Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-25
THE NEWS.
FRIDAY,N Nov. II.

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Also an appeal to women to circu-
late a petition to Congress for an
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton prohibiting the States from dis
franchising citizens on account of
sex.
The official compilation of the re-
cord of admissions to the centennial
exhibition shows the number of cash
| admissions from May 10 to Nov. 10
to be 1904, 274 ; free admissions, L.
9O6 ,692 ; total 1910, 1866. Total cash
receipts, $685. 24. The free adj
missions represented exhibitors, at
tendants, employees, &c.
DIR. John Dove, an old citizen of
Richmond, Va, died yesterday,
aged 81. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity sixty-three years,
during which time he held high po-
sitions in that order, and was the
oldest grand secretary in the world,
holding the Office over fifty years.
He was grand recorder OF the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templar
thirty years.
- SATURDAY, Nov. Is.
A Little Rock lark. dispatch says
that a broken rail on the st Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern railroad
ditched an extra passenger train
near Malvern. Twenty-eight pas
sengers were wounded: none were
killed.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company will sell
100 900 tons of Scranton coal at pub
| lie auction in New York next We'd
| nesday.
The Changers encampment build
ing at Elm station, near the centen-
NAL exhibition, was totally destroy
| ed by fire last evening. Loss $4,000
insurance $50 900.
twenty-five citizens, arrested un-
der the enforcement act, were taken
into Aiken, s. c., from the Ellerton
section yesterday morning.
The headless body of a farmer
named Follansbee was found in the
ruins of his barn, which had been
burned at East Midway, Mass, on
Thursday night. Suspicion of muir
der attaches to a hired man
1t is reported in San Francisco
that negotiations are nearly conclu-
ded between John III Lick, the trus-
tee of the Lick fund and the vari-
Gus beneficiaries, which will result
i'll an amicable settlement.
A statement having been made
that Peter Cooper predicts trouble
from the present presidential COM
plications, he has issued a card say
ing he believes thas both parties are
led by men of patriotism who would
abide by the decision of their respec-
tive claims, and resort to no revolu-
ton or violence to rectify what they
may consider injustice in that de-
cision.
The joint committee of the Senate
and House of Representatives APP
pointed to frame a government for
the District of Columbia at their
meeting at Washington, yesterday,
agreed to frame a bill for the APP
pointment of three commissioners,
the two to be appointed for the Dis
trict to have five years residence,
and each to have $1,000 salary per
annum, the Unitid States to assume
responsibility for the debts of the
District and contribute each year
forty per cent, of the expenses of the
government.
MONDAY, Nov. 20.
A -four barrel containing the dead
body of a young woman was brought
to Montreal Saturday from Sorel,
Canada, by the steamer City. of Mon
treal. The MAI having it in charge
was arrested.
Burglars gagged the Waterman at
Catskill station, on the Hudson
River, New York. railroad, Friday
night, blew open the safe and clear
ed it of its contents.
Oswald and Ryan, the burglars
convicted at Newark, n. j., of the
murder of officer Brock, have been
sentenced to be hung January 5,