Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-11-19
STATE NEWS.

w. /. Layton has been Jailed in
Greenbrier county for bigamy.
Governor Jackson has appointed
Mr.. w. +. Butler State Librarian
in place of f. l.. Wood, resigned.
Many of our exchanges from the
interior counties report typhoid fever
as raging.
The u. 5. Court at Charleston has
about 200 cases for violating the
revenue laws to dispose of.
Judge j. ID. Camden, of Clarks-
burg, was foreman of the u. ).
Grand Jury at Charleston.
The famous and valuable Coal
burg coal property was sold at public
out-cry for 500, 100.
Five counterfeiters from Putnam
county have been lodged in the Ka-
nawha county Jail.
DIR. ID. Ward, of Detroit, Mich
igan, has made several purchases of
valuable lands in Kanawha county,
amounting to $147 900.
Henry s. Walker has sold his large
tract of coal land, located about
twenty-four miles above Charleston
to gentleman from Detroit, Mich
igan, for $4,000.
j. W. MeClain, of New Milton,
Doddridge county, was lodged in Jail
recently charged with attempting to
commit rape npon the person of
Miss Sarah G. Deverick, a girl about
16 years of age.
An exchange says that vein of
camel coal four feet four inches in
thickness has been discovered on the
farm of 5. w. Boyd, Esq, just west
of Bridgeport, Harrison county. The
coal is very pure and is only five feet
from the surface.
The South Branch Iatelligencer
says that Senator Camden has be-
come the purchaser of the Ohio Bar
rel Factory property at Point Pleas
ant, which will be put in operation
for the manufacture of oil barrels for
the Standard Oil Company.
Charles II. Collision, notorious
desperate and outlaw of the Third
District, was arrested by Deputy
Marshals on Elk river recently after
a desperate resistance. There are
enough indictments against him to
entitle him to Il sentence OF two
hundred years.
Justice WAS swift in the cases of
oil
| vania horse thieves. arrested near
West Union not long since. Wal
lace was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for term Of six years. Miller
became hopelessly insane and is now
an inmate of the DiXmont Asylum.
John Watkins, Floyd Harsh and
Thomas Warner, a portion of the
outlaws of Barbour county, who
have been committing their depreda-
tions under the guise of Red Mep,
were convicted at the last term OF
the circuit court of that county, and
received a sentence Of $50 fine and
ane years Imprisonment.
Hiram Yokum, of Hampshire
county, was out hunting, carrying
NO lpduCh ollOb- x Qil lluLLlC lOItDlOSU
across his shoulder. AS he was de.
scending hill he stumbled and fell,
discharging the gun, the load max
ing a fearful wound in his thigh,
from which he died in short time.
J. w. st. Claire, of Fayette coun-
ty, shot and severely wounded ne
gro at Caperton Station on Tuesday
IF 10
MINER and had been arrested and
placed III the depot, and when
brought from the depot to be sent on
the train he tried to make his escape
and was fired upon by St. Claire FIVE
times, three Of which took effect
Nelson Mortified, a young man
living at Fairmont, who has not long
been married, who is said to have
made it almost daily practice to
beat his wife and abuse his mother,
was visited by body of men not
long since and severely logged. He
didn't like it, of course, and his
screams were loud enough to awake
many of the neighbors. Who the
perpetrators of the outrage are is
not known, but their act is generally
condemned.
George Briggs, Wetzel county
farmer, ordered young man named
Dan Powell to cease paying atten-
tions to his daughter. Nevertheless
Powell escorted her home the other
evening and while bidding her good
night Briggs appeared On the scene
and ordered the girl in the house
and Powell to leave. This the latter
refused to do and a quarrel ensuing
Powell threw a rock, striking Briggs
in the head and fracturing his skull.