Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-07-29

THE NEWS.

The deaths in New York last week
were 997, a decrease of sol from the
previous week.
A call for a convention of u. S:
pensioners, to meet in Philadelphia
on the 21st of September has been
issued.
Congressman Geo. f. Hoar, .of
Massachusetts,, has written a letter
declining to return to the practice
of his profession.
Mrs. Pannall, who was shot by her
husband, at Lancaster, Pa, Friday
night, died Saturday morning. Pan
nal has been arrested.
The floods in the Red river region
Of Louisiana are subsiding, and it is
thought the lower plantations will
not be materially damaged.
U. l.. s. Jewett. for many years
sketch artist for Frank Leslie's pa
pers, committed suicide by shooting,
at his residence in Jersey City, N.
D., Friday morning.
Three tanks at Dilks' Station on
the West Pennsylvania Railroad,
containing 81 900 bbls. of oil, were
destroyed by fire Friday morning.
Dispatches from the Northwest
confirm the report of the killing of
Sitting Bull in the recent fight with
Custer. The notorious savage chiefs
Crazy Horse and Black Moon were
also killed.
A steam yacht having an excur-
sion party on board was swamped
in the Hudson river on Thursday
night near Troy, and five out of nine
men on board were drowned.
Advices received at Leavenworth,
Kansas, last evening, from Laramie,
states that a party of four miners
from the Black Hill s, on theway
to Cheyenne have been killed, scalped
and stripped by Indians.
At Lancaster, Pa, Friday even-
ing James Pennell shot his wife in
the head, inflicting a wound which
will probable prove fatal. Domestic
trouble is the cause assigned for the
deed.
1t was expected that Congress
would adjourn about the last Of this
week, but members now have some
doubt as to adjournment at that
time, all opinions on that point be-
ing merely speculative.
Moses p. Handy, editor of the
Richmond Enquirer, has been APP
pointed by the President commits
sioner for Virginia on the centen-
NAL commission, vice Gen e. r.
Bagwell deceased.
In Boston, Friday night, Patrick
Ford killed his wife, Gertrude Ford,
with an axe, and afterward to es-
cape the officers jumped from the
roof of house and received injuries
from which he died in thirty min
utes. He was actuated by jealousy.
The proprietors of the Greenbrier
CIV. Va.) White Sulphur Springs,
whose nightly balls are free to all
corners, will give a splendid subscrip-
ti0n ball on the night of the I'd Aug.
the proceeds of which will be given
to the Custer monument fund.
A melancholy yachting disaster is
reported from New York. The yatch
Mohawk was struck by a sqnall off
Long Island and capsized, and Com
m0dOre Garner, his wife and others
were drowned. Commodore Garn-
er was the millionaire print manu-
facturer of New York.
A train of three cars with an Odd
Fellows excursion from Newark to
Yellow Springs, Ohio, collided with
a hand car Thursday morning and
ran off a bank thirty feet high. David
Reynolds, fireman, was killed Jas.
Freeman, engineer, fatally injured {;
j. Il. Taylor, of Columbus, injured
internally, and several others were
bruised, not seriously.
A mass meeting of twenty-five
unemployed workingmen was held
in Washington, on Thursday night,
to petition the mayor and city coun-
Gil for relief. Resolutions were
passed denouncing the city council,
Gov. Cochran and all the papers of
of the city for their indifference to-
ward them. Good order prevailed
during the meeting, and proper ac-
tion will be taken on the resolutions
at once.
The Charleston Neus and Courier,
in an editorial entitled, Glands Off, "
hopes there is no truth in the report
that Governor Chamberlain asked
for Federal troops. 1t has, it says,
supported Governor Chamberlain's
reform measures, and frankly ex-
pressed its opinions of the Hamburg
riot, but it must protest against any
move that wears the appearance of
taking advantage of a local disturb
ance to prop up the waning fortunes
OF South Carolina republicanism.
A gentleman up town invited a