Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29
News Cleanings.

Inc Fenlnsular Guards, OF the
old town of Hampton, have been
invited 10 take part in the cere-
monies Of the presidential lnaugur-
alton.
A few weeks since railroad
train in Guatemala was derailed
and rolled seventy feet down the
side of q mountain. All the occu.
pants of the two passenger cars.
baggage and mail cars were either
instantly killed or fatally wound.
cd,
The question as to the opening
of the projected Worlds FAIR on
Sundays has already become a
subject of controversy in New
York, and the Philadelphia papers
are mildly suggesting the instruct
ions Of Mrs. Glass in cookery,
First catch your hare"
The discovery Of an old burial
ground near the Philadelphia
Almshouse, where the cholera
victims had been inferred in 1848,
was made more CHASTITY by the
fact that in one of the collins the
body was found face downward
showing that the tenant had been
buried alive. o
Henry Bush, a lad of seventeen,
was recently frightened into a
marriage with Mas. Aaron Fur
man, q divorced woman of forty,
at Brooklyn, and his father has
commenced proceedings to have
the marriage annulled. Young
Brush told the minister who per-
formed the ceremony that he was
of age.
John Johnson, of ebon hue,
though Whitewater by profess
sion, stabbed colored woman in
New York on Sunday evening,
and hue and cry was raised as
he fled on the snow-covered roof.
The officer in pursuit fired several
shots at the fugitive, until he
crawled back and surrendered.
The mice infesting the Office of
the Connellsville Coke and Iron
Company at Leisenring, Pa, have
been eating the dynamite stored
in the building. AS each of the
rodents has doubtless sufficient of
article in its interior to cause an
explosion, violent means for their
determination cannot be adopted.
They are too cute to be trapped
alive, and the community about
the works 10 becoming anxious.
On Saturday a large sled con-
tanning ten young ladies and two
| gentlemen, while coasting near
Rising Sun Ind, was run into by a
mule team driven by a daunken
man. The whole party were
thrown under the feet of the mules
and were kicked and tram pied
upon in shocking manner. Sew
aral of the girls were seriously
hurt, as was also one Of the gen
tleman, but fortunately, no one
was killed.
Detective Schmittberger caught
Joseph We'll at his home in New
York on Sunday. and had desper
ate struggle With him. We'll wa;
wanted to answer for stealing {
gold watch last November Th,
prisoner and captor first rolled
down two fights of stairs, anC
then We'll fell down a well hole
the officer holding on to his cloth
ing until it gave way. We'll fiet
over fences and mp to the roof of {
house where the capture was effect
| ed.
The authorities Of New Orleans
by their neglect to the necessitle
of the city for drainage, are invit
ing a visitation Of the yellow fevel
next summer. The rear portion
| of the city are 20 inundated tina
boats have to be used, the waite
in some places being three fee
deep and extending over squar
miles of ground occupied will
dwellings. This state of affair
has existed for seventeen days
with no prospect of relief.
John Squint and Hezekial
Wootten, two desperadoes con
cerned in many roberies in Read
ing, have been captured in Phila
delphia and taken to Berks county
Squint did not surrender till h,
was shot in the arm. They wer,
both concerned in the burning o
the Lebanon Valley bridge acros
the Schuylkill at Reading during
tie railroad riots in 1877, in orde
to prevent the troops from taking
that route TO Harrisburg. They
were sentenced for the crime anC
only recently released.