.

six thousand dollars in Cincinnati
for breach of promise from the es-
tate of man who died after the suit
was instituted.
The ''confidential clerk and act
ing cashier of Horton & Co., bank
ers, New York, has been committed
to Ludlow street Jail, charged with
embezzIing, the amount varying, &C
cording to different statements,
from $40 900 to $50, 900. The accus-
ed himself says he don't think he is
short much more than $1,000.
The prospects OF the permanent
exhibition on the Centennial grounds
are most promising. There have
been already more application for
space than the area assigned for ex-
hibition purposes. The ladies of the
Centennial Commission have adopt
ed . constitution for an organization
to be styled the Nv omen's Centen-
NAL League" and appointed a CON-
mittee on permanent membership.
MONDAY, Nov. q.
In q serious outbreak Of smallpox
among the Icelanders on Lake Win
nepeg twenty deaths have occurred
and eighty cases were reported. or
twenty Indians at one point only
Two survive.
The Board Of Fire Underwriters
at y meeting in New York on Satur-
day made provision for the appoint
ment of a Committee on a Revision
Of Rates, who will also have power
to modify rating of risks when APP
pealed to by any of the members il
the circumstances shall justify it.
In an interview at Louisville with
y reporter Oh Saturday ex-Secretary
Brist0w said, in regard to an article
in New York paper about whiskey
prosecutions, that he had heard moth
ing OF it until he saw it in the paper
alluded to, and that it contained
matters which he had never heard Of
before.
Advices received in San Francis
co are said to make it not improba-
BILE that the revolution reported last
week, az having broken out in Low
or California, is movement in the
interest of Porfirio Diaz, and which
might spread over the State. Presi-
dent Lerdo has sent a force to oppose
the revolutionists.
TUESDAY, Nov. %.
Four persons, two women and
two men, were burned to death ear
ly yesterday morning in a house on
West Madison street, Chicago, kept
as an open all night" restaurant.
A suit has been instituted in New
York against the prOprietors Of the
Aston House by the United States
Minister to Liberia, J. NJ. Turner, a
cOl0red man, under the civil rights
bill, for refusing to furnish him with
lodgings. He lays his damages at
five thousand dollars. The propri-
etors say that on the day he was re-
fused they were unable to accommo-
date the white people who applied.
In his official report of the late
cyclone in the Presidency Of Bengal,
the Lieutenant Governor says that
there were three storm waves in
rapid succession and that they swept
an area of three thousand square
miles, causing destruction of hu.
man life that was fearful. Accounts
from both Madras and Bombay in re,
gard to the famine are still nnfavor,
able.
In speaking Of the violent terms
in which Prince Napoleon, in his
speech in the Deputies on Friday
last, denounced the dangerous en-,
croachments of the clergy and ad
vocsted a proposal for the reduction
of the estimates for public worship
a correspondent of the Times says il
will DO a mistake to dispise tn,
Prince, who has two great qualitiei
of a dangerous conspirator-pa
thence and audacity.